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Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year::Tesla may agree to buy the truck back at the original price minus "$0.25/mile driven" and any damages and repairs.

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[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 70 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is bizarre how much of a comic book villain Musk has turned in to.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What do you mean "Turned into" ?

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I think the correct phrasing should be "turned out to be"

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He probably always was a bit of a right-wing loon, but everything about him over the last few years screams "cry for help".

If he were a normal pleb, he'd have probably lost his job, or had a friend tell him that he needs to seek professional help. Because he's a billionaire, I assume people just say he's "eccentric" and laugh while people push him to do more crazy shit.

He doesn't realise it, but people are laughing at him, not with him. He's a performing monkey for the apathetic, and aspirational for the morally questionable.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was always there. He just has the wealth not to care what anyone thinks now.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

He has the wealth, but not the ego.

[–] III@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Apparently some people are okay with extreme racism so long as you convert it into money first.