• meco03211@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I bought mine before he went crazy. He has tweets after I purchased bragging about scoring high on lgbtq equality. Further, mine has lifetime free supercharging. The longer I have it the more I cost tesla money.

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      14 days ago

      He was always a shitty person. Even in his adolescence.

      He made fun of his classmate because his classmates father committed suicide. That classmate responded by shoving him down the stairs. Which honestly should have happened more.

      He was always rotten to the core.

    • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 days ago

      He has always had some pretty shitty opinions about things and a shitty way of doing business. Tesla was basically stolen by Musk from the guys who founded it, then he tried to rewrite Tesla history and label himself as the soul founder, at which point the actual founders had to sue him to maintain their founder status, and that was all in 2009, so unless you tell me that you bought the Roadster in 2008, I have a really hard time believing you. Or you’re one of those people that don’t care about things until it’s literally shoved in your face. But I digress. Sure you didn’t know.

      But what’s stopping you from selling the one you have now, since you do know, now?

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        14 days ago

        Because, as mentioned in my initial comment, it costs tesla money the longer I have it. If I sell it, the free supercharging won’t go with it. While it’s mine I can choose where to get repairs and avoid tesla service centers. That’s not a guarantee if I sell it.

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          13 days ago

          You’re keeping it to protect it from the real Nazis? Come on, dude. You have done mental summersault to avoid selling your swasticar.

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        14 days ago

        Tesla Roadster was just a Lotus with a retrofit electric motor. Without Elons cash they wouldn’t have become what they are today. In effect he helped found a viable production car instead of staying as an aftermarket retro fit of another manufacturers car.

        He’s an absolute asshole douche, but I’m glad he brought Tesla to where it is, it forced all other ICE manufacturers to take EVs seriously.

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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          12 days ago

          Tesla Roadster was just a Lotus with a retrofit electric motor.

          They worked with Lotus, but it only shares 6% of parts with the Elise. Musk wasn’t at Tesla at that time.