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Sheryl Crow says “so long Tesla,” donates money to NPR: “Under threat by President Musk”

https://lemmy.world/post/25624199

Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with' - Lemmy.World

Summary Singer Sheryl Crow announced she is selling her Tesla and donating the proceeds to NPR, citing concerns over Elon Musk and his role in Trump’s administration. She criticized Musk’s DOGE, which is aggressively cutting federal agencies. Trump has also escalated attacks on NPR and PBS, with FCC chairman Brendan Carr launching an investigation into their broadcasts.

Feb 15, 2025 at 9:31pmWeb
Show threadTiefling IRLFeb 15, 2025
More Tesla owners need to follow suit. Get rid of those Swasticars.
Show threadlumpenproletariatFeb 15, 2025
Make them fear it. If they don’t sell now, the price will drop from the others who will and they won’t earn as much later.
Show threadP1nkmanFeb 15, 2025
So i should sell mine with a loss (still have a loan on it), and if I want a car with the same distance, I’ll have to take out another loan? No, thank you. I’ll stick with my FUCK ELON MUSK sticker I got made.
Show threadhddsxFeb 15, 2025
Sooo question. Can you leverage your car as a trade in? Or is it not worth it because you still have a loan? I’m no longer looking for a car, but there was a time where you could basically get out for about the same price you got in for
Show threadGerudoFeb 16, 2025

You absolutely can. It’s whether your upside down on the loan or not if it’s worth it to trade in.

I’m in a position to trade in my current vehicle for more than I bought it for, but I can’t get anything similar to it for a decent price to make it worthwhile to me.

Show threadP1nkmanFeb 16, 2025
Great question, I’ve which I cannot answer, as I honestly haven’t thought about that. However, the demand of Tesla’s are decreasing really fast here in Denmark, so I’m not sure if I could get a good deal. However, I will check it out next week! Thank you 🙂
Show threadEldritchFemininityFeb 16, 2025
Definitely look into it, you never know what you might be able to get for it. I worked with a girl in high school many years ago who somehow managed to trade in 3 cars in a row for more than she paid for them. She managed to pay off the loan on each one and get a better car out of the deal than the one she traded in, and it still shocks me enough that I still remember it to this day.
Show threadAA5BFeb 17, 2025
Unless you see the details, you might take that story with a grain of salt. While there were definitely good opportunities after pandemic messed everything up …… my brother dated a girl who did this. However after he got to know here, he figured out this “too good to be true” situation was because they rolled her previous loans into the next. Each step where she got fantastic trade ins that seemed to be a great deal, were just digging her more deeply in debt. She should have paid more attention to the overall deals, rather than just the trade in.
Show threadAnegro_MontoyaFeb 16, 2025
Americans shit all over Japanese cars and their drives for decades after Pearl Harbor…so, sell it or deal. I’m sorry about the stress and financial part but Emerald Elmo is not someone you want to directly support if at all possible.
Show threadhalcyoncmdrFeb 16, 2025

I’d go right back to a Honda if they had a good EV option comparable to my Model 3 that wasn’t too expensive. My Model 3 is almost paid off, was looking forward to no longer having a payment. And their current EV options are lackluster, like most manufacturers. Instead Honda has been fucking around with Hydrogen bullshit for years and insisting it’s going to be a thing in the US just like Toyota.

I don’t give a shit about the luxury aspect and that’s 90% of the EV market. If they just made a Civic EV I’d buy one tomorrow, instead all they have is the Prologue now. And that’s actually made by GM, effectively a Chevy Blazer that’s badged as a Honda.

Show threadidiomaddictFeb 16, 2025
I liked my leaf, but that’s probably a rough decrease in range from a model 3
Show threadzmrlFeb 16, 2025
Fr I was quite disappointed when I found out about the prologue and that it is just a GM.
Show threadBlooperFeb 16, 2025
Eh, I have a Chevy Bolt and I love it.
Show threadzmrlFeb 16, 2025
Thats fair. I’m sure they do make some nice cars. I’ll admit I have a bias against american cars.
Show threadBlooperFeb 16, 2025
Electric cars are a different beast. Also, since the auto bailouts, American cars have pretty much caught up with their foreign competitors in regards to reliability. Absent some damning reviews and boneheaded recalls, I’d focus mostly on pricing at this point.
Show threadPersnickityPenguinFeb 16, 2025
The day after Musks nazi salute I saw a MY with blue tape over the logos, lol.
Show threadCancerMancerFeb 16, 2025
I’ve been seeing people advocating ruining random Teslas and it’s pissing me off. Do people think rightoids make up the majority of EV early adopters? Fucking think about it before you go off spray painting swastikas onto innocent people’s cars holy shit.
Show threadbluewingFeb 16, 2025

Don’t be a dick and ruin a stranger’s things just because.

