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Cybertruck Owners Baffled After Months of Hate Aimed at Tesla Drivers: 'I Never Expected It to Turn People Against Me' (www.latintimes.com)

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[–] hexthismess@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"I think people are nuanced enough to figure out there's a difference between a CEO and a product," said Matt Holm, president of the Tesla Owners Club of Austin. Holm is a Democrat who thinks its unfair to target Tesla for Musk's politics. "Have you ever heard of a car company called Volkswagen? They are a car company commissioned by Hitler and designed to be the 'people's car' of Nazi Germany."

The nuance understander conveniently left out the nuance that their example is one company is from 80 years ago and the other one is right here. Also, saying hate the player not the game for Hitler is hitler-detector

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Be Nice. VW was a Nazi Company and people STILL Drive those around so its OK to Drive around Tesla's which According to His Analogy are ALSO a Nazi Company!

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Germany made amends. Volkswagen became independent of the government. VW's CEO is not actively campaigning against the world at large.

There's his nuance.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I used to live in Austin until four years ago. It used to be considered a blueberry in a bowl of tomato soup. A few weeks ago I made a pit stop there and I was shocked at the amount of Swastikars and IncEl Caminos on the road. I drive all across the country, including deep red states, and I have never seen such a concentration of Teslas ever in my life.