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Yeah, this is similar to what I hear about Tesla's everywhere. While some members of the company leadership can be polarizing, the product itself seems very solid. Have been saving up for my first "good" car since starting my end-career job, really want to get a Tesla, but wish there was a hybrid option due to charger anxiety. Otherwise, would get one already.


> charger anxiety

I've done many USA cross-country trips in a Tesla. Chargers are a non-issue if you stick to interstate highways. I often don't, which means I have to do some advance planning. I find that fun. Others might not.

But if I were in the market for an EV today I wouldn't buy a Tesla. It's a great car but until the Musk family is no longer part of the company I won't buy another one or recommend them to others.


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Yeah, fuck VolksWagen!


It would be like buying a car from VW while actual nazis were still in charge. All evidence supports Musk being very racist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/24/musk-on...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk...

Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output. The posts, made on his platform X, reflect a renewed embrace of what extremism experts describe as white supremacist material.

“Whites are a rapidly dying minority,” Musk said on 22 January, a short time before taking the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, while reposting an Irish anti-immigrant influencer’s video about demographic change.

Musk’s posts included him repeatedly claiming white people face systemic discrimination, endorsing the conspiracy that there is an ongoing genocide against white people in countries around the world and promoting a claim that white people would be “slaughtered” by non-whites if they become a demographic minority.

“If you stripped Elon Musk’s name off of these things and showed them to me, I would think that this was a white supremacist,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Extremism, who reviewed a selection of the posts.


Idk, both of my grandfathers turned into ashes in cars developed by VW, seems pretty bold and rude comparasion to supposedly "racist" tweets.


Plenty of people have been turned into ashes by not being able to escape burning Tesla's due to Elon's moronic hidden physical handle design.


I mean, there were gasenwagens and VW literally used slave labour of certain camps.


I'm not sure how this is relevant to Elon Musk being a white supremacist.


This is relevant to your comparasion of death camps to twitter posts.


and has repeatedly made racist statements

and amplified racially bigoted conspiracy theories

and likes eugenics

and runs companies which have set a record for the highest number of complaints about racial discrimination and bigotry in its workplaces

and bought an entire social media platform solely so he and people with his ideologies could spew bigotry without having their accounts deleted

and, uh, came from a very wealthy white family that lived in one of the most racially oppressive countries on the planet during his youth


and seems intent on recreating apartheid in the US.




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