Why the ONE FINGER salute for the Cybertruck?? Top 10 reasons for the hate!

[RM Rilke]

You may perceive some editorial slant in application of free speech provisions at X, but to claim X is in fact a secret propaganda outlet cynically employing free speech as part of a covert nationalist propaganda arm designed to seize and instal a centralized autocratic power reads like something you might actually read on X. Sweet irony. Inconveniently, all of this flies in face of the content actually on the site. You may love the label as a convenience, but fascism actually has an objective meaning. Plenty of political and social actors in the US fall within the definition. Musk is not one of them. I’m sorry.

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[FlipSixThreeHole]

The CT is such a polarizing vehicle that it may be futile to attempt to quantify all human reactions to it categorically.

This is a good thing!

This solidifies the fact that this is a once-in-a-generation product.

 

[CTOWannabe]

Honestly, the type of people that hate it, makes me want to get one even more.

I love making people like that go deeper into their personal hell. They’ve earned it.

It feels like justice.

 

[Crissa]

You may perceive... I’m sorry.

I'm sorry, too. You are apparently unaware of the tolerance paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

It's why much of politics is a forbidden topic on this forum.

-Crissa

 

[Gundo]

I’m all about the Thumbs Up.
Got a single finger salute, Thumbs Up
Got a smile, Thumbs Up

Just easier

I will share one funny one though. I’m merging right onto a back road, waiting. Some sort of gigantic Ford diesel slows down, gives me thumbs up and I merge in behind him. Thinking to myself, that was more outwardly friendly than normal. Then he tries to coal roll. Like a wheezy a$s attempt at a coal roll, all noise, little coal and even less power. Kept up without even trying. I used both hands to be like “is that all you got?” Followed him for a while and he didn’t try again.

 

[Crissa]

Followed him for a while and he didn’t try again.

Sure it wasn't just broken?

All in on the thumbs up.

-Crissa

 

[blublublu]

We’ve encountered a couple times for sure in the Bay Area. Can’t help to think when CTs are more popular how would these people react.

 

[CyberNC]

We’ve encountered a couple times for sure in the Bay Area. Can’t help to think when CTs are more popular how would these people react.

They will have nightmares every night of Cybertrucks multiplying rapidly in their dreams.

 

[Whmorken]

I have a cyber for 2 weeks now and reactions are lovely. People show up very friendly and ask questions and talk about the car. No hate episode until now. All take pictures and smiles positive reactions only

Miami, 33181.

 

[Whmorken]

I have one and only reason: People are stupid.

Why there is hatred against a car, a brand, a Formula 1 driver, a football club .... ? It can only be explained by the stupidity of human beings. I don't like something for whatever reason, I turn the page, I go on with my life, I don't bother, I don't care.

But no, since we have this stupid smart phones (wich I also use) we think ourselves forced to show everyone and 24/7 our opinion, even if no one cares. The invention of the smart phone is a blessing but mostly a curse. I think we all would be better off without it. Even if we then would have problems with our Teslas.

Far away, with earthy wisdom.

 

[Whmorken]

The fact that he does it in support of a particular group is what makes it so. Individualism isn't opposed to fascism, that's the problem. Anyhow, this isn't the place to discuss this... But just be aware the 'rugged individualist' is a ruse that has been used to align with fascism multiple times through history.

The problem with Elon's diagram is that it says left moved, but... Where did it move, exactly? It's been there for civil rights, individual rights, privacy, and regulation for a hundred years.



The only real change was that the left/right split wasn't Democrats/Republicans. There were Dixiecrats, Teddys, and Eisenhower. It was alot more mixed up a hundred years ago.

-Crissa

The present is so interesting with parties fragmenting and individuals shifting, with past-nostrums challenged in the next minute, the very next post. Time to ask hard questions — never naive, not cynical — alive to the future. Go Elon!

 

[Crissa]

The present is so interesting with parties fragmenting and individuals shifting, with past-nostrums challenged in the next minute, the very next post. Time to ask hard questions — never naive, not cynical — alive to the future. Go Elon!

Ask hard questions but don't be mad when context experts and collected evidence contradicts. Elon has trouble being contradicted when he's disinterested in the subject. I understand this intimately, as I have a similar neurodiverse diagnosis as he does. And unfortunately, I've had to face head on several of the things he hasn't had to, given his luck in life was a bit better on a few things. ^-^

And I rather appreciate his luck, as it got us some very nice things.

-Crissa

 

[Whmorken]

You may perceive some editorial slant in application of free speech provisions at X, but to claim X is in fact a secret propaganda outlet cynically employing free speech as part of a covert nationalist propaganda arm designed to seize and instal a centralized autocratic power reads like something you might actually read on X. Sweet irony. Inconveniently, all of this flies in face of the content actually on the site. You may love the label as a convenience, but fascism actually has an objective meaning. Plenty of political and social actors in the US fall within the definition. Musk is not one of them. I’m sorry.

Good comment about Musk himself. Having read several of the biographies of Elon, none great, and after following him for years and driving four different Teslas (and the CB coming), for me, he and his work are far from perfect; but then I think of him as a free spirit with the heart of a child. This quality helps make him an entrepreneur with a soul. The best new take on “entreprenuer” may be, “Re—Understanding Entrepreneurship: What it is and Why it Matters” by Weiying Zhang, Peking University, Beijing, Cambridge University Press. Zhang has studied economic literature and Chinese entrepreneurs for well over four decades and is at the top of his game. Recommend reading, to understand Musk and others, and how fortunate we are to have them. Shalom

 

[Whmorken]

Ask hard questions but don't be mad when context experts and collected evidence contradicts. Elon has trouble being contradicted when he's disinterested in the subject. I understand this intimately, as I have a similar neurodiverse diagnosis as he does. And unfortunately, I've had to face head on several of the things he hasn't had to, given his luck in life was a bit better on a few things. ^-^

And I rather appreciate his luck, as it got us some very nice things.

-Crissa

You are so right, experts and evidence are invaluable now, and rarely appreciated enough. I am not boasting when I reveal that I am 80 years old, and that the smallest city I lived in growing up was Los Angeles, and then I spent my life reading, teaching, and writing history and politics, mostly the latter. For the past 30+ years I have been immersed up-close and personal in the tech revolution with family and friends. Does this make me wise and relevant? No, but I am a learner in search of (as Elon says) the right questions, so I can pursue answers worth knowing, vital for life — a redundant expression, oops. I must add, I utterly depend on Starlink for high speed internet, living as we do by a river surrounded by mountains and a National Park. Thanks Elon, or was the receiver on my roof an accident, a happenstance? I have heard that before — the right time and place. That is my “fate”.

 

[Crissa]

Thanks Elon, or was the receiver on my roof an accident, a happenstance? I have heard that before — the right time and place. That is my “fate”.

He was lucky in the payouts and successes. He wasn't the only one trying. And he - like yourself - hasn't had health or other issues to take up his wealth and effort. That's good fortune we should all appreciate.

-Crissa

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