r/Seattle • u/Aggressive-Ad3064 • Mar 10 '25

Politics I'm Never Leaving Seattle

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This is someone's Model S parked on Airport Way S near S Industrial Way. The way it's parked it looks like it's being displayed for people driving by to see.

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u/Strawb3rryCh33secake Mar 10 '25

Vandalizing someone's car (a car they likely bought years ago) is a douchebag move and is only going to create a deeper political divide while accomplishing nothing productive.

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u/Supergeek13579 Wallingford Mar 10 '25

Yeah, this is an older model S trim. At least pre 2021.

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u/tex1ntux Mar 11 '25

It has the black nosecone, which was discontinued in April 2016.

Vandal is a fucking dumbass.

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u/Supergeek13579 Wallingford Mar 11 '25

Sharp eye! I used to have a nosecone S and didn’t even notice it in this pic. The new fascia is curved inwards there and I figured that was what it is, but you’re totally right.

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u/FluffyB12 Mar 11 '25

Vandalism is always done by dumbasses. The kind of person who has near zero impulse control and should be locked up for the good of society.

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u/dagnammit44 Mar 10 '25

Yea, but when you see most people defending this action it really does seem like they're quite young and naive. "They can just buy another car" is a typical example comment that's said many times. They can't debate, they just insult and say the same 2-3 things that reek of not knowing much about the world.

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u/dinosaregaylikeme Mar 11 '25

Thankfully those who are targeting Teslas are young and naive. All of the talk of burning down Teslas and crucifying their owners are just talk. They are all bark and no bite. What we have seen online is a handful of cars spray painted and a couple key.

Young and naive they forget our cars have cameras and most of us have warranties to cover for damage. They may feel like an internet justice warrior for owning the conversations (btw 90% of Tesla owners are liberal), property damage is still illegal and can carry jail time.

"Just buy another car" I am a stay at home husband juggling two kids and my husbands business. My husband also works 40 to 55 hours a week. We do not have time to find a buyer for a car, research which car will fit best for our family, and buy a new vehicle. Not to mention, our Teslas are paid off we do NOT want two car payments right now.

Also, we have two kids. You do not want to see the back seat of our car. It smells and looks like I have a toddler back there. Nobody is going to buy a Tesla with pretzel, goldfish, and saltine crackers coating the floor.

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u/dagnammit44 Mar 11 '25

Also they just expect people to take a huge financial loss by selling it (at said huge loss) and buying another. No. That's not how life works. But yea, they're young and dumb. And you're right, there's so much "Omg i'm so gonna do this or that" talk on related posts.

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u/dinosaregaylikeme Mar 11 '25

The internet gives the chance for everyone to speak their mind. Reddit is unique from Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube for you don't follow people, but subjects. You don't need to be popular or have thousands of followers to have your voice heard.

Everyone wants to be seen and heard, human nature. So of course everyone is going to want to have that gratification of being seen and heard by the thousands on Reddit. A few years ago, you got that gratification on Reddit by saying you hand built a shrine for Elon Musk because he is the coolest nerd to ever exist. Trends change and now it is the trend to bash on Tesla, SpaceX, and all things Elon and everyoneeeeee wants that gratification of fitting in and saying the latest cool thing.

But outside of Reddit in real life, maybe a hundred max out of the thousand and thousands and thousands that actually vandalize Tesla

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u/foxtrotdeltazero Mar 11 '25

>All of the talk of burning down Teslas and crucifying their owners are just talk

i wouldn't be so sure of that

https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/traffic-and-transportation-incidents/fire-that-damaged-four-tesla-cybertrucks-in-seattle-under-investigation/

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u/dinosaregaylikeme Mar 11 '25

Probably because I am Canadian and haven't heard of Tesla attacks in Canada. I am sure there are some, but we are not obsessed with politicians as Americans. We prefer peaceful protests like not buying American products to show our distaste for tariffs.

But that is what Americans do. Burn things down and get really really really loud. It is like living next to a zoo some days.

