Summary

A survey in the Netherlands revealed that 31% of Tesla owners are considering selling their cars due to Elon Musk’s controversial actions, including his involvement in politics and handling of misinformation on X (formerly Twitter).

About 40% feel embarrassed to own a Tesla, though 51% say Musk’s behavior doesn’t affect their view of the car.

Musk’s leadership of X has also driven users away, with 46% leaving or considering leaving the platform.

Parallel criticism of Mark Zuckerberg for removing fact-checking has fueled similar debates over tech leadership and misinformation.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    You aren’t willing to sacrifice enough to get rid of something you hate. Let that sink in and then ask yourself why. Might reveal something to you

    (I just think it’s interesting, I’m not leading you to something specific)

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      3 hours ago

      I’m in a similar position, having a 2019 M3 bought back in the days of blissful ignorance of who Musk even was pretty much.

      I’m not wealthy in any way, I spent very hard earned cash for a green(er) car due to extensive travel requirements at work. I can not just sell the car for pennies and get a new electric car.

      So for me, I have pretty much no reasonable alternative other than to ride it out, use non-tesla-chargers, and get a new non-tesla car in a couple of years when hopefully the price of electric cars have declined.

      So please don’t judge those of us who are in this shitty position too hard. I’m not in any way looking for some kind of pity (god knows even affording the car in the first place makes me very privileged), but for some understanding and to make it known that plenty of us “old Tesla car”- drivers do not affiliate in any way with Musk’s views and opinions.

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        3 hours ago

        You misunderstand me if it seemed like i was judging.

        Is a shitty situation, like cancer is. You just can’t rid of a cancer sometimes even if it’s the only thing you want to be able to do

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          3 hours ago

          Ah, then I seen, thanks for the clarification! (I blame not being a native English speaker)

          Yeah it’s a crappy situation where keeping the damn thing actually seems like the least shitty thing to do for now. At least I’ve managed to convince others to buy alternatives like the Hyundai Ioniq series instead when they’ve asked me for my opinion!

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            3 hours ago

            Take comfort if as i assume you didn’t get the car to support mush but because on paper it accomplished a goal and that’s why you bought the thing. It’s still doing exactly what you bought it for. The only thing that is changed is a persononality that’s isn’t actually connected(I’m assuming) to your reasons.

            Toyota has bloodcon it’s hands, as does most of them. VW is a company that literally supported hitler and contributed the horror of people being put into nazi death camps.

            Musk is a fuckwad, but hes not worse than some others that came before him.

            I bought a VW almost 20 years ago, it was cheap and for my needs at the time it was what made sense.

            Your choice still is making the world better than it otherwise would have been. You won’t ever buy another one(so many assumptions in making lol )

            Its not your fault. Talk to any engineer about the need to make tradeoffs, you didnt know and made the best decision you could. I hate that it affects you like this, is just the sad state of 2025

            If i could i would buy your car. I need a new one but life went sideways on me personally and the world went sideways on everyone so I’m in a bad position. I’m fortunate to be able to just stick with my shit car still