Still, those early adopters weren’t the people making $45,000 a year. It’s not like they can/could afford a new $60,000 car. Anybody buying a Tesla is solidly upper middle class. And often are DINO’s politically. And they can live comfortably if they aren’t too busy trying to maintain an image.

Show threadAA5BFeb 17, 2025
You’re making way too many exceptions. Most of us care more about the technology than the image, most of us can’t live comfortably if we lost our most expensive non-house purchase. And I soundly reject your Dino assumption. This kind of hatred of people based solely on a vehicle should be beneath you. Making up characteristics so you can hate someone is not ok. We can see this same logic used on the right to hate people because of their race or preferences, etc. it’s not ok
Show threadEnsign_CrabFeb 16, 2025

I’ve been seeing people advocating ruining random Teslas and it’s pissing me off.

All Teslas? No. But if someone’s driving a cybertruck, they know who they were buying into.

Show threadBadmanDanFeb 16, 2025
I really appreciate the fight. But please don’t put yourself in the red or anymore in the negative over Adolf Musk.
Show threadCrikesteFeb 16, 2025

I just hope you realize how spineless that comes off to some people.

“I will criticize but I WILL NOT be inconvenienced!” lol

Show threadEugene V. Debs' GhostFeb 16, 2025

GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH

I DO NOT WANT TO BE INCONVENIENCED, I NEED TO DRIVE IN THE CAR A NEO-NAZI MADE BUT ITS OKAY BECAUSE I SPENT $4 ON A BUMPER STICKER MADE BY SOMEONE CASHING IN ON THIS TREND!

I WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME IN A 1942 VOLKSWAGEN WITH A “I DIDN’T KNOW HITLER WAS A BAD GUY WHEN I BOUGHT THIS” BUT IGNORE ME! IT’S NOT MY FAULT I WASN’T AWARE OF THIS INSANE PERSON’S ACTIONS FOR DECADES!

I’M ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS HERE, YOU SEE? I ONLY GAVE MONEY TO SOMEONE WHO’S CURRENTLY TEARING APART MY NATION’S GOVERNMENT! I’M NEUTRAL TO EVEN GOOD HERE!

Show threadLucidlethargyFeb 17, 2025

If you have a sticker, I’m cool with you. And I say some nasty shit about Tesla owners.

I’ve never seen a sticker in my town. I give them all dirty fucking looks. Fuck those people. I’ve stopped letting them in during traffic.

Show threadJarixFeb 17, 2025
You are just unpleasant
Show threadurandomFeb 15, 2025

Why though? Is the buffoon going to magically lose money when you sell your car?

This won’t hurt his billionaire ass at all, just the poor schmuck that owns the car

Show threadAlbinoPythonFeb 15, 2025
Yeah, he already got the money for the car.
Show threadFlowVoidFeb 16, 2025

Her used Tesla is now competing against Musk for the next Tesla customer. And if too many people sell Teslas, the resale value drops which makes new Teslas less attractive.

So he got her money, but she may have stopped him from getting someone else’s money.

Show threadchilicheeseliesFeb 16, 2025
Its one less tesla someone else is buying fron them. Flood the market with preownes teslas
Show threadurandomFeb 16, 2025
This will hurt regular people a lot not that it so every hurt him.
Show threadQuadhammerFeb 16, 2025
Hes saying if someone buys a used tesla thats money not spent on a new one
Show threadurandomFeb 16, 2025

Yes. And I’m saying that’s going to hurt regular people more.

A much better suggestion is to stop buying new Teslas. Let the current owners drive them in peace instead of hurting them

Show threadstardustFeb 16, 2025

That people even have to try and justify ownership of existing Tesla shows that situation has gotten to a state where potential buyers are less likely to get them.

Stocks are based on future sales projections and a brand going toxic is not a great situation. A car suddenly turning from a regular vehicle to one that is now turning into political affiliation is not great for the average person who “wants to stay out of politics.”

