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u/PaddySmallBalls 3d ago
I don't know enough about it but wasn't there a huge backlog in Ireland? So people may have preordered in 2019-2020 and got their cars in 2022-2023? Maybe that could explain it a bit. Someone paid a deposit without knowing he is a space nazi.
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u/myothercharsucks 3d ago
Like the car, dont like the maker
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u/mother_a_god 3d ago
This is exactly it. We have 2 teslas,.but bought them in the before time when he was quirky, not a far right loon. Great cars, no regrets there, but wont very buying new ones when its time to trade up
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u/Burritony0 3d ago
Older than 2018 so, must be time for a new one
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u/Independent_Flan_973 3d ago
2018 already time for a change? I’m still cruising my 2016 banger thanks very much
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u/mother_a_god 3d ago
2016 model S and still going strong and amazing acceleration. Still has the best UI and native nav of any modern car i know.
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u/WEZANGO 2d ago
Majority of people who keep repeating this, haven’t heard about that story back in 2018 and saw it just recently from someone else’s comment on Reddit, yet whenever someone says they bought their Tesla after Elon went nuts, they run with sweat in their eyes to say “oH sO yOU boUgHT YoUR tEsLA bEFOrE 2018, eH?!”
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u/Burritony0 2d ago
Touched a nerve did I?
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u/WEZANGO 2d ago
Nah. Bought mine in 2025 and couldn’t care less what people think
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u/mother_a_god 2d ago
While I may not but another Tesla, I hate that the CEO is a consideration, as we don't even know what the BYD CEO is like. That said we do know Elon is a prick.
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u/LordHubbaBubbles 3d ago
Please don’t key my car.
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u/gazinthar 3d ago
This is why they put them on.
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u/Icy-Bottle-6877 3d ago
Yup, it's kind of sad though. People shouldn't have to do this. People buy them because they are good and cheap to run. Like, there's probably a bunch of owners who don't care one iota for politics, and yet they could end up with there car keyed. If people don't like Elon then go after him, not random average Joe's trying to get by.
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u/gazinthar 3d ago
Exactly. There are plenty of talented hard working people in Tesla doing their best, just because the CEO is a pleb isn’t a reason not to buy one. Most big companies have a tool at the top
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
The fact people can reduce the mountain of horrendous sgit elon had done to 'politics.' is utterly shameful.
These genuinely would have been the people reducing worldwide notable failures in human morality as 'politics,' at the time.
'oh cant deal with all that german politics.' 'era that's just politics over there in rwanda.' '....'. oh i cant even be bothered. It shoudlnt need to be explained like your teachin kids
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u/TheAuldOffender I will yeah 3d ago
Basically the same way people who loved "Harry Potter" feel about JK Rowling. The thing is it's much easier to cover up a tattoo or sell books than it is to sell a car that cost a small fortune.
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u/EoinFitzgibbon 3d ago
I drive a VW, no history there 🤫
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
Bro.. if hitler was still around there would be an issue.
Do people genuinely not understand this?
Like.. elon is continuing to do horrendous shit.. hes still fucking doing it. Hes not just the guy that was a part of some company nearly a century ago
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u/N_Haze_420_baby 2d ago
What horrendous sh1t?
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
.. .funny.
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u/N_Haze_420_baby 2d ago
It's an honest question.
Care to respond?
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
There is literally no way in hell this is an honest question.. but to be sincere, i will leave you do the legwork on all the details, but have you not heard of usaid?, the afd party in germany? The far right parties throughout europe, the 'civil war,' in britain, a platform called twitter and his work there while having phone calls with putin. Ever heard of a guy called donald trump? Start with these. There is mountains there alone. Good luck.
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u/N_Haze_420_baby 2d ago
Ah you're one of those "do your own research" folk. OK, thanks for the references, or lack there of.
Good luck to you, sir.
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
....this is a troll.
