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Vandalizing Tesla Vehicles

Posted by $ Abaco 1 month, 2 weeks ago to Culture
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I've been having trouble wrapping my head around the vandalizing of Tesla vehicles around the nation in response to DOGE and Elon. Then...Just this morning I remember the teachings of Marxism in my son's high school when we were still in California. His geography teacher took it upon herself to teach Marxism to the kids. My son recorded her lecture when she said, "To get somebody's attention you can take or destroy their property." She also later said, "If somebody says something that threatens your existence you can physically attack them." My son said, "I don't agree that I should take other people's property." Her response? "Oh, property is just property." When he said he didn't believe in attacking people who don't agree with you she said, "Oh, you're a pacifist." What got me thinking about this was seeing that Tesla's stock dropped almost 9% at opening this morning. I sold mine when my stop on it had already triggered after a drop of 20% a few weeks ago. They're damaging the cars of people they've never met just because they don't like the CEO of the company and want to attack his wealth by stymieing sales of Tesla vehicles. Smart. Sick. But, it's working.

I have been thinking more the past couple years....What if conservatives started playing by the same, sick, rules? Man, that'd be crazy...


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    When idiots start destroying stuff owned by the richest man in the world, only idiots would think that would put a dent into such untold riches.
    "Untold riches" being what I recall scam artists telling suckers how much they could win in my snail mail way back during the Seventies.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    and you are expecting the teacher to have a working and rational brain with the ability to understand the irony. 👍
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  • Posted by VetteGuy 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    The issue with door locks is not limited to Teslas. Shortly before I bought my Vette, I heard of an elderly man dying in a grocery store parking lot because he could not get out using the electric door release. Turns out my Vette and my son-in-law's Tesla have mechanical over-rides for the electric door releases. But you have to know they are there. If you own ANY car with electric door handles, I would strongly urge you to check into the mechanical over-rides. After the battery fails is no time to start looking.
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    If I was your son, I would have walked up to the teacher's desk and taken something of hers. When she objected, I'd have violently thrown her words back at her, yelling "Hey! It's only property!" and then gone back to my seat, daring her to react. But then, I can be a d**k sometimes.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Didn't someone get locked into her own Tesla for some hours? Thing was, there was a way to disable the locks, but she hadn't bothered to read about it, from what I recall. Someone eventually came along and rescued her.

    This (first paragraph) has nothing, really, to do with your point, mhubb, because yes, this is something that would keep me from purchasing one. Having an unpopular opinion could - depending on the opinion - could put one in a bad position. My husband really, really, really wanted a cybertruck, but I talked him out of it, due to the cost and the permissions thing.

    My son in law, however, did buy one back when they were first available, but sold it not long after the price nearly doubled.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    First, TSLA is also down because the market is correcting right now (a LONG delayed selloff for the recession we entered under BuyDem and they changed the definition of, and papered over it with more inflation).

    Second, yeah, it's an obvious target. What scares me is the thought process:
    "Musk is saving EVERY AMERICAN $$$, and could result in us paying less taxes, and our children being LESS INDEBTED when they are born..."
    THEREFORE we must FIREBOMB this guy and everything he stands for...

    I can't Grok (Pun intended) the leap. Unless these are Useful Idiots, and "Mind Control" tricks.

    This is NOTHING MORE than Punishing someone who is acting against the Deep State. Just like they did Trump.

    The problem is... It works in small increments, because people don't want to lose what they barely have... But done too much, and a Martyr is born. Done too much, and your THINGS start to mean LESS than your FUTURE.

    We are ALWAYS 9 meals away from a revolution.
    But there is another number. When daily food > 60% of your income, definitely at the 75% range. You have ZERO FUTURE, and revolution comes streaming in from everyone in the same boat.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    Well, it appears to be working to reduce his wealth (sorry to say), but I don't think it's working to make him back off what he's doing. I'm thinking that's what they are really after? People like Elon can always regenerate their wealth (not that he should have to), but if he stops his efforts to keep the country from destroying itself, there'll be no way to regenerate it.
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  • Posted by mhubb 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    follow the muny
    prosecute to the fullest extent of the law

    repeat as needed
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  • Posted by mhubb 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    i'd not buy one once i heard you need "server permission" to use the damn thing

    a server outage made them not usable several years back
    screw that, i want to OWN my vehicle
    :-)
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  • Posted by $ 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, could be. I think the trucks are ugly as hell. I've literally only ridden in a Tesla sedan once. I thought it was nice - for running around town.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    Competition and lack of market demand for Tesla's products account for a large part of the fall in Tesla's share price.
    The middle class that might have purchased the over-priced vehicles has been reduced to a shadow of its former market power.
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