I have seen a lot of tesla vandalism online the last few days and I’m kind of on the fence about it.
I’ve seen several examples locally here in BC, Canada.
I think totally warranted at newly purchased teslas going forward. Also it serves as a deterrent for potential future buyers.
But vandalizing a car that is a few years old I think is lame. Those driversare already being punished enough by driving something around that’s worth less than scrap.
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if you like what it’s doing to the Tesla brand, then maybe it’s justified. you need to make that decision for yourself. I think public shame goes a long way to fixing social problems
No but that isn’t vandalism.
Oh, the horror. Drawing something on an unwashed car.
ITT: americans who are way too much into private property
Also you put way too much money in your cars, wtf !!!
You never know what another person is really going through in life, so don’t be a dick to a stranger…
Feh! They made their choice.
What choice did you assume they made?
They bought a Swasticar
Personally, no. Most people probably brought their cars before Musk went totally nuts, or they simply didn’t know. Plus, not everyone can just get rid of their car because of the CEO of the company that made it.
That’s just writing in dirt. A prank as old as cars. Totally fine.
If you want to go further that’s up to you.
I agree with the first part of your statement but I don’t think damaging other people’s property is justified in this case…
I understand people wanting to do anything that can stop the attack on our government and rule of law, but not seeing how destroying cyber trucks is a tactical move.
I don’t think that there is a tactical thought to people wanting to vandalize Teslas. I think that there is a true sense of helplessness on not being able to do anything to stop these fuckers. So in in the place of something more substantial the anger and frustration is being taken out on something associated with musk
Is it right? Probably not. Is it understandable, yes
No, much like staging a coup of the U.S. government and threatening the sovereignty of free nations, it’s unethical, and the punishment should be proportionally small compared to the punishment for those offenses.
Well. I bought mine 2 years ago, and am currently trying to get something else in its place. But I need to take my kids to daycare and myself to work every day so I cannot just like dump it. So you might be vandalizing somebody who thought it was a good idea to replace a petrol car with an EV and Tesla was simply the best quality/cost solution at the time and the amount of politics involved were pretty minimal.
You might turn somebody who was mildly sympathetic to your ideas farther away from you. Definitely not going to make new allies in that way.
Cybertrucks however, fuck those things and everybody who bought them. Molotov cocktail them for all I care.
This is exactly the first thing that comes to mind. There’s surely a large number of average people, who don’t care or have any interest in what Elon has been doing, or anything else…
People who can’t readily afford to just throw away a vehicle because the owner of the company is a shithead.
But yeah. Fuck cyber trucks. Never liked those eyesores anyways
Depending on the state you might want to give cybertrucks wide room. They are neigh uninsurable in some states.
My father was always going on about how stupid it is to buy a car designed by computer scientists and electrical engineers. He himself is an electrical engineer who has a PhD in computer science. He might have been on to something.
They’re doing a pretty good job of vandalising themselves all on their own.
Don’t worry, since they’re dangerous and no one’s buying, Musk is forcing the government to buy them now.
I will not lose sleep over a vandalised cybertruck
No but it is moral to smear nasty things on the vehicle.
…making it even less likely that the car owner can afford to replace it?
Who replaces a car over a shitstain? You just go to the car wash.
The car owner replacing it is exactly the scenario we are trying to avoid here, as a Tesla owner is very likely to buy another Tesla and put more money on Musk’s pocket.
No this is an act of bullying. At most an inconvenience, but will make the day of a Tesla owner slightly worse. If enough people do it to enough Teslas, maybe people will link “owns a Tesla” with “social pariah”.
I saw the writing on the wall when Tesla actively worked against people attempting to repair their vehicles. They wouldn’t sell parts for a long time.
They made it into a walled garden. If you owned an EV, you fit into one of two categories: Tesla owners, and everyone else.
IMO, they thought that since they were the only game in town for a while, and have been the largest player in the EV space, they can do whatever they want. Over time, that has not worked out in their favor.
Every product they have must be tracked and traced to a user account. There’s no way to own/operate a Tesla without an account… Mostly. And because of this, I’ve been heard saying that, I like the technology and on average, the vehicles Tesla makes, but I don’t like the company, or their business practices, so I would probably never own one.
The only practical way to get by is to hack the software in the vehicle, and to me, that really shouldn’t be necessary. But it is. They’re worse than John Deere in my books.
I’m any case, I generally don’t support vandalism, especially when it’s in the realm of “destruction of property”. The people who bought the cars could be victims all the same, so I don’t want to presume that someone has the means to just throw out a $100k+ vehicle because the owner of the company that made it is a tosser.
No. I more feel sympathy for those folks. They didn’t ask for this. They’re not necessarily guilty of anything simply because they own/drive a Tesla.
Proles don’t harm proles
Save your potential jail time for the billionaires and landlords
