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Re:Starlink Mini 2 by slowin on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:17AM (#50451716)
I feel like this is a false narrative I hear a lot. “Everyone” didn’t love Teslas, it was a niche product and the Musk exposed himself as one of the worst people on earth, and the market shrank even more. It’s a strawman to claim Teslas were loved by “everyone” (implicitly or explicitly often stated as people with a left wing bent).
Re:Starlink Mini 2 by leereeves on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:40AM (#50451852)
As I remember things, a lot of people turned on Musk (or were already against him) in 2018 when he called the diver who rescued children trapped in a cave in Thailand (and "stole" a moment of glory from Musk and his mini-sub) a "pedophile".

Long before he announced he intended to vote Republican in 2022.

Re:Starlink Mini 2 by slowin on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:42PM (#50459103)
Yeah, I think that’s when people went from having no opinion on Musk to actually disliking him and it’s been all downhill from there.
Re:Starlink Mini 2 by LoganDark on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:54AM (#50451939)
Nobody said "everyone" meant everyone ever. In all statements like that, there is an implied "everyone with feelings on Tesla"
Re:Starlink Mini 2 by slowin on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:42PM (#50459112)
Musk fanboys are hardly “everyone”.
Re:Starlink Mini 2 by LoganDark on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:42AM (#50468103)
I said nothing about Elon specifically.