if you know anything about who did it no you don't
Maybe, maybe this is actually stochastic terrorism being carried out by MAGA themselves.
Think about it, their plan is to declare martial law - right? Conservatives already hate EVs, they think that Trump is a 'good' billionaire while billionaires like Gates are 'bad' billionaires - I don't think it would take much to make Musk out to be a 'bad' billionaire.
Idk if this is as clear as 'good guys vs bad guys' - these are freedom fighters, but it's never been clearer that a lot of people are divided on what 'free' actually means. You shouldn't assume that the people doing this are actually on your side.
Stick to the showrooms and dealers. The victims in Las Vegas was just owners who brought their cars in to be fixed.
Been thinking about this a lot. They can say it’s terrorism. History is written by the winners.
But…
Rebellion is constitutional, but not legal. If you rebel, you die a terrorist or live a hero. Not much middle ground.
How americans see themselves after cowardly vandalising some idiot's car
Hahaha 😂 10/10 meme
I’m not a big fan of that but I did notice there’s a new 2025 model y. At this point if you buy a Tesla you have it coming. If I saw someone destroying that I would look the other way.
Thanks for hurting the environment I guess. Could have just boycotted tesla products and corporate tesla
In posts on X following the incident, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the incidents “terrorism” and said the company “just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”
OK buddy.
The board needs to remove Elon today.
You can remove him from the board but he'll still have all of his shares. And I'd bet he's not really doing much as Tesla these days anyway.
Not much except getting their dealerships torched.
The cars suck, but he's right that the company hasn't done anything to deserve this. He's the one who chose to make himself the face of Tesla, though, so however people feel about him, they'll feel about any business he owns.
Terrorism, though? Hardly. It's protest. He's the one doing terrorism by dismantling the government.
Wow. Having not read the article (just the headline)… I seriously don’t understand why people torch/destroy other peoples stuff! Yes Elon bad, but why attack innocent civilians?! 10-ish years ago, you were considered a leftist nutjob with a hardon for climate change when you bought a Tesla (note: I do firmly believe in climate change), these days you’re a nazi driving the exact same car?… Debate, discussion, even disagreement between parties is all fine and dandy, but actually destroying other peoples property is - in my honest opinion - against the very thing people ‘are fighting for’.
because true love is only possible in the next world, for new people. it is too late for us. so they wreak havoc on the middle class. tesla owners aren't exactly in the same working class that the arsonist is likely radicalized by being a part of. burning the cars send a message to nazis, to elon directly, and to a lesser but still real extent, the petty bourgeois class that acts as the operating oppressive arm of the oligarchy. not saying its right or moral or good or bad for any cause, just likely the mindset of someone who is setting fire to nazi cars in 2025.
A tesla is well within the range of affordable for a working class person. Someone with a decent job will be making 100k, and it's not hard to get a Tesla on that budget.
100k would put you right in the middle class. a working class person is going to be making less than like 65k a year and supporting a family on that.
Working class does not mean poor. It means people who work for their living. You have frontline manual labor workers who make over 100k and you dare suggest that just because they put in the work to unionize, that they aren't working class?
It's only ok to be violent if you're a Republican. I'm not supporting this, but since Jan 6'ers were pardoned then these car vandalisms are totally legal too. I think they're equally immoral.
You think the coup attempt that ended lives is just as bad as property damage?
Imagine having to resort to violence against a private company just because you lost an election LMAO 🤣
You guys do realize that by promoting this, you are doing JD Vance's campaign for him, right?
The stunlock continues at pace.
I'm not from the US, but I straight out recommend quickly educating oneself about military stuff at this point - about fiber guided drones (here in Eastern Europe we like them) and remote weapons stations (we like those too). Because the US is heading somewhere at a rapid pace. Let's hope it won't get there (the simplest and most civil obstacle would be lots of court cases and Trumpists losing midterm elections), but if it does, then strongly worded letters will not suffice.
Trump's administration:
“Agency,” unless otherwise indicated, means any authority of the United States that is an “agency” under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1), and shall also include the Federal Election Commission.
Vance, in his old interviews:
“I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”
Also Vance:
“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”
Googling "how to remove a dictator?" when you already have one is doing it too late. On the day the self-admitted wannabe Caesar crosses his Rubicon, it better be so that some people already know what to aim at him.
Tesla dealerships... nah. I would not advise spending energy on them. But people, being only people, get emotional and do that kind of things.
And to go and take it out on people who aren't involved, just because they own a vehicle. Childish brats.
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