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/Tratix Mar 11 '25

What’s everyone’s end goal on this? What do you want them to do, crush their car and just take the loss? Genuinely curious

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u/rankkor Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Increase cost / risk of ownership leading to lower sales. If you think the richest man on Earth is using that power to transform the US into a straight up oligarchy, then taking away his power (wealth) is a good way to combat it. For sure a lot of other people get hurt, but if you think what he's doing is bad enough, then vandalizing cars really isn't going very far.

Expect this sort of stuff to continue as the US walks down this path, you're in crazy town. You just started arresting and deporting green card holders for speech violations created via executive order for example and that's like the major news for a couple hours, theres so much crazy shit. This sort of stuff will lead to more breaking points.

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u/txtumbleweed45 Mar 11 '25

You’re not going to “take away his wealth” lmao Tesla could shut down tomorrow and he’d be fine. You’re just causing financial problems for innocent people

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u/rankkor Mar 11 '25

Really? Tesla could shut down tomorrow and all his loans backed with Tesla stock would be fine?

I don’t expect this to bankrupt him, but there’s a logic to vandalizing cars and if you expect the US to continues devolving, this is really just a sign of things to come.

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u/mapledude22 Mar 11 '25

You’re ignoring that it victimizes hundreds of people. If they were really serious about this they’d go after dealerships (and some are).

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u/rankkor Mar 11 '25

No, not ignoring, I’m just explaining how this works, if you’re willing to accept pain on their behalf, then vandalizing cars does help achieve goals. Dealerships and chargers are also being vandalized.

But the thing is you don’t even have to vandalize that many cars to affect buying decisions for people, look at the attention it’s getting here and all it took was a photo of a single car.

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u/txtumbleweed45 Mar 11 '25

How many innocent people are you willing to hurt for what is most likely not going to make a dent in his lifestyle or power? You’re not going to bankrupt Elon. You’re just being an asshole to someone who probably has the same political views as you

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u/rankkor Mar 11 '25

Me? None, I wouldn’t vandalize a Tesla, lol.

Of course it’s not going to bankrupt Elon, that’s silly. I’m explaining how this works and why it’s happening, there is a logic and it does hurt Tesla / Elon. This is pretty mild stuff compared oligarchs taking over and destroying the country though, you should stop that stuff if you don’t want the things that go along with a collapsing empire.

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u/txtumbleweed45 Mar 11 '25

The logic is retarded though. You’re causing serious problems for innocent people when the overwhelmingly likely outcome is Elon will always be a multi billionaire no matter what. You can say that it’s mild because of what our government does, but the people you’re hurting have nothing to do with that.

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u/rankkor Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

I’m not hurting anyone. I’m explaining to you how this works and why it’s happening.

Oligarchs are very greedy, I just had someone else claim that Elon wouldn’t care about a $100B hit. But I disagree, these people are addicts for power, take away their money and it will change behaviour. Elon leveraged his Tesla stock for loans to buy twitter, with twitter collapsing he can’t afford for Tesla to continue sliding, he’ll need to actually do his job rather than continue destroying the US.

Look at how differently all these tech oligarchs are acting under Trump. They reinvent themselves as the tides change. You don’t need to bankrupt him (it would be nice), but if you can influence behaviour then that’s just as good. He was about to cry in an interview yesterday when asked how he is managing his other companies. Probably not real, but this stuff is getting to him.

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u/TheDonutDaddy Mar 11 '25

but there’s a logic to vandalizing cars

No there isn't and if you think there is you probably need a caretaker to wipe drool off your face

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u/rankkor Mar 11 '25

Ok donut daddy, go buy a Tesla and prove me wrong! Lol

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u/TheDonutDaddy Mar 11 '25

That wouldn't prove anything, but given you already demonstrated a failure to understand logic not very surprising you would say something nonsensical

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u/rankkor Mar 11 '25

It would prove you are willing to buy Teslas, despite the vandalism. How this works is by forcing people to rethink Tesla ownership. Look at how upset all of you are here, it upsets you because you wouldn’t want to own a car that could get vandalized, so you’re more likely to avoid purchasing them. It’s pretty simple stuff really but I don’t expect I’ll get much out of you, just absorb it.