The New York Times: As Elon Musk's public persona has become increasingly right wing, Tesla appears to be paying a price in sales. His polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.

As Elon Musk's public persona has become increasingly right wing, Tesla appears to be paying a price in sales. His polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.

Elon Musk’s Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Teslawww.nytimes.com The Tesla chief executive’s polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.

A right wing billionaire?? Whaaat???

He platforms Nazis. That's only polarizing if you think Nazis are legit.

No "may be" about it. #Tesla *was* going to be my first #EV. Not now, and not ever.

There are many other choices available now. Wait a bit and there will be even more.

No doubt. Musk being an ass just delayed my personal EV adoption. I’m letting EVs from other brands mature and then I’ll pick one.

Huyndai and Kia seem to have some nice recent models. I was an early adapter to EV's. I have a 2015 KIA Soul. My big complaint is lack of long range. It has been relatively free of problems. That said EV's need huge heavy tires to support them. Replacing tires is $$$.

My car is paid off. I want to wait a while before I replace it.

I'm old school, run it into the ground. No car payment. JMHO

He is far-right and he directly supports fascists! Nothing smaller than that. This man and his social network is dangerous for every democracy in the whole wide world ..!

L O L

“May be”? Come the fuck on.

any number of us could’ve written this shit a year ago

It’s probably that, but it’s also probably that people like their Tesla at first and then grow to hate it.

Or maybe people are realizing that Teslas are crappy cars.

you guys. he says nazi things. you're allowed to report that i checked the rules

You think?

Or maybe it's their shitty products. I mean... have you seen that god-awful useless truck?

“But we’ll do a bunch of puff piece propaganda stories to launder and enable him to continue being a fascist dbag”.

I don't think the word "polarizing" was made to support that much load.

I will NEVER buy a Tesla vehicle, storage battery for my solar or anything else made by that man's company.

Saying he is becoming right wing is like saying the Pacific Ocean is becoming damp.

Musk is 100% why I won't buy a Tesla even though I'm in the market for an EV. Why the hell did shareholders approve his $45B package??

Will never buy a Tesla as long as Musk and his hand-picked BOD are involved in that company

Yah think? My wife and I decided our replacement vehicle when one of our cars bites the dust would be an EV. Tesla moved from the top of the list to off the list altogether almost solely based on Musk's RWNJ garbage.

I didn’t even consider a Tesla because of that Nazi. It probably saved me a lot of pain.

"Public Persona" You guys just refuse to call right wing right wing. That's not just some act of his, it is who he is. Just because you don't like when the donor class who funds you acts like right wing whack jobs doesn't mean you can just mislabel....oh yeah, you're bought and paid for, nvm.

That and the spontaneous combustion.

Go woke go broke Elon

Go fash, lose cash.

"May?" Way to have your finger on the pulse of things.

I for one am shocked that a man whose wealth was built on apartheid gemstones has right wing extremist ideals.

Also, his trucks are crap.

“May” be? It’s absolutely certain!

I mean, he has literally echoed Neo-Nazi propaganda on multiple occasions, how much more right-wing can one get? At point is just a matter of his potential customers level of comfort with nazism, or their ability to read.

Good! Fuck that Nazi piece of Shit and Everything he touches.

We don't need to support a Fascist Billionaire thug.

Want to see how much scumbag Musk is able to manipulate the stock market with help from other ultra rich criminals like Cathie Wood? On the left we have Tesla's just released quarterly earnings results and on the right what this terrible news did for the stock...

"polarizing statements" is a fun way to reframe "anti-Semitic insane conspiracy shit"

“public persona.” Do you think he’s just pretending to be a Nazi for shits and giggles?

When a Nazi takes the mask off to reveal a horrible Nazi, that's not a "public persona." It's just a Nazi taking the mask off.

Whats going on Elon?

ya think?

Maybe he shouldn't have tipped the scales of the war in Ukraine toward putin by disabling front-line communications of the Ukrainian army during a crucial assault - just because he wanted to.

Also it the fact that the trucks are hot diarrhea probably isn't helping.

Noooo shit.

May?!

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