• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Elon is getting the media to downplay his naziism by letting everybody know that the drugs made him do it. 30 days in rehab and BOOM those chiseled trucks will start selling again.

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      those chiseled trucks will start selling again

      No one’s buying those things ever. Maybe if dumb emerald boy managed to somehow recover his image from being a nazi the cars would sell again. But the trucks fucking suck shit on literally every metric. He produced the Homer and he’s gonna tank the company with it.

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        I live in rural Canada. It’s truck country. Like, every second vehicle. No one here would have been caught dead in a cyber truck BEFORE his shenanigans. I remember showing my family the concept photos and they reacted, poorly. There is no fucking way those sales go up.

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          I’m 100% certain that people who actually use trucks for their intended purpose were not the target demographic – it was rich kids who wanted a cool tech toy, while also playing dressup with the “labourer” aesthetic.

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            Yep. Monied tech bros from the bay area & etc was always the target demographic. It was never expected to sell to actual workers.

            Unfortunately it seems the overlap between nazis and tech bros wasn’t as high as he thought

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        I’m not sure why they haven’t started stripping these things for parts yet. I can’t imagine anyone at the company expects to move the current stock

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      Elon never needed the media to downplay anything.

      the media wanted Donald Trump and his band of misfits in the White House.

      I’m 41, I can’t remember a time when the media wasn’t carrying Trumps water.

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        The reporting on Trump and the current batch of Republicans is God awful.

        I mean you have an entire political party touting the need for “fiscal responsibility” release a budget that increases the deficit?! How are they not being ridiculed for it?