This also told test is based on a conversation with Ben Baker, a Tesla owner living in Sacramento, California. Business Insider has checked his identity and former property in Cybertruck. This story has been changed for length and clarity.
I was a great technician as far as I remember.
In my youth, I liked space, I liked the idea of SpacexAnd I loved all that that Elon Musk was doing – and he seemed to be a democrat at the time. So I said to myself: “Ok, this guy is great. He does all these nice things.”
I was a democrat all my life, but he was not too far from seeing that I started to see the country increasingly divided. It was just as if there was a huge push to run as far as people could go and it was a real shock for me to be a democrat. So I decided to go to an independent.
Someone seized my Tesla model not so long ago after the elections and I said to myself: “Ok, it does not matter.” I live in California, which is a democratic state, so I have somehow thought that there would be something.
Someone seized my Tesla Model Y after the elections. Ben Baker
I did not think it would be so serious until I could buy a cybertruck.
My daughter asked me to return my cybertruck
The first week I led the Cybertruck, I took my family to Starbucks.
While my family entered, I took nice photos and I thought: “It’s super great.”
I did not buy it for other people. I bought the cybertruck for me because I wanted to lead the future. Ben Baker
While I was doing this, three people walked behind me and started looking at me and laughing. Then one of them called me a Nazi.
I say, “What are you talking about? I’m just buying this great truck. I think it’s great. I’m not Nazi.” They were like, “no matter, Nazis”. I thought it was weird.
Later, one of my daughters told me that if I kept the cybertruck, she was going to be intimidated. She said, “Dad, in no case, don’t keep that.” My son, who leans to the right, said that I should be able to drive the car I want and not have to worry about what people say.
But then, I started to think about if one of them drives the Tesla Cybertruck on the road and people leave the car and start to vandalize it in front of it or when it leads it. My daughter is young, she just had her license a year. It’s terrifying for me.
I am a father and I have to do the right thing by my children, that is to say protect them. Maybe if I had all the money in the world to own the cybertruck myself and then send them to school with another vehicle, then great, it would be on me if it were damaged.
But I cannot happen to them in this vehicle. And who knows how far these guys will take it. They could harm my children physically – and I could not live with myself if it happened. For me, it just was not worth seeing my daughter live in the fear that the vehicle is vandalizing in their school.
I ended up taking it back and Tesla was really cool on this subject. I was able to relax everything.
That does not seem to me freedom
I have the impression that the protest has always been the American way.
I think people should have the right to protest – but they should have the right to protest without destruction. This is where the lines were crossed.
Nothing that is happening right now is logical. Everything is emotionally motivated and ideologically cultivated. My children are afraid of taking this pretty vehicle which is fast, brilliant and cool and saves gas. It’s probably great for the environment.
It’s a lot of money to invest in a vehicle and buy one of these cybertrucks, and I grew up from nothing. My mother was a single mother on the help of the government, so I had to work very hard to get to where I am.
What is worse is that I am a big fan of this technology. I really want a cybertruck. I think they are great. They are really fun to drive. They are spacious and spacious. I did not buy it for other people. I already have a Tesla that I absolutely like, but I bought the cybertruck for me because I wanted to lead the future.
I thought it was the country of free, but it does not look like freedom at all for me.
When you start to descend a way to say: “This is what we think you should believe, and if you do not believe it, then we will come to you and we will remove what you have won.” It looks like something else – and it doesn’t sound well.
I do not think that hatred and division are the way to follow for this country or the world. As long as we continue to do this and try to put people in boxes and classify them and label them, it will just create more division and hatred and it is super unfair.
We have to find a way to go together that brings back the basic human decency but also common sense so that we encourage American companies to grow and prosper and help our pensions, compared to the fall of an American business.
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