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Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by MisterMunchkin on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:55PM (#50294100)
That is such an extreme and weird opinion
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by throwa356262 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:13PM (#50295151)
I dont know if this is an extreme opinion.

Elon helped Trump get elected, who has been hostile towards Canada and its economy.

Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by piperswe on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:05PM (#50294227)
Whether or not it’s extreme and weird, it’s certainly widely held. In North America, buying a Tesla is widely seen (and rightly so IMO) as condoning Elon’s Naziism.
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by leobg on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:32PM (#50296374)
Using the word “Nazi” to disapprove of someone you don’t agree with is extreme, and it is indecent. Look at the footage that your military took when they liberated Dachau. That was the work of Nazis. That is the meaning of that word. Nazis were mass murderers with no regard for human life. Babies were thrown into the flames alive. Families dragged into the forest and mowed down - the elderly last, so they’d have to watch their kids and grandkids be murdered before they would die themselves. So take one moment and reflect. Is there anything happening today that you could reasonably call by the same name?
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by thereader12 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:52PM (#50297365)
Elon Musk did the Nazi solute twice on live television and is funding the Nazi revive movement in Germany. Like the KKK had 3 iterations, but no one says group 3 isn't the KKK just cause they are less powerful.
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by stavros on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:06PM (#50298064)
This is just such a weird take. By that logic, even the Nazi party weren't Nazis before they came into power.
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by queenkjuul on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:34AM (#50299899)
He's a racist right winger that did a Nazi salute. It's perfectly fine to call him a Nazi. Grow up

Eta: you are deliberately ignoring the people languishing in immigration camps and murdered by the secret police thanks to the candidate Musk funded, i wonder why

Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by tpm on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:59AM (#50301367)
He is funding Nazi parties.
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by Liuser on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:42PM (#50296514)
Do you all think eating at Chik-fil-a means you’re against the LGBTQ community? What about still enjoying the Harry Potter franchise regardless of JK Rowling’s opinions? How far do we take this? Do we condone the decisions of our leadership in the White House because we all live here and pay taxes even if we have the opportunity to emigrate elsewhere? These swathing broad brush paint strokes where we constantly divide each other are extreme. Do you truly and honestly think the majority of people buying Teslas and even owning equity (mutual funds/401ks/stock) believe and condone the extermination of the Jewish community?

That’s fine if you want to vote with your own wallet, but virtue signaling against others and accusing them of being Nazi sympathizers because of buying a car is going to be met with eye rolls.

Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by Marsymars on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:13AM (#50300075)
> What about still enjoying the Harry Potter franchise regardless of JK Rowling’s opinions?

You can enjoy the Harry Potter franchise without paying for it.

I certainly would not feel comfortable sending any of my money to her, which I honestly feel is a far less controversial position than taking an opinion on the morality of other people based on their Tesla purchases.

Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by piperswe on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:42PM (#50307457)
I do think it's easy to not fund LGBTQ+ hate by not eating at Chik-fil-a, and it's easy to not fund trans hate by not funding JK Rowling. If you do either of those things, I do think lesser of you because you obviously think lesser of me if a chicken sandwich or book is more important.
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by saikia81 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:33PM (#50320449)
That is not what people think when they buy a sandwich. At least make a fair argument. Mind you I don't live anywhere near this argument.
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by seszett on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:14PM (#50294346)
When this person openly meddles into politics of your country by supporting openly fascist and racist parties and spreading lies, it might not be that extreme to not want to support him.
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by jawilson2 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:08PM (#50296872)
No it's not.

If you drove a Volkswagen and wore Hugo Boss in the 1940s, people would rightly wonder if you were literally a Nazi.

If I see you driving a new Tesla, especially a Cybertruck, I just assume you are fine with pedophilia and fascism.

Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy ... by nec4b on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:38PM (#50309133)
What is your opinion of driving a car from a country with an authoritarian government which is keeping social score on its people and put millions of Uyghurs through concentration camps. Lets not forget about political prisoners or organ harvesting.