I think ford rolling out the electric F-150 will do way way more to move the conservative world toward electric vehicles than Elon posting memes on Twitter. Eventually someone they know will be talking about the low maintenance and good features, and no one likes high gas prices.
As a Tesla owner, I’m not buying a second one, but it has nothing to do with politics. The promised features of the car haven’t materialized and other manufacturers are much closer to the type of self driving that matters to me, hands off the wheel, I can do something else when I’m in traffic jams. That said, none of my friends who are proud conservatives would ever buy a Tesla, they revile the brand. Someone (liberal) in my family pointed to Elon’s antics as the reason they chose a mustang e. If he’s a genius at social engineering Tesla into the conservative brain, I haven’t seen any results in my little slice of the world. Not sure what’s happening in the rest.
(I 100% agree that he should be criticized for a lot of things, but nuance is not trending apparently.)
There are many ways to increase adoption of renewable energy that don't involve putting down minorities, being racist, sexist and all around offensive and acting with the maturity of a spoilt teenager.
Two of them being through government regulation and incentives which are major contributors to Tesla's success.
(Edit: if you're going to downvote me, please briefly explain what I missed, I can be reasoned with... lol)
You can disagree with that characterization or interpretation, but it's not an ad hominem because it's the main subject matter in this context.
I think you could make a very good case against that comment, but "ad hominem" isn't it IMO. I'd argue {{citation needed}}, "lacks substantiation", "slightly hyperbolic", or something like that.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-te...
And he has been significantly worse since acquiring Twitter.
Seriously people, if you're going to call out logical fallacies, make sure you don't call out the wrong thing.
Half of the list is “didn’t take covid as seriously as we think he should”.
The only potentially sexist thing on that list is calling Warren “senator karen”.
Ok so do you have proof of him being racist or sexist or not?
Already the world is moving away from the US dollar hegemony, a move that will impact our children, and children’s children if we as a country don’t participate in these evolving times. There’s numerous other examples of the world making decades-long plans that the US is not positioning ourselves appropriately for. We’re distracted by such tribalism on both sides.
The United States won’t be taken over by an outside power, no, we’re doing well enough eating ourselves from the inside.
More likely is that he doesn't sleep enough and/or is getting older and/or is under a lot of stress and/or is in a crazy trump-news-cycle-like feedback loop, and that he's just developed some pretty big blind spots, like any other mere mortal.
I actually think he is smarter than people give him credit for, politically.
One of the major problems right now is conservatives, who are about half the country, aren't into supporting renewable energy anything (but liberals will continue to buy Tesla products even if you piss them off a little). A lot of what's he's been upto lately is attempting to socially engineer renewable energy into the conservative world, which is a tough problem to crack to begin with.