I never understood this weird hate boner that Reddit and Lemmy users have for cybertrucks specifically. It can’t be a moral position because they’re fine with regular Teslas, just not this one. It also can’t be about the ugly design because they’re fine with other ugly cars.
The thing is that I’ve seen a few of these out in the wild, and they’re almost always driven either by Indian tech bros or white finance bros. I’ve never seen any right wing types drive these like so many people here seem to think. In fact, the right wing types have this weird vendetta against all electric cars and they intentionally go for the gas guzzling pickup trucks. Which this hate boner even more baffling. It’s like people are mad for the sake of it.
Cybertruck has quite a lot of issues. It will for an example never be approved safetywise in Europe
Okay, but it’s rarely hated for that. The hate fests always revolve around this weird assumption that this car is driven exclusively by incels and MAGA types, but that’s simply not true. Like sure its ugly and a bad product, but it’s not exactly unique in that aspect there’s a lot of other cars like that.
Yeah i get that, and I agree with you that the majority of owners definitely aren’t MAGA, as you said they hate elected cars.
It’s a truck that isn’t even waterproof. What a stupid machine.
One angry and bitter chud muffin
Of course not. What kind of man would want to see his family burned with him in a fiery death trap?
This could be said about any EV ever that uses lithium ion batteries.
No, most doors have fucking handles.
I was mistaken in my assumption. Figured the Tesla would have an obvious clear way to escape quickly without power in an emergency but no.
Or any vehicle with an internal combustion engine, because those burn way more often.
But their fires aren’t reported on as much because it doesn’t cause as much
ragebaitengagement.It ain’t just ragebait, Lithium battery fires burn much hotter and are way harder to deal with. All it takes is one cell to be damaged to cause a chain reaction. We gotta have better types of batteries first, and we’re getting there. New batteries exist, they are cheaper, and safer but they are bulkier.
Not ones with real door handles.
Teslas are especially unsafe, and often lock people inside when they fail. This is because Tesla is run by one of the dumbest men who ever lived.
U mean there isn’t any manual override at all?
yes but actually no. There’s a hidden pull cord under the bottom mat of the “map pocket” that you have to remove, along with whatever else you were storing in there at the time. That’s assuming the cord hasn’t fallen out of reach inside the door or otherwise become inaccessible during an accident, of course.
The owner’s manual section on “how to open the door if there’s no power” spans 4 pages (viewed on mobile) and has 3 diagrams to illustrate the steps.
(incidentally, opening the frunk with no power is a separate page with ten steps and begins, “To open the powered frunk when Cybertruck has no power, you need a power source that provides between 9V and 16.5V”… it’s like they’re trying to be shit.)
That’s utterly insane wtf.
Only if they get into a salt water flood.
Owning a cybertruck is an indication the driver is a Nazi. It was always an indicator of very poor taste, but now it marks you as a Nazi. Don’t bother trying to change my mind. I know it, my cat knows it, the mould in that tupperware I keep putting off opening in the far reaches of my fridge knows it.
No excuses now, and no bumper stickers will dissuade me. It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
Yeah. I flip them off every time.
I never flip anyone off. Never honk. Never do much of anything…
But I flip Nazi’s off every time.
my cat knows it
See, that’s what we call an appeal to authority
No excuses now, and no bumper stickers will dissuade me. It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
Hard to sell them when the only potential buyer market is people you want to avoid at all cost or a used car place that will buy it for an insulting fraction of it’s value.
And buying a replacement in this economy? We can judge new buyers all day long, we can judge people with 200k salaries that keep them, but there’s lot of folks are stuck with a car that no one will buy; and maybe their situation isn’t so great either.mmaybe they got laid off, had to take a big salary cut to keep living, can’t afford a new car, and because they can charge the car for free at work they have extra money for food.
No sympathy.
e: do you seriously expect me to care about your bad investment when my car (that I love and baby) is worth less than $5,000? Scrap yards exist. Your bad decision is worth more in parts than my home. And I am currently having to fight to keep my fucking car.
