Vandalizing Tesla Vehicles
I've been having trouble wrapping my head around the vandalizing of Tesla vehicles around the nation in response to DOGE and Elon. Then...Just this morning I remember the teachings of Marxism in my son's high school when we were still in California. His geography teacher took it upon herself to teach Marxism to the kids. My son recorded her lecture when she said, "To get somebody's attention you can take or destroy their property." She also later said, "If somebody says something that threatens your existence you can physically attack them." My son said, "I don't agree that I should take other people's property." Her response? "Oh, property is just property." When he said he didn't believe in attacking people who don't agree with you she said, "Oh, you're a pacifist." What got me thinking about this was seeing that Tesla's stock dropped almost 9% at opening this morning. I sold mine when my stop on it had already triggered after a drop of 20% a few weeks ago. They're damaging the cars of people they've never met just because they don't like the CEO of the company and want to attack his wealth by stymieing sales of Tesla vehicles. Smart. Sick. But, it's working.
I have been thinking more the past couple years....What if conservatives started playing by the same, sick, rules? Man, that'd be crazy...
I have been thinking more the past couple years....What if conservatives started playing by the same, sick, rules? Man, that'd be crazy...
prosecute to the fullest extent of the law
repeat as needed
The middle class that might have purchased the over-priced vehicles has been reduced to a shadow of its former market power.
a server outage made them not usable several years back
screw that, i want to OWN my vehicle
:-)
This (first paragraph) has nothing, really, to do with your point, mhubb, because yes, this is something that would keep me from purchasing one. Having an unpopular opinion could - depending on the opinion - could put one in a bad position. My husband really, really, really wanted a cybertruck, but I talked him out of it, due to the cost and the permissions thing.
My son in law, however, did buy one back when they were first available, but sold it not long after the price nearly doubled.
Of course I'll probably be driving the much later model pickup (the one that chimes incessantly to tell me to put on my damned seatbelt) when it happens...
But your point is a very good one.
Unfortunately, transferring control from the buyer of the vehicle to 'central product support' ultimately manipulated by out of control government appears to be the real goal.
If I wanted to ride a train and let others (often less competent) control my destiny I wouldn't have bought a vehicle that I am supposed to own and control.
The company that offers products without such 'features' might be very successful in a free market.
Of course, if it goes that far, it's best not to get the authorities involved. They lately (check this week's Boston news) seem to protect the perpetrators rather than the victims, in the name of "equity".
Second, yeah, it's an obvious target. What scares me is the thought process:
"Musk is saving EVERY AMERICAN $$$, and could result in us paying less taxes, and our children being LESS INDEBTED when they are born..."
THEREFORE we must FIREBOMB this guy and everything he stands for...
I can't Grok (Pun intended) the leap. Unless these are Useful Idiots, and "Mind Control" tricks.
This is NOTHING MORE than Punishing someone who is acting against the Deep State. Just like they did Trump.
The problem is... It works in small increments, because people don't want to lose what they barely have... But done too much, and a Martyr is born. Done too much, and your THINGS start to mean LESS than your FUTURE.
We are ALWAYS 9 meals away from a revolution.
But there is another number. When daily food > 60% of your income, definitely at the 75% range. You have ZERO FUTURE, and revolution comes streaming in from everyone in the same boat.
They have been PAINTED into a corner that they are the "Good Ones". And that we are trying to destroy everything that makes this country truly great... (Them, Their People, Their Protected Groups, Their Diversity).
It's really that simple. They are wrong. And partly insane. The believe FALSE Ideals that they have been sold.
And NOBODY is allowed to talk to them, for fear of being ex-communicated by their peer group.
Everything that makes us HUMAN is turned/twisted to control these people, and they cannot see that they are controlled. "Trapped on the plantation" some people use to refer to this situation.
Mass formation Psychosis.
We need some "The More You Know..." Public announcements on EVERY channel, to chip away at them while they watch CNN/CNBC/MSDnC...
Where we show that "actual deaths from Covid-19... Were a severe flu season. Masks Never Worked. The vaccine NEVER prevented transmitting the disease, and wasn't designed to or tested for that effect!"
Show the graph of the Spanish Flu vs Covid. It's a joke.
But we are going to have to get in front of their eyeballs on their channels and spit some truths at them.
If Musk is the ethical man he presents, he will understand the cost and use his rational mind to succeed in both his pursuits: business and defense of liberties.
I hope that includes liberties for everyone and punishment for the corrupt.
And I'm not forgetting that you taught me the truth about Lincoln.
"Untold riches" being what I recall scam artists telling suckers how much they could win in my snail mail way back during the Seventies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBuKW...