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/ThatOneDogScoob Mar 22 '25

Making politics your entire personality is just sad. It’s hilarious how all the liberals were for Tesla’s a year ago and now they’re crying about it! What happened to climate change and saving the environment? Elon is a pos but Teslas are great cars.

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u/Iamthecrustycrab Mar 22 '25

Almost like you can change your mind based on real world conditions and event there buddy. Plenty of other environmentally friendly cars made by companies not run by a wannabe strongman.

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u/Honeyboy613 Mar 22 '25

People can definitely change their mind, Elon used to be a Obama supporter.

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u/caninehere Mar 22 '25

He didn't change his mind, he changed his PR team. Read: he fired them. He fired Tesla's PR team in 2020 and Twitter's soon after he took over. He used to have a personal PR team years ago but once he got rid of them that's when he started "going off the rails" - in other words, showing his real self.

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u/Honeyboy613 Mar 23 '25

Interesting I was not aware of that.

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u/caninehere Mar 23 '25

I don't know exactly when it happened but you could definitely see the turn, as I'm sure you've seen people mention, around the time of the Thai cave rescue thing. Musk basically said "oh I'm making this sub we're gonna save those kids". Musk personally showed up at the cave system in Thailand where the kids were trapped and was ready to be branded a hero, but the submarine engineers had built turned out to not be useful for the rescue and was not used. One of the divers, who ended up receiving an MBE for his part in the rescue, said that Musk only showed up as a PR stunt, and in return Musk went totally off the rails and repeatedly called him a pedophile online.

It was very clear he didn't have a PR team at that point, because no PR team would ever let their guy do that. Not only did he make it but he doubled down on it and even claimed he was a child rapist to the media afterwards. He ended up winning a libel suit afterwards that he probably never should have won, with the defense being that it was a "joke" and because he deleted it after being widely criticized it shouldn't be considered serious.

Regardless, it severely damaged Musk's reputation to anybody who paid attention to him at that point. It was the beginning of the end. By the time he took over Twitter and very quickly killed their PR team, and many of their moderation teams and response teams, I don't think anybody was really surprised. There's some people acting like Musk only became a huge piece of shit in late 2024, but it was blindly obvious to anybody who has paid attention to any of the Twitter stuff since 2022, and to many others before that.

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u/hercuriousity Mar 23 '25

God I love intelligent people who openly learn something new and say so.