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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 rhfinle 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Sad but true. When the prepper thing got going a few years back, I was talking to two friends. One is a gun enthusiast, the other is a Mormon and a prepper. When the first guy was asked "What will you do for food if the SHTF?" He grinned (I know he was kidding - he's a really niceguy, but it drives the point across) and said:"I'll just find a Mormon and take his".
    Thought-provoking to say the least, but I've been teaching my Mormon buddy how to shoot...
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    Posted by mccannon01 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    You may have something there, NealS. Maybe Republican judges can start a lawfare against Marxists club. The more-revenue-for-lawyers crowd will love to run with that ball as they have a lot of control over the legal system and make money playing both sides (sort of like they do now, except it would go on steroids).

    Good video. I really liked the part in the end where the wording is changed where you have to take a course and pay a fee to speak freely or go to church.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Or it may advise you to petition government to steal your neighbor's car for you. Then you can hold up your hands and say, "See? I didn't do it! But big government is making sure there is fairness in the land!"
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  • Posted by fairbro 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Zuckerberg's AI is going to be "open-source". One could ask it a question, "What's the best way to get a car?" It might answer (programmed for "equity") "steal your neighbor's, he has two cars."
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    Posted by JakeOrilley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Mine is a '52 MG TD MKII - absolutely no electronics in that machine!!! Also a '69 Jaguar XKE 4.2 that has no electronics except the radio - just a couple of original carbs that are a pain to get right......
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Well good luck! My interest in the car has more to do with memories of those days than any idea about a "police interceptor with camelback heads." Hahahah!
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    Posted by rhfinle 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately it's more of a "rat rod" right now, but I have a '66 327 Police Interceptor (same as the Corvette I think, with the camelback heads), and I just officially completed my retirement/Socialist Insecurity/Medicare/supplemental paperwork 11 days ago, so maybe soon...
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino hopes so too.
    And I'm not forgetting that you taught me the truth about Lincoln.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    The brainwashing is strong with them.
    They have been PAINTED into a corner that they are the "Good Ones". And that we are trying to destroy everything that makes this country truly great... (Them, Their People, Their Protected Groups, Their Diversity).

    It's really that simple. They are wrong. And partly insane. The believe FALSE Ideals that they have been sold.

    And NOBODY is allowed to talk to them, for fear of being ex-communicated by their peer group.

    Everything that makes us HUMAN is turned/twisted to control these people, and they cannot see that they are controlled. "Trapped on the plantation" some people use to refer to this situation.

    Mass formation Psychosis.

    We need some "The More You Know..." Public announcements on EVERY channel, to chip away at them while they watch CNN/CNBC/MSDnC...

    Where we show that "actual deaths from Covid-19... Were a severe flu season. Masks Never Worked. The vaccine NEVER prevented transmitting the disease, and wasn't designed to or tested for that effect!"
    Show the graph of the Spanish Flu vs Covid. It's a joke.

    But we are going to have to get in front of their eyeballs on their channels and spit some truths at them.
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    Posted by $ Abaco 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Love those. My dad went through many classic chevys when I was a kid. Drag raced very successfully with a 55. My favorite has always been the 55.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    This was all done during "remote learning" in the pandemic. I told him I would have said, "Then give me your watch..."
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    Posted by TheOldMan 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    Some of the most intolerant people I know are those who so loudly and proudly declare their tolerance.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    My Lexus is an older model and although it has electronic locks, there is also a manual key for the outside and a manual open from the inside. Hubby's Lexus is newer with fancier features, but it does also have a key within the keyfob. Not easy to get the key out, for either car. Both cars have actually had a dead starting battery at different times, which controls those things, so we learned how to use them. I don't think - with my models, you could get locked in.

    But your point is a very good one.
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  • Posted by rhfinle 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    Somewhere along the lines, the liberal faction threw in the notion that property is not important to the individual and should be communal. I remember reading a story by a Russian-American immigrant who pointed out that property acquired is equivalent to money earned which is equivalent to hours worked which means a chunk of your lifetime taken away for someone else's use. We need to refresh everyone on this concept. I for one advocate using any means, up to and including lethal force against anyone trying to steal personal property, for that reason.
    Of course, if it goes that far, it's best not to get the authorities involved. They lately (check this week's Boston news) seem to protect the perpetrators rather than the victims, in the name of "equity".
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    Posted by rhfinle 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I am fortunate to own a car (1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door) which currently contains absolutely no electronics whatsoever, not even alternator diodes, at least until I put the radio back in. It would be comforting, i suppose to scoot right on through, wondering what happened to everyone else, in the case of a network failure or, Heaven forbid, an EMP pulse / grid down total collapse.
    Of course I'll probably be driving the much later model pickup (the one that chimes incessantly to tell me to put on my damned seatbelt) when it happens...
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  • Posted by freedomforall 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Sounds like a programmers 'feature' desperately searching for a reason to exist (other than simply increasing the sales price and vaporous desirability.)
    Unfortunately, transferring control from the buyer of the vehicle to 'central product support' ultimately manipulated by out of control government appears to be the real goal.
    If I wanted to ride a train and let others (often less competent) control my destiny I wouldn't have bought a vehicle that I am supposed to own and control.
    The company that offers products without such 'features' might be very successful in a free market.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 1 month, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Much of Tesla's 'value' has come from government programs designed to destroy the individual liberties that Musk allegedly supports.
    If Musk is the ethical man he presents, he will understand the cost and use his rational mind to succeed in both his pursuits: business and defense of liberties.
    I hope that includes liberties for everyone and punishment for the corrupt.
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  • Posted by NealS 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    We have a similar issue here in Washington State. Our legislature has decided that we have no Second Amendment rights what-so-ever. It's also similar to our national situation of partisanship, one side ignoring the opinion and constitutional rights of the other. What if conservatives started playing by the same rules against something important to them? Any suggestions?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBuKW...
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