Public Tesla dissent continues.
  • ugtug@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Tesla just likes building things that spontaneously catch on fire. 🤷‍♂️

  • Xed@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Thanks for hurting the environment I guess. Could have just boycotted tesla products and corporate tesla

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • sfu@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      And to go and take it out on people who aren’t involved, just because they own a vehicle. Childish brats.

    • perestroika@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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.

    • Wanpieserino@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      If the major stakeholder and CEO is actively being an unelected politician addressing policy changes onto the public, then repercussions need to happen.

      It would not be wise to show people that they can achieve plutocracy. Plutocrats only lose their power by losing their wealth, so if that’s what has to happen, then that is the plan.

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Some advice for demonstrations (including propaganda of the deed):

    • Wear a ski mask. Wear rubber gloves.
    • Wear anonymous clothing.
    • Don’t trust phones. Don’t use them to plan, and leave them turned on at home.
    • Use a cell structure to organize, and share info on a need-to-know basis only.
    • Assume there are not only cameras but microphones.
    • Don’t drive anywhere near the location of the demo. Ride-haining services are even worse. Don’t even cycle in unless you can go off-road.
    • Distinguish individuals’ property from corporate property.
    • The goal is to live to fight another day. A fair fight is one in which you don’t get hurt.
    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Not having the phone with you is critical. But I assume planning is done on a laptop or desktop that is obviously not taken with?

      • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yep, anonymous browsers, burner accounts, and a VPN if you can. Privacy.sexy is your friend too.

        You just want to set yourself up as best you can for the defense of “you can’t prove that was me.”

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Problem with setting Teslas on fire is we can’t know if it’s an act of protest or if they just did that on their own.

  • rational_lib@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Don’t destroy Tesla cars, destroy the brand. Destroying Teslas means there’s fewer Teslas and that makes them more valuable/reduces the flooding of the market caused by people selling their cars. The goal is to annihilate Elon’s purchasing power so he can stop using it to destroy governments around the world.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Tesla has much higher output than the number of vehicles that spontaneously combust. So the supply shortage you envision won’t occur unless cars light up by the hundreds or thousands a day. And that’s before accounting for all the extra slack in production created by decreasing demand around the world.

      Teslas combusting damages the brand. It’s a material risk of owning a Tesla. It would also mean higher insurance. In fact beyond some combustion threshold, Teslas would become uninsurable. Therefore Teslas on fire directly contributes to decreasing Elon’s purchase power.

    • potatopotato@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it’ll be harder to get people in the door if they’re strip searching everyone and if they can’t have as much inventory on the lot, customers can’t drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.

      I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.