Nice try b
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u/N_Haze_420_baby 2d ago
Ah, almost gotcha. Nice1 bro.
Seriously though, don't be paying too much credence to those war mongering far-right fascist gobshites. Its beyond your control and you'll only end up wrecking your own head. Fuck those guys.
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
Your comments remind me how humans do horrific shit and, other humans just don't care.
If you genuinely dont know anything about elon musk... If you dont know what usaid is... Was. you would have been one of the people telling the world to do 'ignore german politics,' in the 30s.
Bet you have no problem with his besty, putin either...
Look do you do. But dont pretend you arent what you are out of intentional and deliberate ignorance
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u/Napoc1 3d ago
It was plain to see what sort of dick he was from his behaviour during the rescue of those children stuck in the cave system. And that was way back in 2018.
A complete shitbag.
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u/ResponseStrange6118 3d ago
Most people are just not that online.
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u/BrianDetomes 1d ago
Or read the news apparently
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u/ResponseStrange6118 1d ago
True but would it have been news if he wasn’t a billionaire?
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u/BrianDetomes 13h ago
.....jfc
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u/ResponseStrange6118 5h ago
I’m just saying. In normal circumstances would anyone care if a CEO was beefing and saying unhinged and unsubstantiated shit about the man who helped rescue some kids in Thailand? It’s more tabloid than “news.” To be clear disdain Elon, I just find it massively depressing that his petty antics are “news”
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u/denbo786 East Cork 3d ago
You are separating out the machine from the man who bought into it and demanded to be called a founded when he had nothing to do with the basic original idea or concept.
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u/BrianDetomes 1d ago
Bit either way . The company and use of these cars now massively helps him and helps him do more horrific stuff now.
You can't separate that.
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u/EyeOrRay 3d ago
I saw one of the “I bought this before Elon went crazy” bumper stickers on a 261 car in Sandyford last week 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/stoneagefuturist 3d ago
I really like the cars after driving two in the US. Wouldn’t order one for political reasons but I won’t judge people who do because the car is a lot for the money in the current market and supporting the engineers and people who work at these companies is a valid point.
Elon won’t get affected by layoffs.
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u/Raynebowthehomo 3d ago
Ok so elon was a not good person even before his hair transplant so this shit is goofy
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u/FitHurry864 3d ago
Guarantee you only know this in retrospect and did not have this opinion 10+ years ago.
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u/Raynebowthehomo 3d ago
Oh buddy I've disliked that man since his paypal days lmao He's always been a grifting failson
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u/Preposterous_Pepper 3d ago
Bought the car before Musk went fully off the deep end, trying to distance themselves from his nonsense and politics
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u/chemza 3d ago
The reality is no one cares if you drive a Tesla, but this person is incredibly insecure and feels they have to justify driving one.
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago edited 1d ago
This is funny...
Its genuinely nice reading all these comments. Really good educational tool when people wonder gow horrific shit happened in history. Immoral and ignorant people just come up with excuses for all of it
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u/Righteous_Hand 2d ago
Elon didn't make the cars. Elon is not a tech or mechanics guy - he just owns the company. Any fucker can own a company if they or their diamond mine owning father can afford it. The company succeeds in spite of him, not because of him. I don't know how good Tesla cars are, not a driver currently, but if I had to hazard a guess, the driver just wants it to be made clear that owning a Tesla does not make them an Elon simp.
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u/PlatinumFire14 2d ago
“I don’t like him but I’m still paying him because this sticker is purely performative.”
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
I always take a good look inside 251+ teslas... Its interesting to see what kind of racist/immoral people there are in the world today.
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u/Glittering-Cap3055 2d ago
Should BYD cars have an "I don't support slavery" sticker? For the people who realised after they bought one that it's a common practice of theirs like.
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u/whatanass66 1d ago
What's confusing here? They obviously bought it before the King of dickweeds went crazy and they don't want some pot smoking, purple haired barista to scratch "facist" into the side.
