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[–] [email protected] 197 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because of ethical restraints it is extremely rare for a senior government official, let alone a sitting president, to endorse a consumer product so explicitly.

Yeah... Those were good times.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do they not fucking remember the whole Goya thing last time. He literally shot a commercial from the presidents desk.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BRAWNDO

THE THIRST MUTILATOR

it's got electrolytes

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago

Like we needed another reason not to buy tesla

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (4 children)

How long till a President ends a speech with "smash that like and subscribe for 10% off RAID: Shadow Legends"?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

He is already kind of doing it, just replace Raid Shadow Legends with Russia.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In parallel universes where he wasn't born of a rich family, Trump is a car salesman. This is our universe trying to find balance.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The kind that doesn’t know shit about any car on the lot and just tries to pressure you into buying the most expensive car because it’s the most expensive, but was secretly totaled on a flood.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Keep boycotting, and join protests outside Tesla showrooms. ~60% of Musk’s wealth is in Tesla shares. Tank the stock and tank his wealth and thus influence

There are protests all across the US and starting to spring up in other countries. Here’s a list of upcoming ones + a guide to help organize one around you if none exist

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

This is the easiest boycott of my life. I love it

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's Goya beans all over again

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And I've been boycotting Goya ever since.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Elon with his child shield again

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not surprised. Didn't Donald Trump used the Oval Office once to promote some... ketchup or sauce or something, and was paid for? I mean it denigrades the station of the office, but does he really care?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He literally sold the Resolute Desk to Goya for ad space.

This is after he did a Mcdonalds/Dominos ad when he had them cater the NCAA basketball champions' dinner at the White House.

It's what he does.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Seeing musk, trump and a Tesla in a single shot just makes that toxic association so much stronger. I don't think this is going to play out like they hope.

Plus, you know the boycott is working, talk about desperate.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Snake Oil Feedback Loop achievement unlocked.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see Elon brought his body armor.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Searching on Google “how to sell my tesla” or “how to sell my tesla stock” hurts their shares. Scheduling a test drive and not showing up wastes their time and resources :)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

President Musk told his employee to do a photoshoot.

This story makes no sense any other way.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are there laws in the US about such conflicts of interest or was is basically tradition until this point not to do shit like this?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Laws are as good as the ability and will to enforce them.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because of ethical restraints, it is extremely rare for a senior government official, let alone a sitting president, to endorse a consumer product so explicitly. In 2017, when then-Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway told Americans to buy from Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, she received a warning from a government ethics office and promised never to do it again.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this whole gambit was actually a 4d chess move by elon to brainwash righties into buying EVs therefore solving climate change and bringing about global communism. I never should have doubted you, sir

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Next he'll do the trick where he slams his dick into the car door

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

So the deep south yeehaw redneck GOP are supposed to buy EVs now?
I think some brains are about to explode...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

when your influence is dying due to your hubris you become desperate and pull something out like this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He can't, former and current presidents aren't allowed to

I assume he lacks the ability as well

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Huh, TIL. Thanks for sharing this info.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Best politicians money can buy!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just because we want electronic cars, doesn't means we'll take Tesla's.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't want electric cars. I want electric trains.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I yelled at my phone when I saw this.

He said "oh wow! The whole thing is a computer!" like cars haven't been like that for YEARS now.

The I go on Facebook for some reason (I am in a rural area) and I am seeing people talking about buying teslas in the local community pages. These people are not people that couldn't afford a used Mitsubishi Mirage....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

like cars haven’t been like that for YEARS now

Worse, Teslas are designed like computer software rather than cars, which is why they are so dangerous and terrible, as software development processes are absolutely horrible for things that actually matter, especially when compared to existing vehicle engineering principles.

I feel dirty cross-linking to that other place but check out how/where they locate the brake lines. A nice convenient rust-prone place, only accessible by removing the battery. Apparently the design has become even shittier since.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1j8sh8c/thx_for_making_me_take_down_the_battery_for_some/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The entire French population: "I guess we're going on a holiday"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

What even is this timeline

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

This man is one of the most pathetic human beings to ever walk the earth

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Rednecks are gonna buy ev to own the libs!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it was Goya last time. Now, it's Tesla. Soon, it will be Campbell's Soup for all the soup-lines his depression will create.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

"Daaaad, the other kids are being mean to me!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This the same dipshit who wants to halt federal EV buildout, EV Programs, and federal building charging stations. I doubt any of you needed reminding, but JFC, it pains me that some dummy is gonna buy an EV only AFTER he sat in one for political theater.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That's so fucking gross

Such a historical site defaced for such a purpose.

I hope someone's dog shits on the white house lawn and doesn't clean it up

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Man can the writers chill? They've been doing the most unbelievable shit these past few days

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