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Queensland Tesla registrations in free-fall, as Musk embraces far-right
(www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
“Too far right for Queensland” is something
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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WWJD - what would Joe do?
Nothing to do with Musk, but everything to do with cheaper and actually good Chinese EVs flooding the market.
It’s probably both but yeah the Chinese makes have made a huge dent. More importantly they’ve brought EVs to more families.
It’s not both. If people bought cars based on political opinions of the companies owners then Tesla sales would be increasing over that timeframe here.
Not mutually exclusive
Maybe but I've not heard of a single person say they won't buy a Tesla because of Musk's antics. There may be a few but I'm going with minuscule, not a cliff dive.
Lot of nazi adjacent folks here in Australia, look at the rise and rise of ONP for example.
Attributing the rise of one nation to “Nazis” is even dumber than the conclusion that musks political opinion causes people to not buy teslas.
Well, I mean Pauline Hansons "there's not a single good Muslim" comment.. you know.. isn't that much of a stretch
Edit: mind you these comments were made on public broadcaster, concerns me what conversations are had behind closed doors.
Attributing the rise of one nation to “Nazis”
That is not what they said.
It definitely is.
Shit cars from a shit cunt
I saw a Tesla in Brisbane the other day with one of those 'I bought this before Elon went crazy' stickers on it. When I looked it up on the rego check app, it was a 2024 model. Nice try, but no. :D
Yeah, those stickers only work if it's older than the Thai caving incident, IMO.
Even that late is being pretty generous. Anyone paying attention could have picked it up much earlier, but yeah, that was probably his first fairly public display of what he's really like.
Yeah, his direction was already obvious by then if you were paying attention, with his abuse of Twitter to defraud investors, or his Hyperloop bullshit to stall public transport investment. But sticking his arse where it wasn't wanted, reacting like a complete manbaby when called out for his attention-seeking, projecting hard onto the actual hero, hiring someone to stalk said hero and try to dig up dirt, and finally perjuring himself in court to avoid losing a defamation lawsuit…that's an absolute final straw. Supporting him after that is inexcusable.
Even the Paypal stuff way before that was a clear indication of what he was like when you look back on it. That wasn't widely known at the time, though. My awakening was with the 'Elon Musk Is Not Your Friend' video from Some More News.
Anyone paying attention could have picked it up much earlier
There's the issue. We can't expect every EV driver to have been paying attention to the politics of it's manufacturer at the time of purchase.
They just don't want their car keyed.
Much cheaper to just get a swastika face tattoo. You will get the exact same reaction from people.