“You guys at Surfer old ladies who key Teslas?”
Rising Tensions in the Surfer Community
A culture war is raging on the heavily trafficked Facebook page of Surfer magazine after fans picked up on what has been deemed the mag’s Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome.
Elon Musk Derangement Syndrome (EDS) is an irrational, pathological hatred of Elon Musk among left-leaning critics, media, and activists and began shortly after Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X).
EDS is seen as a reaction to his pivot from a progressive icon to a free-speech advocate and ally of conservative causes, notably his role in Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
This rhetoric has been tied to a surge in vandalism targeting Tesla Cybertrucks with Cybertrucks symbolizing Musk’s polarizing persona, fueling both violent backlash and defensive rhetoric.
In a post about a civil war between US Ski and USA Surfing and which was first broken by Chas Smith in April, Surfer magazine’s Chris Dodds writes,
And, here, the magazine’s own fans exploded writing,
“Why the Cyber Truck reference? You guys at Surfer old ladies who key Teslas?”
“Yup, the staff is a bunch of vaccine slurpers.”
“Surfer = lads that morph into lassies in their fifties ie like John Stewart morphing into Ellen Degeneres.”
“Just another lib run magazine.”
Where do you stand on EDS? I like the man even more fulsomely than Shaun Tomson, aware that electric cars barely existed before Tesla, SpaceX is more important than NASA and can’t understand the sad that DOGE is emptying the purses of government grifters and succubi?
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Christ DR is there a right wing nob you won’t polish?
DOGE destroyed my brother’s lab devoted to hepatitis research. The nerd-INCEL philistines like Musk and Trump are at the gate. And the son of an academic is cheering. Sad.
https://media2.giphy.com/me… Highly recommend my Dr. for this…
Surfing Mag was for western teenagers / groms.
Aussie teenagers weren’t “western” because you’ll were too feral.
I loved surfing mag, as a young teen in the mid-90s, and it was (other than Taylor Steele videos) my entire education on the sport/lifestyle until the internet came along.
No aussie mags where I’m from and they would have definitely……expanded my mind had I known about them.
Tracks would print all the salacious stories that the pros were up to without naming names, and basically took a dump on any of the US pros who didn’t do drugs (except Curren). They especially derided anyone who’d come through the “Christian Surfers” route (which was a lot of them).
They also made the mistake of dumping on Slater and insinuating that he was a small wave squib and that Australia “had dozens” just as good as him. It was quite a few years until the Aussie press reluctantly admitted that Slater was better than everyone else.
They also dumped on Andy Irons when he first burst on the scene, writing editorial that the whole tour hated him and highlighting how Mick Campbell (?) had to bash him in the changerooms after a heat because he was such a cunt. But then he moved to Billabong and they were paying for the ads, so all that was forgotten pretty quickly.
Plus they used to print photos of all the hot women sunbathing naked on the beach. This was hot content when I was about 15, 16 years of age and very influential. All I wanted to do was go overseas, surf, and pick up some hot chick from Brazil or France.
Never mind that it was sexist, homohobic, borderline racist and pretty much unprintable now, it was something basically every grom in Australia devoured.
The fact that it was printed like a newspaper made the pictures frankly shit, and you got this greasy smear across your fingers from the ink. Plus all the pages would fall out because they didn’t even staple it together.
One guy in Victoria (Rob Debelle I think??) copied it in the early 90s by publishing a magazine called “Free Surf” (different to the one in Hawaii) and gave it away for free at all the surf shops. Tracks lost their minds and told him that if he even dared to distribute it in Sydney they would make sure all the brands would pull their ads (somehow). It was a pretty good mag actually though obviously a large Victorian bias in content.
ASL was really good and Waves magazine, which started out basically for kids, ended up really good for a few years. Surfing World was kind of for the Patagonia crowd 20 years before there was a patagonia crowd. They had some really great layouts (by a guy called Mario Rubalacaba) but had precious little tour content, which I was right into at the time.
Surfer Mag had some good stuff, and Derek Hynd wrote his famous “top 30” reviews (before he went all weird). Plus they had access to all the US surfers and ads for brands like Gotcha and Stussy and all these skate brands that we didn’t yet have in Australia. We hardly ever bought Surfing Magazine, though it was at the newsagent. Much later (late 90s?) I used to pick it up at the airport and it was pretty good. But as a grom I hardly ever read it.
