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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.
No but it is moral to smear nasty things on the vehicle.
ITT: americans who are way too much into private property
They're doing a pretty good job of vandalising themselves all on their own.
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?
They are not allowed to sell them? As in by contract or something?
I found an update on that
Tesla won't even take them as trade-ins anymore. Anyone who owns a dorkmobile is free to stop at any time.
I'm pretty sure the pre-order price was somewhere around $100.
Proles don't harm proles
Save your potential jail time for the billionaires and landlords
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.
No.
This is an image of someone writing in snow. "Morality" is always debatable, but nothing was harmed.
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.
Vandalism is always bullshit and a gargantuan dick move.
Especially against stuff owned by a private person. Someone saved for that or worse: took out a loan for it. That car represents a year, 2 years or even more of work.
There is nothing what justifies it.
I dont like [billionaire]. Lets destroy the property of [random dude] who probably also doesn't like [billionaire].
It's bullshit.
I dont like trump. Just give me your adress so I can destroy your home. What do you say? You dont like Trump either, you only laughed once during the dumb bullshit of the apprentice? There you have it! Let me wreck all your shit!
You can explain it away all you like but its still bullshit.
While I feel like major acts of vandalism are antisocial, minor ones are just humans being humans and the absolutism of your position here is making it hard to agree. If I see someone wearing one of Kanye West's swastika shirts and someone throws mud at them, I will clap. If there's a massive antiracist protest and someone lights an empty cop car on fire, I will cheer. Sometimes resisting evil means being pretty rude, and now that this CEO is the front man for an inside coup, anyone financially supporting him has been made complicit, against their will or no. There is room for nuance, there are justifications, and in protesting, it is better to allow for a diversity of tactics rather than try to police each other.
OP is including writing "wash me" in the dust on the rear window in "vandalism".
That doesn't financially harm anyone and is obviously not the same as burning someone's house down.
OP is including writing "wash me" in the dust on the rear window in "vandalism".
Did they say so in a comment?
I don't see it in the OP post.
Anyway, I don't think of selective cleaning when I hear vandalism.
And I agree with the previous comment, that destroying property is not the moral thing to do.
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.
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.
Why would the gentry harm expensive cars? Those would be their own cars.
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
people stop buying them as they are more trouble than they are worth.
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.
Still this vandalism will scare potential buyer from buying a car that is hated enough to vandalize.
goddam who invited all these capitalist pussies to lemmy? shitting and pissing about some dirt wew fucking lad
Some people got teslas before they realized elon was nazi garbage. However, if you got a cybertruck, might be fair game.
