Paul KrugmanWhat my friend Invictus is talking about is the fact that Tesla buyers are overwhelmingly in Dem districts, which he documented recently 1/ https://twitter.com/TBPInvictus/status/1607852684601704448
Here's his original evidence, with further stuff from the inimitable Charles Gaba 2/ https://ritholtz.com/2022/12/owning-the-libs/
Thoughts On Owning the Libs - The Big Picture
@TBPInvictus here. (Also on Post and Mastodon). Happy holidays to all, and the best for 2023. It’s been a hot minute since my last post, hope I remember how this thing works. I’ve been a huge fan of Twitter for well over a decade. It’s a fire hose of invaluable information from countless reliable…Read More
How I think about it: many people make a statement with the car they drive, maybe more than with any consumer good 3/
A Tesla is an expensive luxury car, but zero-emission, and until the other day Elon Musk seemed like a cool guy who does space travel while hanging out with singers and Westworld actresses 4/
So owning a Tesla was, to be crude but I think accurate, a way to say "I'm rich but I'm woke". Lots to criticize and ridicule there, but it was the marketing strategy 5/
Apparently, however, Musk didn't get his own memo. Instead he's gone full MAGA, turning off exactly the people who might buy his cars. Stupid? Unable to control his impulses? Probably both 6/
Sasha Fox@pkrugman Also his cars suck and keep trying to murder their owners.
Eight-car Thanksgiving pileup blamed on Tesla “Full Self-Driving” software
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/12/eight-car-thanksgiving-pileup-blamed-on-tesla-full-self-driving-software/
A Tesla driver watched in horror as another Tesla burst into flames after hitting a barrier
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-driver-watched-in-horror-tesla-crashed-burst-into-flames-2022-12
NumbCat9 💜s trans folx 🏳️⚧️Truth: EVs are *much much* safer than gasoline cars when it comes to fires. Beta testing FSD on real streets is dumb, tho where are state legs on that?
Musk is an evil fuck, but claiming EVs set themselves on fire at anywhere even approaching the rate that fossil fueled vehicles do is just Big Oil propaganda.
Don’t let that evil fuck destroy your judgment and perspective.
EVs: *great*
Musk: Terrible
Source: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/study-electric-vehicles-involved-in-fewest-car-fires.
Orcyou are stating something as fact that the available evidence does not support.
Teslas: ~5 per billion miles driven
All vehicles: ~56 per billion miles driven
I mean I guess Tesla could’ve misstated by a factor of 10 but then they’d only be average.
You’re not speaking from a position of facts. That doesn’t help anyone.
Musk is a fucking dick, don’t let him make you take leave of your senses!
@numbcat9 @orc @pkrugman I don't think anyone is saying that electric vehicles are the problem. It's that Teslas are bad. They're poorly put together. They are actively dangerous because they will do things like turn into oncoming traffic and not brake for children.
Teslas do things like automatically lock all the doors and windows during a fire and turn off manual control for the locks so the driver is trapped inside. After the car took control and drove into a wall.
That's why people are saying they're not safe.
Everyone here thinks electric cars are better than gas powered cars.
@numbcat9 @orc @pkrugman Like, it's a common complaint that Teslas are put together poorly on top of all the other issues.
Using slave labor to construct your expensive computer cars isn't really a smart idea.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-gm-among-car-makers-facing-senate-inquiry-into-possible-links-to-uyghur-forced-labor-11671722563?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
Again, all issues specifically with Elon Musk and his failures at running a company, not evidence of electric cars being bad.
