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It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] 35 points 2 days ago* (4 children)

I've been having the same conversation with my kids for weeks now.

"Daddy, look, it's that car you hate."

"Daddy, we saw that car you hate."

"Daddy, that car you hate just drove by."

Finally today I was like, "Can you please stop calling it that? It's not that I hate it. It's just poorly made. And it looks like it was designed by someone who... doesn't know how to design things. Because it was. And I think we can all agree about the ethical ramifications of buying a car from an avowed Nazi." So I mean I guess maybe I do hate it, but it certainly gives away my political beliefs when they bring up that car I hate in mixed company.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    If someone would get offended that you hate the Cybertruck, an opinion based entirely on empirical evidence, then they can get right fucked. I don’t care who they are, or what kind of power they think they hold over me.

    Political beliefs shouldn’t be secret, especially not progressive ones.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    If I could sway hearts and minds by getting into an argument at my daughter's Girl Scout meeting, I'd happily do it. Hell I'd probably do it for fun if the mood struck me, but realistically that's not how it works. No one would take the bait. Believe me, no one ever takes the bait.

    So it's just my kids awkwardly letting the world know that I rant about these things in private. And frankly I wouldn't rant about politics to a six-year-old except that she kept saying she thought the Cybertruck looked "cool", and I just wasn't ok with that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    You don’t need to rant, just stand up for your beliefs. If someone asks why your kid knows about Elon Musk being evil you say that you felt it important for her to know that even though she can think the truck looks cool, it’s directly attached to a very bad person. That’s just good parenting.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago

    When they're older, sure. But I don't need my daughter telling people that the president is a Nazi, for example, because she's not equipped to have that argument.

    I mean she knows the president is a Nazi, but I told her not to talk about it with others and to generally not call people Nazis.

    This led to her asking her mother, "What's that N Word that Daddy didn't want me to say again?"

    Luckily she didn't ask that in public.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    You could also challenge it "looking cool". Yes it's a matter of taste, but you could try and encourage decent taste in your kids.

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago

    The Cybertruck might actually look at least a little quirky if it wasn’t a massive piece of garbage sold by a massive piece of garbage. If you can’t have the conversation, don’t go after largely unrelated things because it’s just unproductive and will lead to people ultimately not trusting you to actually mean what you say(and they’d be right). Besides, the lesson is far more impactful if you say that someone is allowed to think something is cool but that doesn’t take the place of an excuse to support it and the people behind it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Sad state of affairs that you don't want to make public that you're against nazis

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I think you're totally misreading their point

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    it certainly gives away my political beliefs

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I just don't need my six-year-old talking about it to everyone. I'm in Texas. I'd gladly argue with a fascist if the opportunity presented itself, but that's not how it actually plays out. It just makes it seem like I rant to my kids.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    And none of these people who for some reason you're worried about ... ?thinking you rant to your kids? have anything their kids say "oh that's that X that dad hates"? I don't believe that you'd be like the only dad with something you dislike that your kids picked up on. Maybe theirs is a sports team or idk Miracle Whip...

    Do car preferences really matter that much? I remember Ford vs Chevy vs Foreign from the 80s and probably earlier - brand or model hate isn't that new or special where I grew up. Is Texas that different?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    If they take issue with you disliking Musk (since I presume that is the political belief you are talking about) then maybe they are not great company to keep.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    It also depends on what we mean by "take issue". I generally don't think I have ever had a strong reaction to someone disliking any public figure. I can't think of any public figures who don't have some reason you could find to dislike them.

    If they're going to have some major argument about that then they do seem a bit odd to me.

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