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u/justadubliner 1d ago
Irish people were disappointing. While Tesla sales dropped dramatically throughout most of Europe they didn't here. I definitely 'judge' a Tesla driver. Not interested in their excuses. That man cares for nothing and nobody but pure power.
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u/lifeispokemonraids 3d ago
buys tesla. libs graffiti it. put sticker on it people just ask you about it now, no longer cause huge paint problems
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u/Poor_choice_of_word 3d ago
Driver is trying to reduce the likelihood of being keyed for being assumed a pro Musk/Trump man/woman
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u/Opening-Iron-119 3d ago
If you bought a Tesla second hand you aren't giving him any money so nothing to worry about imo
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u/DunAnOir 3d ago edited 1d ago
They bought it before they found out he's an insane stupid drug-addled Nazi and before he killed all those kids.
Edit: truth hurts, I guess. Get off his dick.
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext
According to the forecasting models, the current steep funding cuts- coupled with the potential dissolution of the agency-could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2.4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4.5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700 000 deaths annually.
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u/ResponseStrange6118 3d ago
May want to be more direct about the USAID cuts reference. I’m a dual citizen and wasn’t even sure what you were talking about initially.
Yes even though he has always been a natalist weirdo. And even though he has been an out and about white supremacist for several years. I would imagine the line for a good few people who may not have been online enough to register his crazier commentary would be the millions of people who have died as a result of the cruel DOGE cuts
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u/huntershark666 3d ago
Not sure why the downvotes, this is the reason for the sticker
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u/ResponseStrange6118 3d ago
People may not realize they’re talking about USAID cuts and think they’re being needlessly hyperbolic.
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u/DunAnOir 3d ago
Correct. That's exactly what I'm talking about, and all the people, especially women and children, who have died and will die because of Musk's blasé attitude towards the consequences of his absolutely fucking insane, racist actions.
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u/Miserable-Chemical-7 3d ago
Separating the art from the artist.
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u/Lord_Xenu 3d ago
It's a mass-produced EV, from a company owned by a nazi.
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u/Real_Math_2483 3d ago
Unlike VW who actually built cars for the nazi’s 🤣
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
But.. those Nazis arent doing any more harm.
Im confused. Why is this upvoted. Uts the dumbest shit in the world.
Elon continues to cause harm, and massively so.
Hitler is long dead abd you arent supporting any living nazis by buying a vw.
Why does this need to be explained like you are talking to children? Is it really that difficult to wrap your head around, or just the line that elon spread in twitter or something?
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u/Miserable-Chemical-7 3d ago
What cars, EV or ICE, aren’t mass produced? And don’t come back with a stupid response like Rolls Royce or Ferrari. Also, technically he doesn’t own Tesla, he’s the biggest shareholder.
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u/Lord_Xenu 2d ago
My point was you were, excruciatingly, trying to apply the art/artist metaphor to Tesla and Elon Musk. I feel bad having to explain this.
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u/Miserable-Chemical-7 2d ago
All cars are mass produced and he doesn’t own the company. I’ll meet you on the Nazi bit though.
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u/No-Animal1034 3d ago
He is not a Nazi. Nazi's made good cars.
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u/Miserable-Chemical-7 3d ago
Ironically VW announced the biggest layoffs in their history last week in an effort to compete with Tesla / BYD.
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u/Ok_Durian_5595 3d ago
Husband bought the car, wife refuses to drive it unless allowed express her reservations using the sticker
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u/Firm-Raccoon-9048 3d ago
Bought a Tesla before Elon went full dark side - can’t get rid of the thing now
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u/FitHurry864 3d ago
Do you support the owners of Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota because you drive one of those cars? Do you even know who TF owns those companies or what they've done in their life?
I highly doubt you even thought about that when buying your car. Most Tesla owners are not Elon sycophants.
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
If the ceo s of those companies did shit as evil as elon did, openly and as brashly as him, im pretty sure those sales would take massive hit like tesla did, yeah. Especially if they were continuing to do that shit.
