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 to stop him from using it to implementing fascist governments around the world.
What I’m hearing is destroy ALL the Teslas.
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.
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.
Do teslas even have options? Isn’t it just the battery pack and awd/rwd and then performance
I looked a few years ago when a friend of my partner got a Tesla a few years ago. Picking a color cost like €2000 or so.
As a someone from Kansas City I want to say, this is who we are.
“good terrorism” should be the next word of the year
When you commit “terrorism” against the fascist enemies of the American people, is not terrorism it’s the right thing to do
terror act it self inherently is neither good or bad. people assign it that value depending on which side of the fuckening they come out.
i for one don’t cry over some rich man’s brand being destroy, the same way this man does not crime about us poors suffering.
that’s just the world we live in and that’s ok. i just wish more peasants got woke on the rules.
But it’s not on fire?
Nice.
Thank god
Stock gone, carry on
Good. Do more.
They need to diversify their strategy.
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.
LoL 😂
The incident in Kansas City genuinely does sound like one just caught itself on fire.
In Kansas City, Police Captain Jacob Becchina said in a statement that an officer first observed smoke coming from a Cybertruck parked in a Tesla parking lot. “The officer used his fire extinguisher, however, KCFD was still needed as he could not put the fire out,” Becchina said. “The fire spread to a second Cybertruck parked next to the original burning one. The circumstances are under investigation, but preliminarily, the fire is being investigated for the potential of being an Arson.”
HERE COMES THE SUM
They’ve become sentient, and are committing suicide.
This made me laugh out loud at my desk. Thank you
Could be insurance fraud too.
Probably a lot of the time it is. Nows a great time to do it if you’re gonna.
Saw a post earlier where a guy was 42,000$ underwater on his and wanted to offload it at that big of a loss before his insurance dropped it entirely.
*$42,000. You saved no time in typing it wrong and look stupid. Congratulations.
Nobody gave a shit but you, and now you look stupid. Congratulations.
Nah, 42,000$ is more natural and consistent with other units.
you may be right but holy shit who cares lol
I was JUST about to say; how do we know they didn’t just do that? or that this wasn’t a buggy firmware update that just did that? or a malicious firmware update that did this?
Exactly 🤣🔥
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.
the petty bourgeois class that acts as the operating oppressive arm of the oligarchy.
Good grief.
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.
Very fucking GOOD.
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?
Well the property damage was only in response to the actual violence. So it’s like slapping your murderer.
So you agree they arnt morally equivalent?
Only in the most sarcastic sense.
Glad to hear it comrade
Oh no! they should be dismantled instead of burned. Some of those electric motors could be put into better use.