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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

"It's not just about what happened to me. It's about everyone in this country. If you disagree, don't retaliate. Don't be violent. Don't try to hurt your neighbor. We're all human,"

I mean, if you believe that, my guy, you shouldn't have bought the nazi truck. You also definitely should not have gotten a fucking gold one. You also ABSOLUTELY shouldn't have driven it around in MASSACHUSETTS. I flip these fucks off when I see them here. I don't agree with physically threatening them, but c'est la vie I guess.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (5 children)

Be careful out there, flipping off other drivers is considered "road rage" in some places and can get you ticketed.

Plus, a thumbs down with a look of disgust is funnier!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

I throw them one of these looks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

Bro, as a Massachusettsan born and raised if you dare touch my primary form of expression ya gonna get a hot cuppa dunkins in the face. That'd be like banning wicked sick donuts in a rotary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Also a chance you’ll catch one of those guys carrying in their cars - that’s their thing. No need to put yourself in the crosshairs for an unhinged person…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I point and laugh at the ones I see here in Seattle. You can do a pretty good show of it from a bike while passing them being stuck in traffic lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

This feels like such a thin reason to get a ticket if you ask me. A rude gesture is just a rude gesture. But... be careful out there! I feel safe enough to flip them off, but I encourage safer forms of heckling them, like pointing and laughing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No one was physically threatening him anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I hope not. The article and video were a little vague on that. Some people apparently cut him off and got out of the car to flip him off, which is a bit much IMHO.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

He thinks his family isn't safe in it... Yet he continues to drive it

You drive a rolling swastika and BLARING sign of historical wealth inequality that you've literally wrapped in gold - you deserve so much more fucking hate culminating in a brief rest of your heavy head that wears the crown on the guillotine. Tone deaf, fucking ghoul.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago

"I wish to buy something that tells everyone that I'm richer and better than them."

Later...

"Waaaah! Everyone's being mean to me because I'm telling everyone I'm richer and better than them!"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 hours ago

There's only one reason to get a cybertruck, the one thing it is excellent at: grabbing attention.

Mission accomplished buddy.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Jaroje was so worried that he tried to trade in the Cybertruck, but with no luck. He said he received a call and a text from a Tesla representative saying the company can't take the truck back, even after sending them the hateful sticker.

"He confirmed with the text message that Tesla is not accepting Cybertruck trade-ins at this moment," Jaroje said. He hopes the community will set aside judgment and be open to differences.

The vehicles are so bad that even the company that makes them won't buy them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Didn't the people purchasing them have to sign a document saying they would not resell them to a 3rd party? Or did that not happen?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

They backpedaled on that because they aren't worth shit.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

More like, they can't sell what they've already got so they aren't gonna take even more stock.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, because they're so bad.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Also because people don't like to support the Nazi billionaire who is actively destroying their country. But the terrible quality control of their overpriced and poorly designed cars doesn't help.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Judging this guy by the rest of the company he's in as far as these Cybertrucks go, I wonder how "open to differences" he is towards other people.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 4 hours ago (8 children)

says he's been cut off in traffic

It's Massachusetts. That their state pass time

been yelled at and given the finger

If everyone you see (Plus, you drive a gold vehicle. Talk about self-absorbed) is an asshole, you might be the asshole

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Hey, the second state pastime is giving the finger and yelling in traffic. We take these pastimes seriously, like sports and drinking.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, they couldn't possibly be yelling at him because he sucks at driving.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 hours ago (8 children)

GOLD Cybertruck…

“Look at me! Pay attention to me!”

“…oh no, not like that.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

talk about excellent life choices

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

"That's why I came to this country. I pursued my dream. Now, I'm enjoying the free speech, but with this taking a different turn, that made me very concerned," Jaroje said.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean your free from consequences.

"It's not just about what happened to me. It's about everyone in this country. If you disagree, don't retaliate. Don't be violent. Don't try to hurt your neighbor. We're all human," he said.

He is encouraging a nazi oligarch through the purchase of what is a gross flashy display of his wealth in a time where the wealth gap has never been so wide. You're just asking for it at this point.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 hours ago (29 children)

You bought a car that is ugly, isn’t good at being a truck, has a dubious safety record, can lock you inside and get you killed, is tracking basically everything you do if you’re anywhere near it, and can rust at the drop of a hat.

Maybe next time don’t buy a swasticar

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

Man, if only we were hip to what an asshole musk was a month ago. His fans could have known that buying a cybertruck was going to get negative attention. But I guess there were no signs to warn us. And really, who drives cybertrucks more than single moms living paycheck to paycheck, day laborers, and other marginalized folks? We should just assume that anyone in a gold cyber truck had zero idea what they were doing, had no intention of being an edgy dbag, and only uses it to deliver fresh produce to the local food banks.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago

If you disagree, don't retaliate. Don't be violent. Don't try to hurt your neighbor.

If that's what you believe, maybe don't drive a symbol that is the opposite of these?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 hours ago

Oh no. Anyways…

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Dude who can take anyone who drives this thing seriously.

YOU LOOK RIDICULOUS.

Me driving around in my clown car "I just don't understand why everyone keeps calling me a clown and laughing at me 😭"

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