• kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      15 hours ago

      That is an older Tesla, could easily be from well before he was really obviously terrible and could also easily be used.

      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I never really understand this claim. Elon’s been obviously shitty at least since those Thai kids were stuck in a cave and he called their coach a pedo for not agreeing with his dumbass submarine idea in 2018, which was 7 years ago.

        Per this Statista dataset from 2016-present, 423.9 thousand vehicles were delivered by tesla from 2016-2018, which is just under 6% of cumulative deliveries 2016-2024. Thus, 94% of tesla deliveries happened after he became obviously shitty.

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          I agree, simply because that’s around when I realized he was a piece of shit. But to give the benefit of the doubt, if I wasn’t actively trying to form an opinion about the guy, I think he would have flown under the radar until his being openly racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic (God he’s really gone and collected them all) became front and center of the mainstream media. Like, not everyone was paying attention to Elon Musk, and before the Thai Football team debacle he had a pretty favorable public opinion.