Tesla’s Cybertruck just made its grand debut at Mardi Gras 2025, and, well… it didn’t go great. Watch the Video: The Crowd Was Not Having It. A group of Cybertrucks rolled through the Orpheus Parade, a generally tame, family-friendly event known for marching bands, fabulous floats, and an all-around good time. But when the small […]
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Thanks! That’s a better video, I like that. I got to get on Bluesky.
First video I found was on Facebook, and that was a hot mess to link to.
Just a reminder for anyone not in the know:
While Bluesky is better than Xitter right now, don’t forget that it’s still a centralized service that has censored - and will continue to censor - content they disagree with. Bluesky Relay servers costs so much to run that it’s only financially feasible for big corporations to run them. This forces centralization, although technically can be decentralized, and puts it’s end users onto the same path of enshittification that Xitter and other social networks have gone through.
Mastodon, while imperfect, is actually decentralized (including DM’s - all Bluesky DMs are centralized amd can be viewed by its admins) and cannot suffer this type of censorship.
At least it let me watch the video without logging in to anything, the reddit and facebook links in the OP article didn’t
You need to log in to view Reddit videos? SHIT. I did not realize that.
Give me a minute, I’ll swap that out, now I feel like a dick, I thought Reddit was just an easy way to host videos.
Arghhh, that actually really jams me up, I link a TON of Reddit videos in my articles, didn’t think to check while not logged into Reddit. Welcome to the future, where every piece of technology fucking blows.
Maybe I should have taken my Opel Vectra to the parade, because why the hell not? /s
In other words, what the hell does simply “a car” do at a parade anyway?
It reeks advertising and bad taste.There is a separate car and truck parade at NoLa’s Carnival, where you roll up with whatever and parade in that. These folks… well, I’m not sure why they didn’t just go to the truck parade.
Part of the anger in the crowd seems to be what you’re rightly pointing out, the behavior doesn’t make sense, other than as advertising. There’s all these gorgeous floats, and then just 5 Pinewood-Derby-looking trucks absolutely decked out in American flags, it upset folks.
I bet they had crappy throws or no throws, too.
For those who may be from the Frozen Nawth, Mardi Gras parades, particularly in New Orleans, are all about the free giveaways.
Maybe because the Cybertruck is not a car because it’s supposed to be a truck, but it’s not a proper truck either.
It’s a killer monstrosity that can propel 3½ ton of metal from zero to sixty in a few seconds.but not up a hill
Is this some reference I’m not aware of?
cybertrucks can’t get up hills. they’re slower uphill than laden semis
Probably because the truck folks hate them.
Then it was cheered at, for some reason. Probably because the dumb thing was leaving their presence.
“We had a couple boos”
Lol, you are in complete denial, lady. Nobody likes your swasticar.
They can put this in their ads. “The new Testa Cybertruck. Blood and garbage just wash off of it. It’s panels are rock resistant and even resist molotov cocktails for up to 3 minutes…”
How do you think the end would go?
All the screens went black a few moments ago, and smoke is starting to find it’s way in. Do you think a moment of painful irony will was over them, that the same systems designed to keep others out will keep us in? Like the legendary city of Troy, we cannot get out once they are in?
Or do think, with their last gasp of breathable air, they curse the liberals and communists?
Or do think, with their last gasp of breathable air, they curse the liberals and communists?
I would expect it would go something like “Dang woke DEI molotov cocktail, it’s trapped me in the master truck! Truly this is Obama’s fault.”
As a totally unrelated side note, I wonder how much thermite you’d need and where you’d need to place it to have it burn a hole through the car and into the battery, turning your cybertruck into a cyberfire.
