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There is certainly some political hate, but that can't describe the true source of most of the hate. Politics has been used to amplify the Cybertruck hate campaign that started the day Tesla revealed the Cybertruck back in 2019. Remember that?
You're conflating ridicule with hate.

The source of the hate is fear. Fear that Detroit could be wiped out. Fear that the mainstream media is losing its hold on the world, that people can go to places like X to get the real scoop. Fear that Elon's SpaceX would compete in the military/industrial sector, fear that EVs will continue to eat into sales of gas and oil, fear that car dealerships will become irrelevant, fear that auto repair business will continue to decline.
I agree that the source of hate is fear, but again not in how you're presenting it. The fear some people have is rooted in the fact there is an individual who promotes alternative views and who also happens to have a massive amount of power seemingly not subject to any oversight.
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You're conflating ridicule with hate.
There was some genuine Cybertruck ridicule too. But most of the ridicule was driven by the kind of fear I mentioned above. Existing money and power will always struggle to maintain the source of that money and power. Thankfully, in a democracy, they will not always be effective. Democracy provides for a changing of the guard.


I agree that the source of hate is fear, but again not in how you're presenting it. The fear some people have is rooted in the fact there is an individual who promotes alternative views and who also happens to have a massive amount of power seemingly not subject to any oversight.
Elon is influential because he is highly respected. Otherwise, no one would give him the time of day.

Elon has no real authority, even in his new role in DOGE. He is exposing waste, fraud and corruption at the direction of the President. Any power he has derives from that, and can be taken away the moment he is no longer carrying out the President's agenda. This is what the President was elected to do. Anyone disputing that, lives in an alternate reality.
 

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There was some genuine Cybertruck ridicule too. But most of the ridicule was driven by the kind of fear I mentioned above. Existing money and power will always struggle to maintain the source of that money and power. Thankfully, in a democracy, they will not always be effective. Democracy provides for a changing of the guard.




Elon is influential because he is highly respected. Otherwise, no one would give him the time of day.

Elon has no real authority, even in his new role in DOGE. He is exposing waste, fraud and corruption at the direction of the President. Any power he has derives from that, and can be taken away the moment he is no longer carrying out the President's agenda. This is what the President was elected to do. Anyone disputing that, lives in an alternate reality.
Not everyone has the capacity to be self-critical and the ability to overcome bias. Have a nice day.
 

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I estimate about 95% positive reactions from adults. A lot of curiosity and questions. From kids, it is 100% positive.

I try to be a “brand ambassador” and answer patiently and honestly.

my takeaway really is that most of the public is largely unaware of what the CT is and absolutely unaware how good FSD is.

I think Lasso said something about curiosity versus thinking you know everything…
 

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Best conversion I had about mine was with a guy at the grocery store who wanted me to know "it's got an aluminum frame". I had to explain that sure it does, but so do planes and semi's and that the material doesn't matter as much as the engineering and staying within the specifications it's given. The infamous youtube video dropping it on the hitch didn't help matters for people who think it's better to have a bent frame than a broken frame.
 


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Just had a positive experience- a woman approached me in the parking lot asking about the truck, and as we started talking she said that she really admires Elon and is grateful for his DOGE efforts. She wants to buy a Tesla to support him and is debating between the new Y and Cybertruck.
 

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I've not received any negative interactions since all of the negative internet brigading emerged, but It's caused me to be cautious. So, when a woman approached me a couple of days ago asking "Is that your car?!" I was immediately gearing up to GFTO of the situation.

Turns out she was genuinely impressed and hadn't seen anything like it before, and wanted to share her positive sentiment. I was prepared for the opposite!
 

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A guy in a two-tone green jacket drew a swastika in the dirt on the left rear , 8'' high. No damage done. Other people who worked in the same building were delighted to see one in person and had lots of happy questions.
 

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Nothing happened to cause it, but I have a new theory about some of the haters.

Ethic jokes (such as Polish or Italian, to pick some less sensitive examples) have been a no-no for some time now - not saying that it isn't an improvement to be rid of those, but they were an outlet for some sort of impulse. One side in politics wants to mainstream everybody (except that's limited to those that don't disagree with them). That means that they especially, but everybody too, have a reduced opportunity to tell negative jokes about others. Blonde jokes still seem allowed, but they get old after a few dozen.

So you have an influential but divisive figure, associated with one of the most unusual vehicles ever. It's an easy target for people who get their kicks as haters. Add to that, that negative social media posts tend to get more hits than positive ones, and you have the perfect storm.
 


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There was some genuine Cybertruck ridicule too. But most of the ridicule was driven by the kind of fear I mentioned above. Existing money and power will always struggle to maintain the source of that money and power. Thankfully, in a democracy, they will not always be effective. Democracy provides for a changing of the guard.




Elon is influential because he is highly respected. Otherwise, no one would give him the time of day.