Fuckin thank you for this comment. Fascinating.
Never knew about the slater, Andy and no respect for the sober seppos. Although I might have guessed the attitude to the sober/christian crowd. I’ve heard that before from a local, druggy pro who was based in Europe
All surf mags should have boobs. In fact all magazines should have boobs. All these years later they still ……….hold up
Reef stopped running their famous ads and the whole industry went to shit. Coincidence? I think not!
We need to stop mandatory vaccines immediately.
Just add the drugs into the municipal water supply instead.
they are called PFA’s…our new drug!
You can’t compare it to Tracks. There were never anything alike. Tracks was raw, unfiltered stories, black and white newsprint, Aussie style. Surfer was always a bit photo heavy, glossy pages, thick stock, and all over the pro scene.
SLURPER Magazine
They don’t have to be “big bouncers”, just big enough that they look like they are celebrating her running by dancing around while she runs.
That article on surfer was freaking weird. Full of typos (like some other site that springs to mind) and read like it was written by a uni student rather than a bot.
It depends what your frame of reference is. My old man was buying Surfer magazine religiously from the mid 80s onwards and I would devour them as a proto-grommet. The only alternative in glossy paper was Surfing World. Tracks didn’t even have staples until the late 80s and was still effectively a student newspaper with content to match.
Later when I was in high school we all read Tracks but Surfer still had better pictures. ASL when it first came out was pretty crap, on par with Waves magazine, but it ended up great and Tracks had to go to magazine format to compete.
Eventually it came down to editorial; Tracks was irreverent and printing shit that you could never get away with today. ASL was witty without being obnoxious. Surfer was way more cerebral and probably had a bigger budget, but was frankly a bit up itself.
In the end they all went to shit because youtube and web sites like this killed them.
Good call. Surfer and yank mags also had to subscribe the puritanical ethic lest they get a lawsuit from some Huntington beach/ La Jolla mom with her lawyer on speed dial.
So funny that Joel Tudor is a Musk defender but I guess long boards and Cyber trucks are equally hated so there’s that.
I was in the car park getting changed the other day and a Tesla pulled up with a sticker on the bumper that said “I bought this car before I knew that Elon was a cunt”. I told the guy “nice sticker” and he said yeah, my wife wants me to sell the fucking thing!
I think the sticker thing is more obnoxious then just owning it. Here every third car is a tesla. I have seen some that have up to 4 of those types of stickers on them. Its kinda pathetic.
Not if it works to prevent some but from fuckin with your car. Then it’s a great idea.
His wife definitely fucks other men.
“If SpaceX dies, we will not become an interplanetary species, which is necessary for this lone, teeny, flickering flame of consciousness to survive.”
Go Elon!
Grifter should do well at Burleigh…Succubi will falter…Jordy to reign.
I am looking to be angry about this. Does anyone have something I can reflectively react over? Not a car guy though so please refrain Tesla.
Oh! Maybe get angry about the rocket ships! Climate change etc.
Or a Queensland cop getting waay too much airtime. More torturous than Joe
Climate change pffffffffffft
California Uber alles ! B__ M_____
I am completely comfortable in my immense dislike for people that do BLATANT nazi salutes… rich or not.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… First we annex Sudetenland then Czechoslavakia, Poland and then we roll to Moscow etc.
Those are photos of people holding their hand up. Roman salute starts at the shoulder. Where’s that part?
same!
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Nah he is one of those middle class cunts who think they are rich and continue to champion the right believing that will help him ride on their coattails.
Xox
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Perhaps you’re just a lazy cunt who’d rather live off the government dole than put in a modicum of effort to improve your station in life
Haha I’m definitely a lazy cunt with raging adhd!
Big love cunt!
Xox
Hell boy hope you all hating on Ford VW Fiat and Toyota as they sure as hell supported the Axis during the big WW2 doof doof.
The first part of healing from EDS is admitting you have a problem.
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Imagine being so brainwashed that you feel like you need to stick up for a billionaire.
