Attorney general calls Tesla arson attacks 'nothing short of domestic terrorism'
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Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations have been hit with continuous vandalisms, fires and protests since Elon Musk began his role at the White House.
  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    26 minutes ago

    Targeted attack? These cars are imfamous for spontaneous combustion its actually called a roman fire.

  • Vijfsnippervijf@feddit.nl
    8·
    5 hours ago

    This looks more like someone who ran their car through a car wash without using the special mode. How can a car like this be SO vulnerable? I thin the only explanation is that they’ve been designed by a ketamine addict! Down with cars, but ESPECIALLY DOWN WITH ELON MUSK!

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      33 minutes ago

      How can a car like this be SO vulnerable?

      I’d be tempted to see how they respond to a salt and acid mixture. Maybe even just something as mild as heavily salted lemon juice as an experiment. Depending on how those stainless panels are treated it could be effective. Acids and chlorides are hard on the passive layer of regular stainless, which is what protects the underlying metal. Maybe a different acid+salt mixture that won’t have as obvious a smell after it evaporates? Would make for some “fun” “water” balloons or “water” guns, especially to play with at night. Without your phone on hand. While wearing a mask and plain black hoodie as PPE, of course.

  • sebb@lemmy.ml
    102·
    12 hours ago

    How is any of that vandalism?! They’re just disarming cars, no? 🤔

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    15 hours ago

    Targeted attack = someone gave them a coupon for a free car wash and the car subsequently burned to the ground?

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    66·
    20 hours ago

    Musk, the owner of X, said on Monday that his companies “make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone, so why the hate and violence against me?”

    “Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls,” Musk said on X.

    Great that they quote Musk but dont even give a single sentence to an attempt at explaining the possible motivation behind these attacks. I know it, they know it, but apparently its forbidden knowledge just like when Luigi did his thing.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      11·
      18 hours ago

      I’m thinking about how many man-hours and tax dollars go toward status symbols rather than humans.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        18 hours ago

        oof that’ll leave you miserable.

        similarly, the coal rollers: they pay extra to modify their shitwagons to intentionally run BADLY, inefficiently, so they spew clouds of partially combusted fuel. their children and grandchildren will all suffer for every time these things roll down the block. and they don’t care, they think gas costs too much (!?) as they cash their social security checks.

        future generations will despise our society.

        • Halasham@dormi.zone
          5·
          12 hours ago

          Current generations despise our society. It’s just a matter of despising it enough to want our leader’s heads on pikes.

        • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          15 hours ago

          I still cannot fucking believe the culture war has gone so far as to make people do this and think the ‘own the libs’ by doing so. Absolutely insane society you go there, America. Guess it’s the logical conclusion of destroying public education

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          6·
          18 hours ago

          God I swear the cognitive dissonance of people who chose huge vehicles and then complain about gas prices. we know, that’s why we are more efficient in our travel

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Not miserable. I’ve accepted this is what it is and am prodding my brain for workable solutions since activation is spotty, at best. Looking for ways to achieve this, beyond activation, which is still the best shot, but with so few unable or unwilling, what can be added to mobilization/bodies on the streets?

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            13 hours ago

            which is still the best shot, but with so few unable or unwilling, what can be added to mobilization/bodies on the streets?

            yeah, hard to show up when it’s 3 other people confronted by 200 cops. but I think the public is slowly waking up to the fucktocracy it’s in. hang in there.

        • icmpecho@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          it also causes wearing and scoring of the cylinder walls as the fuel/air ratio is so biased that the injectors wash the oil off the parts inside the engine. this actually wears the engine out very quickly and causes it to lose power. they’re literally destroying otherwise fine engines just to be assholes.

    • raptir@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      Read that last bit and think of all the accidents these things drove people into, just to ‘hand off’ control .5 seconds before impact.

      A crash is counted as on autopilot if it occurs within a few seconds of autopilot disengaging.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 hours ago

        a lot of good it is if it’s going to get people into no-win situations because musk thinks optical only is a viable solution for the exceptionally complex problem.

        • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Hey optical only works fine… so long as you can hook up the 2 cameras to one of the most powerful super computers on earth.

  • Grizzlyboy@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    19 hours ago

    It’s really invigorating seeing this. This happens all over the western world! Nazi cunt Musk finally seeing the consequences of his actions. Insurance hiking on Tesla’s, Tesla stock diving 50%, people vandalizing Tesla’s, attacks and protests at Tesla dealerships.

    • Melobol@lemmy.ml
      3·
      19 hours ago

      As long as the small people don’t get hurt. But when this happens it is them who will bear it instead of the Musks of the world.

  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
    131·
    20 hours ago

    I learned that brake cleaner can damage both paint and clear coat.

    Don’t ask questions.

  • Ghost (he/any)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    41·
    18 hours ago

    As long as these aren’t bought and owned cars, it’s cool. Plenty of good people got dupped into buying tesla before he was more open about his fascist agenda. Many of them are also stuck with it.