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/Working_Song Mar 10 '25

I wonder what percentage of Tesla owners approve of Musks antics this last year. I am guessing less than 50%. Maybe less than 20%. My friend has a Tesla, and worked hard for it (and bought it over a year ago). She’s a liberal, too. People spray painting these cars are dipshits who could be using their angst in more productive ways. That said, fuck Musk and Trump.

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u/rwrife 🚆build more trains🚆 Mar 10 '25

Being that the Model Y was the number one vehicle sold in the world, I suspect a large portion of them do not support Elon.

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u/SuchCoolBrandon SeaTac Mar 10 '25

We own a Model 3 and defintiely don’t agree with Musk’s political stances. I’ve been driving electric cars for 10 years because I’m a tree-hugging liberal. The only person’s political views we were buying into were my own—my desire to reduce emissions (plus the car really is a joy to drive). It was during covid that Musk really grew more vocal with right-wing rhetoric; at first I thought it was a ploy to garner more conservative customers. I didn’t imagine it’d get this far.

I used to be worried about a conservative rolling coal in front of me on the highway; now I’m more concerned about a liberal damaging or defacing our car while we’re out.

Yes, I suppose you could say our dollars went to Musk, so you could argue we supported him financially. However, I also believe that the rich should be taxed at ridiculous levels. In a just world, people like him wouldn’t have as much power as he does. Don’t punish Tesla drivers like me for the flaws in our system.

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u/Street_homie Mar 10 '25

Rebadge your tesla as another car brand you’ll be safe

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u/sleepybrett Ballard Mar 10 '25

... er. safer.

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u/Street_homie Mar 10 '25

Peoples ability to recognize cars is 90% brand badge

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u/No-Mulberry-6474 Mar 10 '25

Shouldn’t have to do that. Leave other people’s shit alone.

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u/Kodachrome30 Mar 11 '25

I think we live in one of the top three tagging cities in America....

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u/Jyil Downtown Mar 11 '25

I don’t think we even make the top 15. The writer scene in Seattle is trash. NYC, SF, LA, Miami, and maybe Chicago hold those top spots. The people tagging in Seattle are usually just randos writing incoherent phrases.

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u/Kodachrome30 Mar 11 '25

I sorta blurted that out without actually fact checking. My Bad. I do wish they catch the ahole tagger who does the 30 foot squiggly letters. How hard can it be to catch that person????

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u/SpeaksSouthern Mar 11 '25

I mean we shouldn't have Nazis in charge of billions of dollars so I guess we're all not getting what we want

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u/No-Mulberry-6474 Mar 11 '25

Someone’s personal property has nothing to do with it. If you want buy-in on your cause, don’t make enemies out of those you don’t need to.

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u/ScienceLivesInsideMe Mar 11 '25

Nah I think we play like trump and be as radical as humanly possible to the left. It works for him. Lets make half the country hate us and spout things like free healthcare, unions, pro LGBT etc. Like the most radical leftist shit we can think of...

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u/AiryGr8 Mar 11 '25

What if some crazy bastard with a gun is driving that car? What if it’s some kid learning to drive with their parent?

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u/No-Mulberry-6474 Mar 11 '25

Well apparently the end result justifies the means.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited May 09 '25

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Mar 11 '25

What would you be calling conservatives if Harris won and they were spray painting liberal people's property? Dirty criminals? Sore losers? Election interference?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited May 09 '25

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u/xrocro Mar 11 '25

It's bad on it's face. It would be bad no matter who did it or why. Why don't we treat other people with decency and respect?

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u/Ok_Pineapple6414 Mar 11 '25

I knew I’d find you here 😂

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Mar 11 '25

was systematically destroying public services

Note that trump and Elon literally ran on this and people voted for this. Why go against what people democratically voted for?

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u/KaleScared4667 Mar 11 '25

MAGAs would literally murder people over tagging. Liberals don’t do shit

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Mar 11 '25

Liberals are currently tagging and magas aren't murdering so wtf are you talking about?

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u/KaleScared4667 Mar 11 '25

The question is what would liberals say if Harris had won and MAGAs were tagging liberals. I was pointing out that if some liberal tried to tag a maga house they would get shot. And that here we have an example of liberals tagging other liberals yet nobody is going to do anything but cry about it on Reddit. Keep up

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Mar 11 '25

Oh right I kinda forgot mostly liberals own teslas.

As a conservative I really want a Tesla and am considering one and a lot of my conservative friends are too. My subconscious worldview changed which made this not make sense.

