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> It was silly. Can we just accept that? Okay, thank you. Moving on. For what it's worth one of my clients installs charging stations and after meeting maybe h

> It was silly. Can we just accept that? Okay, thank you. Moving on. For what it's worth one of my clients installs charging stations and after meeting maybe hundreds of Tesla owners I assure you(anecdotally) that 19 out of 20 don't mention the CEO at all. Most Americans don't even have a twitter account(less than a third do) so this mindset of associating your car brand with all that e-drama is only for people chronically online. Most are non car people(as in, they wouldn't have bought a BMW or Mercedes, they were happy with a toyota) just excited about the tech that goes into the car. It means no more to the average driver on the road than what Henry Fords' opinions were(and they were worse)

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> so this mindset of associating your car brand with all that e-drama is only for people chronically online. Maybe true about Twitter or Elon specifically, but i suspect if we ignore "on Twitter" specifically, far too many people are "chronically online" or chronically drinking news cycle drama. Ie i generally agree that people often think e-drama is more real than it is, but i also suspect we shouldn't undersell how many humans are addicted to tube fed drama. Fear sells, and we've got a lot of industries that focus on this. Wonder what studies test this, outcomes, etc.