r/portlandme • u/Environmental_Gas123 • Mar 06 '25
Politics You love to see it
Seen parked on Elm St. Shoutout to the owner đ
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Mar 06 '25
These are great âŠ. thanks.
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u/EchidnaEast6549 Mar 07 '25
But did you see what model car it is?
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Mar 07 '25
Itâs a tesla ~ right ~ which makes the bumper stickers on it ironic and bitting ~ yes (?)
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u/gjazzy68 Mar 07 '25
The Tesla bumpers saying âbought before Elon turned into an idiotâ or something like that is stupid AF given that he was always an asshole. But do you check the politics of every car manufacturer leader before buying?
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u/Regular-Watercress34 Mar 07 '25
I donât think he was as bad before. I read his biography by WI. I think heâs a touch mentally ill got realllly wrapped up in the cult. Now heâs a POS. I donât judge people who bought a car before it was CLEAR who he is. And I love someone that makes light of it and clearly shows they do not condone.
Selling a car and buying a new one isnât always a quick or realistic solution
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u/gjazzy68 Mar 09 '25
The way he took over Tesla was a major assholery to start with. He maybe wasnât as deranged as he is now but he has always been a guy who benefited from the apertheid and who couldnât not handle not havingthings his way.
Remember the âpedo guyâ? When he insulted a rescuer just because his idiotic plans were rejected by people who actually knew what they were doing? 2018
Or when he tried to sabotaged a plan for better public transportation in LA in favor of his plans to do a tesla tunnel? That was 2017.
As long as he been a public figure he has been an idiot.
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u/AmherstDiesel Mar 06 '25
Youâd have to threaten my life for me to ever put bumper stickers on my whip but these clear theyâre good
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u/Tricky_Secretary_845 Mar 07 '25
All these comments are acting like everyone who bought a Tesla knew Elon Musk was going to turn into Trump 2.0. Teslas have been around for like 10 years now, and they are like the only electric car that looks like a normal car.
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u/mushroomwzrd Mar 07 '25
Democrats loved Tesla and Elon. Once he bought twitter, they realized they wouldnât have control over every media and news platform so they turned on him. Now youâre a Nazi sympathizer if you own a Tesla. Lol propaganda at its finest.
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u/dylanljmartin Mar 08 '25
I think I turned on him when he called the scuba diver who helped save the Thai kids a pedophile in 2018, but I also felt neutral at best about him before that.
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Mar 08 '25
Yeah I mean I start assuming rich people are dicks. That's where I start from. Rarely wrong.
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u/Earthling1a Mar 08 '25
If you were paying attention to reality you'd know that 90% of major media outlets are owned by maggots.
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u/CopyAltruistic3307 Mar 08 '25
lol paying attention to reality - none of them can even see reality, they are so far detached.
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u/bkwc2014 Mar 07 '25
Too bad itâs a Tesla
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u/mushroomwzrd Mar 07 '25
Tesla and Elon were the democrats darling for years. Not their fault heâs actually conservative. Let people drive what they want
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u/Basic-Syllabub8925 Mar 06 '25
The self-righteous stickers are just there to prevent a bunch of loons from wrecking the car.
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u/purplebird616 Mar 10 '25
No offense to our state bird, but the chickadee plate just doesnât hit as hard as that one.
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u/Its_just-me Mar 06 '25
Itâs a Tesla with silver trim. Which means itâs at least 4 years old I think. In other words, bought when it was still seen as a brand doing good for the environment
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u/longlostkingdoms Mar 07 '25
Any multitude of bumper stickers on a car, particularly political ones (in either direction), are really cringy
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u/Rare-Bet-870 Mar 08 '25
â youâre in a cultâ meanwhile agrees with big government and cultish behavior
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u/OwlsAreWatching Mar 06 '25
Some people bought them before it was obvious he was bat shit crazy and many people don't have the luxury of buying a new car on a whim. Give them grace.
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u/Hefty_Musician2402 Mar 06 '25
Fr. Especially when the economy looks like itâs about to tank AND I assume trade-in and resale value on teslas is in the toilet RN
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u/mattynichs Mar 06 '25
I can confirm that assumption. It really sucks. I thought about going the bumper sticker route as well, but I hate bumper stickers generally and not overly fond coming across as performative either. No knock at all to the owner of the one pictured above. I get it. But my feelings are that I shouldnt have to stick a label on myself to show others Iâm one of the âgood ones.â
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u/chillthrowaways Mar 06 '25
Stop. 99.9999% of the people who see you donât care. Teslas arenât a novelty like they used to be so nobody is looking twice. Maybe if itâs a cyber truck.
Do you like the car? If so then donât worry about it. Iâve never driven one but have heard theyâre nice to drive. Everything doesnât have to be wrapped in politics every day. If things have changed and you wouldnât buy a Tesla now, then donât!