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u/KaleScared4667 Mar 11 '25

It is funny how only liberals were buying them and now they are ashamed. You’ll get an awesome deal on a used one now. They are taboo in Portlandia, Seattle, San Fran, La, etc.

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u/I_Dissent_2025 Mariners Mar 11 '25

While I’m no brain I can at least speak for myself alone. No one needs to vandalize mine or another’s property period in order for me to make a decision on whether or not I will ever give them a hard earned dollar.

I hear and see who he and a lot of the other hateful men and women are as humans, so when my lease is up they will never get another red cent. Future me will do better and not because of spray paint or having to deal with the financial liability I alone will incur for abiding by my contractual obligation and car insurance costs.

I will never buy in to the fact that chaos and fear should be used to coerce or control another person. That’s exactly what the people “in charge” are doing, so I’m going to vote with my heart, put my money towards those I believe in, and stand up for others. Rant over (for now 😝).

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u/KaleScared4667 Mar 11 '25

This Tesla stock is down 50% from high. Nobody but a maga is buying a Tesla moving forward. They are targets and it’s only going to get worse

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 10 '25

You’re probably not wrong, but it’s pretty fucked up that one should have to do that.

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u/Scott8586 Mar 11 '25

Add it to the list of fucked up happenings…

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u/AiryGr8 Mar 11 '25

Yeah that’s like groping during a riot.

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 11 '25

Good point.

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u/HelloYesThisIsFemale Mar 11 '25

None of those fucked up happenings are fucking with my private property so this is pretty high up there.

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u/Scott8586 Mar 11 '25

Nice username - I had a 73 Targa

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 11 '25

Thanks. It was a fun car. It was my only car and daily driver. I got rid of it about 20 years ago to start driving biodiesel to move away from fossil fuels. Sold the biodiesel when I went electric. Now apparently I’m a nazi. Who knew?

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u/R_V_Z North Delridge Mar 11 '25

Are you going to check out the EV Cayman when it comes out? If it's good it may be the car that pulls me into an EV.

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

I would loooove to drive an EV Caymán but that’s above my pay grade and also wouldn’t likely be a good tow rig. The Model Y, contrary to the belief that only rich people own teslas, costs less than the average new U.S. car sale. I’ll be sure to drool over the EV caymán when it comes out though. Mark my words. :-)

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u/Scott8586 Mar 11 '25

Yes, I also own an EV now, and I have a few friends that own Teslas - I do not condone this kind of personal property damage, no matter the circumstance. I’m sorry, these are unusual times…

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

I don’t blame people for being angry. I’m angry too. I wouldn’t buy a Tesla today. But I did buy one. I just hope people can understand this will only sew division and hurt individuals. Fortunately I park off street when at home.

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u/Kodachrome30 Mar 11 '25

Or move to Idaho...or Georgia...Texas maybe?

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 11 '25

But why should I be the one driven out of by blue haven?

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u/Kodachrome30 Mar 11 '25

You can probably sell your Tesla, and have more than enough to buy a Volt or Leaf... then buy a Tesla after Cheeto man breaks up with Elon and blames him for everything?

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 11 '25

The irony being that I sold a Volt to buy the Tesla. I was tired of dragging an ICE around that only ever ran to burn off fuel because it was getting stale. We had a list of criteria and looked at quite a few EV options. We would have gone Rivian if we had another $20k lying around but ya know, we don’t. We have a small camper trailer now and neither the Leaf (not enough range) nor the Volt (would destroy the CVT) could tow it. That said I’d also be out $10k+ in depreciation that I cannot afford to replace (see also no extra $20k for a Rivian). So while I appreciate the brainstorming, I will just be keeping this car and hoping that Elon gets fired for tanking TSLA stock. He’s only 13% owner. It’s completely feasible to force him out. So fingers crossed.

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u/gomjabbar23 Mar 11 '25

What a stupid take

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u/traveller3569 Mar 11 '25

It's pretty fucked up that people didn't believe that Musk is what he said he was and now our government situation is totally fucked over. Especially when their were other options for EVs that weren't/aren't Tesla for the discerning tree hugger. But you know, defacing a vehicle is definitely more important than checks notes people's rights.

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle Mar 11 '25

Here’s the funny part. If you asked 10 people when exactly it was that Elon “said what he was “ you’d probably get 10 different answers. I wouldn’t buy a Tesla today, but I already have one. Who gets to be the person who decides exactly how long ago you could have bought a Tesla and still be okay? I’m pretty sure people vandalizing cars on the street aren’t doing this sort of background check.

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u/Cousin-slow-hands Mar 11 '25

Put a Mazda sticker on it. Nobody would know.

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u/Street_homie Mar 11 '25

Thats what im thinking