At the same time buying a Tesla these days means that you forfeit your moral standing to criticize the Tesla Dude. And if you disagree with him on important issues, it insinuates that your principles go as far as the first inconvenience.
Are you for real? I couldn’t stand Musk when he was a left-wing icon, and I still can’t stand him now that he has become a right-wing apologist. It’s not about his political views but about his personality. What does it have to do with the cars that Tesla makes? I own a Model Y while absolutely despising the Tesla CEO.
If one followed your train of thought, one would never buy a VW, which is a brainchild of Adolf Hitler. Did you know that Hitler was the one who pushed Ferdinand Porsche (his personal friend) to create a people’s car, aka Volkswagen, and Hitler gave subsidies to Porsche to do just that? Hitler believed that every German citizen should be able to afford a personal automobile. Hitler was a national socialist, after all, and as any socialist he believed in a more fair distribution of wealth among German citizens; hence he promoted the affordability of automobiles for an average German citizen. Which one is less controversial for you: Musk or Hitler?
Why would one buy a Porsche, the brand named after a fervent Nazi and a Hitler’s personal friend? You are basically driving a car with an invisible swastika painted on it.
Do you ever drive on interstate highways? They were built on the initiative of Dwight Eisenhower after WWII, who was inpresssed with the German autobahn while he was the commander of the American troops during WWII. The American interstate highway system is based on the autobahn design. Do you know whose idea the autobahn was? Adolph Hitler’s. He personally participated in the design, and there is even a famous photograph of Hitler with a shovel opening the construction project of the first autobahn. The Third Reich invested heavily in the autobahn, which was billed as one of the Reich”s technological achievements.
So, being such a purist, you should never buy a VW or Porsche and never drive on an interstate highway.