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 want to get punched in the face or face legal consequences, sure go ahead!
As far as morality is concerned, no it’s not moral to vandalise the private property of a person who bought it through his hard earned money because you don’t like some billionaire.
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.
The cybertruck was a douchebag car from the beginning
He’s always been insane but his PR team seemed to keep it kinda quiet.
TBH, you’re only really hurting the owner, and you don’t know their situation necessarily unless you’re in close contact with them all the time.
Plus Teslas have security cameras.
It’s generally a bad idea.
Older Teslas- no, Cybertrucks - absolutely yes.
Everyone who bought a Cybertruck knew exactly the kind of person they were buying from and made that concious choice
Oh look, $400 million of waste and corruption, DOGE should get right on that…
An armored tesla is an oxymoron.
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 but that isn’t vandalism.
Oh, the horror. Drawing something on an unwashed car.
the thing you might not realize, that when you draw with your fingers on an unwashed car you can be girding that dust into the paint. Might not always show but if you do it on a really dirty car it might stick around
and then to do it on a stainless steel POS… that might really scratch it in
If you care that much about your paint job or surface finish and own a tesla you can afford a car wash. Or, you know, wax it idk.
Car’s probably not owned though, probably on lease. In which case this would fall under normal wear and tear. So it still doesn’t really matter.
Only Cybertrucks. Someone who got a second-hand car four years ago didn’t buy-in to the current trend of fascism. But the cybertruck is new enough that if you bought it, you know what’s going on
ITT: americans who are way too much into private property
Also you put way too much money in your cars, wtf !!!
Would you be ok with me pissing on everything you own? Sounds like the time and money you spent on stuff is of no consequence to you.
Many of us drive a lot. Half-decent cars that don’t need regular repairs are going to run at least 30k, sometimes more. I really don’t understand the 70k trucks, but I may just not have the perspective. I don’t know what you consider too much money on a car, but I have two kids and need something safe for local travel and visiting family hundreds of miles away.
Edit: If there was better public transportation, I would take advantage of it. We were supposed to have high speed travel in Florida–the people voted for it. The Republicans stalled it because there wasn’t a funding portion to the law and refused to fund it.
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.
Is that true? Wouldn’t it be illegal to drive without insurance? I just googled it and I’m not seeing anything about cybertrucks not being insurable. I hate Elon anf those trucks but I just want to confirm something is true before I propagate it. Do you have a link?
…And the owner just took a 50-75k loss.
Which many could not afford to do
You never know what another person is really going through in life, so don’t be a dick to a stranger…
You never know what another person is really going through in life
We can often assume its a divorce.
Feh! They made their choice.
What choice did you assume they made?
They bought a Swasticar
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.
Its already pre-vandalized from the factory with that awful design. No need to kick a car when its down.
But no, doing damage to other people’s property is not okay
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 proportional to the punishment for those offenses, according to severity.
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.
