Tesla's Cybertruck is a dystopian, masturbatory fantasy

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6 points·kondro··7 comments

This same article could have been written about the Hummer EV which weighs >9000 lbs, but I would bet it wasnt.

I hope it was. The only time I see the Hummer EV mentioned is when people are trying to make EVs look bad (e.g. "a hybrid weighs less than the Hummer EV battery alone!!!").

It's a super weak argument, but still.

There are lots of reasons to dislike the cybertruck, it's too safe and too cool seems like a bad one.

Not sure how you came to the conclusion that the journalist thought the Cybertruck was too safe or too cool.

>Its tagline ("more utility than a truck, faster than a sports car") speaks almost poetically to two distinct but orthogonal archetypes of threatened masculinity: the tacti-cool milspec dork, and the showboating rich guy.

The guy writing this is a bit unhinged, maybe even bitter.

> A “bulletproof” body has been a key feature since the Cybertruck's introduction in 2019; today Musk admitted it was there for no good reason.

Maybe he's trying to provide vehicles for a "Tesla War."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War

https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyot...

> Maybe the rich survivalists playing out Blade Runner meets Mad Max in their Cybertrucks haven't considered that when everything burns down, the power grid will go down too.

He also owns SolarCity! That's part of his shtick!

Some people just want to see the world burn, I guess. It's just new and different, just like so many things we now take for granted. It's one thing to be critical when something is a proven failure, but to never give it a chance means there is ulterior motive afoot.

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