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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago (4 children)

and a Boston man was arrested for slapping stickers of Musk making a Nazi-like salute on Tesla vehicles

Better have him taken out back and shot, right? 🙄

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet it is this sticker, lol

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think it was this one which also got banned from Reddit:

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Oh, I like that one! Direct and to the point.

Hey, since when is it bad to want to kill Nazis? Last I heard that was generally encouraged. It's the whole moral foundation that the first person shooter genre was based on.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Fuck Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If those guys are supposed to be in uniform - no two are dressed the same. One guy didn't tie his shoes, another's jacket doesn't fit. It is very sloppy and unprofessional looking.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I can't even get passed how gross it is to see this many cops standing in front of a business where there is no visible evidence of violent activity where people might be harmed. It just looks like a statement saying this is our priority - corporate welfare for the Uber rich and worst possible human specimens at the cost of taxpayer dollars. It's so gross I can't even work my way to the nuances of how these slobs are dressed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

It’s what policing is for. It’s never been about protecting people but businesses

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

There’s a reason people say officers are class traitors. Policing has never been about protecting the public; It has always been about suppressing the masses and protecting the elite.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Fits in perfectly with the Tesla brand then, doesn't it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I burst out laughing at "heavy police presence", those guys look heavy alright.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Something that isn’t reported enough is that Elon borrowed heavily against his ownership of Tesla to buy Twitter. It is thought that at around $100 a share he will be margin called which will mean that Elon will have to pay the loan back in cash immediately which will bankrupt him completely and enact the rage of his handlers the Saudis and Putin as they are the ones who drummed up support for the deal in the first place by holding a majority of the non-institutional debt.

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

This sounds really interesting but I lack the necessary economics background to understand it. Instead of having to research for potentially hours, do you mind please dumbing it down a little for me? The parts I don't understand are "borrow against an ownership", "holding non-institutional debt". You don't have to of course

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The same way your mortgage is backed up by your house. If you default on your mortgage, the bank can take your house in foreclosure.

Rather than sell shares to raise the money, Musk has backed his borrowing with Tesla shares. Basically, if he doesn't pay back the loan, the banks get the shares. Unlike houses, shares can change value quite quickly. If the value of the loan exceeds the value of the shares, then the banks start to get VERY nervous. They will call in the loans to get what they can, before things get worse. This could crash the share price further, since they will want to offload the shares as soon as possible.

Musk is extremely rich. However, like most extremely rick people, his money is tied up in shares. If Tesla falls fast enough, he could end up owing more than he has in assets. As soon as his creditors pull the plug, he becomes bankrupt.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Russia does not give a single fuck about their assets getting burned. It happens all the time. It's part of their playbook to make their assets more and more bold.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

Look at that taxpayer money protecting all that private property of an oligarchy who is shitting on the working folk.

Cute little regime they got going for themselves

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (12 children)

We shouldn't make people scared for owning a Tesla, just embarrassed.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago (34 children)

i'm gonna lean on the side of "fuck that shit" on this one. buying a tesla is a choice. maga are terrorizing people for things they didn't choose like skin color, gender, sexual orientation, etc, and that list will only get longer

fuck tesla, and fuck tesla buyers. unlike their holy godman idol musk, i value empathy. but not for people who pridefully show none of it themselves

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

A lot of regular Tesla owners genuinely didn't know a ton about the company and until the last few years Musk wasn't quite so openly a Nazi.

I have zero sympathy for Cybertruck owners but I am going to wait to reserve judgement on average Tesla owners until I have proof it was bought recently and that they are okay with Musk as he is.

The reality is some people can't just up and trade in the car as easily as they might want to, even if they hate Musk and all he stands for now.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People with ordinary Teslas might have bought them before Musk was a total ass. And apart from some dumb ideas like steering yokes and poor emergency releases and build quality they’re not that bad.

