I have seen a lot of tesla vandalism online the last few days and I’m kind of on the fence about it.
I’ve seen several examples locally here in BC, Canada.
I think totally warranted at newly purchased teslas going forward. Also it serves as a deterrent for potential future buyers.
But vandalizing a car that is a few years old I think is lame. Those driversare already being punished enough by driving something around that’s worth less than scrap.
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ITT: americans who are way too much into private property
Also you put way too much money in your cars, wtf !!!
You never know what another person is really going through in life, so don’t be a dick to a stranger…
if you like what it’s doing to the Tesla brand, then maybe it’s justified. you need to make that decision for yourself. I think public shame goes a long way to fixing social problems
In Ireland the registration have a number on them like 251 for the first half of 2025 and 252 on them for the second half of 2025. Given you might have paid for your 251 reg in 2024 it seems a bit unfair to target someone who might have paid for the car and not have the money to buy another car now. They could be a good person who wanted to go electric for the environment.
Well. I bought mine 2 years ago, and am currently trying to get something else in its place. But I need to take my kids to daycare and myself to work every day so I cannot just like dump it.
So you might be vandalizing somebody who thought it was a good idea to replace a petrol car with an EV and Tesla was simply the best quality/cost solution at the time and the amount of politics involved were pretty minimal.
Cybertrucks however, fuck those things and everybody who bought them. Molotov cocktail them for all I care.
No but it is moral to smear nasty things on the vehicle.
…making it even less likely that the car owner can afford to replace it?
They’re doing a pretty good job of vandalising themselves all on their own.
Cybertruck pre-orders started in 2019, well before Musk’s bigotry was widely known. It was to be the first ev truck on the market, and the pre-order price was tempting. Folks paid for these things and are now stuck with them. You literally are not allowed to sell them. What should those people do?
AFAIK, the pre-orders more or less just guaranteed a spot to actually purchase the dumpster and no one actually ‘bought’ them until '23. If it were me, and I saw what he was doing, I’d cancel the pre-order, even if I had to eat that $100.
I’m pretty sure the pre-order price was somewhere around $100.
They are not allowed to sell them? As in by contract or something?
I found an update on that
Tesla won’t even take them as trade-ins anymore. Anyone who owns a dorkmobile is free to stop at any time.
Proles don’t harm proles
Save your potential jail time for the billionaires and landlords
Writing on it in dirt or snow? Sure.
With a sticker that can be easily removed? Sure.
Anything else? Probably not.
Just make sure you don’t do anything that might cause severe and permanent damage like spritzing a little water on it.
I mean urine and faeces can technically be washed off.
But if you piss on it it will just disintegrate.
You don’t even need to piss on it, a splash of water is enough for the cybertruck
It’s a pitty that it’s so controversial to vandalize SUV but vandalizeing a Tesla is seen as fine. Tesla aren’t great for the climate either, but compared to SUV they’re way better.
Vandalising a telsa directly harms musk financially.
Vandalizing a Tesla directly benefits Musk financially if you need to order replacement parts to fix it.
How?
Reduces their desirability. People buy shit cars like that for status symbol. If people can turn buying and owning Tesla cars into something that reduces your social status people will be deterred from buying it, reducing sales, therefore tanking Tesla shares.
People buy shit cars like that for status symbol.
Bullshit.
Op used the word directly, what you describe sounds more indirect to me. I may be a bit pedantic, but musk isn’t going to pay to repair vandalized Tesla’s.
They didn’t spray paint the truck they drew in snow it appears from the picture. It’s like someone not washing their car and you writing Wash me on the back. No harm done at the end of the day.
reducing sales, therefore tanking Tesla shares.
The Tesla share is so much on a bubble, that the 60% drop in sales didn’t impact the share value at all. Between people not wanting to give their money to Musk, BYD attacking the EU/US market, and every brand offering some electric car this tendency will stay, I don’t see how Tesla is worth 20 times more than Toyota.
No.
This is an image of someone writing in snow. “Morality” is always debatable, but nothing was harmed.
Vandalism is always bullshit and a gargantuan dick move.
Especially against stuff owned by a private person. Someone saved for that or worse: took out a loan for it. That car represents a year, 2 years or even more of work.
There is nothing what justifies it.
I dont like [billionaire]. Lets destroy the property of [random dude] who probably also doesn’t like [billionaire].
It’s bullshit.
I dont like trump. Just give me your adress so I can destroy your home. What do you say? You dont like Trump either, you only laughed once during the dumb bullshit of the apprentice? There you have it! Let me wreck all your shit!
You can explain it away all you like but its still bullshit.
While I feel like major acts of vandalism are antisocial, minor ones are just humans being humans and the absolutism of your position here is making it hard to agree. If I see someone wearing one of Kanye West’s swastika shirts and someone throws mud at them, I will clap. If there’s a massive antiracist protest and someone lights an empty cop car on fire, I will cheer. Sometimes resisting evil means being pretty rude, and now that this CEO is the front man for an inside coup, anyone financially supporting him has been made complicit, against their will or no. There is room for nuance, there are justifications, and in protesting, it is better to allow for a diversity of tactics rather than try to police each other.
OP is including writing “wash me” in the dust on the rear window in “vandalism”.
That doesn’t financially harm anyone and is obviously not the same as burning someone’s house down.
OP is including writing “wash me” in the dust on the rear window in “vandalism”.
Did they say so in a comment?
I don’t see it in the OP post.Anyway, I don’t think of selective cleaning when I hear vandalism.
And I agree with the previous comment, that destroying property is not the moral thing to do.OP’s reply to this comment.
While I mostly agree, let me point out that a random person is not going to get a CT. It’s almost 100% rich, right-wing tech-bros or fElon fanboys, or narcissistic assholes. If anyone is blowing away that much money, they have either researched the market and have put a higher weight on looks, ideology or signalling loyalty than on any practical aspects - or they have done no research at all. Both cases deserve to be ridiculed.
People buying a Toyota aren’t expressing support for Koji Sato’s work policies resulting in deaths from overwork. In fact most people buying a car don’t care in the slightest who happens to be the CEO of that car manufacturer.
They might just like the retrofuturistic shape, and aren’t interested in politics.
Even if they were “almost 100%” right wing tech bros, it doesn’t excuse messing with a private person’s shit.
People need to target the problem, rather than infighting.
Yes, that’s the “mostly agree” part. 👍
how much money puts you above the proletarian mark? people are working hard and still struggling. other people are creaming off their capital and buying expensive trinkets as a sign. it seems moral to make their lives difficult. and taking your expensive Tesla car to be repaired every month is the tax on your stupidity.
No answer to your question is relevant, as there is no line where vandalising someone’s shit becomes acceptable. Let alone based on someone’s gut reaction that owning a particular car makes someone scum
a long time ago, in Berlin districts to reduce gentrification they used to scope out the expensive cars and then gentry lay a lit barbeque firelighter under the wheel.
That’s the legend. In reality they burned down the old van of a friend of mine because he had a Polish license plate.
Yes. It was a Neonazi from Britz doing it. He primarily targeted foreign cars, vehicles of local left politicians (Die Linke and SPD candidates of Neukölln both had their cars burned). He also lit up a few expensive cars, but that might have been because he ran out of “legitimate” targets.
Why would the gentry harm expensive cars? Those would be their own cars.
and it turned out to be too little…
Cybertrucks? Yeah. There’s a very specific kind of person that buys a cybertruck. They know who Elon is and what he stands for.
Other Teslas? No. Many bought them before Elon turned out to be a nazi spawn.
Still this vandalism will scare potential buyer from buying a car that is hated enough to vandalize.