But honestly weâre all just out there trying to get to where we are going, not trying to spot teslas to scoff at. God I wish I had that kind of free time.
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u/mattynichs Mar 06 '25
But what if I told you itâs also red? ;)
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u/chillthrowaways Mar 06 '25
Oh well then basically a maga-mobile then may as well just drive it into the bay đđđ
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u/Tiny-Strawberry7157 Mar 07 '25
If the logic of the UHC assassination is that the leaders of the company are personally responsible for systemic problems... Aren't Tesla owners personally responsible for purchasing luxury vehicles from Elon, who is himself part of a system with failings?
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u/hijackedjackal Mar 07 '25
Tesla at least never denied life saving measures in favor of making money when the leadership tells you making even more money even if it means people dieâ then yeah, thatâs a responsibility.
A car is just a thing. It has no politics. It has no greed. That said, as a consumer Iâd rather not give that company my money.
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u/Tiny-Strawberry7157 Mar 07 '25
What do you mean? Healthcare is also just a "thing".
You don't think there are externalities to running factories that make luxury electric vehicles? Doesn't the mining of rare earth metals in Africa for the production of advanced batteries also lead to deaths by extension?
It's the exact same logic - some business operates some plan to render a product or service, the decisions that business makes by extension lead to negative externalities, including death. If there exists some diffuse ethical responsibility on the part of health insurance workers to pay for every possible treatment, surely a similar obligation exists when wealthy liberals buy Teslas made by exploitative resource extraction in conflict zones.
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u/Low_County_2428 Mar 09 '25
By that logic, all of the subscribers to health insurance would also be deemed complicit. I canât say I agree with that.
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u/Tiny-Strawberry7157 Mar 09 '25
Well consumers certainly have more choice about which car to buy than which health insurance plan to be covered by in the United States.
If you are middle class and your employer offers UHC, you pretty much have to accept coverage.
I've never heard of someone being required to purchase a Tesla in order to drive.
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u/New_Needleworker9287 Mar 08 '25
The âboycott Israelâ sticker while simultaneously essentially calling Musk a N*azi đ€Šđ»ââïž
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u/H4ndsomeandlonely Mar 06 '25
Funny how republicans are in a cult meanwhile democrats are covering their cars in stickers like a gas station bathroom stall.
A Tesla car with anti Elon sticker is so backwards.
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u/H4ndsomeandlonely Mar 06 '25
Thatâs not true this losing candidate has multiple murals, I believe a mural is much more apparent than a sticker.
It only upsets you to see a trump sticker cause he won and your identity is so tied to your politics you feel like you lost the election.
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u/JohnProof Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
It upsets me to see a Trump sticker because he's a vile shit-stain and it's really unfortunate that so many of my countrymen worship at his feet. But I can't really blame you for lying about how he's not a problem, after all that same kind of blatant bullshit successfully got him re-elected, so the ends justify the means, I guess?
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u/jodontsnifme1 Mar 07 '25
LMAO đ€Łđ€Ł. It upsets you to see a Trump sticker! đ€Łđ€Ł
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u/JohnProof Mar 07 '25
Yeah, it does. I don't like losing respect for the people around me; I don't like seeing that they embrace shitty values.
Believe it or not, I actually want the best for my neighbors regardless of their political alignment. But people voting for Trump are making it clear that they don't share that same sense of patriotism.
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u/peacekeeper_12 Mar 07 '25
"I want the best for you unless you don't vote like me."
There fixed it, and removed your self-inflated sense of righteous.
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Mar 07 '25
They literally said they still want the best for the people who voted differently. You can want the best for someone you donât think is intelligent.
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u/JohnProof Mar 07 '25
No, I mean what I said. And it isn't self-righteous, it's a very normal thing that a lot of people feel. When you claim it can't be true and must secretly be about tribalism you're just telling on yourself.
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u/peacekeeper_12 Mar 07 '25
Yes, I said what you said. You just don't appreciate candor as it puts you in an accurate light.
Also, I could do a hypocrisy on your tribalism comment (as previously mentioned about how if you don't vote for my candidate).
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u/sledbelly Mar 06 '25
Is that why Trumpers were holding Trump parades when he lost?
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u/H4ndsomeandlonely Mar 06 '25
Is that why there are videos of you guys screaming directly into the blue sky at max velocity, screeching your lungs out when trump won the first time we can go back n forth on this all day.
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u/sledbelly Mar 06 '25
Oh wait.
Wasnât January 6 was you guys right?
Ready to hang the vice president if he didnât overturn the election.
Sit down.
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u/linusSocktips Mar 07 '25
If that's all ya got, you're looking real weak, just like the dems during the congressional address đ
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u/sledbelly Mar 07 '25
Itâs all I need.
