• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 days ago

    You’re not a dumbass: how could you have predicted who Musk really was back then? I mean sure, he wasn’t exactly a savory or likable character back then, but he wasn’t a overt Nazi.

    If you had bought it this year however, you wouldn’t be only a dumbass, you’d be a fucking fascist sympathizer too as far as I’m concerned.

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      7 days ago

      Not shaming OP here, but there has been clear signs of Musk being an unhinged idiot since around 2017 (or whenever the diver-pedo-incident)

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        7 days ago

        Agreed, that mess was when I realized he was a tool. That said, most CEOs are some flavor of bastard and buying almost anything means giving your money to some exec who doesn’t deserve it so I can understand overlooking it at that point.

        As the competition got better and he got more overtly fashy, buying a Tesla became more and more a political statement rather than a normal purchase. Sucks for the early adopters but most ire seems to be reserved for the cybertrucks.