The Cybertruck is objectively bad and deserves ridicule regardless of what Lengthy Nutria does.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Model Y Juniper just started shipping this month. Its a glaring sign that says they bought it after everything Musk did.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

fair enough. i still say fuck'em. there are many more people much more deserving of my sympathy than fucking tesla owners

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I have a Tesla (2017). Had no idea who this guy was at the time, I just liked the idea of an electric vehicle, and buying into a future without ICE. Cars been great, company not so much.

Musk can go to hell though that’s for sure

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (14 children)

For many of us we've had our vehicles for a long time before Elon went dipshit crazy. For some it's because EVs were essentially dogshit before the Model 3 was introduced. Either short range grocery getters or expensive luxury. Even now most "electrified" vehicles everyone advertises are hybrids, not EVs.

I got my Model 3 near the end of 2018. Elon wasn't posting far right and Nazi shit at that time. He was sort of controversial, but that was about it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's why I don't have ill will for people for having a non cybertruck Tesla unless you can tell it's new. But if you don't have an anti elon sticker I'm starting to side eye them

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

There's tesla buyers who dont even know who musk is or what he does/owns. I dont know who owns BMW, Ford, Volkswagen etc. People could easily decide to buy a tesla and not know.

And using hate to fight hate isn't always the best, these maga fucks will just use it as fuel for their regime, embarassing them is a much better way, stickers etc sure, but you shouldnt be physically violent to the person.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There’s tesla buyers who dont even know who musk is or what he does/owns.

Citation??

Or, you just guessing based on the sentence that follows... 🤔

I'd bet significant money that 99.999% of rational car-buying adults know the relationship Musk/Tesla. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Yeah just like thousands of civil servants are "embarrased" of losing their jobs. Just like judges are "embarrased" that the executive branch is ignoring their rulings. Just like millions of Ukrainians are "embarrased" of losing their home. Get over your fucking self... we are at war.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I like em scared. We don’t shun enough.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think Musk is a red herring for the Trump administration to divert attention away from Trump. Keep the eye on the ball. If there was no Trump Elon wouldn't have this power.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't agree.

These fascists are all following the political ideology and strategies laid out by Curtis Yarvin under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug. He's been in the orbit of people like Peter Thiel for 10+ years and has been very influential among the tech oligarch crowd.

His vision centers around creating a tech-oriented monarchy for America. At the top would be the president who would operate more like the Chairman of the Board in a corporate structure. Rather than governing on a day-to-day basis, this President/King would appoint a CEO to oversee the actual management of government. That's the role Musk has taken on.

Trump appoints Musk to do the actual running of the country to accomplish what Trump wants accomplished while letting Trump seem above the fray (at least that's the intention, Trump is too incompetent to actually stay above the fray). Musk isn't a red herring. He's not diverting from anything. He's just the guy doing the job so Trump can go golf all day.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No corporation has ever been anything other than a dictatorship. They are the least democratic of institutions. Why do people think any differently?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yo that’s the exact line of reasoning I used to get my dad to be more union friendly. I think it’s pretty effective.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is it! I think the problem the are facing is musk thought he was way more popular than he was( started believing his twitter bots)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I think he's an easy target, and whether you think he's culpable or not, he's very visible, and taking him down in every possible way is a good thing.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's way harder to find a spaceX dealership to torch

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago

Also hard to torch something that's already burst into a million pieces. HEY-YO!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is a small, but not completely minute, chance that SpaceX employees may be on this.

These people have a brain, and are only in the company to gain experience. Who knows, maybe one or two engines may get damaged in the process.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Duuuude. The enslaved Jews were pissing on the V2 avionics causing the missiles to crash. You could be right. Fuck Elon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Actually resistance in concentration camps is an untold saga. The most famous example is the inverse "B" in "Arbeit Macht Frei", but there where more examples, and less subtle too, like full blown antifascist banners in barracks, even sabotage and espionage in the gas chambers. Never give up!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd sabotage their satellites but they are really hard to get to

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't buy a Tesla? Believe it or not, straight to jail. No trial no nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that's an overkill approach to convince us to not buy a Tesla.

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