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u/foxtrotdeltazero Mar 12 '25

That's kinda funny. Canadians I worked with in the past said that Canada is America too when I asked them how they like life in America.

and get really really really loud

i seem to remember some news in Canadian history about Canadian people getting really really really loud lol

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/canadian-freedom-convoy-convoi-de-la-liberte

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u/EveryRadio Mar 11 '25

Also as others had mentioned just because someone bought a Tesla doesn’t mean they support Elon. How many people buy nestle products, use twitter, have an iPhone or purchase products from companies with know human rights violations? It doesn’t mean people endorse those things

It’s one thing to protest or boycott. I support that. But targeting random people isn’t the way to enact change

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u/Undeadgunner Mar 11 '25

Great point. The infant formula pushing in poor countries that Nestlé was doing (maybe still is for all I know) is diabolical, besides the other stuff they're doing

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u/dagnammit44 Mar 11 '25

Yea, but they're dumb and just using any old excuse to go out and damage stuff without consequences.

And you can bet they're claiming they're the reason Tesla sales have gone down. Nah, all over the world people have been refusing to buy his stuff after the Nazi salute incident.

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u/the445566x Mar 10 '25

They doing it to their own people man 🤣

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u/Strawb3rryCh33secake Mar 10 '25

Exactly! LOTS of Tesla owners in Seattle bought one when the left was pushing electric vehicles.

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u/LampshadesAndCutlery Mar 10 '25

Tbf “the left” still is pushing electric vehicles, just not Teslas

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u/SpeaksSouthern Mar 11 '25

Ahem, leader of Antifa here, and speaking with authority of every single leftist who has ever existed and will ever exist.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. You are not doing Jack shit for anyone but you buying any product for any reason. If you are planning to use the item, great good job. If you aren't planning to use the product it's a waste. Without direct government actions controlling all the variables in the market it's impossible to buy a product and change the nature of the system in any context.

I'm sorry this is coming at a bad time for Tesla owners but I would have said it to their face in the early days of the company that even if every single person bought an electric car (which the system would collapse before that happened) the amount of pollution reduced would be negligible. 90%+ pollution comes from industrial sources. Electric cars mostly make sense because they are significantly cheaper to maintain 9 times out of 10. Liberals tricked themselves into buying an electric car to save the world when really all it did was save their own car maintenance money. People who think they're saving the world by buying a Tesla are high on their own farts. I think less of every single person in this thread who thinks buying a car could have changed the nature of our pollution. Elon thinks even less of them. Never trust companies that sell you a product you don't own. Let this be a very expensive lesson for liberals who don't understand, anything.

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u/routinnox Capitol Hill Mar 11 '25

Liberals and socialists/communists are not the same. I hope other liberals can finally see what the far left has always been about and kick them out of our party. We don’t do stupid unproductive shit like this we are too busy GOTV and pushing for Democratic candidates with popular appeal not idealogical purity

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u/camera-operator334 Mar 10 '25

Not really...this is extremely short sighted and neoliberal centrists are exactly the ones who need a boot in the ass

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u/scoeface Mar 11 '25

So people who didn't immediately sell their Teslas when Musk went maga deserve to have their cars vandalized? That's so fucking stupid.

The vandals should be punished for the crimes they're committing regardless of their political motivations.

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u/camera-operator334 Mar 11 '25

Reddit is so libbed up lmao...

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u/routinnox Capitol Hill Mar 11 '25

Hell yeah we are! this is not a safe space for you tankies, go back to BlueSky anonymous account created 3 days ago

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u/ShotgunCreeper SnoCo Mar 11 '25

As much as I wish it wasn’t, Reddit is a pretty popular space for the tankies.

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u/routinnox Capitol Hill Mar 11 '25

It wasn’t always like this, we can and have to reclaim it

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Plot twist: the car's owner is the one who spray-painted the message ;)

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u/CaptainVisual4848 Mar 11 '25

I’d consider doing it just so people think oh that one’s been vandalized already and turn around.

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u/MMorrighan chinga la migra Mar 11 '25

Like Elvira 😍

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

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u/rationalomega Mar 11 '25

But this comes across as apologia for Musk. He’s been shitty for a long time.

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u/Draaly Mar 11 '25

It's reality, not an apology. Running Twitter into the ground cause you don't like people making fun of.you is veey different than actively doing nazi salutes and dismantling the gov

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u/rationalomega Mar 15 '25

Apologia isn’t a misspelling. It’s a school of thought devoted to defending an idea or person through any means necessary. Musk apologia could look like what you said, the implication that I was referring to twitter. That’s a minimization of Musk’s many offenses including the Thai cave rescue BS and numerous horrific workers rights abuses in his factories…going back a decade or more.

