The poll shows that public views of Musk are increasingly polarized, with Republican support of the billionaire rising while Democratic support falls.
Elon Musk’s support among Democrats has withered to a new low as he has embraced Republican politics, according to a national NBC News poll.
Only 6% of Democrats in the poll, which was conducted Sept. 13-17, said they had positive feelings about Musk, while 79% said they had negative feelings. The numbers were flipped for Republicans, with 62% having positive feelings toward him and 14% negative feelings. Independents were split, 31% to 36%.
The poll shows that views of Musk are increasingly polarized, reflecting the transformation of his public image in recent years from that of an environmentally aware automaker crusading against fossil fuels to that of a conservative activist aligned with former President Donald Trump.
Thats fine, I’m sure Republicans will start buying EVs any day now
The next tesla model will have a coal oven inside it. Will still run on electricity, the oven is just in there so you can do some pollution too. The main factor in making the electric part palpable to republicans will be telling them how brown people are being exploited to get the materials for the batteries out of the ground.
Nah, it will be worse. Tesla will start selling a hybrid model with a generator onboard that can charge the battery as you go. That generator will be designed to be fueled by ground-up burning tires, unrecycleable plastic, and human hair. .
Gotta be able to compete in the rolling coal market
Sadly I know someone who just bought a tesla model 3.
were they a Republican?
No. I’m Canadian and so is he, and he is not a conservative or pro-Trump guy.
I’m fine with this, fuck it, if it takes a pos like Elon to make republicans to buy EV , I’m fine it, the silver lining is that at least both sides will buy electric.
And yet we are supporting his monopoly on smart electric vehicles with tariffs.
6% is waaay too high
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“I, a genius, will alienate the group who want EVs to curry favor with the group who will never buy EVs. Genius, I say.”
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Maybe he’s playing 5D chess and is secretly making Conservatives want EVs.
He’s not, though.
He’s not a good 2D chess player unfortunately.
Maybe 1D?
He’s just seeing what Trump and the GOP are planning for the US and hopes he’ll be one of the oligarchs at the top in the end.
He has to satisfy the guys they fronted him the billions he needed to buy and destroy Twitter.
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The ROI is the destruction of a social media platform that enabled global protest and solidarity movements toward equality and equity of the lower and middle classes against our global elite; anti hijab movements, women’s equal rights in Muslim countries, black lives matters in western countries, the revolution in France over the retirement age, to name a few.
Edit: and let’s not forget the impact this has had on growing conservative movements, increased foreign interference in US politics, and the weakening of western democracy.
Is that the 6% that are buying Tesla’s? Seriously though it’s not like the right are buying his electric cars
Might be the folks that are all about SpaceX?
Well, that’s kind of fair I don’t hate SpaceX either. They seem to keep him at arms length.
I’ve heard that they have people on payroll specifically to keep Elon as far away as possible from operations.
Big if true!
Why are we tracking this assholes popularity like he is someone relevant to anything that requires popularity?
He’s a tech douche. Who fucking cares what percentage of popularity he holds!? He’s not running for office. He’s not even qualified to.
Ugly, gross, cringe, white cucks aren’t my thing either. May be the one thing I share with the libs.
Leftists ≠ Libs. The Libs were split 31% to 36% in this poll.
Admittedly the Democrats aren’t leftists.
Something to avoid- standing near a parked Tesla with sentry mode enabled drains its battery significantly as it tracks you. Locating a camera and displaying a paper sign, one light enough to blow in the wind that reads “musk sucks”, would accomplish the same thing, and should also be avoided.
While funny… I think you underestimate how big the battery in a Tesla is and also how little power the computer would pull.
THAT said… I wonder if there is a drive somewhere that could be filled doing that?
From what I understand, it wastes an extra ~2%/hr. A tragic sum, if done repeatedly throughout the week. I think it overwrights old data as the drive fills. I can’t see utility in that, aside from mischievously scrubbing old footage.
It’s nowhere near 2% an hour. It’s like ~300w/h to keep it all running, and they said they were going to reduce that further by 40% in the near future, so ~180w/h
300w/h on a 62kw/h (model 3 standard range) battery is 0.48% an hour. You’d lose 3.82% for an 8h workday, and soon to be 2.29%
And the % would decrease as the battery is larger like a long range vehicle.
I’m not saying this is ideal, but 2%/h is just flat out wrong, and almost a whole order of magnitude after the update.
I was just relaying what I’d read in the Tesla forums a few weeks ago. Evidently, they embellished a bit.
w/h ?
Watts per hour
Although it should be it uses 300w/h on a 62kwh battery.
I did the battery unit wrong.
Yeah and what does that unit mean, acceleration of power draw?
The battery has the power for 62,000 watts hours. Sentry mode (pretty much leaving the computer on) draws 300 watts per hour.
So you could leave sentry on for 62,000 / 300 hours or 206 hours before it kills the battery before the update. (Edit on a standard range model 3)
Edit: so ya it’s power draw, no acceleration, just power draw.
What’s W/h? Watts per hour?
Correct.
Although it should be it uses 300w/h on a 62kwh battery.
I did the battery unit wrong.
Sentry mode turns off at 20%
I’m surprised it’s not a negative number.
That would require all democrats and at least some republicans to have a negative view
I sure fucking hope it’s not 94% for Republicans.
Probably higher.
Who are the 6% that identify as Democrats?
Still too high.
Why is musk’s(and Swift’s) popularity newsworthy? Unless they are trying to run for office, who cares?
Musk has continued to interfere with politics over and over again. From donations, to censorship, to being a weird fucking creep to female politicians.
Swift was dragged in there because Donald Trump shared fake AI images of her supporting Donald. To fix the blowback, Swift said, “Ew you old filthy pedo, I’m not doing that”. (Don’t quote me)
Its newsworthy because it’s news.
So Musk is a creepy dickhead. That’s not news. It’s been apparent for quite a while now
Because they have lots of money and influence among the 18-35 demographic. Would I prefer if news corps didn’t cover their every move and thought? Yeah I would, but unfortunately news featuring Musk and Swift gets clicks which drives advertising.
You must be new. This is America we are talking about.
Musk bought one of the biggest social media platforms expressly to manipulate news, which in turn manipulates politics and markets.
He’s basically like a narcissistic Rupert Murdock who wants to make his manipulation all centered around how cool he is.
That’s news.
Taylor Swift is just filler content. It’s taking the place of worlds largest cookie stories. But the reason it gains traction is that she has taken on a bit of a counter persona to the Right’s habitual sexism. She’s an influential woman. The Right can’t stand that shit.
It was news when he bought the platform. It was news when advertisers boycotted his platform. It was news when it first became a far right cesspool. It’s news when X finally capitulated to the Brazilian government.
His approval rating doesn’t matter and isn’t news. His continual support of far right figures isn’t news unless he is supporting someone new.
Do we report about Steve Ballmer or Tim Cook’s approval ratings? No. Because it doesn’t matter. It’s not news. Stop giving Musk attention he doesn’t deserve. We shouldn’t be talking about him. He craves the spotlight. Don’t give it to hin
Yep, it’s not like we can vote him out.
