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[–] grue@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

As much as I LOL'd and agree with the sentiment, this is almost entirely about politics, not infrastructure -- the only tenuous connection is that the political shithead happens to own a car company. As such, please try to resist the temptation to post more stuff like this here.


Edit to address some feedback:

Yes, !fuckcars is political, but that doesn't mean everything political is on-topic. If this had been about Musk interfering with CA high-speed rail, it would be unambiguously on-topic. If this had been about the harmful effects of those trucks on other road users, it would be unambiguously on-topic (although for the record, I dislike threads hating on any one particular type of car because they risk missing the point that all of them contribute to most of the problems).

But it was neither of those things. It was just pointing out the dishonesty of people who bought a particular product with a particular political connotation. The fact that the product happened to be a vehicle was irrelevant to the idea being conveyed. That makes it a good fit for somewhere like !politicalmemes or !enoughmuskspam, maybe, but not here.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 94 points 3 months ago (7 children)

It's also a shitty, unreliable, dangerous vehicle that allows them to be on the road because Elon is the richest dipshit on earth right now.

He's pushed past regulations and forced his shitty vehicles to be on roads all across the world, including Europe, which doesn't have the road infrastructure to handle things like the cybertruck. It's bypassing regulation after regulation to show up on the road as a massive eyesore.

The Cybertruck is the culmination of everything fuckcars is about imo.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago

IMO while the post shows a cybertruck and it is the culmination of this community, the post clearly focuses on how horrible elon musk is, which would be better suited somewhere else (even tho I vehemently agree with the sentiment)

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 82 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really think that you can't divorce the car-centric hell we are currently suffering in from the politics that made it happen.

"Fuck Cars" is 100% a political statement.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Guys can we please talk about how we better organize society without being so political?

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

It's a really odd position to take when politics are literally the only route through which public infrastructure and services pass.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Guys can we please talk about how we better do politics without being political?"

I hope your statement was satire. Otherwise I question your understanding of basic concepts.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

It’s so hard to tell. I read it and thought “Good joke!” and upvoted right away. But I had the same reaction when r/TheDonald started, so my sensor is busted.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Elon Musk is not a "political shithead" he is a primary reason why we don't have better forms of transportation, and it's worth pointing it out every single time. Also, aren't virtually all of the infrastructure issues that exist that make cars such a prevalent force in our society almost entirely predicated on politics? Was Robert Moses not motivated by his own politics? But was it not his policies that essentially birthed the modern hostility to humans that urban areas have?

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the whole hyper loop scam [1] he invented was to kill high speed rail in California. Fuck him.

[1] just see it in Las Vegas all out is a tunnel for cars that you pray there's no accident because of fire starts you are stuck and can't escape.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Give me a break. This shithead intentionally sabotaged high speed rail in CA. Lots of other issues.

Fuck cars and fuck this car douche.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Elon musk himself is responsible for so much car centric bullshit. he has his own tunnels, his own chargers, he does everything he can to stop any anti-car development, and he has the most dangerous cars out there. this is only one of them by the way, the one that has sharp hard metal corners that are meant to slice pedestrians in half, but his other cars spontaneously combust.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean there was the whole hyperloop thing he pushed in an attempt to prevent high speed rail construction in california.

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[–] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 138 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Regardless of if Musk is crazy or not, they still bought an oversized truck for nothing other than to inflate their ego.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 57 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Which is weird, how can you boost your ego with a dumpster?

[–] Findus_Falke@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

depends on the boost direction

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Integer crocodile alligator

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely right

And Elmo has been a total cock head long before he performed his nazi salutes

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 3 months ago

The most offensive of these stickers i have seen is: i bought this before we knew elon was crazy.

We? Don't drag me into this. Thia car is 4 years old.

[–] sheetzoos@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is the man cybertruck owners support with their purchases:

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[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago

The cybertruck itself is evidence that he wasn't in his right mind.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

He first publicly showed how crazy he is during the kids getting stuck in the cave, then he got more bold.

But yeah, cybertruck started being sold after he started doing Nazi salutes.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that's the first big one I remember too.

[–] canniest_tod@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He was a scumbag union buster long before he "went crazy". His parents used slave labor to mine emeralds before his company built cars. The people of this country will believe any bubbleheaded legend of a good rich guy not look him up until he shows his ass. Too little, too late.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seeing a cybertruck in the wild is the visual equivalent of stepping in dog shit. I saw one the other day up here in Canada that was covered in maple leaves and felt massively offended

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That cybertruck reminds me of that Simpson's episode where Homer designed and built a vehicle at his brother's car company.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It reminds me of how I drew a car when I was a kid.

The fact that it made it through any sort of testing says more about Elon's ego than his business accumen.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Testing? You think they tested that thing?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Homer has a brother? Wild.

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

It took me a while to realize he was a crazy con man, to my fault, it was only when he started meddling with stuff I had some understanding. Around the same time, he was investing in movies and making cameos: Thank You for Smoking, Iron Man...

But people were already pointing that out from his time on Paypal. And you can find stuff even before that. So no,

He was crazy/con man even before Tesla.

There is no excuse. Just because there was a time that he posted rainbows and talked about climate does not sane wash his actions, it is just that he was targeting another kind of people. Just like companies rainbow their logos during pride month.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Elon never "went crazy", he's just a liar. And the bigger his following became the less he needed to lie about his opinions or goals.

Engineers like Thunderf00t could already prove Elon was full of shit long before it became incredibly obvious.

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We knew he was not an upstanding guy long before he bought Twitter. Just not everyone was paying attention. As well I hope they enjoy their inescapable burn chamber. That thing is more of a hazard to the owner than those around them than the Pinto was. Regular Car Reviews did a good one on it.

https://youtu.be/L3oO510dyVI

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Is someone just walking around with a printer?

I’m guessing they see this truck regularly. So this took some planning.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

The Cybertruck is the product of a deranged mind.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, sorry man, that doesn't work on Cybertrucks, only the old Teslas.

[–] kheavy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Cybertruck ownership is the punishment

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

There's this annoying Cybertruck with this custom paint job that parks on my street sometimes. Usually does quite a poor job of it.

I see it also parked in an empty lot next to a little shopping center a few miles away.

We were having a neighborhood gathering and somebody brought it up, wondering whose it was.

It belongs to the boyfriend of the daughter of one of the neighbors who doesn't socialize with the rest of us. Turns out he owns a barbershop in the plaza, but it's too big to fit on any of the parking spots so he parks it in the empty lot next door.

Anyways a couple months later and I'm in physical therapy (sciatica hit me real hard), and I overhear this older guy a few tables down, talking to the PTA. Real loud, hard to not overhear. Total boomer energy.

He talked about his son having gotten a cybertruck, and put a bunch of money into it with custom paint and whatnot...and so I butt in..."is your son a barber?".

Sure enough, he is. It's his dad.

Does this make me a townie? This feels like a townie kind of story.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I guess he didn't draw the line at the salutes?

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