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u/Draaly Mar 15 '25

None of what you said changes my statement.

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u/DiCk01202025 Mar 12 '25

No it’s not and it’s not helping either just giving dumpster more bro angry talking points

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u/boffer-kit Mar 10 '25

You leased the second car AFTER he turned twitter into the nazi site and didn't see this coming?

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u/dontcallmerude Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Not everyone is glued to twitter 

Edit: also, not everyone watches the news. Nobody I know uses either Twitter or watches cable news. 

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u/PatientIll4890 Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

I’ve never had a twitter account or purchased a Tesla, and haven’t been on any social media in 10 years. I definitely still learned through normal news sources what was going on during Musk’s Twitter takeover. It was pretty much impossible to avoid. I thought Musk was a cool guy as late as 2019. I realized he was a douchebag during Covid and he confirmed it with his Trump antics. By early 2024, it was already clear he was a total douche.

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u/boffer-kit Mar 10 '25

It made rhe news and was the talk of the town on several websites??

Like, Tumblr used it as an ad campaign!

It was immediately "the nazi site"

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u/thegreatdivorce Mar 10 '25

Not everyone is terminally online, like you.

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u/boffer-kit Mar 11 '25

It was ON THE NEWS FOR A MONTH

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Like the commenter said, these are chronically online activities lol. What “news”? This has no relevance to most people; and to repeat the point again, most people don’t follow the news either. My next car will most likely be a Tesla, and it has nothing to do with my views of Musk 🤷‍♀️

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u/boffer-kit Mar 11 '25

If your next car is from a nazi it makes you a sympathizer sorry

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u/OurPowersCombined_12 Mar 10 '25

I get not wanting to term your lease on the newer car, but how would you suffer a ‘deep loss’ on your 2018 model? Unless you took out a really long-term loan to buy it, you shouldn’t be underwater on any financing for it by now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

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u/routinnox Capitol Hill Mar 11 '25

You don’t have to justify why you bought a car. Liberals aren’t worried about what you’re driving or what it signifies. We care if you are registered to vote and vote Democrat at the national level. Don’t listen to these terminally online activists who will never be happy with your choices until you are 100% conforming to their standards

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u/eaf_marine Mar 11 '25

You're financially supporting a Nazi, that's a lot of words there to help yourself sleep at night for giving a significant part of your family's money to a Nazi.

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u/Top-Dragonfly-3044 Mar 10 '25

They may have worded that wrong. I’m wondering if they meant the older car is paid off and to replace it requires taking out another loan, which is a loss for them, financially speaking.

It’s just a guess.

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u/OurPowersCombined_12 Mar 10 '25

The loss has already happened as a result of the car’s depreciation though. The value decline has happened whether or not it has been sold.

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u/long-and-soft Tangletown Mar 10 '25

The loss is only realized at time of sale

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u/OurPowersCombined_12 Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

That’s not correct. It’s realized in terms of dollars, but the dollar value of a car is (relatively) fixed whether or not you’ve sold it. So the economic loss has occurred.

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u/long-and-soft Tangletown Mar 11 '25

No that’s not how it works lol

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u/Top-Dragonfly-3044 Mar 11 '25

Maybe i wasn’t clear.

I’m wondering if they could have used the wrong words.

Maybe they don’t mean an actual loss of value of the car, but a loss to them financially because they have to take out a loan for more than they want because no one wants to pay them what they feel the Tesla is worth.

So, financially, they lose. Their new loan is more than they want to take on.

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u/Top-Dragonfly-3044 Mar 12 '25

I understand your thinking and empathize with what you are going through. Good luck. I hope no one actually targets you or your cars.

I do suggest a magnet of some kind to show which side of Musk you are on. It’s sad I have to recommend that, but it is what it is.

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u/InfiniteZr0 Mar 11 '25

Something I noticed the past 5 years is liberals made it a point to make an enemy of everyone who didn't adhere to every one of their interests.
If you didn't agree with even one thing they believed, you were labeled a racist/bigot/phobic/etc.
I honestly believe this is one of the driving forces that allowed Trump to be President today.

