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I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Cars are expensive. Stupidly expensive. Even crappy second hand ones aren’t that cheap. So let’s say you’ve got a car, you’ve paid it off, or are the better way into paying it off, and then some portion of the company’s leadership jumps off the deep end and turns out to be not such a great person. The value of your car plummets into oblivion, even if you wanted to trade it in for something else, you’d get nothing for it. Hell, it might not even cover the rest of the loan. So you’d be without a car, in a country that depends on you needing a car. Or you’d be in an old crappy car that needs a ton of repairs. Now what?

And sure, you can say all the people who own Teslas are rich and this isn’t an issue for them. I don’t think that’s really the case, you can get a used Tesla for pretty cheap depending on where you live. And there’s a certain appeal to an electric car, especially as gas prices rise.

At which point, you're kind of in the territory of "well all rich people suck, what makes Elon so much worse than the heads of every other car company, besides a bigger social media presence? Hell, he's probably better on balance because at least he's trying to normalize electric cars, something we all want to be normalized on account of climate change."

That take is an extremely reasonable opinion to have prior to Elon sucking Trump's dick. So many well intentioned people, at that time, bought Teslas, because they were the normal semi-affordable electric car, for people who wanted an electric car for economic and environemental reasons.

Them owning the car isn't giving elon any more money. I would rather have them driving their electric car with that sticker prominently displayed as so to not endorse the man or the company, than for them to buy a gas guzzler that will only contribute more to climate change.