Tesla drivers are mostly chuds themselves but ones who go for the sci fi nerd aesthetic rather than the country boy aesthetic, the cowboy wannabes just don’t understand that
bazinga chuds vs trad chuds
there’s some overlap cases, but those are the mostly separate circles the cyber truck differentiates
The LA people who bought the first round of Teslas were soy latte liberals but surprise, soy latte LA liberals are Ronald Regan
Only Tesla driver I've had the misfortune of knowing is my old boss. Very entrepeneur-brained with a failing small business where all the workers quit over the course of like 3 months, which feels very on-brand for Tesla.
I've been away from chud spaces so long I didn't know there was a split, I just thought cybertruck owners were part of the flock.
I don’t think it’s even a split, their lizard brains just see an EV and immediately think “woke” even if it’s one from Melon himself
I made this post in response to someone posting a video in my work groupchat implying that people who buy Teslas are woke liberals brainwashed by big climate change, yet the one person in the company who everyone here knows has a Tesla is an outspoken conservative like the rest of them (even when it comes to climate change)
Tesla might market their vehicles as a solution for climate change, and maybe some of their customers are liberals who think EVs are a realistic solution to stop it, but the reality is their customers are mostly chuds who buy it as a status symbol or to support based Elon, and even with lots of evidence online and in real life, they just don’t get it. They’ll see right in front of their eyes a contradiction between what’s in their heads and what real (and it’s not even a large scale societal one like the contradiction between class interests, but one that revolves around culture signifiers which is the only thing anyone in America thinks about anymore), but instead of putting even a little effort towards resolving it, they just stick with the narrative they already know.
I don’t think it’s even a split, their lizard brains just see an EV and immediately think “woke” even if it’s one from Melon himself
This might be a good way to troll Musk riders, just call them woke for owning an ev.
my perception that might be entirely wrong is that the pre-trump tesla buying market was lib leaning techbro type people with a little bit of silicon valley flavored granola sprinkled in, and then after trump's election musk started pushing those people away and then post-twitter acquisition the primary tesla buyer is the chuddy techbro with the libby techbros moving to other electrics like rivian, etc
Replace "women" with "immigrants" and replace "in my videogames" with "in my country" and they're the same dudes.
there's overlap
Although yeah, real hicks aren't into the electric car thing, there are plenty of evangelicals and catholic (and probably any religion or none but going on personal experience here) electrical engineers (or similarly white collar who cosplay as hunters on the weekends and are more rabid than the average hick in a lot of ways. and they like tesla
