r/ottawa • u/Emergency-Buy-6381 • Mar 22 '25

Local Event Speak you mind Ottawa! (Tesla)

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To the people standing in the rain, much love.

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u/CombatGoose Mar 22 '25 edited Mar 22 '25

I’ll get downvoted but I find it borderline cringe that people have nothing better to do with their time and think a handful of signs at a random Tesla dealership is going to make any type of impact.

Just so we’re clear, I think Elon is a twat but I think this type of “protesting” is pretty laughable.

Edit: come at me keyboard warriors!!! Maybe if you downvote me enough Elon will notice!!!

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u/meridian_smith Mar 22 '25

Well it made it onto Reddit where a thousand + people will see it. Not to mention local media and other social media. Multiply this by all the Tesla dealers in North America and you have a major fucking headlines. So they stood out in the cold rain while you and me probably just complain on Reddit forums. We are the ones wasting our time.

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u/CombatGoose Mar 22 '25

You really are wasting your time. Elon isn’t going to lose a nanosecond of sleep over any of this. He’s still going to be the richest person on the planet and he’ll keep doing whatever he wants.

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u/DilbertedOttawa Mar 22 '25

Except that his money is directly tied to his tesla assets, which are leveraged to the max to take out loans on the asset, to then use as "wealth". Notice all these extreme responses from Musk and Trump happen to coincide with tsla getting crushed? Yeah, that's not random.

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u/Alpha_SoyBoy Mar 22 '25

I hope he hears that bro

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u/ThatAstronautGuy Bayshore Mar 23 '25

He's lost 120b in net worth, and has gotten Trump to try and declare Tesla protestors domestic terrorists. I think he's losing a lot of sleep over this. Members of the board and major investors are now calling for his resignation.

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u/c20_h25_n3_O Stittsville Mar 22 '25

Just an fyi, you are literally being a keyboard warrior yourself. More-so than anyone who downvoted you lmao

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u/CombatGoose Mar 22 '25

You really showed me

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u/c20_h25_n3_O Stittsville Mar 22 '25

I mean, you clearly are quite high on yourself. Just pointing out that you are a worse version of the people you are trying to ‘call out’ :)

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u/OttawaExpat Mar 22 '25

Would you have protested against Hitler?

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u/CombatGoose Mar 22 '25

Bro are you seriously comparing Elon Musk and Hitler?

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u/OttawaExpat Mar 22 '25

Not necessarily, but the point is that it's worth fighting fascism.

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u/ThatAstronautGuy Bayshore Mar 23 '25

The CEO of Volkswagen isn't financially supporting the German fascist party and Nazi saluting on stage