And they are doing you a favor.
I wrote a while back about the Coexist bumper sticker.
The people who display it think they’re signaling that they’re forward-thinking and reasonable. What they’re actually signaling, to normal people, is that they’re insufferable and ridiculous.
More importantly, they’re signaling that they can be safely ignored.
Where I live in Collin County there are a lot of Teslas. There are plenty of reasons for that.
If you know, you know.
But there’s a specific subset of Tesla owners worth noting.
These are the people who bought the car when Elon Musk was their hero, then lost their minds when he committed the unforgivable sin of being friendly with Trump, even briefly.
Now their cars are covered in stickers that say things like “Elon sucks” or “F Elon.”
Originally, they bought the Tesla to signal that they were doing something noble for the environment. Just read the personalized license plates they put on their cars. More signaling.
Electric cars have some real advantages, but they also have serious drawbacks. They aren’t scalable to the level required for universal adoption, and pretending otherwise doesn’t make it true.
But that’s beside the point.
Once again, these people think they’re signaling one thing when they’re actually signaling something else.
They’re signaling that they care far too much about what other people think, and that they assume everyone else cares just as much about what they think.
They don’t.
Nobody cares if you bought a car from Elon Musk.
The useful part is this: you can treat this as free information.
Life is too short to deal with bad clients and bad customers. When someone advertises this level of performative nonsense, believe them.
If one of these people shows up, or rolls into a meeting in one of those cars, take the hint.
Be polite. Be professional. And turn them down.
Don’t tell them why. Don’t go bragging about it on social media. There’s a slight chance you might be wrong about them. The risk is worth taking, in my opinion.
More importantly, you don’t want to engage in the same behavior they’re displaying.
Just move on.
Which, incidentally, was another signaling phrase a few years ago.
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