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Global anti-Elon Musk protests planned at nearly 200 Tesla showroom locations
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That'll show those minimum wage slaves.
lol i mean yeah, but people want to feel like they are doing SOMETHING. Annoying tesla dealerships at worst succeeds at annoying a few dealership owners and a bunch of dealership employees, some of which also likely hate elon at this point, lets be real.
low cost, low reward, or whatever, but its about making noise and keeping it in the news. Which shit goes on long enough sometimes the mainstream media gets swayed shortly before they start saying property damage is maybe worse than murder.
This IS something. People can dismiss this as useless performative nonsense, but it is working. The stock bubble has popped, so the stock has lost over half its value, which has cost MuskRat a good portion of his fortune, and has also famaged the portfolios of many Sociopathic Oligarchs. The company image has cratered, and instead of feeling cool and superior in their Tesla, owners are uncomfortable, and drawing negative personal attention, just for driving it. They are also at risk for vandalism, or even destruction. New sales have plunged in America, and are almost non-existent anywhere else. Recovery looks VERY far away for Tesla, and bankruptcy actually looks more likely.
So The MuskRat is starting to panic about losing his most consistent income stream, and the administration seems to be noticing that citizens are organizing in groups large enough to start causing actual problems in the economy. Even other nations have joined. At this point, they think think they can win with threats, but that's only making the opposition bolder.
Soon, the administration will declare an American citizen who vandalized a Tesla to be a Terrorist, and disappear them to the El Salvador torture prison. Then the Tesla protests will grow huge, and spread wider.
The administration is looking to incite violence at a major protest so they can declare Martial Law and suspend elections before the 2026 midterms. They can't take a chance on the Dems flipping one or both chambers of Congress, and taking control of investigatory committees and legislation.
The Tesla protests will be the perfect opportunity for their nefarious plan. They won't do it now, they'll wait until next summer, just before the election, and let the protests grow. But I could be wrong. If you protest, stay alert, keep your head on a swivel, and have an escape route planned in case of serious trouble.
I just think it's funny how being kind to front line workers, because they aren't the people being assholes, is one of the most common memes on social media. Now though, because people are caught up in the hype, they've completely forgotten their own ideals and lash out at those they have previously declared to be their friends.
This is the kind of behaviour that leads to religion, because having an actual hard coded set of rules gives the victim the ability to point to something physical to say "hey, we're supposed to be your friends jackasses" when these sorts of things happen.
So what exactly are the protestors doing to the Tesla workers that you find so abhorrent?
Literal terrorism
The vast, vast, vast majority of protestors are not engaging in any acts that could be considered terrorism. The OP linked article is about peaceful protests. Your parent comment was “that’ll show the minimum wage slaves.”
So should no one protest peacefully because a handful of people have committed acts of violence?
And how are the employees expected to trust that a rowdy mob outside doesn't have someone packing a few moltovs? It's something that is actually happening right now. Use your damn brains and stop being pawns. If you really care so much about the movement then put a little more effort into being much more effective without terrorizing random strangers.
See, the problem is that your words are what we've heard every single time someone wants to be slightly less fascist in this country for the past 2 decades. If you'd rather concern troll than actually affect change, then fuck off and wait for ICE to come grab you.
I suppose that’s the risk we all run in Trumps America.
Perhaps if the leaders at the very top weren’t sociopaths who provoke critics, scapegoat immigrants and encourage the sale of firearms to every American, then we could all be living in a peaceful nation without the fear of a Molotov crashing through the window of a Tesla dealership at any given time.