Comment by bfkwlfkjf
2 days ago
Turns out Nazis aren't popular in Germany.
EDIT: it's funny that I say this every time, and every time I get downvoted. I have no idea why.
2 days ago
Turns out Nazis aren't popular in Germany.
EDIT: it's funny that I say this every time, and every time I get downvoted. I have no idea why.
Possibly because unfortunately, about 20% of German voters voted for the AfD in the last federal election, which likes to put some Nazi-sounding stuff on its campaign posters ("Kinder statt Inder," for example).
However, your analysis still kind of stands, as the AfD and even more extreme parties (like "Wahre Alternativ") tend to do better in the worse-off parts of the country like the hollowed-out districts on the eastern border (such as the one my brother-in-law left pretty much the moment his accounting degree hit his hand) where people were not big Tesla buyers, and poorly in affluent, well-educated places like Munich and Freiburg, where the kind of people who had been buying Teslas live (and are now buying just about any other EV).
Even discounting the economics, leaning into something which is liked by 20% of the population and loathed by everyone else is poor brand positioning.
Also, I feel like "I wasn't going to buy this, but the CEO did a Nazi salute and I like Nazi salutes so I'll buy it" is a much weirder and less probable phenomenon than "well, I was going to buy this, but the CEO did a Nazi salute so fuck no". Political affinity isn't really enough to make people buy what they otherwise weren't going to buy, but political anathema _will_ be enough to put people who were potential buyers off.
Oh you mean people are downvoting because they disagree that Nazis are unpopular. Never thought that would be it.