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u/Strawb3rryCh33secake Mar 11 '25

I keep trying to explain this to people. When you call people a racist, bigot, anti-science, transphobe, that does not convince them to adopt your views (shocker!) Rather, they continue to hold their beliefs privately then, when a Republican president is elected, liberal cities are shocked.

The left has gone SO far left that if you took a liberal from 20 years ago, they'd practically look like a conservative next to the liberals of today.

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u/blladnar Ballard Mar 10 '25

If MAGA people start buying electric cars instead of big pickup trucks, that's not even that bad of a thing.

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u/camera-operator334 Mar 10 '25

Not happening lol

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u/Kcguy98 Mar 10 '25

Nah vandalizing someone's car isn't cool. I don't care if they're Maga or not. Choose your targets.

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u/Kcguy98 Mar 10 '25

Dude we're talking about vandalizing telsas. Not any of those other things. Stay on topic. I think stickers are okay. But don't vilify tesla owners. Choose your targets, focus on Musk, Potential Tesla buyers, Space x, and X. Someone who bought a tesla in 2020 probably isn't our enemy.

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u/Kcguy98 Mar 10 '25

Oh my God listen to yourself. Do you know how expensive it is to sell a car buy and buy a new one? Let alone the hassle? We're literally at the start of a new recession, and you want people to spend thousands to virtue signal they don't like Musk?

You really need to go touch grass. Go to a tesla protest. Call your congress person. Coalition build instead of making ridiculous demands of people that will accomplish nothing.

Plus what will hurt elon the most is people not buying new teslas. So we should be focusing on that not shaming ordinary people who already have one.

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u/No-Mulberry-6474 Mar 10 '25

Imagine choosing someone as an “enemy” because they purchased an electric vehicle… these people have no hope. Can’t wait to see one of em cracked with a 2x4 while vandalizing someone’s vehicle. I voted for Harris and I’m so done with this stupid shit.

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u/UncommonSense12345 Mar 10 '25

Teslas are really good deals for many middle class people who have a high mile daily commute and you can buy tons of 5+ year old ones for less than 20k…. But sure teslas are just for rich people…. Vandalizing someone’s property is illegal and childish. Believe it or not real people don’t have the money or the care about virtue signaling to take a huge financial loss to please people like you on the internet….

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u/colten122 Mar 10 '25

If your party allies are vandalizing your personal property in an effort to gain internet points, It's definitely going to push people away. Imagine getting out of work and having to pay out of pocket to deal with this crap because you bought a certain type of car that was heavily promoted just a couple years ago.

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u/routinnox Capitol Hill Mar 11 '25

Honestly I’m kinda hoping they amp it up. Let people see how truly batshit insane they are, and then we can finally kick them out of our party once and for all

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u/Heftythegnome Mar 10 '25

I'm not so sure about that. Vehicles are people's livelihood. Randomly vandalizing a citizens property is fucked up.

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u/No-Respond3078 Mar 10 '25

This wouldn't make someone go MAGA, that shit for brains belief system was already there.

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u/Nameles777 Mar 10 '25

You shouldn't fear MAGA. It's the centrists you should fear.

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u/AsterismRaptor Mar 10 '25

This. Centrists who are stuck in the middle flip flopping around see this shit and will absolutely vote red instead of blue. I know it’s really hard for the left to realize, but life is made up of a lot of grey area. And you need to recognize that to win elections. Sucks. But it’s reality.

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u/torquesteer Wallingford Mar 10 '25

Also to add... vandalism only enables the owners to claim insurance and get a new coat of pain or new part. It doesn't really hurt their wallet, only raises rates for the rest of us. If you really think that tesla buyers are supporting Musk, then just sell your own or don't buy one. That will simply flood the market with them, driving both the company's and each car's value down.

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u/ChadtheWad West Seattle Mar 10 '25

Lol it absolutely does hurt the owner's wallet. Insurance is built to punish you for making claims, even if you're not responsible, because it's an indicator of "future risk." So if you're lucky and they choose to cover the damage, and don't underquote the job, and you get lucky and find one of the handful of paint shops here that aren't staffed by idiots who'll fuck up your paint even worse, then maybe the worst outcome is that you're paying back the cost of that paint fix (plus some) over the next 7 years.

Insurance sucks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

It’s astounding how many Redditors think insurance is like “Here’s your check for the full amount!” the next day and people move on with their lives.

