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> mentioning his CEO and your perception about his ideology It's not perception, it's reality: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-mu
by zfg 2y ago
> mentioning his CEO and your perception about his ideology
It's not perception, it's reality: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elo...
These guys like it: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-salute-reaction-right-wing-extremists-1235241866/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...
Musk is making a point of supporting far right parties internationally: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/25/elon-musk-makes-surprise-appearance-at-afd-event-in-eastern-germany https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/25/elon-musk...
And his far right views are not new: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/16/elon-musk-antisemitic-tweet-adl https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/16/elon-musk...
Musk is an attention seeking narcissist who has gone out of his way to make himself synonymous with the Tesla brand. When you buy Tesla you're now buying into Musk's far right politics.
He's done a lot of damage to the Tesla brand: https://insideevs.com/news/748520/model-y-social-media-juniper/ https://insideevs.com/news/748520/model-y-social-media-junip...
If you don't want to be associated with Musk the simple solution is don't buy Tesla.
- synecdoche 2y ago> These guys like it By such reasoning anything extremists like is extremist by association. How does that make sense?
- zfg 2y agoThey correctly recognized it for what it was. The brand damage is big this time. Teslas are now being called "swasticars".