Link: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-tesla-registrations-in-free-fall-as-musk-embraces-far-right-20250916-p5mvey.html

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Nothing to do with Musk, but everything to do with cheaper and actually good Chinese EVs flooding the market.

Not mutually exclusive

“Too far right for Queensland” is something

Shit cars from a shit cunt

It’s probably both but yeah the Chinese makes have made a huge dent. More importantly they’ve brought EVs to more families.

WWJD - what would Joe do?

Maybe but I've not heard of a single person say they won't buy a Tesla because of Musk's antics. There may be a few but I'm going with minuscule, not a cliff dive.

Lot of nazi adjacent folks here in Australia, look at the rise and rise of ONP for example.

Much cheaper to just get a swastika face tattoo. You will get the exact same reaction from people.

It’s not both. If people bought cars based on political opinions of the companies owners then Tesla sales would be increasing over that timeframe here.

Attributing the rise of one nation to “Nazis” is even dumber than the conclusion that musks political opinion causes people to not buy teslas.

Well, I mean Pauline Hansons "there's not a single good Muslim" comment.. you know.. isn't that much of a stretch

Edit: mind you these comments were made on public broadcaster, concerns me what conversations are had behind closed doors.

Honestly, bible quotes are meaningless. None of the many Australian Muslims I know have tried to slay, make war with or even ostracise me. And similarly I haven't found any Australian Christians following all the junk in their bible either. Those still following these Abrahamic religions are following versions which have evolved over a thousand years - and pointing to a few extremist crazies interpreting it differently can be done with most groups - three extremist Christians were involved in a terrorist shooting in QLD in 2022, and the Christchurch shootings in 2019 were performed by an Australian Christian Nationalist. But it would be ridiculous to point to those and claim Christian Terrorism should make us hate all our Christian friends.

Attributing the rise of one nation to “Nazis”

That is not what they said.

It definitely is.

I saw a Tesla in Brisbane the other day with one of those 'I bought this before Elon went crazy' stickers on it. When I looked it up on the rego check app, it was a 2024 model. Nice try, but no. :D

Yeah, those stickers only work if it's older than the Thai caving incident, IMO.

They just don't want their car keyed.

Even that late is being pretty generous. Anyone paying attention could have picked it up much earlier, but yeah, that was probably his first fairly public display of what he's really like.

Yeah, his direction was already obvious by then if you were paying attention, with his abuse of Twitter to defraud investors, or his Hyperloop bullshit to stall public transport investment. But sticking his arse where it wasn't wanted, reacting like a complete manbaby when called out for his attention-seeking, projecting hard onto the actual hero, hiring someone to stalk said hero and try to dig up dirt, and finally perjuring himself in court to avoid losing a defamation lawsuit…that's an absolute final straw. Supporting him after that is inexcusable.

Even the Paypal stuff way before that was a clear indication of what he was like when you look back on it. That wasn't widely known at the time, though. My awakening was with the 'Elon Musk Is Not Your Friend' video from Some More News.

Anyone paying attention could have picked it up much earlier

There's the issue. We can't expect every EV driver to have been paying attention to the politics of it's manufacturer at the time of purchase.