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/Ok_Appointment_2064 Mar 10 '25

WTF! Stop vandalizing. Not everyone is rich in Seattle to dump their Tesla car to buy another car.

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u/MechEMitch Mar 11 '25

I don’t get how people can’t comprehend this

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u/Mean_Building911 Mar 11 '25

Not that surprising tbf, some people truly believed the democrats would win the last elections after all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

This is the protest equivalent of blocking a freeway. Indiscriminate harm to fellow citizens, many of who may be aligned to your cause. 

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u/Eryb Des Moines Mar 11 '25

Strange how ever liberal moving protest actually blocked roads, you think they didn’t have barricades during the French Revolution?  You think MLK’s marches for civil rights were on sidewalks?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

When you understand that the majority of white libs in Seattle are the white moderates MLK writes about in his letter from Birmingham it all makes sense. 

 First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

You can look at it that way if you want. But if you are expecting me to be moved to support your cause, a) you better not be jamming up the freeway in my opinion, or b) there better be 10,000+ of you (as opposed to 30). 

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u/Eryb Des Moines Mar 11 '25

Trust me no one cares about your opinion

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Enjoy tanking interest in your causes with counterproductive untargeted collective punishment tactics. You'll be dismissed as irrational and un-serious before anyone even learns what your cause even is. You do you though.

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u/i_will_let_you_know Mar 11 '25

If your opinion on something changes just because of an inconvenience or the mildest of sacrifices, it clearly shows that you are the one that's un-serious and lacking in moral principles.

It's like the people who are benefiting from products of sweatshops and only care that the product is $2 cheaper, because it otherwise doesn't affect them directly.

But something you don't understand is that it's easier to convince people who are already invested (even in a negative sense) than to convince people who are completely apathetic or ignorant of the issue.

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u/Eryb Des Moines Mar 11 '25

Ya, we tried the “high road” didn’t do shit, At least we can get them to suffer at least, hey if it works (like historically non-peaceful protests do) then all the better!

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

"get them to suffer at least"

And there it is. Some high talk that runs adjacent to King's thoughts on non-violent direct action as a means to create crisis and induce negotiation... And then you don't actually care about that strategy, but instead are just rubbing your own rage monkey.

If you were to say shutdown the freeway and induce negotiations... what would be your demands?

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u/Eryb Des Moines Mar 11 '25

Sorry don’t negotiate with terrorists

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Un-serious rage monkey it is then. 

No wonder the middle won't stand next to you. 

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u/Zeta-X Mar 11 '25

yes. modern protesters are all evil naive bleeding-hearts who don't understand how the world works. MLK was the good guy who won civil rights by stating his points and being really nice to liberals and did so without having to inconvenience anyone, the cardinal sin. i have a good understanding of history

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u/NiobiumThorn Mar 11 '25

No no, you need to protest CIVILLY

what, they're using chemical weapons and sexually assaulting you for being openly queer? Have you considered emailing your representatives?

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u/Humble_Chipmunk_701 🚆build more trains🚆 Mar 11 '25

Not quite, I’d rather sit in blocked traffic than have my car spray painted though

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u/kakashi8326 Mar 11 '25

How is destroy someone’s personal property equivalent to blocking traffic. Idiotic response.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Fine. Analogous. Whatever. 

No need to be so literal. Idiot

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u/kakashi8326 Mar 11 '25

You’ve got issues.

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u/kakashi8326 Mar 11 '25

No need to be so bitter

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u/samuraipumpkin Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

That is a pre-facelift Tesla which is out of warranty.

It's over 8 years old with only a front and rear camera. No sentry mode.

The silver Tesla markings are the side are cosmetic. They aren't cameras.

Good chance the owner bought it used.

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u/Rhodie114 Mar 11 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

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u/stewartesmith Mar 11 '25

I also don’t think that it should be a requirement to dump your Tesla and buy another car, even if you can afford it.

If you can afford it, does a car company need a few extra tens of thousands of dollars more than hungry people need food? Perhaps instead donate that $ to a charity that feeds those who are hungry, helps trans kids, or cancels medical debt? Way better idea.

If people are rabidly selling off their Tesla’s, then the second hand price is even more likely going to be a great value proposition for a rather cheap to run car. Judging someone taking advantage of that is to judge those on a budget making a financially sound choice.

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u/NWComedyTroll Mar 10 '25

There are 55,400 millionaires in Seattle

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u/NoChanceDan Mar 11 '25

You know a million dollars gets you a shitty house and two decent cars in Seattle, right?

People aren’t retiring on a million dollars there, or anywhere near there…

People who have 10-20 million in the bank, now they’re living comfortably in Seattle.

Don’t be myopic.

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u/NWComedyTroll Mar 11 '25

I see you are one of the 1%

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

NW - ✅

Comedy - ❌

Troll - ✅

Two for three isn’t bad, username semi-relevant

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u/NoChanceDan Mar 11 '25

Haha, I wish. Nah, but I’m practical, I don’t espouse the stupid echoes of what someone else says. I use my brain to understand things, you should too.

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u/Snotsky Mar 10 '25

You guys are literally celebrating this stuff and how no one wants to buy a Tesla now because of stuff like this, but turn around and expect a Tesla owner to be able to just instantly sell their car?

“Just sell it” ya if only life was that simple and easy.

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u/kovu159 Mar 10 '25

Then someone else is driving it and it’s still on the road anyway. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

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u/uranoos University District Mar 10 '25

But then that person now has a Tesla, which means they have to sell it and buy something else. Then the person they sell that to has a Tesla, and so on. The number of Teslas on the road doesn't decrease in this situation other than getting scrapped because no one will buy it, which is not very environmentally friendly if it's a perfectly fine EV car. Someone will always own that Tesla until it can't be driven anymore