Around 10 French clients with leases on Teslas are suing the US carmaker, run by Elon Musk, because they consider the vehicles to be “extreme-right” symbols, the law firm representing them said on Wednesday.

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    1 month ago

    Ok, this doesn’t sound too crazy in context.

    They aren’t owners, they are suing to be released from their lease contracts because they feel they suffered “direct and concrete” damage from the way Teslas are now associated with “Elon Musk’s actions”.

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      1 month ago

      Of course it’s not crazy. The CEO went all in on being a fascist piece of shit, and brazenly open drug addiction, which has directly damaged the assets of all of his businesses, their customers assets, and the entire brands.

      If, within the next 5 years, Elon isn’t billions in debt and destitute, that’s how you know we all live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracies”.

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      I agree, it’s a step beyond the little sticker on the back of the car.

      I’d do the same if I had one but pedoguygate switched me off the brand and it’s never been the direction that I wanted to see EVs go (look I have a button that makes the car/range go down really fast. I also don’t think talk of range without reference to battery size is helpful)