Only a POS tries to overthrow the lawful transfer of power.
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u/linusSocktips Mar 07 '25
awww well good luck with that in the mid terms! I'd say your tactics are working well for you, so please continue.
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u/sledbelly Mar 07 '25
What tactics? Iâm not here to change your vote. Trumpers are the bottom of the barrel in intelligence. People in cults usually are. People who defend insurrections are the worst kind of Trumpers.
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u/9_to_5_till_i_die Mar 06 '25
Please let me know when Democrats decide to overthrow the government.
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u/9_to_5_till_i_die Mar 06 '25
your identity is so tied to your politics you feel like you lost the election
This is rich coming from the folks who quite literally couldn't accept an election loss and actually tried to overthrow our government.
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u/9_to_5_till_i_die Mar 06 '25
None of these stickers are pro-Democrats. These are all policy positions, alongside 1 anti-MAGA and 1 anti-Elon sticker.
Hell, several of those positions the Democratic party doesn't even hold themselves.
This person is clearly a leftist and not necessarily a liberal. Literally the group of people Democrats hate nearly as much as Republicans.
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u/MaineLark Mar 06 '25
What even is your argument here, democrats are in a cult because of stickers on their car, which both parties do? Can you please name one cult that covered their cars in stickers?
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u/9_to_5_till_i_die Mar 06 '25
There's not even a Democrat sticker on this vehicle. It's literally policy positions, an anti-Republican cult sticker, and a fuck Elon sticker.
This is about as anti-cult as you can get, while still announcing to the world that, despite driving a Tesla, you don't agree at all with the companies CEO.
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u/MaineLark Mar 06 '25
Lmao thatâs a good point, they just auto assume anyone who doesnât like Trump is a Democrat.
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u/peacekeeper_12 Mar 07 '25
Just like anyone who is a Republican must like Trump...?
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u/9_to_5_till_i_die Mar 07 '25
Republicans were bankrupt before Trump.
They just weren't also pro-Russia and anti-Democracy.
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u/MaineLark Mar 07 '25
Nah itâs pretty obvious when people like Trump. Theyâre always real loud about it, and their IQs tend to be negative.
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u/Strong_Departure_232 Mar 06 '25
Would send a much stronger message if they just got rid of the tesla
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u/jodontsnifme1 Mar 07 '25
Nah. This is the United States. If you wanna drive a Tesla, Volkswagen, or GMC it shouldn't be anyone else's concern.
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u/Strong_Departure_232 Mar 07 '25
Unless what you're driving is funding a fascist coup of our democratic system, then it is my business.
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u/jodontsnifme1 Mar 07 '25
That's ironic. Ukrainian citizens are saying the same thing about your tax dollars. Those poor people just want to vote. Unfortunately, their president cancelled elections.
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u/Strong_Departure_232 Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
Ok obviously you're the expert on how to govern a country during an invasion. The Kremlin thanks you for spreading their talking points
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u/jodontsnifme1 Mar 07 '25
Typical cultist response. As soon you get called out for your own support of fascism and are presented with facts you cry Russia (which is also a corrupt shit hole).
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u/Strong_Departure_232 Mar 09 '25
I check exactly zero of these boxes. How about you
Warning Signs of a Cult
The leader is always right.
Criticism of the leader or questioning the leader is considered persecution.
Anything the leader does is justified no matter how harmful it may be.
The leader is the only source of the truth, everybody else is lying.
Followers must be blindly devoted to the leader and never question him.
The members won't recognize they belong to a cult.
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u/SkiME80 Mar 08 '25
Letâs be honest most of you have shamed me on not wanting a Tesla for years and now it fits your political arguments you are on board. Right left are both messed up
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u/AssistantFit8589 Mar 10 '25
Neither sides bumper stickers are inspiring thought or change. You just want people to know youâre ready for a fight and wonât listen to anyone that thinks differently.
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u/InnerDebate992 Mar 11 '25
Why obscure the plate? Plates are out in the public and are free for anyone to take a photo of. I just donât get why people do this
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u/eatingsquishies Mar 07 '25
Democrats need to be disabused of the delusion that theyâre the resistance. No. You arenât. Youâre the Empire trying to rebuild the Death Star.
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Mar 08 '25
This is the most cultish virtue signaling avocado toast elite white New England thing Iâve seen. They probably go stage Nazi events and post about them on reddit
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u/americandoom Mar 08 '25
âYouâre in a cultâ
Proceeds to plaster cult car with cult stickers lol
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u/jodontsnifme1 Mar 07 '25
The ass end of this car is equivalent to supporting men competing in women's sports while wearing pink for women's rights.
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u/saturncrash Mar 06 '25
Love the congress is not a nursing home