Normies don't give a fuck about his politics. There is a shockingly large contingent of people out there who still think he's actually smart. This is everything to do with how the build quality of Teslas is absolute dog shit and the Cybertruck has a negative stigma that sticks to the whole company like a smell that won't go away.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My MIL is one of these people. It doesn't matter how many times we explain to her, with evidence, that he's a moron. It's like she hits herself with the Men in Black memory eraser after every conversion and next thing you know she's back to saying "well all geniuses are a little bit eccentric and he's the smartest man alive so of course he's a bit strange." It's so exhausting.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I'm so sorry. My Tesla owning dad has had the good taste to shut up about him since the purchase of twitter

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

"well all geniuses are a little bit eccentric and he's the smartest man alive so of course he's a bit strange."

I fucking hate the "eccentric genius" cognitohazard that so many Burgerlanders believe in.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

The only real pushback I’ve seen towards him have been from women.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is a shockingly large contingent of people out there who still think he's actually smart. This is everything to do with how the build quality of Teslas is absolute dog shit and the Cybertruck has a negative stigma that sticks to the whole company like a smell that won't go away.

How does Joe Average square the circle that my-hero is a super genius but also that bazingamobiles are janky trash?

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

There is nobody in the world who is better at cognitive dissonance than Americans