Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City

Not having the phone with you is critical. But I assume planning is done on a laptop or desktop that is obviously not taken with?

Jan 6ers were pardoned, so by this logic all the car vandalisms are legal too.

Rebellion is constitutional, but not legal.

Sure, "we the people" control the government, so technically we can destroy it when we want. However, "we the people" also want a stable government that prevents the minority from ruining things for the majority.

So if you're going to rebel, you need be very careful that you're on right side, otherwise I think the rest are justified in calling you a terrorist.

How americans see themselves after cowardly vandalising some idiot's car

Scary.

Arguably making it a bad to own tesla would cost the company a lot more faster since nobody would want any of them. It is kinda assholish since people bought those terrible piles of garbage since they were told they were green and rich people luxury flex, while they refused to do their research about the vehicle and its innumerable issues.

Honestly dumping the bank owned car you keep in your yard for appearances for cheap would be a good idea since tesla will kill you in an otherwise survivable accident and it will turn off autopilot microseconds before crash in order to blame you.

They can use the insurance money to get a non tesla. Clearly these confused autistic gestures are not working since the de facto tyrannyical government is not reacting to it at all and not labelling it "terrorism".

The incident in Kansas City genuinely does sound like one just caught itself on fire.

In Kansas City, Police Captain Jacob Becchina said in a statement that an officer first observed smoke coming from a Cybertruck parked in a Tesla parking lot. “The officer used his fire extinguisher, however, KCFD was still needed as he could not put the fire out,” Becchina said. “The fire spread to a second Cybertruck parked next to the original burning one. The circumstances are under investigation, but preliminarily, the fire is being investigated for the potential of being an Arson.”

Could be insurance fraud too.

They've become sentient, and are committing suicide.

I was JUST about to say; how do we know they didn't just do that? or that this wasn't a buggy firmware update that just did that? or a malicious firmware update that did this?

LoL 😂

Exactly 🤣🔥

They need to diversify their strategy.

You think the coup attempt that ended lives is just as bad as property damage?

It's obviously the MAGA crowd. They've spent years complaining about electric vehicles. They've just escalated that to burning them out. The police need to go have a nice chat with the rolling coal types.

Probably god's will or something. What's the pont of investigating.

The engineers did this, Teslas just kind of do this.

Maybe, maybe this is actually stochastic terrorism being carried out by MAGA themselves.

Think about it, their plan is to declare martial law - right? Conservatives already hate EVs, they think that Trump is a 'good' billionaire while billionaires like Gates are 'bad' billionaires - I don't think it would take much to make Musk out to be a 'bad' billionaire.

Idk if this is as clear as 'good guys vs bad guys' - these are freedom fighters, but it's never been clearer that a lot of people are divided on what 'free' actually means. You shouldn't assume that the people doing this are actually on your side.

"Evil attacks", like we're killing puppies, or something.

It's vandalism against machines, and the only victim here is the insurance companies.

It’s not terrorism. They were just peacefully touring the dealerships. Just like January 6. Peacefully touring.

The cars suck, but he's right that the company hasn't done anything to deserve this. He's the one who chose to make himself the face of Tesla, though, so however people feel about him, they'll feel about any business he owns.

Terrorism, though? Hardly. It's protest. He's the one doing terrorism by dismantling the government.

The board needs to remove Elon today.

Didnt the Nazi party burn down the Reichstag and blame it on the other party?

For the Vegas incident, I'm pretty sure those were customer cars at a collision center.

If unsold teslas catch fire, i'm convinced it's some insurance scam. A car sold and a car gone that they can't fix anyway

Wdym by "backdoor into all Teslas"

• This could mean "taking an industry standard sorfware update feature and making it abusively aggressive to or push malware to end users"
• it could mean "grants tesla 25-75% of the car's controls from the internet"
• it could mean the former AND "grants access to diagnostics, settings and controls the consumer cannot access themselves"
• it could also mean "can run arbitrary code on your tesla at any time with little or no notice"

Given Elons history, it's definitely possible.

perfect. let's see if all tesla dealerships do it

I'd set it on fire and make an insurance claim.

I'd be surprised if he did. He sees Teslas as an extension of himself. Which is why it's so very effective at upsetting him whenever people do stuff like this.

Great way to get rid of rotting inventory and recoup costs through insurance.

because true love is only possible in the next world, for new people. it is too late for us. so they wreak havoc on the middle class. tesla owners aren't exactly in the same working class that the arsonist is likely radicalized by being a part of. burning the cars send a message to nazis, to elon directly, and to a lesser but still real extent, the petty bourgeois class that acts as the operating oppressive arm of the oligarchy. not saying its right or moral or good or bad for any cause, just likely the mindset of someone who is setting fire to nazi cars in 2025.

As a reminder, Tesla is "direct to consumer" and the "dealership" is corporate owned!

So when the party of conspiracy theorists claims conspiracy against them, you can rest assured it's a conspiracy by them.

But that's what they'd say if the the tables were turned, so fuck 'em and their shit. I hope the insurance adjuster finds a way out and leaves them holding the bag.

I don't care who burns 'em. So long as they're burnt.

Reduce sales because it will put people off buying one, in theory…

How did the Irish get the UK oppressor to negotiate?

They're helping put Tesla stock on sale to kindly help new investors get a piece of the company.

Driving up insurance rates is certainly a possibility.

Drives down the price of teslas.

Arson isn't essential. A non violent act would be throwing eggs at the swasticar.

What I'm hearing is destroy ALL the Teslas.

In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it'll be harder to get people in the door if they're strip searching everyone and if they can't have as much inventory on the lot, customers can't drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.

I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.

Tesla has much higher output than the number of vehicles that spontaneously combust. So the supply shortage you envision won't occur unless cars light up by the hundreds or thousands a day. And that's before accounting for all the extra slack in production created by decreasing demand around the world.

Teslas combusting damages the brand. It's a material risk of owning a Tesla. It would also mean higher insurance. In fact beyond some combustion threshold, Teslas would become uninsurable. Therefore Teslas on fire directly contributes to decreasing Elon's purchase power.

When you commit "terrorism" against the fascist enemies of the American people, is not terrorism it's the right thing to do

terror act it self inherently is neither good or bad. people assign it that value depending on which side of the fuckening they come out.

i for one don't cry over some rich man's brand being destroy, the same way this man does not crime about us poors suffering.

that's just the world we live in and that's ok. i just wish more peasants got woke on the rules.