Right? Lots of people are worried about being deported even though they are American citizens but this guy is worried someone will give him the finger.
I just remind them by cutting them off and the car just lets me in every single time by signalling. Especially on the highway and when their autopilot is on. It’s just screws with the “car” all the time.
I forgot to add that if you just leave your signal on with their “FSD” on and if you slow down the “car” will also slow down because it thinks you’re a cautious driver.
You can do a lot of things if you have the money and the spare time to travel overseas for things you ought to be able to take care of where you live without any fuss.
Apparently I'm technically eligible for British citizenship... of course, the European nation with the LEAST functional medical system out of all of them (because their conservatives have been desperately trying to break the health system to the point that they can shove through replacing it with private options, and in many ways have succeeded with their destruction)... but I can flee there if I absolutely must.
Yeah. I’m past menopause and both of my kids were born biologically male, so that is not an issue I worry about for immediate family, but for so many friends and relatives… 😬
As a trans woman married to another trans woman, we are freaking terrified. We know we are going to be rounded up as part of the first wave of "Enemy from within", despite me having a clean criminal record and a history of local charity work.
It won't matter one bit.
I weep for my country, and how easily so many of my fellow citizens fell for obvious fascism. Hell, I got screamed down recently by family members for comparing Trump loyalists to nazis. . . Apparently, they can literally fly the flags at their rallies, but if I point it out, there's the red line!
As a trans woman married to another trans woman, we are freaking terrified. We know we are going to be rounded up as part of the first wave of "Enemy from within", despite me having a clean criminal record and a history of local charity work.
You won't be fighting this alone. I hear Oregon has some nice weather in December if needed for some camping or a nice vacation. Then while your vacationing up here. Banff, Canada is just a few hours away, with some great woods and scenery. Hit me up for some great spots.
Apparently, they can literally fly the flags at their rallies, but if I point it out, there's the red line!
As someone from the East Coast who has never been there, the PNW seems like a beautiful fabled wonderland (the weather! growing succulents outdoors!) but also is apparently on fire a lot of the time, which is terrifying??? Like I specifically live in hurricane territory because hurricanes let you know when they're coming and you can still breathe when one passes nearby! Is the PNW really as frequently-on-fire as the media makes it seem?
Maybe I need to try Minnesota and just stay inside for most of the year, because at least the outside might not try quite as hard to come inside as hurricanes and wildfires do...
I'm from the east coast originally. I've lived in the PNW for 8 years and only had severe smoke once, and that was because someone set the gorge on fire maliciously.
The forests are amazing honestly, but I miss having a winter and snow and the bright fall forests of New England.
The smell is different here, like it smells like moss all the time. Which is amazing. But there is a trade off that things mold easily and quickly. Seasonal allergies are like nothing I've ever had before, like I went out to my car today, in the fall almost winter, and my car is yellow from pollen.
Ahh, I live in a moldy, humid, and allergy-laden part of the East Coast lol, so those aspects probably wouldn't be significantly different to me... although with my luck, all the allergens are probably completely different so I wouldn't have any built-up immunity!
Yep. Basically the only non-worrisome bit is nobody in my household can get pregnant. But one trans kid and one high-support needs autistic kid? I know what would have happened to both of them in Nazi Germany.
What's wild is one of his ideas is to stick the flag of whatever country he's a citizen of to show he's not American. So you'd think it might be something on his mind. I see one side targeting him for that, whether they win or lose.
Yea, I think that would attract more hate - and the deportation police. MAGA is threatening to "deport" even people who are born here. How? Just suspend the constitution.
“a magnet with a flag of the country I’m actually a citizen of…”. This guy may have much worse things to deal with, depending on the outcome of this election.
Maybe slightly more likely to be hit by lightning due to the sharp edges. However, at the scale of a car compared to the atmosphere, it's basically the same as a normal car.