Show threadurandomFeb 16, 2025
I’m not sure Tesla stock follows normal trends. It’s price doesn’t seem to be that influenced on sales performance
Show threadfriendlymessageFeb 16, 2025
A lot of used Teslas on the market puts pressure on the price of new Teslas, so yes, mass sell-off of Teslas does have an impact. Not to mention, that resell value of Teslas will go down
Show threadottoFeb 15, 2025
Show threadinclementimmigrantFeb 16, 2025

Are you going to help me and others pay for a new vehicle them?

Nice to say but not all of us have the cash to just buy a new vehicle for political protest.

Show threadnickwitha_k (he/him)Feb 16, 2025

political protest.

You say potato, I say “not visually signaling support for a guy who gives nazi salutes, provides monetary aid to literal nazis, and is currently engaged in an active attempt to permanently end democracy in the US”.

Show threadinclementimmigrantFeb 16, 2025
Spoken like a Internet blowhard.
Show threadnickwitha_k (he/him)Feb 16, 2025
How long ago did you buy? Still enough Musk fanboys that either don’t care that he is a Nazi or support it. Likely able to sell it and buy an objectively better vehicle, if it is an actual concern.
Show threadinclementimmigrantFeb 16, 2025

I bought mine 2018 but I’m not going to be selling a perfectly working car, putting my family into more unnecessary debt right when inflation and stupid tariffs are knocking on our doors just to do absolutely nothing but some performative protest to appease a bunch of people on the Internet.

I bet most families that have bought Teslas are going to be doing the same, average people aren’t going to be just selling their cars for a protest, putting themselves into more financial strain.

But you do you Internet, I do wonder how many of those will actually put their money where their fingertips are, especially with all of these other companies who are kowtowing to this fascist administration.

Show threadnickwitha_k (he/him)Feb 17, 2025
Fair enough. That’s long enough of ownership that resale would likely be impacted. Getting into debt at this juncture would indeed not be recommended.
Show threadBadmanDanFeb 16, 2025
“Swasticars” 😭
Show threadDogPeePooFeb 15, 2025

F elon

The ‘human’ milk bag.

Show threadbadcommandorfilenameFeb 15, 2025
Yeah, but what will impress Jodie Foster?
Show threadmoodyFeb 15, 2025
I don’t think the answer is safe to say
Show threadegonallanonFeb 16, 2025
I mean Hinckley is out of jail now maybe he could try and win her affections again?
Show threadIthorianFeb 15, 2025
If it makes you happy…
Show threadI_Miss_DanielFeb 15, 2025
Starlink terminals next…
Show threadreddig33Feb 15, 2025
It’s sad because there are a lot of good people who work at Tesla. Elon is going to end up putting them all out of work at this rate.
Show threadOutlierBlueFeb 15, 2025
Elon’s putting a lot more people than that out of work.
Show threadBigDanishGuyFeb 16, 2025

There is 9 people sitting at a table, a nazi joins them. Now there’s 10 nazis at the table.

That they’re “good people” might have been true. But if when the situation changes, and you don’t act, then you’re complicit. Good people would have quit, even at a loss.

Show threadstardustFeb 16, 2025
Even before Elon went crazy I thought it was publicly known it was a terrible place to work for with bad work life balance, and people worked at to get on their resume then move on to another company.
Show threadexplodicleFeb 16, 2025
One of my engineer coworkers just got a job at SpaceX for more money. He hated his old job at our company (99% paperwork). And everybody still feels sorry for him!
Show threadansizFeb 16, 2025

Part of his drive into politics is because of so number of lawsuits against him about working conditions.

But he’ll put many more people out of work than just work for Tesla. Just USAID he’s out basically 10k people out of work domestically, who knows how many thousands of people overseas.

Show threadboonhetFeb 16, 2025

Just USAID he’s out basically 10k people out of work domestically,

This is sure to increase Americans’ wages. Right? Right???

Show threadAA5BFeb 17, 2025
Brb, going to check egg prices
Show threadfriendlymessageFeb 16, 2025
Of all the people who lost or will lose their job because of Musk, those who actively chose to work for him are not on the top of my sympathy list. Not to say that they are not on that list, but they are very close to the bottom.
Show threadMellowYellow13Feb 16, 2025
Its been known for a while Musk is an absolute piece of shit
Show threadexplodicleFeb 16, 2025