Owen McIntire, 19, has been charged in connection with the firebombing of a Tesla dealership in Kansas City on March 17, the latest in a string of attacks on Elon Musk-affiliated businesses.
It’s one thing if a person has a distaste for musk, but destroying someones property (a Tesla) after they buy a car, which seems to be a common trend. There are people that buy cars that probably don’t pay attention to politics and have no idea about Elon Musk, but just know that Trump is president. I just feel if you’re trying to target Musk, that isn’t really winning you any favors destroying the cars that people bought.
It’s one thing if a person has a distaste for musk, but destroying someones property (a Tesla) after they buy a car, which seems to be a common trend.
Agreed. Not only that, but some people bought the Tesla because they believe in Electric Vehicle movement. Which Dems and Lemmy’s used to be all about!
I mean I doubt if ANY of these Tesla owners went out and bought a Tesla just because Trump became besties with Musk.
Dude seriously messed up his life because of blind politics. Now he’ll have a record for rest of his life. Hope he likes dumpster-diving for vegan food behind Whole Foods. Because his job choices are gonna suck now.
All because he was mad about who was president. And it didn’t even change anything! lol
I would rather protesters go after the Tesla cars if they were out to be sold through retail rather then after someones expensive personal purchase. It would make more sense since you’d be hurting the company and none of the innocent costumers in the middle of it. While I can’t say whether i’m for Elon musk, I do think that civilians should be left out of explosions which risk happening from setting the cars on fire, and fire can spread.
Setting random tesla’s on fire have a risk of spreading to other peoples cars if no one tries to set out the fire and just leaves it. It can end up hurting minorities in the process that you would think they were trying to protect.
So i’m not saying that being against elon is wrong, 1st amendment thing, but rather the way sometimes they seem to go about it, and how setting random strangers purchased tesla’s risks hurts more innocent bystanders even beyond just the household that might own the car after purchase, not just costumers the neighbors of the costumers, who may or may not be minorities that they are advocating for. Fire spread if left unattended. Very dangerous, it can affect anyone negativly doesn’t matter who the neighbors are, or their personal beliefs.
Agreed, though I would also argue that destroying property just to make a point is not the way to go. Now show up in mass to protest at the dealership. Cool. Destroying other people’s shit, even if owned by a company, is not cool.
It’s stupid, hurts the cause, and can cause a serious criminal record.
Maybe. But surely i’d rather costumers and bystanders not get caught in the crossfire’s. However, if they are going to do something like this to prove a point, they aren’t targeting the right spaces by going after random peoples Teslas already purchased.
Maybe it’s changing. I mean until recently it was liberals who were all about EV’s, living off the grid, going vegan and being hippies. So if conservatives are doing that now, I wonder if liberals are gonna go the opposite way?
Kinda like back in the old days, country music people hated long hair that rock and roll wore. Now every almost every country star guy has long hair. And rockers go short.
But to the point, most conservatives I know just don’t have the money for EV. I would think that even if some conservatives to, I bet most EV owners are liberal.
Wasn’t it just a few years ago that people were blaming conservatives on big gas guzzlers and texas style truck lifestyles?
I’m not saying that conservatives were doing all that going vegan and etc but they were some churches that took Christians to camps and etc, they had evs with TV’s in it they’d watch movies off of the evs power on the way to and from the campsites. Using gas I think rather then solar energy or electric. This was back in the 2010s for sure. Maybe I was thinking of suvs after a quick Google search.
It’s one thing if a person has a distaste for musk, but destroying someones property (a Tesla) after they buy a car, which seems to be a common trend. There are people that buy cars that probably don’t pay attention to politics and have no idea about Elon Musk, but just know that Trump is president. I just feel if you’re trying to target Musk, that isn’t really winning you any favors destroying the cars that people bought.
Agreed. Not only that, but some people bought the Tesla because they believe in Electric Vehicle movement. Which Dems and Lemmy’s used to be all about!
I mean I doubt if ANY of these Tesla owners went out and bought a Tesla just because Trump became besties with Musk.
Dude seriously messed up his life because of blind politics. Now he’ll have a record for rest of his life. Hope he likes dumpster-diving for vegan food behind Whole Foods. Because his job choices are gonna suck now.
All because he was mad about who was president. And it didn’t even change anything! lol
I would rather protesters go after the Tesla cars if they were out to be sold through retail rather then after someones expensive personal purchase. It would make more sense since you’d be hurting the company and none of the innocent costumers in the middle of it. While I can’t say whether i’m for Elon musk, I do think that civilians should be left out of explosions which risk happening from setting the cars on fire, and fire can spread.
Setting random tesla’s on fire have a risk of spreading to other peoples cars if no one tries to set out the fire and just leaves it. It can end up hurting minorities in the process that you would think they were trying to protect.
So i’m not saying that being against elon is wrong, 1st amendment thing, but rather the way sometimes they seem to go about it, and how setting random strangers purchased tesla’s risks hurts more innocent bystanders even beyond just the household that might own the car after purchase, not just costumers the neighbors of the costumers, who may or may not be minorities that they are advocating for. Fire spread if left unattended. Very dangerous, it can affect anyone negativly doesn’t matter who the neighbors are, or their personal beliefs.
Agreed, though I would also argue that destroying property just to make a point is not the way to go. Now show up in mass to protest at the dealership. Cool. Destroying other people’s shit, even if owned by a company, is not cool.
It’s stupid, hurts the cause, and can cause a serious criminal record.
Maybe. But surely i’d rather costumers and bystanders not get caught in the crossfire’s. However, if they are going to do something like this to prove a point, they aren’t targeting the right spaces by going after random peoples Teslas already purchased.
I totally agree that random people’s cars should be left alone. Especially since most EV owners are democrat anyway.
Are they? I seen a good amount of conservatives driving evs. Living off the grid.
Maybe it’s changing. I mean until recently it was liberals who were all about EV’s, living off the grid, going vegan and being hippies. So if conservatives are doing that now, I wonder if liberals are gonna go the opposite way?
Kinda like back in the old days, country music people hated long hair that rock and roll wore. Now every almost every country star guy has long hair. And rockers go short.
But to the point, most conservatives I know just don’t have the money for EV. I would think that even if some conservatives to, I bet most EV owners are liberal.
Wasn’t it just a few years ago that people were blaming conservatives on big gas guzzlers and texas style truck lifestyles?
I’m not saying that conservatives were doing all that going vegan and etc but they were some churches that took Christians to camps and etc, they had evs with TV’s in it they’d watch movies off of the evs power on the way to and from the campsites. Using gas I think rather then solar energy or electric. This was back in the 2010s for sure. Maybe I was thinking of suvs after a quick Google search.