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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Cybertruck pre-orders started in 2019, well before Musk’s bigotry was widely known. It was to be the first ev truck on the market, and the pre-order price was tempting. Folks paid for these things and are now stuck with them. You literally are not allowed to sell them. What should those people do?
You never know what another person is really going through in life, so don’t be a dick to a stranger…
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.
ITT: americans who are way too much into private property
No but it is moral to smear nasty things on the vehicle.
It would be highly immoral to do any actual vandalism because that would give them sympathy and therefore would further the goals of Elon and others who want their bootlickers to be seen as some sort of rebels against wokeness.
But mocking them by writing dust or adding your own bumper stickers without doing any serious permanent damage is at least defensible.
No.
It’s a pitty that it’s so controversial to vandalize SUV but vandalizeing a Tesla is seen as fine. Tesla aren’t great for the climate either, but compared to SUV they’re way better.
Vandalising a telsa directly harms musk financially.
How?
Reduces their desirability. People buy shit cars like that for status symbol. If people can turn buying and owning Tesla cars into something that reduces your social status people will be deterred from buying it, reducing sales, therefore tanking Tesla shares.
reducing sales, therefore tanking Tesla shares.
The Tesla share is so much on a bubble, that the 60% drop in sales didn’t impact the share value at all. Between people not wanting to give their money to Musk, BYD attacking the EU/US market, and every brand offering some electric car this tendency will stay, I don’t see how Tesla is worth 20 times more than Toyota.
Vandalizing a Tesla directly benefits Musk financially if you need to order replacement parts to fix it.
Not this Tesla model, it is way too heavy
goddam who invited all these capitalist pussies to lemmy? shitting and pissing about some dirt wew fucking lad
a long time ago, in Berlin districts to reduce gentrification they used to scope out the expensive cars and then gentry lay a lit barbeque firelighter under the wheel.
Why would the gentry harm expensive cars? Those would be their own cars.
That’s the legend. In reality they burned down the old van of a friend of mine because he had a Polish license plate.
Yes. It was a Neonazi from Britz doing it. He primarily targeted foreign cars, vehicles of local left politicians (Die Linke and SPD candidates of Neukölln both had their cars burned). He also lit up a few expensive cars, but that might have been because he ran out of “legitimate” targets.
Cybertrucks? Yeah. There’s a very specific kind of person that buys a cybertruck. They know who Elon is and what he stands for.
Other Teslas? No. Many bought them before Elon turned out to be a nazi spawn.
I really hope that’s not where Canadians are headed with this. Personally, I think it would be tragic to see us and for the world to see us deteriorate into what we hate.
People hate Musk so Tesla’s are damaged. Then insurance pays or the perpetrator pays if caught. Tesla is repaired in an authorized workshop and Musk’s cash register rings.
That’s how you ruin billionaires! /s
You forgot the part where the insurance cost goes up for all insured people even if they don’t own a Tesla.
No, don’t forget. As a German, I just wasn’t sure how things worked in America. It could have been different. Hospital bills only drive one person/family into the abyss. Anyway, thanks for the reply.
people stop buying them as they are more trouble than they are worth.
Yes, people who believe in electric vehicles but not in the company or the person. Tesla was the first to establish itself and was permanently in the media in the West. Many people didn’t find out what the market looked like but went by what they already knew.
So all the Musk fanatics are sticking with Tesla.
( you make more money with the dumb folk… so in long term the musk fanatics)
You’ve seen the headlines about telsa sales tanking right? In some markets by 50% or 60%. That’s a big deal.
First movers do enjoy a special privilege but I’m not sure how sticky that will be in this case. Musk’s political views are at odds with people that are environmentally conscious.
Those views are now indefeasible from the brand and this kind of “vandalism” (provided it doesn’t significantly damage the vehicle) is a great way to reinforce that connection.
Now it would be interesting to know what the market looks like in the east. Despite sanctions etc., the parts have also ended up in Russia and it only became known because of these TikTok warlord wannabes… But what about those that are not known? Musk certainly doesn’t give the impression that he’s worried.
I mean, 2 years ago you could have bet that the vehicle that can’t stand the rain and has to stay off the road won’t be spotted on a war zone and tjoa the world goes crazy. Welcome to the Matrix. /s (? im not sure if sarcasm or the sad attempt to explain the decline of humanity since maybecorona. )
Maybe we will read in 1 week/month that Musk is suing the population because they use the products of the competition and thus commit treason to ruin the country’s own production. Anything is possible with megalomania.
People in the areas where vandalism happens stop buying them. There are significant and rich places where people don’t give a flying fuck about US politics, like China: https://carnewschina.com/2025/01/13/new-tesla-model-y-juniper-received-50000-orders-on-launch-day-source-says/
It’s probably not but definitely fun!
Writing on it in dirt or snow? Sure.
With a sticker that can be easily removed? Sure.
Anything else? Probably not.
Just make sure you don’t do anything that might cause severe and permanent damage like spritzing a little water on it.
I mean urine and faeces can technically be washed off.
But if you piss on it it will just disintegrate.
You don’t even need to piss on it, a splash of water is enough for the cybertruck