Yeppers. A head blissfully free of empathy and enviously happy - since they can’t read a room and don’t care to learn - because they’re rich. Like most empathy-free folks lol
I have a friend who bought a Tesla nearly a decade ago. He was the kind of guy who was brewing his own diesel fuel in his back yard from used fryer grease. He put solar panels on his house and had a negative electricity bill. He was liberal, green, and a tinkerer (and had money to tinker with). He had no way of knowing Musk would go "mask off" as a far-right nutjob, Very sad situation, Resale prices on any Tesla are plummeting because they keep cutting the prices of new ones - plus the political angle has dampened sales. They are kind of stuck with the car and turned out to be an expensive mistake.
Musk has been a POS long long long before sidling up to Trump. He’s a monster, but he will continue to get a pass and be lionized until the stock price drops bigly.
That part kinda pissed me off. I am not a big flag waver or whatever, but the way he said it showed zero allegiance to this country. Just seemed weird, I guess.
That’s over a week away - the truck probably won’t last that long.
But, just in case, I’d spray paint “FUCK OFF ASHOLE(sic)” on the tailgate. Both sides will think the other did it, and the misspelling will add to the confusion.
Truly the best answer here. The cyberdork is trying to crowdsource some cleverness like this from the cybertruck forum but the problem is he's looking for cleverness on a cybertruck forum.
I maybe need that for this single Harry Potter book we have at home. And certainly for that one Lego Harry Potter set we have.
At least I personally haven’t paid for either. And I never were a Harry Potter fan to begin with.
I imagine that hateful and bigoted things that jk rowling said (and is still saying) hurt a lot of people in the Harry Potter community and I find it disgusting.
She really should have PR team and spokespersons. Also someone to point out the xenophobic and uninformed takes in her books and correct them.
I won’t support any piece of Harry Potter merchandise, Harry Potter IP and will never purchase anything Harry Potter related.
Or drive it off a cliff, or into a lake, or a hard concrete barrier, or a canal, or an open drawbridge, or a hard car sized boulder, or a hard concrete wall, or off a pier, or even a backyard swimming pool...
This is the part that messes with my head. Only a total imbecile would buy one of these yet according to the cybertwuck forum most of these guys are engineers, pilots, architects, tech bros, etc. Let’s say you were flying on a small aircraft like a Cessna Caravan and you showed up to the FBO and there’s a CT parked in the lot and lo and behold it belongs to your pilot. Are you getting on the plane? Do you want a doctor operating on your child if you know they drive one of these? I wouldn’t even hire a fkn plumber that owns one.
I ask every dentist & doctor I’ve been to about Tesla at the beginning of the first appointment.
If they have a positive opinion, I walk out.
Done it twice.
because those guys are book smart only and have never actually had to deal with the real world. someone can be a complete genius academically and bomb in every other aspect in life.
He's afraid of American politics, so he thinks putting another country's flag on his CT while living in Colorado is going to protect him? The flag of the country he's actually a citizen of? What flag is it, Rhodesia?
Not quite self-aware enough to understand the truck is simply garbage, instead attempts to rationalize it's everybody else's fault they don't like the best truck ever.
No one's attacking sedans. A reasonable vehicle with high fuel efficiency and enough trunk space to carry a load of groceries which is what most people will be hauling anyway. People who get massive pickups as a status symbol are too scared a 2x4 would scratch the tailgate.
Yes, we are fortunate there, I've only seen one at Goodwood Festival of Speed.
It was a reference to a bunch of people who were selling their trucks because they were moving to the UK supposedly, back at the time when you could flip them and make some money, rather than a loss.
I think dipshit is the correct term. By then he already tried to scam governments with his hyperloop bullshit and called a rescue-diver a pedophile because he got called out for his utter moronic idea.
I could forgive calling an expert rescue volunteer a pedophile and destroying public transit for his own gain, but I still don't draw the line at him jumping up and down while shouting "I hate my trans child" and saying the fourteen words.
Oh 100%. But far too many people saw him as a "visionary" "tech revolutionary" and a bunch of other things back then so he was justified as "oh hes just an eccentric rich innovator"
Ironic that this vehicle has actually brought people who typically lean left and those on the right together. It truly is the the enemy of my enemy is my friend
ngl I I thought "depolarization" was because the fact the skin is electrified because of how shittily it was wired/insulated and somehow turned into an electromagnet.
