Everyone acting like its okay to burn up teslas of uninvolved people because you disapprove of what Musk is doing. Then you should have no argument against pro-lifers burning down abortion clinics because they disapprove of what the doctors there are doing. Just saying.
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Everyone acting like it's okay to throw eggs at billionaires' yachts because of wealth inequality. Then you should have no argument against rich kids throwing caviar at homeless shelters because they disapprove of being asked to share. Just saying.
What an infinitely stupid response. The proportion of rich people owning a Tesla with respect to all Tesla owners is vanishingly small. When you burn a Tesla of an uninvolved person, you are costing them tens of thousands of currency and are probably destroying their only car.
Ah yes, the tragic wave of innocent Tesla owners having their daily drivers ritually torched by angry mobs. Definitely a real thing, definitely not just a few dealership lots going up in smoke under extremely convenient circumstances. Definitely not insurance fraud from a company that's hemorrhaging value and propped up by enough tax subsidies to fund a small nation. Let's all clutch our pearls and act like someone's grandma just lost her only ride to church. You good, or do you need a GoFundMe for your imagination?
Their comment is still infinitly more humanistic than yours.
What is a straw man argument?
I'll take Potent Potables for $800 Ken.
Yeah, burn them at the dealership instead!
Please dont. Find other ways to destroy them than fire if you want to, but fire endangers fighterfighters etc. Dont harm the working class to own the billionaires.
Counterpoint: fire
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Sorry I cant hear you over me enjoying the sound of beautiful flames on Tesla. Gives me asmr tingles.
One holds human beings in distress, and the other a garbage vehicle. Your comment is disgusting and shows how you value life.
I agree. It’s a false equivalency.
It’s super similar to the idea behind the original tea party. They didn’t do insane shit like burn down buildings with people inside, they tossed tea into the water. If we could do something similar, I’m sure we would.
You know what, the first time, I totally read your comment completely different than how you meant it. So my previous reply would have been different.
Even so, my comment was not disgusting, it was just using logic.
Do you know what? No, you obviously don't, and it's sad.
I wish that you would see the fallacy of your argument, but a cult of personality has you captured.
Empathy and reading a room are not some of your strengths.
Good day.
Or maybe a cult of personality has you captured, preventing you from being able to see it from both sides point of view as I am doing.
You don't have to agree with the other side in order to see it from their perspective.
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Tesla owners going from "Look at me!" to "Stop looking at me!" in the blink of an eye.
if i were looking to fuck with a Tesla, i'd pay close attention to any indication that the car was purchased recently. there are a LOT of people out there with a murder fetish, and i GUARANTEE that a lot of the nice new ones out there are really bait cars for gun owners that have been dying for a reason to shoot someone.
Yeah, probably a lot of Rittenhouse wannabes out there who wanna test the limits of castle doctrine.
yes, but this is a whole new monster..
- someone shoots a person who's defacing their Cybertruck
- they're convicted of murder because it's proven they bought the vehicle specifically to bait a victim
- Trump pardons them
i defy you to tell me that this isn't INEVITABLE.
Man I don't even think step two would happen before trump pardons them. The US is so fucked.
EDIT: As an example of what you said, a sociopath who has recently bought a Tesla is the fucking president of the US
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I am so slow lately I saw this yesterday and only just now got the joke
I thought this joke was going to be about all the cybertrucks needing towing because of yet another recall.
I know it's a joke, but many Tesla "solar" charging stations did actually use diesel generators a few years ago. Citation needed, but I can't be assed to look up the article.
Still more energy efficient than a regular ICE car.
Debatable, it depends on what fraction of the power was supplied by the generator. The chemical-kinetic-electric energy conversion incurs great losses because of waste heat, and portable diesel generators are not always built with efficiency in mind. A charging station operating on 100% diesel to power an EV is much less efficient than a modern ICE vehicle of a similar mass sans batteries.
A charging station operating on 100% diesel to power an EV is much less efficient than a modern ICE vehicle of a similar mass sans batteries.
Citation needed. Do ICE engines not get hot and therefore also have great losses because of waste heat?
Presumably a generator making electricity for a charging station would only run when electricity is needed, while an ICE engine would be losing energy to heat the entire time the vehicle is idling in traffic.
Why would a diesel generator not be made to efficient and why are ICE engines always made to be efficient? How do you know which kind of generator they were using? Why would they use the generator for 100% of the energy needed?
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Pro Tip, you don't need gasoline to burn Tesla just puncture there battery and it will go kaboom. /s
PS : THIS IS A JOKE DON'T EVER PUNCTURE A LITHIUM ION BATTERY IT IS VERY DANGEROUS
PPS: ICE cars exploding in flames when shot is a Hollywood myth. Not so much for EVS.
Let's focus on the nazi leader also not only his old projects
His stock in Tesla is leveraged for a lot of other things he does. Lowering the stock value could cripple him financially.
Run Tesla stock prices into the ground. It's legal and, short of criminal violence, it would damage Elon worse than anything else. Without his money, Elmo Muskrat would just be the guy at the end of a dive bar you avoid because all they talk about is government conspiracies to cover up the fact that Lizard People Aliens are making human lizard people hybrids.
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por que no los dos?
I think for the first time in my life I'm okay with cars burning extra fuel needlessly
Actually burning Teslas is bad for the environment.
just me playing arsonist's advocate here:
what if the burned tesla prevents two more from being sold? how does that compare to the impact of that lithium mining?
Good counterpoint. I don't know
Drop in the bucket compared to what enabling this billionaire shit bag is going to do.
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*Teslurr
Nice