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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

But it’s not on fire?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

Spontaneous combustion

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Stock gone, carry on

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

They need to diversify their strategy.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Problem with setting Teslas on fire is we can't know if it's an act of protest or if they just did that on their own.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Could be insurance fraud too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Probably a lot of the time it is. Nows a great time to do it if you're gonna.

Saw a post earlier where a guy was 42,000$ underwater on his and wanted to offload it at that big of a loss before his insurance dropped it entirely.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They've become sentient, and are committing suicide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

This made me laugh out loud at my desk. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

I was JUST about to say; how do we know they didn't just do that? or that this wasn't a buggy firmware update that just did that? or a malicious firmware update that did this?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

Ohhhhhh nooooooooooo! Let me grab my very tiny violin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's only ok to be violent if you're a Republican. I'm not supporting this, but since Jan 6'ers were pardoned then these car vandalisms are totally legal too. I think they're equally immoral.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

These things happen sometimes…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Looks like false flag.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Wow. Having not read the article (just the headline)… I seriously don’t understand why people torch/destroy other peoples stuff! Yes Elon bad, but why attack innocent civilians?! 10-ish years ago, you were considered a leftist nutjob with a hardon for climate change when you bought a Tesla (note: I do firmly believe in climate change), these days you’re a nazi driving the exact same car?… Debate, discussion, even disagreement between parties is all fine and dandy, but actually destroying other peoples property is - in my honest opinion - against the very thing people ‘are fighting for’.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 22 hours ago

Oh no. Anyways.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 day ago (5 children)

if you know anything about who did it no you don't

[–] [email protected] 41 points 20 hours ago

It's obviously the MAGA crowd. They've spent years complaining about electric vehicles. They've just escalated that to burning them out. The police need to go have a nice chat with the rolling coal types.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe, maybe this is actually stochastic terrorism being carried out by MAGA themselves.

Think about it, their plan is to declare martial law - right? Conservatives already hate EVs, they think that Trump is a 'good' billionaire while billionaires like Gates are 'bad' billionaires - I don't think it would take much to make Musk out to be a 'bad' billionaire.

Idk if this is as clear as 'good guys vs bad guys' - these are freedom fighters, but it's never been clearer that a lot of people are divided on what 'free' actually means. You shouldn't assume that the people doing this are actually on your side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

maybe im deep in the conspiracy but I'm unsure who is doing the vandalism at this point

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