Elon has no real authority, even in his new role in DOGE. He is exposing waste, fraud and corruption at the direction of the President. Any power he has derives from that, and can be taken away the moment he is no longer carrying out the President's agenda. This is what the President was elected to do. Anyone disputing that, lives in an alternate reality.
The Cybertruck symbolises change. The "next generation" of change...

There is a lot of change going on in the world, hopefully the learnings of the iterations of change will create a better world, by narrowing down the truth and establishing these new insights based on science fact, not fiction.

I've said this many times before, people can either be the victims of change or the architects of it, personally I prefer to be an architect, and promote sustainable change that intentionally makes lives better.

So even though some people can be resistant to change, or in fact fear change, that doesn't in of itself make change good or bad. This can only be determined AFTER it has been thoroughly tested, in operation in it's working environment, to see if it meets it's objectives, and if not adjusted to suit.

The lack of knowledge is fear. That is why you need courage to overcome the unknown.

What should be clear is that there are different methodologies to creating change, some can be seen as organic or haphazard, as changes by "chance". Other's can be identified as intentional or "engineered" changes, where one pragmatically filters out the things that don't work to expose what does. This could be considered similar to the difference between "creative design" or "natural evolution", the difference being that an engineered design can often leapfrog iterations of change without physical models, whilst the evolutionary change must labour through each by way of extinction, with only the surviving traits making another step forwards.

Fundamentally, it's highly possible that from the depths of the "information age" and through the development of our combined webbed "artificial intelligence" as a species and amalgamation of knowledge, along with our leveraging of technology inside such a systemic revolution, we can better know and understand the depths of natural world, and by doing so no longer fear it, but push ahead to new frontiers, where change is not feared or avoided, but welcomed and expected.

It's time to not let the lesser emotions control our destiny in the stars. :geek:
 

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The Cybertruck symbolises change. The "next generation" of change...

There is a lot of change going on in the world, hopefully the learnings of the iterations of change will create a better world, by narrowing down the truth and establishing these new insights based on science fact, not fiction.

I've said this many times before, people can either be the victims of change or the architects of it, personally I prefer to be an architect, and promote sustainable change that intentionally makes lives better.

So even though some people can be resistant to change, or in fact fear change, that doesn't in of itself make change good or bad. This can only be determined AFTER it has been thoroughly tested, in operation in it's working environment, to see if it meets it's objectives, and if not adjusted to suit.

The lack of knowledge is fear. That is why you need courage to overcome the unknown.

What should be clear is that there are different methodologies to creating change, some can be seen as organic or haphazard, as changes by "chance". Other's can be identified as intentional or "engineered" changes, where one pragmatically filters out the things that don't work to expose what does. This could be considered similar to the difference between "creative design" or "natural evolution", the difference being that an engineered design can often leapfrog iterations of change without physical models, whilst the evolutionary change must labour through each by way of extinction, with only the surviving traits making another step forwards.

Fundamentally, it's highly possible that from the depths of the "information age" and through the development of our combined webbed "artificial intelligence" as a species and amalgamation of knowledge, along with our leveraging of technology inside such a systemic revolution, we can better know and understand the depths of natural world, and by doing so no longer fear it, but push ahead to new frontiers, where change is not feared or avoided, but welcomed and expected.

It's time to not let the lesser emotions control our destiny in the stars. :geek:
Respectfully, let me TL/DR this for you.

“What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?”
 
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The Cybertruck symbolises change. The "next generation" of change...

There is a lot of change going on in the world, hopefully the learnings of the iterations of change will create a better world, by narrowing down the truth and establishing these new insights based on science fact, not fiction.

I've said this many times before, people can either be the victims of change or the architects of it, personally I prefer to be an architect, and promote sustainable change that intentionally makes lives better.

So even though some people can be resistant to change, or in fact fear change, that doesn't in of itself make change good or bad. This can only be determined AFTER it has been thoroughly tested, in operation in it's working environment, to see if it meets it's objectives, and if not adjusted to suit.

The lack of knowledge is fear. That is why you need courage to overcome the unknown.

What should be clear is that there are different methodologies to creating change, some can be seen as organic or haphazard, as changes by "chance". Other's can be identified as intentional or "engineered" changes, where one pragmatically filters out the things that don't work to expose what does. This could be considered similar to the difference between "creative design" or "natural evolution", the difference being that an engineered design can often leapfrog iterations of change without physical models, whilst the evolutionary change must labour through each by way of extinction, with only the surviving traits making another step forwards.

Fundamentally, it's highly possible that from the depths of the "information age" and through the development of our combined webbed "artificial intelligence" as a species and amalgamation of knowledge, along with our leveraging of technology inside such a systemic revolution, we can better know and understand the depths of natural world, and by doing so no longer fear it, but push ahead to new frontiers, where change is not feared or avoided, but welcomed and expected.

It's time to not let the lesser emotions control our destiny in the stars. :geek:
I don't think the target audience, aka, e.g. the haters, is going to understand any of this...
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