BrikoX to TeslaEnglish · 5 months ago‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1243arrow-down1external-link‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?www.theguardian.comBrikoX to TeslaEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVs
minus-squarefox2263@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·5 months agoWhat gets me is that he’s hitched himself to the MAGA ride when the other way would’ve been far more lucrative in the short and long term. Big brain dude
minus-squareRampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoSeriously, build an expensive high-end product, then alienate all the “elite” who would buy it. Brilliant business plan.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·edit-25 months agoUm, I hate to burst your bubble but I live in a pretty well-to-do county and it’s only after he went fascist that Teslas started taking off here. Might want to consider reading up on the petite bourgeoisie and their role in the rise of Nazi Germany.
minus-squareuienia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoBut far less conducive to his pathological narcissism. In maga he can cultivate the personality cult he so desperately craves.
minus-squarefox2263@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoHe used to be tech jesus which would have only grown had he not went off the deep end! Maybe it’s the brain worm. Or maybe it’s all a deep ruse to convert the cult to electric for the good of humanity. The coal rollers
What gets me is that he’s hitched himself to the MAGA ride when the other way would’ve been far more lucrative in the short and long term.
Big brain dude
Seriously, build an expensive high-end product, then alienate all the “elite” who would buy it. Brilliant business plan.
Um, I hate to burst your bubble but I live in a pretty well-to-do county and it’s only after he went fascist that Teslas started taking off here.
Might want to consider reading up on the petite bourgeoisie and their role in the rise of Nazi Germany.
But far less conducive to his pathological narcissism. In maga he can cultivate the personality cult he so desperately craves.
He used to be tech jesus which would have only grown had he not went off the deep end!
Maybe it’s the brain worm. Or maybe it’s all a deep ruse to convert the cult to electric for the good of humanity. The coal rollers