• hmonkey
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      4 days ago

      The Nazi salute took things to another level, I wouldn’t assume the owner is on board with that. I’d say he was just a typical billionaire CEO level of crazy when the cybertruck came out

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      4 days ago

      Buying a CyberTruck is the equivalent of digging up John DeLorean, filling his corpse with bags of cocaine, strapping him to the front of a DeLorean that’s been modified to shoot sparks into the gas tank when a moisture sensor is triggered, and then drive said cocaine death-trap into schools and other public services.

      This might be a slight exaggeration, but it’s pretty much literally exactly that.

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      3 days ago

      Not everyone follows what Musk is up to date on the daily, at least they weren’t before the election. I’m not going to call my neighbors Nazis just for owning the wrong car.

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        4 days ago

        While your point might seem fair, you simply cannot buy that car as ‘simply a car as any other’ if you have at least half an eyeball

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          Sure, but having bad taste doesn’t make one a Nazi either.

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            I feel like funding a Nazi is just as bad.

            I feel the same way with people who use Amazon. You can’t complain about what Bezos does with his money when you’re actively supplying him with it.

            You can’t complain about what muskrat does with his money if you’re buying his products.

            That makes you part of the problem.

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              You’re judging people retroactively by one purchase they made, likely before the Nazi business. I’d say you’re part of the problem

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                Except I’m not the one funding the Nazi?

                He was clearly a douchebag from the start. He didn’t even try to hide it. He didn’t even actually do anything but buy existing companies and pay smart people to make things with the wealth his parents accrued through basically slavery. He surrounded himself with enough yes men that he started to feel like a god which led to our current situation.

                He was always a piece of shit. It’s not retroactive.