• @rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    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.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      413 days ago

      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.

    • @potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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      5013 days ago

      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.

  • Lexam
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    913 days ago

    As a someone from Kansas City I want to say, this is who we are.

    • mycelium underground
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      112 days ago

      When you commit “terrorism” against the fascist enemies of the American people, is not terrorism it’s the right thing to do

    • sunzu2
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      313 days ago

      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.

  • Jo Miran
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    4914 days ago

    I have never, and will never, see anyone vandalize a Tesla. 🙈

  • @ugtug@lemm.ee
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    813 days ago

    Tesla just likes building things that spontaneously catch on fire. 🤷‍♂️