Edit I kind of skimmed the part where you said cyber trucks owners are Nazis. By that I mean, I read it is as Tesla owners are Nazis. Yeah, anyone who bought a Tesla in the last 5 years is probably a piece of garbage human or is an unfortunate result of a failed education. Which also makes selling them for good price a whole lot harder. The bumper stickers are a bandaid people use to make them selves feel a tiny it better, and a little extra hope their tires won’t get slashed.
People bought into the marketing hype pre-2020, and it was pretty much the only viable full EV in North America due to the charge network. A lot of people got them with good intentions for the environment.
Most people take out loans to buy new cars. When you sell or scrap a car the loan doesn’t go away. If you have 30k left on a loan, scrap the car for 10k - you’ll be left with a 20k loan and no car.
Regardless of a car’s financial worth, having a functional car is worth a lot more.
What your asking people to do is about as financially crazy as if someone told you to sell your car for $500, spend a thousand into maintance, and then go to buy a new one the leftover cash. In other words - blow your a sizable chunk of your own money because the owner of the car is a shit person. Who does that help? Musk already got his money, reselling the car does jack shit to him and completely fucks over the seller.
They said “no sympathy” pretty clearly
I saw a very obviously trans person driving one the other day. Asked them if they were taking themselves to the camps or if they were into it rough.
Rough trade.
No excuses now
I believe this.
At the same time, they’ll get what’s coming to them. They bought a shitty cybertruck that will break down and has shitty resell value.
Very early on, I think there were some well-meaning people who were really excited about it. The idea of an all-electric truck was brand new, and the promise was huge. It unfortunately wasn’t until after many Cybertruck preorders had been secured that Elon plainly revealed his true colors, and then after it was delivered that people found out it was a piece of garbage
Idk, the first cyber trucks delivered nov 30 2023.
His takeover of Twitter was 2022, with plenty of bright red flags The “pedo guy” thing was 2019 All of his COVID violations were extremely public in 2020 and 2021
I think you’d have to be living under a rock to be completely unaware of what he was by the time preorders were locked in
It’s just a convenient loophole for fascists to pretend they’re not fascists.
“Oh no I gave them a fully refundable $100 to pre-order it, guess I’m locked into giving this seig heiling, election interfering, pedophilic elite illegal immigrant $100k.”
There’s a bunch of defenders in this very thread.
They couldn’t tell from the look of the thing? When he first unveiled it, I thought it he was trying to make some sort of joke. Legitimately thought he was trying to prank people! The design is atrocious!
Yeah, true. But we’re like several years past that now. If you could afford one of those sins against the design gods, you could afford to take the L by now.
Every time I see one I think, “that’s so ugly it’s almost cute.” I just love janky crap.
Janky can be great if not ‘designed’ by and supporting Nazis.
Love me the 70s Gremlin.
I love it!
this is not an endorsement of Musk or of Tesla or of cybertruck drivers - but this is a Very Online take. My boss’ husband drives a cybertruck, he doesn’t know what tiktok is, he doesn’t know what a meme is nor does he understand them when he sees them (he asks who it’s a photo of), the only news he consumes is in regards to logistics and supply chain and a little bit of the stock market.
I imagine he has as much understanding of why people hate elon musk as to I do as to why people love Sidney Crosby and hate Alexander Ovechkin - two people I had never heard of or know nothing about before googling “hockey players people love and hate.”
I won’t even remember their names in 5 minutes. I imagine a fair amount of cybertruck owners are like that.
If he’s that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn’t even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.
That seems really odd to me. Generally people do at least a bit of research about a vehicle purchase, especially that expensive. I’m not even referring to Musk shit, just vehicle buying in general. Anyone looking up anything about the cost/value of a cybertruck would pretty quickly get an abundance of info about it being a bad buy without getting into any of the Musk stuff.
