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Not many conservatives care much about global warming, do they? Caring about the issue enough to start an electric car company seems like something a liberal mi

Not many conservatives care much about global warming, do they? Caring about the issue enough to start an electric car company seems like something a liberal might do, but he’s not that either. Dude literally started a company researching how to put chips in your head. How many conservative transhumanists do you know? People are pearl-clutching and leaving no room for nuance.

braingenious 4y ago
Imagine caring so much about global warming that you use your enormous platform to tell people to vote for the party that denies global warming is a problem. Only a genius could do that!
- programmarchy 4y ago
  Actually, courting republican-leaning voters would be an effective way to get them to care about global warming, or at least consider purchasing electric vehicles. They're already spending $80K+ on trucks, so why not buy a Tesla Cybertruck next time? Musk's overtures towards conservatives might make a bunch of nerds feel alienated, but could be worth it if he can bring the other half of the country into the green market. Those overtures don't make him a conservative, though, just a car salesman. Anyway, imagine conservatives wanting to "conserve" the environment -- a novel thought! But if you see the world in black and white, and left and right, then those types of syntheses are not in the realm of possibility.
  - braingenious 4y ago
    >Actually… He is telling people to vote for real republicans that exist today and presently support policies that will accelerate climate change. It is a fun thought experiment to think about imaginary theoretical future republicans and their made-up brand new ideologies that they might one day hold, but I’d have to be suffering from a severe untreated head wound to mix that up with reality.
giraffe_lady 4y ago
Yeah it's almost like what defines the contemporary conservative movement is not resistance to change but... something ... else. I wonder what it could be!

braingenious 4y ago

Imagine caring so much about global warming that you use your enormous platform to tell people to vote for the party that denies global warming is a problem. Only a genius could do that!

programmarchy 4y ago
Actually, courting republican-leaning voters would be an effective way to get them to care about global warming, or at least consider purchasing electric vehicles. They're already spending $80K+ on trucks, so why not buy a Tesla Cybertruck next time? Musk's overtures towards conservatives might make a bunch of nerds feel alienated, but could be worth it if he can bring the other half of the country into the green market. Those overtures don't make him a conservative, though, just a car salesman. Anyway, imagine conservatives wanting to "conserve" the environment -- a novel thought! But if you see the world in black and white, and left and right, then those types of syntheses are not in the realm of possibility.
- braingenious 4y ago
  >Actually… He is telling people to vote for real republicans that exist today and presently support policies that will accelerate climate change. It is a fun thought experiment to think about imaginary theoretical future republicans and their made-up brand new ideologies that they might one day hold, but I’d have to be suffering from a severe untreated head wound to mix that up with reality.

giraffe_lady 4y ago

Yeah it's almost like what defines the contemporary conservative movement is not resistance to change but... something ... else. I wonder what it could be!