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by mleroy 501 days ago
On the bright side, the No. 1 car sticker on German Amazon right now is: "I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE ELON WENT CRAZY."
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Should be "I bought this before I realised Elon is crazy" instead.

Honestly, the Bolivia coup tweet should have been enough.

Poetry.
Need to be update to "I Bought This Before Elon Went Nazi".
Germans use this word more responsibly than americans.
Where is the line, according to Germans? I would have thought “supporting German far right parties and doing a sieg heil (‘ironically’, ‘unknowingly’, or not)” is pretty close, yeah?
Just because I think Elon Musk is a cunt, doesn't mean I want a sticker with the word cunt on my car.
Yeah, no doubt why the first move of his administration is mass deportation.

Tesla sales in Germany will drop again in 2025, and it's politically related.

Germany is a smaller market than the US/China for Tesla. Secondly EV sales have fallen worldwide, so stats stats and damned stats!
EV sales didn't drop by 41% worldwide though, stats, and stats!

Germany is definitely a smaller market than US/China but it's not an insignificant market that can be ignored, losing in it is missing on profits.

Tesla's EV sales in France decreased by 60% in January. In a context of a stable market for EV. Germany alone is small but the trend is present in a lot of EU countries ( Sweden, Denmark and Norway).

For reference, Germany was the third biggest market for Tesla (1/10 of China). France was 4th (1/10 of China too) and Canada was 5th (1/11 of China).

It's not the end of Tesla, but it's politically related.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-03/tesla-sal...

https://roadgenius.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/tesla-mark...

I mean, many Germans consider the AFD, which naughty ol' Mr Car supports, to be a Neo-Nazi party.
They do, but when you deliberately make a Nazi salute it's pretty evident that you're part of the baddies.
Let’s not turn this site into reddit.

It’s obvious to anyone who has watched the video with an iota of common sense that Musk didn’t deliberately make a Nazi salute.

Even the hypersensitive ADL can recognise that.

In Europe, it's obvious to everyone that he actually did, and deliberately. He can't ignore the meaning of this.

It's not even a discussion for us. That is fact, you or the ADL (I don't care who they are) can say anything they want, the fact that he did it and can't ignore the meaning of this make him a Nazi. Adding to the context of supporting Neo-nazi political groups and the ideas that he is pushing, there is absolutely zero doubt why he made a nazi salute.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/21/the-gestu...

https://taz.de/Elon-Musks-Hitlergruss/!6060000/

The take in Australia might interest you:

Elon Musk might be antisemitic, but he's OUR antisemite, so hands off!

https://archive.md/1EV0a (from: https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/22/elon-musk-nazi-salute-r... )

Musk didn’t do a nazi salute.

The gesture he did is both mechanistically different, and contextually different.

It’s only people who are convinced a priori that he’s a Nazi who seem to contort his awkward gesture to fit that narrative.

What planet are you on? He did a Nazi salute. And then did it again, in case you missed the first one.
lol