I guess if your boss’ husband just has the money and liked the look/what it said it’d do, then fair enough. Just seems strange to knowingly buy a lemon.
I guess that’s fair, though my 89 year old dad who’s also not terminally online knows this, so I have a hard time with excuses now.
Much as it sucks, if I see your boss’s husband driving that crime against fingers, I’m still gonna see him as a Nazi. Maybe someone should tell him, and show him the video.
random people on the street flip him off, and some people have thrown stuff at him. He thinks they’re weirdos and it’s kinda funny. 🤷♂️
also I’m not going to tell the bosses husband people think he’s a nazi. I’m going to take my pay and enjoy my weekends and vacations.
Hey man, you’re under no obligation to tell him, nor to defend him.
So stop defending him.
… It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
Or at least sieg selling… AMIRIGHT? 😅
I’m really hoping to pick one up cheap and make the monster-truck-DeLorean-time-machine of my dreams reality 🤓 But I’m only going up to $3.50 USD… gotta’ crash the whole CyberShmuck™ economy in the process 🤑
And the Tupperware also got more brain than a cybertruck driver.
A whole family driving any truck would be difficult since there’s only room for one person on the drivers seat.
Older pickups had a bench seat so could seat 3. Then there are the crew cabs who can seat 6.
IncEl Camino
I’ve seen one many times driving to work, or home from family visits (on the same road) and I always make sure they see my finger flying out the window. The last time I saw them, they were having an argument, and I choose to believe they were arguing over something to the tune of:
“I HATE RIDING IN THIS THING, WE ALWAYS GET FLIPPED OFF”
“IDK WHAT TO TELL YOU, IT WAS A GREAT INVESTMENT”
Even if that’s not it, seeing people be miserable in a cybercuck makes me happy on the inside.
I heard a comedian a while back talking about how her husband gives people a thumbs down instead of flipping them off in road rage situations and it pisses people off so much more, so I’ve been doing that to cybertrucks. I love it.
Now I need a big thumbs-up… like, carnival lollipop sized emoji prop, but with The Elon’s face blended into the thumb 😎
Oh! Finally a reason to try Grök… 50/50 all the other fingers end up being CSAM 🫣
I always enjoy flipping off another man’s kids too! 😝
Man that phrasing is so close to being entirely not what you meant…I hope.
I’m near SpaceX in CA and see plenty of men in them because SpaceX purchased a bunch for company cars when Tesla couldn’t sell them.
Also it’s really weird to see like, 8 of them in one place.
I live in Austin, and I probably see 1-3 Cybertrucks per day. I used to feel deep vicarious shame for them, but that’s slowly transformed into speechless incredulity
Now I need 2 so I can do a space shuttle wrap job! We should set up a GoFundMe or something to make as many dumb cyber trucks as possible 😅
Oh! 3 in a row; human centipede style, Drumph up front, Elon in the middle, and either Miller or Bondi bringing up the caboose 😎
There’s no way they wouldn’t take the opportunity to put a woman in last position to catch the most shit.
The other night i rallied a group of also drunk strangers outside a bar i just left to berrate a douche bag in a cyber truck until he left. It’s always one guy alone
not true, i saw an oldish lady all alone
Enjoying her divorce settlement as much as possible 🤣
Sounds like her lawyer was terrible if she got stuck with that chudmobile.
There is only one in my city and it’s parked in a church parking lot every Sunday.
Only place it won’t get vandalized 😇
I love the endless contradictions of … [political content redacted]
Pam is already up Dump’s dumper
Only losers buy Tesla, apple and other branded stuff and simp really hard. These people are poor and disgusting also they think they will win the race.
These people don’t seem to get that if you’re buying pretty much anything for yourself, you aren’t winning.
You sound like a worker. Are you a 9-5?
It’s a mobile version of a man cave - a schmuck truck.
Man caves are generally good. My man cave is good. Don’t insult my man cave.
