But Musk later changed his mind, reportedly donating $45 million a month of his money to the pro-Trump political action committee American PAC.

`Nuff said. CEOs are often Republican, but to be this outspokenly political is normally a bad thing for CEOs like Musk. Media company heads (and Twitter/X is a media company) are supposed to at least pretend to be neutral.

And catering to the far-right seems like a bad idea if your company makes EVs. But what do I know?

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    I’m a Democrat and a Tesla owner. No way in Hell will I buy another Tesla as long as Musk is involved in any way with the company. It would actually take a significant overhaul of both the company and their cars to convince me to buy another one.

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      I would sell it before Musk decides to find a list of all democratic supporters and start screwing up their cars out of pettyness. And let’s not even pretend for one second the man child wouldn’t do that.

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        Or release real-time, geographic info on democrat Tesla drivers to right-wing militia groups to take care of. I don’t think he’d just let shit go. Look at the Elon plane account for a digital representation.

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      Same here. Technologically they’re being surpassed and quality wise, well from what I can tell from looking at these newer model 3’s that people at work have been buying, has not improved at all. Plus being a absolute public fascist? Yeah, I’ll buy my next EV from another manufacturer thanks.