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Aww crap someone forgot to turn off his projection settings again
How do we know Elon didn’t give a “verbal” order to have them torched?
Keep them torching!
Not conspiracy nut but I have an idea that he is causing these fires. I don't think anyone actually going out there doing this. To easy for him to remotely make it happen then he can get support making criticism of himself a crime. Hell already working Trump announced that this is terrorist activity which is bullshit in itself. Just like the illegal boycott.
Fuck nazis especially Elon burn it all down.
Maybe they were just overenthusiastic prospective owners like trying to test the fire safety of the cars before buying. 🤔
Maybe they wanted to be ghost riders?
“Insane and deeply wrong” describes Elon Musk perfectly
Awww 😢
"Insane and deeply wrong", is exactly what comes to mind, when I think of Musk.
I'll bet the owner of that dealership sure is sorry for jumping on last month's bandwagon! Idiot!
The result of this, if anything, will be higher insurance on Tesla floor plans, which is a small good thing.
For every person fired by DOGE a Tesla must burn
Two Teslas for every job lost, and a chicken in every pot.
He sure someone didn't spill a drink on it?
Can fire fighters even put out the flames? The water would void the warranty of all the near by cars so it would honestly be better to just let the few burn.
Unfortunately, Cyber Trucks tries to identify as a truck instead of a dumpster fire. Per Elon's DEI program, we have to respect them.
"Blake bortles!!!" 🔥🍾
Maybe now he knows why most CEO's and billionaires are content to pull the stings and fuck us over from the shadows. You can't start dismantling our democracy while throwing up sieg heils and not expect people to fight back. Dumbass.
Thiel is the shadows type, the Nazi type are pretty dumb and will do it openly
This.
Wouldn't be surprised if this ones just old school fraud. People are desperate to get rid of Teslas these days.
I was thinking the same thing. Pass the buck to the impoverished insurance companies. Maybe one less yacht this year.
I feel bad for the minority of owners who may have bought before Musk was so obviously shitty. I didn't really think of him as anything more than the usual tech ceo until the "calling a rescue diver a pedo" thing.
And I mean it's likely a very small minority, but I think a more focused protest would be artistically altering cars on sales lots, or on factory lots. Obviously a lot harder to do, so like, any tesla over no tesla? But I'd prioritize the newer models, and ones that tesla still owns or will likely have to pay to reimburse, gets you the bonus of costing them more money outside stocks/sales.
It's absolutely not a "small" minority at all, a large batch of buyers were progressives who wanted to step in a direction for a more environmentally responsible means of travel where there isn't sufficient public transport. I know quite a few personally and they hate owning it but financially, they can't just get rid of it. They've also completely stop using the self-driving after some scary swerves
They've also completely stop using the self-driving after some scary swerves
A reminder here since people get the two confused all the time, and don't understand just how little Autopilot does. Full Self Driving and Autopilot are and always have been different things. They do not use the same software stack. Autopilot hasnt really been updated since FSD started being tested outside Tesla employees, so 5+ years now. 95%+ of Tesla vehicles do not have FSD, but nearly all of them have Autopilot.
Autopilot is just Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Automatic Lane Keeping. AP is not smart, and never has been, it does not make driving decisions, it just tries to keep you in the lines and a minimum distance from cars in front of you at a set speed. There are a shit ton of vehicles on the road that do this now, spanning all the way from luxury brands down to a plain old Honda, and they have for years.
Not to take away from your clarification, but the Tesla lane assist (not fsd) is WAY different from standard lane assist. It really does try to self drive. I have a 2024 Honda with LKAS and it makes minor corrections that keep you in the lane. Teslas will do strong corrections that can be dangerous, I've been in plenty and experienced it
Musk has been a twat for years guys and insufferable moron and always has been
If you never bought products from a company run by an insufferable moron, you would be forced to buy directly from your neighbors for everything in your life. And even then there's always an insufferable moron nearby.
The general populace was blinded by the media for a long time though.
In all seriousness: I am fighting against neonazis here in Germany since >20 years. Physically and rhetorically.
Do not, I repeat do not set teslas on fire!
But new point could be a good idea. I mean, those big canvases scream for some spray paint.
I wonder if they can be scratched?
Salt and vinegar (or sodium chloride, if you want to buy it ready made) is an easy to prepare solution that is excellent for etching metal.
I was thinking of those cordless multi tools. If I had a Tesla I'd get a nice, tasteful fuck elon musk design made, which, if possible would be uneconomical to ever remove (deep into the metal?). So even if I sold the Tesla, new owners would be unlikely to pay to fix my art.
Mhm, would be an interesting scientific experiment
So is being a nazi
I thought it was an engineering design 🤷🏻♂️
How do we know they didn't just burst into flames spontaneously?
right? they're not well made
We know that they did. Burst spontaneously. This happens.
Elon Musk is insane and deeply wrong.
This!
We know they are insane and deeply wrong. That's why we set them on fire, you idiot.
Insane and deeply wrong actions for insane and deeply wrong times
You know what we need to call this? A good start.
The French started this particular Tesla protest strategy. Vive la révolution.
Love the French.
The French burn cars everytime they're angry, it's not really a Tesla thing. And they get angry a lot.
Look i love the french, i love how they pull out the guillotinens and seeing french firemen beating up class traitor police officers gives me great joy. But a big reason cars burn in france is also because they hate Moroccan immigrants. So it's not all roses
They have some other historical strategies we should look into as well. 😁