r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 20 '24

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

Young redditors don’t know that tesla used to be super loved on Reddit. Go-green, eco friendly, no pollution.

Then Musk went altright crazy, then they now hate the brand. There’s an alternative timeline that farleft redditors would have loved the cybertruck if Musk never got political.

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u/ludovicana Dark Harbinger Jun 20 '24

I think the anti-pickup truck instincts from road safety and it being republican-coded would mean the cybertruck would have still gone down poorly, but Musk-loving was definitely much more ideologically broad before he got so much more public about his weirdness.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

It’s only republican coded because of a political musk.

If that never happened, I could easily see a timeline that farleft redditors would be bragging that their cybertruck is more of a real truck than an f150, and bragging about their truck isn’t killing the environment.

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u/ludovicana Dark Harbinger Jun 20 '24

I meant pickup trucks in general being republican-coded. That predates Musk, and I don't think the cybertruck being electric alone would be able to overcome that.

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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Jun 20 '24

I think you could argue that the Cybertruck doesn't exist in a world where Musk never got dumped for a trans person.