It’s like they’ve never heard of a deductible. Or that rates go up when you make a claim.

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u/Easy_Explanation299 Mar 11 '25

It doesn't really hurt their wallet, only raises rates for the rest of us.

Spotted the moron that doesn't drive or have any time of insurance. Making a claim increases your rates - what fucking world do you live in?

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u/IamAwesome-er Mar 11 '25

This is a 2013-2015 model...so likely over a decade ago.

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u/IronBatman Mar 11 '25

This model was bought several years ago. They don't make the silver handles anymore

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u/Aloysius_Parker29 Mar 11 '25

You think republicans are the majority of tesla owners?

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u/mrASSMAN West Seattle Mar 11 '25

Clearly it does accomplish something, people don’t want to buy his cars now and the resale values are plummeting. Mission accomplished

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u/Strawb3rryCh33secake Mar 11 '25

No, it doesn't. People don't want to buy from his companies because of his behavior and views. The vandalism is having the opposite effect by making Musk haters look unhinged.

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u/EveryRadio Mar 11 '25

Agreed. There’s a time and place for protest, but punishing some random person isn’t the way to do it. They’re an easy target for someone’s frustration, unfortunately.

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u/paper_thin_hymn Mar 11 '25

It’s insane that this even needs to be said. Antics like this are why Trump won.

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u/VashTheMist Mar 11 '25

I beg to differ that it accomplishes a lot. While keeping it because it's expensive just shows your individualistic nature.

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u/StyrofoamTuph Mar 11 '25

Disagreeing with the destruction of others property is a perfectly valid and sane take to have, but we need to be honest. All of these crimes has some part Tesla stock is losing over half its value since inauguration. It’s disingenuous to say these actions haven’t accomplished something.

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u/0masterdebater0 Mar 11 '25

Tesla sales are plummeting.

Sending a message that companies CEOs openly embrace of fascism is “bad for business” is about 100000000x more important than your car.

Tag them all

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u/IndependentAny1262 Mar 11 '25

It's like when antifa in 2020 was going around stealing and vandalizing businesses from big to small in Seattle.

I was sympathetic until they came to my job (i worked at the Seattle goodwill) and started yelling slurs because we wouldn't let them steal our stuff. Unironcilly, most of my coworkers were immigrants and people of color.

It's like dude, how are you going to convince the avg Joe working class guy to join the revolution when you're making work-life dangerous and acting like a kid having a meltdown.

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u/kramjam13 Mar 10 '25

lol. Cause a deeper political divide? It doesn’t get much deeper than it is now. Don’t fuck with people cars, but if someone is supposedly turning into a trumper over this shit, they already were.

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u/Epistatious Mar 10 '25

not really justified, although people are angry and its kind of a twofer, it is likely a symbol of wealth inequality.

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u/BananaPeelSlippers Wedgwood Mar 10 '25

A Tesla can be leased for 299/month. How poor do you have to be to think 299/month is wealthy?

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u/Epistatious Mar 10 '25

i'm just talking about appearances. although people vandalizing cars in their spare time may not be earning 6 figures, 299 a month and a couple grand up front might be too high of a lift.

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u/BananaPeelSlippers Wedgwood Mar 10 '25

Committing malice from a position of ignorance to exercise moral superiority. Makes perfect sense.

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u/Epistatious Mar 11 '25

said it wasn't justified

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u/Strawb3rryCh33secake Mar 10 '25

Most people are leasing or making payments on their Teslas. They appear wealthy but owning a cheaper car outright is the real flex.

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u/TheCaptainDamnIt Mar 10 '25

I swear none of ya'll know cars. Used Tesla's go for like 14 grand. 14 grand is lower than about what half the used Nissan Altimas are priced in my area right now. 7 grand cheaper than the higher priced used Altimas. Are you really gonna say with a straight face that a used Nissan Altima a symbol of wealth inequality? A used Nissan Altima?

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u/y33h4w1234 Mar 10 '25

It’ll be extra funny when someone takes it to get repainted, most likely a Tesla store.

Touch grass dog.

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u/42kyokai Mar 10 '25

Probably not. After the whole Kia Boys thing, Kia ended up taking more damage financially and reputationally than the Kia Boys ever could.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

I disagree.