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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, much like staging a coup of the U.S. government and threatening the sovereignty of free nations, it's unethical, and the punishment should be proportional to the punishment for those offenses, according to severity.
They're doing a pretty good job of vandalising themselves all on their own.
Don't worry, since they're dangerous and no one's buying, Musk is forcing the government to buy them now.
I will not lose sleep over a vandalised cybertruck
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.
You don't even need to piss on it, a splash of water is enough for the cybertruck
In Ireland the registration have a number on them like 251 for the first half of 2025 and 252 on them for the second half of 2025. Given you might have paid for your 251 reg in 2024 it seems a bit unfair to target someone who might have paid for the car and not have the money to buy another car now. They could be a good person who wanted to go electric for the environment.
I saw the writing on the wall when Tesla actively worked against people attempting to repair their vehicles. They wouldn't sell parts for a long time.
They made it into a walled garden. If you owned an EV, you fit into one of two categories: Tesla owners, and everyone else.
IMO, they thought that since they were the only game in town for a while, and have been the largest player in the EV space, they can do whatever they want. Over time, that has not worked out in their favor.
Every product they have must be tracked and traced to a user account. There's no way to own/operate a Tesla without an account.... Mostly. And because of this, I've been heard saying that, I like the technology and on average, the vehicles Tesla makes, but I don't like the company, or their business practices, so I would probably never own one.
The only practical way to get by is to hack the software in the vehicle, and to me, that really shouldn't be necessary. But it is. They're worse than John Deere in my books.
I'm any case, I generally don't support vandalism, especially when it's in the realm of "destruction of property". The people who bought the cars could be victims all the same, so I don't want to presume that someone has the means to just throw out a $100k+ vehicle because the owner of the company that made it is a tosser.
No. I more feel sympathy for those folks. They didn't ask for this. They're not necessarily guilty of anything simply because they own/drive a Tesla.
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.
