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From June Edition of Texas Monthly:
They know you think they’re members of a personality cult and that their $100,000 truck looks like it was designed by a drunk toddler. They’ve seen the stories about their vehicles getting coal rolled or their stainless steel bodies targeted by vandals. They also know that somehow—during a period in American history so polarized that elected leaders are calling for a “national divorce”—the very sight of their futuristic-looking truck is enough to unite some progressive-leaning Americans and staunch conservatives in an unlikely coalition of mutual contempt.
Over the past few months, Cybertruck owners have been on the receiving end of so much hate—typically in the form of middle fingers from their fellow motorists—that they say they understand your anger better than you do. The truth, they claim, is actually quite simple: you’re jealous. You hate change and can’t stand the sight of those who relish it, especially when they’re inside the cockpit of an audacious machine that costs more than the household incomes of most families. Oh well. To be an early adopter is to carry the burden of pariahdom. Just look at history, my dude: “This is like Picasso,” said Matt Holm at the first-ever Cybertruck Rodeo, billed as the largest gathering of Cybertruck owners in the world. An Austin-based real estate agent who proudly serves as president of the Tesla Owners Club of Austin, Holm has trekked to Gatesville, 40 miles west of Waco, on a Sunday morning to show off his Cybertruck. “When Picasso changed the language of art and started putting two eyeballs on chicks’ faces on one side, people were like, ‘This dude is r—ded, what the hell is wrong with this dude, right?’ Guess what history has decided? His art is kinda cool and valuable.” (read more here)