Tesla owners sue to break their leases over Musk making the cars
'far-right totems'

Tesla leaseholders in France are suing the automaker to terminate
their leases due to Elon Musk's association with the cars, claiming
they have become "far-right totems" and have harmed their reputation.

Over the last few years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a sharp turn to
the right of the political spectrum. After buying Twitter, he brought
back and promoted several far-right voices banned for various reasons,
and he himself promoted far-right disproven conspiracy theories.

He financed Trump's election to the tune of almost $300 million and
pushed for several far-right parties in Europe, including the AFD in
Germany.

https://electrek.co/2025/06/11/tesla-owners-sue-break-leases-over-musk-making-cars-far-right-totems/

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On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:44:15 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Tesla leaseholders in France are suing the automaker to terminate
their leases due to Elon Musk's association with the cars, claiming
they have become "far-right totems" and have harmed their reputation.

In my lifetime before Trump's POTUS ambition, I'm not aware of CEOs
publicly promoting this/that person...but economically, they have
donated to this/that candidate. Most CEOs work for a company.

So few of these Ape-man CEOs beating their chests, but its interesting
to observe how success goes to their heads (inflated self-perception).

Let's see, so he donates some $300 million, and expects a payback
without political/legal consequences. It's clear he did not consider
or evaluate potential collateral damage.

He's been an investor in his ideas, while others made it so. But
apparently his greed drive is thru the roof, which affects his
reasoning skills (if he has the ability to reason).

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