• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      12 days ago

      The fascist dictator at the helm remotely bricking customers $100k private vehicles will surely improve the brands image and sales performance!

  • thegr8goldfish@startrek.websiteEnglish
    692·
    12 days ago

    Totally reasonable. I wish every electronic device would brick itself if it heard you talking shit about it. People are too rude to toasters.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    462·
    12 days ago

    I’m sure he’s REAL motivated to clean up his dis track in order to use a vehicle that was bad enough to warrant a dis track.

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      31·
      12 days ago

      I’m not going to listen to it but apparently it isn’t a dis track, it is a load of wank about how rich he is that he can afford a Cybertruck.

      Apparently the author also declined to listen to it, but they are a Journalist; it is their job to listen to it.

      • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
        291·
        12 days ago

        This is vital context. They didn’t disable his truck because he talked trash about it. He loves his Cybertruck. They disabled it because he’s black and dances around like a black person while he’s talking about it, and that means he’s not welcome at the party. If he was Tim Pool making a song about how much he loves his Cybertruck they’d have invited him to the next event to put it on stage.

  • Noite_Etion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    12 days ago

    It’s like these companies never remember the Streisand effect. I didn’t’t know who this rapper was before this, but I do now. Gonna go listen to this song too.

    • 0li0li@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      12 days ago

      He should make another song where he tells the story, bashes the company and Elon, and showcase the truck being destroyed to bits!

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    12 days ago

    I don’t really care if this is real or not, or if the song sucks, or if it’s a banger, or if it never existed.

    None of that is what’s concerning.

    The concerning thing for me is that, even if it’s fake, everyone just kinda accepting that Tesla can, and would, remotely deactivate a vehicle, when it may be in motion, and may be in a dangerous or otherwise hazardous location where losing control could mean that people die…

    And everyone is just like “that’s totally something they would do! Lol”… What?

    I could give a fuck less if they deactivate his… Idk, heated seat subscription, or autopilot, or (insert stupid feature here). But making it so the vehicle can’t drive? For a car you paid money to “own”?

    What the actual fuck everyone?

    Boycott. That’s all that I can say. … Not that I wasn’t already planning on doing that…

    • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Google it and you’ll see tons of websites telling this was faked.

      E.g. that it’s highly illegal to stop a car on the road, contradictory information on tesla display (failed update and cease and desist, don’t go together. Also return to dealer while being disabled?), addressed name in letter is not the real name, hyphen in wrong place, etc. And tesla (obviously) claimed it’s false.

      I’m not saying this is proof but saying there are a lot of red flags. Any update from him? Not that I could find. A stunt perhaps to gain publicity?

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      12 days ago

      And everyone is just like “that’s totally something they would do! Lol”… What?

      Keep in mind pretty much everyone on this platform already hates Tesla and does not nor would they own a Tesla vehicle. There’s also a certain ‘you got what you deserve by buying that’ kind of attitude towards Tesla owners.

      This is behaviour we expect from this shit company and it doesn’t directly effect any of us commenting on it. We just get to point and laugh (for now).

      The discussion might be a little different if it was a less expected brand like IKD, Audi. But who’s to say for sure; there’s been a lot of ‘cattle’ behaviour lately.

  • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    12 days ago

    I accidentally ended on threads.net trying to find lyrics to this song and failed. Didn’t sound like he was dissing the car though. Also, the letter may be fake because the signature doesn’t match LinkedIn.

    • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      12 days ago

      I am unsure how reminding people that the car can be remotely disabled is a good marketing stunt.

      • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        12 days ago

        You don’t understand how a rapper whose thing is Tesla might benefit from him being in the center on controversy?

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Marketing for the rapper, not for Tesla.

        Until this; I’d never heard of that rapper, and this drove lots of people to at least find the song that supposedly led to the C&D/stranding(real or not).

  • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
    155·
    12 days ago

    Not a Tesla fan, but this smells like manufactured controversy. The person who allegedly signed the letter has never held that position at Tesla, according to their linkedin