• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Tesla, even after the mass exodus of liberal consumers

    This is mostly just online bullshit. It’s a fairy tale that people believe because they want to believe Musk can fail. Go drive around West Hollywood, which is one of the most liberal cities in the USA, and count the Cybertrucks. You wouldn’t be able to count to 20 before you got 2 blocks if there was a mass boycott of Tesla by liberals.

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      13 days ago

      Tesla sales dropped in the first two quarters of this year for the first time in the company’s history, by ~10% and another 5% respectively. And this doesn’t specifically breakout the new red-hat purchasers for whom Elon is the new god-king that replaced some of those liberal consumers.

      Every cybertruck owner I’ve talked with and/or seen was clearly a Trumpet. Two of the ones I’ve seen even had Trump stickers and one had one of those American flags on a pole on it. Admittedly (and thankfully) I do not live in California. Nevertheless, the net effect of Elon’s mask-removal has negatively affected sales, specifically because the almost exclusively liberal, college-educated, upper-middle-class purchaser that was the company’s main consumer is declining.

      Nevertheless, my point wasn’t that it is somehow going to bankrupt Tesla. My point was the exact opposite: all this stupid shit – “liberals are boycotting tesla!” “Swifties are boycotting X!” “Engineers are boycotting SpaceX!” – does not actually affect anything enough to be worthy of celebration.