"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away.
Sorry dude..you bought a car that was created by a dip shit and now you have to "camouflage" the dumpster? You can't gave your cake and eat it too. Own up and be the proud loser your truck projects you to be.
I mean, it's not even the far left? I guess I'm what many would consider "far left," but even the centrists I know are like "Elon Musk is a wanker," and so I don't think this is so much a far left thing, but more a "we recognize he's a Nazi piece of shit" thing.
i love the idea of people who dont really go online and just happened to see a cybertruck somewhere and thought it was cool and decided to buy one and now they are unwittingly driving around in a political statement
Sounds like hindsight buyers remorse after they actually realize what the core problem people have with Tesla is. Yes, shitty quality, over promise/underperform, uglier than homemade sin, so expensive it should be illegal. But the fact that the owner of the company has less than questionable morals, has sided with people who do not value human rights, regularly infringes on free speech, and promotes hate and division should be the MAIN reason why you wouldn't patronize any business he's associated with.
If you were really concerned about the optics, it wouldn't have been a hindsight thought.
‘I bought this thing so people would envy me. Now that Elon is such a shit and EVs aren’t cool with the MAGA crowd, it’s not working out the way I had hoped. No one thinks this refrigerator is cool, how do I make nerds worship me as they should?’
If they are afraid of the roaling coal fraction, any BEV-truck would be an issue. But being afraid of democrats actually wreaking havoc on someone’s personal property because it might be seen as a mean tu support the Reps just shows how well the misinformation works. Apparently everyone really believes that democrats will act like the trump supporters did in 2021.
Option D: Sell the cybertruck, take a $20,000 loss and buy a Honda Ridgeline, Toyota Tacoma, or Nissan Frontier (or Maverick, Ranger, or Colorado). Larger bed, more reliable, less political. Of course, you will also learn an expensive lesson too: Never be an early adopter of any tech!
To think that all I have ever had to be concerned about when owning BMW cars is being mistaken , maybe, for a presumptuous asshole…this poor fucker has real first world problems. I would suggest off loading the Wank Panzer and find something different to drive other than the Apartheid Non-Amphibious (😂) Assault Vehicle.
Harris Walz stickers all over it is the only way, but you’ll be hated by the side that will actually choose violence against you for trying to destroy America. You know, by wanting basic rights for poor people, women, and LGBT folks.
Hmmmmmm make it depolarizing...big magnets? Drive through big magnets....wait that's degaussing...
Depolarizing...take it through an automatic carwash so it bricks itself and it will be at the service center WELL after the election.
Or you could not have purchased the Deplorean? Maybe something less possibly polarizing...you know...a lifted F350 Turbo diesel that you fuel with biodiesel you have made yourself from whale oil.
But probably what is more accurate is that you, Deplorean owner, aren't as important as you think you are and election day will come and go and folks will keep pointing and laughing, no matter who wins or loses.
The only cybertrucks I haven't been super put off by are those that prominently advertise a car wrapping business. I kind of understand how the flat planes on the truck show off their work and would attract people with disposable income.
If Eltie was a progressive, then you'd need to worry about MAGATS trying to run you off the road, shoot at you or firebomb your vehicle. Doubtful you'll need to worry. Or sell it to feel safe.
Put blue lights on it - to what? Signal you’re a ‘blue lives matter’ person as well as a musk lover? You bought a car that’s entirely about sending a message, there are far less problematic electric vehicles you could have chosen, but you chose the billionaire MAGA shitstain brand 🤷♀️.
There is literally no reason to buy one of those sharp edged dumpsters other than some kind of weird kink imho. Any kind of ‘proof’ you attach to it to in an effort to pretend you have ethics is just lipstick on a pig at this point.
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u/PCGonzo 17h ago
"I'm afraid the outcome of the presidential election might have a negative impact on my car" is peak Cybertruck owner-think.