Trump called Musk, the controversial leader of Tesla and a new government efficiency initiative, a "truly great American."

It is not illegal for consumers to boycott companies. The Supreme Court in 1982 ruled the First Amendment protects Americans’ rights to protest private businesses.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Okay, guess I’m technically not boycotting Tesla. I just straight up can’t afford a car, not in this economy. Nor do I care, because there’s a bus stop just down the street. Not that I’m intimidated by Trump because I’m not American and he can’t prosecute this shit even domestically.

  • Rizo@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Funny how they preach “the market will regulate itself” until it regulates itself in the “wrong direction”. And all of a sudden something needs to be done by “the government”.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    “Mr. Trump, you just attempted to overthrow the government of the Leader of the Free World™️, convinced the supreme court to hand you unlimited authority, and you still got elected president! What are you gonna do now?”

    “I’m going to Disneyland!”

  • Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Soooo … Trump thinks he can force people to buy Teslas? Just like Elon is trying (and failing) to sue companies for not advertising on Twitter.

    • socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I don’t think they’re panicking, this is how they always behave. Trump is saying a moronic thing again to draw attention from the actual important authoritarian shift onto “what stupid meaningless shit did he say”. It’s the same fucking playbook every time.

  • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Nice! Turn teslas into rolling MAGA bumper stickers!

    What I love about this that it already takes twice as much to insure a model Y to my comparably sized EV. if Teslas are gonna get disproportionately vandalized I wouldn’t be shocked if insurance premiums will go up further. So even if the cars value drops, the movement can still offset that with increasing the cost of ownership.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I’m kind of hoping that between MAGA bros buying Teslas to support Musk and leftists buying other EVs because it’s better for the environment we’ll effectively retire internal combustion engines.

      • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Yeah, that will happen because someone will have to buy up the devaluing used Tesla stock for cheap. My schadenfreude comes from thinking about how surprised they will be when they realize their insurance premiums are up.