Dang Shaun Tomson.
0800-wedding celebrant4U
Lmao
Imagine working as someone who makes money as a result of other’s people troubles and disputes. Imagine making fun of others non stop, while hiding behind a false name, hiding who you really are. Shaun Tomson is human. You are just a coward.
Barton Lins celebrating at the favela after calling an American a coward…
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The whole concept is so fucking bass-akwards. EDS/TDS should be completely turned around. Elon was a fucking Democrat for years up until 2 years ago, voted for and donated to Obama, Clinton, and Biden. All these fringe fuckheads don’t seem to realize they are supporting and worshipping Democrats, including Trump. The guy has changed his party affiliation something like 5x and was a Democrat during the early 2000’s. Used to socialize with and donate to the Clintons. The list is never-ending: Trump, Musk, Navarro, Kennedy, Gabbard, etc all Democrats. Fucking classic gaslighting.
Would you call someone vandalizing Teslas bc they dislike Elon Musk “brainwashed”?
well, according to the MAGA conspiracy theorists, they’re just mercenaries being paid by George Soros, so I imagine their motivation would be a financial one if that’s what you really believe.
regardless, I’d like to see them move on to destroying e-bikes in San Clemente next. hit that Republican stronghold where it hurts.
$7.6 Million.
An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America.
then I’d say they’re unscrupulous opportunists more so than “brainwashed” libs! And if they’re willing to vandalize Teslas for money, they can clear San Clemente of e-bikes. I am excited about this.
Has the White Dude Whisperer Tim Walz been code talking to you again?
yes, I have to use my “White Guys For Harris” secret decoder ring to interpret it though, even though I didn’t vote for her
Do you have conservative clients?
way more than the liberal clients—you guys can’t help but to make dumb decisions that I have to try to unfuck.
Do you tell them they’re “brainwashed”? Would be inadequate counsel not to.
if they hired me to advise them on how to vote, I’d tell them exactly what I thought of Trump and the modern GOP. Would be pretty odd to seek the advice of counsel on how to vote one way or another though—can’t say that’s ever happened to me.
Is it business advice?
not really. the most I’d do in that regard would be to take a look at proposed legislation or executive directives on either the State or Federal level and tell the client what that might mean for the business. Tell you what though, even my conservative clients are not happy about the tariffs.
Trump campaigned on recalibrating world trade, using tariffs as one aspect to effectuate that goal. It was no surprise, nor did he say there wouldn’t be a certain degree of pain before things effectively turned in a direction more advantageous to Americans and American businesses.
Since you say you have way more conservative clients, you can gather that more conservatives own businesses. Builders of economies. If only more democrats were motivated enough to build businesses instead of expecting government to meet their needs.
Holy backwards speak Batman. “It was no surprise, nor did he say there wouldn’t be a certain degree of pain…”
You think you could fit a few more double negatives in there? So, since he didn’t say it wouldn’t happen its ok that it happened? That’s some new fangled TDS for ya right there.
And how do you feel about being so supportive of who you hate?
If you paid attention to reality, you’d know he did say there’d be pain.
Prove it.
Otto says it’s true so it must be true.
That’s not true. He did say “They aren’t going to have higher prices, who’s going to have higher prices is China and all of the countries that have been ripping us off for years.” Also saying that he would “immediately bring prices down, starting on Day 1.”
But all his Democrat loving supporters don’t seem to be able to decipher his lies vs reality.
it’s donny’s reality which we are all now on the grate ship don & co…what could go wrong?
yeah after he was elected…..he knew he couldn’t bring cost of living down..as it still goes up….he didn’t fix the Ukraine war in 24 hrs…he just quoted gas prices at $1.98/fox news says it $2.60……stock market was going to boom, investment would be increased/it’s decreased….inflation going up , a quarter of negative growth /recession?………it just goes on and on…..he’s kool aid king!
well, let’s say that this fantasy scenario full of unicorns and rainbows where there are zero tariffs on US goods, and vice versa actually happens—you really think that American companies would have any motivation to move their overseas production to the United States at that point?
A zero tariff scenario and the restoration of American manufacturing are policy objectives that are diametrically opposed to one another.