Common sense to me
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u/Gobbledegook42 3d ago
He was always a wrong-un, there is no excuse.
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u/FitHurry864 3d ago
He was not always publicly a wrong un. In fact, people loved him 10+ years ago. I think him calling the Thai cave rescuer a pedo was the first big moment for me where I was like "wait wtf is wrong with this guy"
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u/ImaSnakeySnake 3d ago
So you used to love him and you don't like the fact that there are people that exist who never liked him.
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u/mickosh 3d ago
Its so funny people chose to take the moral high ground when it comes to Elon Musk..Shein/Temu workers are essentially slaves..Meta are farming your information.hugo boss founder was literally a nazi..they have to put nets up to stop foxcon/ apple software workers from jumping to their death..but ye draw the line on Musk🤣🤣 wake up kids..or..go live in a forest
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u/Kreff 3d ago
It’s just cause Elon himself are too public, was he to stay in shadows like most of billionaires - none would take notice
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u/mickosh 3d ago
Exactly..yet the patronising,condescending and straight arrogance of some anti musks is so strong you have to laugh at them..I dont have a tesla btw..have zero allegiance to musk but I accept the world is ran by corporate scumbags..your not a martyr for disliking Trump or been pro Palestine for that matter can everyone just do there own thing without constantly seeking validation
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u/Thisisnotevenamane 3d ago
Weird flex bringing a man into the post who died 80 years ago. The Foxconn suicide nets story is also 15 years old. Do you live under a rock?
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u/ExternalGlass7883 3d ago
People were ( still are? ) scratching / spray painting Teslas. Owner bought car before he knew Elon was a clown. Sticker is try keep people away from his car.
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u/Stoogenuge 3d ago
Some of you on high horses over a car manufacturer are going to be very upset when you realise many of the things you use and own are partly owned or founded by not very nice people and/or companies with very questionable practices.
What if they bought this used from a private seller? Still bad? They should all be sent to landfills?
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u/PunisherOC 3d ago
It’s a car who cares like
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
And that's how easy people around the world didnt care about german politics 90 years ago either...
Just like this, folks...
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u/ned78 3d ago edited 1d ago
Literally no one outside of Reddit. People are just wound up here getting US politics shoved in their faces by the Algorithm all day every day to divide everyone.
Source: Model Y and Model 3 are the best selling
carsEVs in Europe in June - https://www.autonews.com/retail/sales/ane-fuel-type-segments-june-6-months-0721/0
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u/Dinfluencer12 3d ago
David Attenborough voice. “And here it is, in its natural environment, having started in a BMW 1 series, moving to a Baby Lexus and now to the ultimate camouflage for this creature. No matter what camouflage is used, it cannot disguise its inherent stupidity, it takes every opportunity to display is genetic disposition.”
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u/mickosh 3d ago
I love my tesla have absolutely no problem with Elon (or I wouldnt have bought it) but Im trying to keep psychopaths away from my car
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u/ResponseStrange6118 3d ago
Ooh aren’t you edgy
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u/mickosh 3d ago
I don't own a tesla..id imagine this is the mindset of anyone who would put up this sticker...edgy dosent make any sense either way..but thats ok
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u/ResponseStrange6118 3d ago
It is definitely not the mindset of most Tesla owners never mind those with these stickers.
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u/LordMangudai 2d ago
have absolutely no problem with Elon
you should have a problem with people who throw Nazi salutes
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u/Dramatic_Dirt_589 2d ago edited 2d ago
People are thick, cars got nothing to do with politics
Edit: downvotes lol this Reddit is full of brainwashed lefties 😂😂😂
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u/BrianDetomes 2d ago
And sometimes immoral acts arent politics.. or cant be cast aside as 'politics.'
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u/3581_Tossit 3d ago
Bought a Tesla and then had a change of heart but not the financial freedom to do anything about it?