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    Without justifying this really dumb act, because there’s no justifying it, […]
    How about we just don’t vandalize private property. That’s a good standpoint to build on.

    Wow, how unbased can an article get?

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    Ironically making them more corrosion resistant, by doing so…

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    “Yes Mr. Crowler we hear what you’re saying, but unfortunately spray paint voids your warranty.”

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    I forgot how cancerous this site was. This place is such an echo chamber that the users are actually defending crimes

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      the real crime here is this death trap being allowed on the road in the first place.

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        Where is the morality in damaging people’s property that they worked to get with their hard earned money?

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            Protesting what exactly? Protesting for the sake of protesting is just meaningless. I still fail to see the morality here. What exactly is moral about vandalizing these cars?

            Also this notion that protests are only effective if they’re disruptive is a myth. If that was the case then the George Floyd Riots would’ve led somewhere or the pro Palestinian encampments would’ve led somewhere or all those climate protesters damaging historical monuments and art would’ve led somewhere or all those animal rights activists blocking streets would’ve led somewhere… but they haven’t. All they’ve done is lead people to resent them.

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              Protesting what exactly?

              Protesting monster trucks becoming the default go-to vehicle to go run an errand or drive to work. You don’t need a “child-destroyer-3000: now Electric!” taking 3 lanes of width, weighing 20 tonnes, and occupying 4 parking spots, to go to your bakery or pick up the kids from school.

              What exactly is moral about vandalizing these cars?

              If certain vehicles end up costing more to manufacture/protect/repaint than the revenue upon sale, the company will stop manufacturing them. Same idea as deflating SUV wheels which are parked on the street: make lives for SUV drivers inconvenient so people won’t want an SUV.

              Also this notion that protests are only effective if they’re disruptive is a myth. If that was the case then the George Floyd Riots would’ve led somewhere or the pro Palestinian encampments would’ve led somewhere or all those climate protesters damaging historical monuments and art would’ve led somewhere or all those animal rights activists blocking streets would’ve led somewhere… but they haven’t. All they’ve done is lead people to resent them.

              “What did the resistance to Nazi occupation by the Polish people lead to? It didn’t work, genocide happened anyway, and all they did is making Nazis resent them”.

              I’m sure you’re aware that people engage in challenges they don’t know for certain they can achieve, right?

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          Where is the morality in a 56 bil pay package when you have done more damage to the reputation of said company while fucking over the workers of said company.

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    This is why the planet is fucked, you all whine that climate change is scary but then you cheer on people attacking electric cars just because Twitter man bad. You’re all desperate for tesla to fail because Elon upset you, someone doing something petty that’ll have zero effect on Elon but will negatively affect a regular person fills you with joy because it’s a way of hitting back at the bad man. Totally childish and pathetic.

    Spend that energy learning about and praising positive things, don’t win by tearing your opponent down win by building yourself up.

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    tesla is not elon

    But they pay him tens on millions as a bonus for being an idiot

    Edit: yeah it’s billions. The amount of money they waste on this removed is incomprehensible.

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      Calling him a “removed” is frankly insulting to people who perform the act of sucking cock. Musk is way too selfish to perform the generous and loving act that is fellatio.

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      after paying him tens of millions, they did it again a thousand more times because thousands of tens of millions is billions. tens of thousands of millions of dollars. It’s an insane amount of money.

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      Billions. They paid him the same amount of money (as a bonus!) as Bill Gates had in total when he was the worlds richest person in 2007.

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    They missed a trick by using paint, when a spray of salt water would have done the job at one more subtly and more permanently

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      while at the same time by-design cloaking it as pure bad quality could actually cause way more longterm damage than a little bit of paint.

      on the other hand the paint could also be just a marketing strategy depending on what they smoked to get new ideas

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      Subtle wasn’t the intent here. But I do like your thought process here.

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    This is dumb. Sure Elon Musk is a dickhead. And sure Cybertruck is a dumb vehicle that only dickheads would want to have.

    But I’d rather the dickheads be driving a Cybertruck than some other massive vehicle that runs on fossil fuels.

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      @SpaceCowboy @return2ozma ~60% of Tesla’s profits come from the sale of carbon credits, which enable other massive vehicles that run on fossil fuels to be built. E-cars are not about “saving the planet” they are pure Greenwash which is saving the motor industry.

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        That’s more of a problem with how carbon credits are being regulated. Sure Tesla are being assholes for doing this, but it’s a corporation, I don’t expect them to be good guys.

        But none of that changes the fact that some meathead buying a Cybertruck instead of the equivalent fossil fuel monstrosity is reducing CO2 emissions in a direct way. Spray paint the sign a Tesla corporate HQ, don’t damage a vehicle which will only have the result of someone driving a fossil fuel vehicle a little longer while the damage is being fixed.

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          Literally the state of California would have lower CO2 emissions today if Tesla didn’t exist.

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            You’re assuming unscrupulous companies wouldn’t find another loophole or just pay a fine for going over the limit.

            Don’t get me wrong, Tesla is shit for helping with the loophole, but it’s a degrees of bad kind of thing. Getting fossil fuel vehicles off the road does reduce carbon emissions, but Tesla was exaggerating their numbers. They should be punished for doing this, but doubling up their numbers only works if the number isn’t zero.

            But this is all getting away from the fact that damaging these vehicles has the net effect of people driving fossil fuel vehicles longer. It’s a net harm to everyone.

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              Unscrupulous companies in this case referring to every car manufacturer, they wouldn’t have a systemic incentive to foster an EV monopoly that is anti-consumer and actively stymies the growth of the local EV sector.

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          If somehow murder became not illegal, it wouldn’t make all the corpses not murderer’s problem.

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        No way, that is positively enormous.

        Even carbon credit companies that do their best aren’t always (are often?) not great. e.g. trees may be planted, but:

        • locals’ may have been misappropriated for the purpose
        • you might go back five years later and find all the trees were cut down

        It seems like there is some progress with that technology that… throws gravel onto beaches or something, to be broken down by waves. Really hope it’s not total BS.

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      Tesla is synonymous with climate destruction and if you believe otherwise demonstrates that you have grossly bought into their propaganda.

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      All car companies are run by evil dickheads. Most of them just make less noise than Elon.

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    @return2ozma Older Tesla’s one can give the owner the benefit of the doubt that they purchased it before Elon showed his true colours. No Cybertruck owner has that defence.

    They are lucky it’s just paint.

    I’m sure paint comes off ‘stainless’ steel real easy…

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    Good. Fuck that fascist and his companies. The only sad part of this story is that they used paint and not something that would etch or scratch the stainless.

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    “It makes no sense to vandalize Tesla’s property because you dislike Elon”

    Bahhahaahha. Bet.