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    I’m indifferent on unsold Teslas being targeted, not like law exists in this country anymore. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    I am absolutely 100% fucking appalled that people would be ok with doxing Tesla owners. These are real people with families who now have to fear for their safety because they thought it was cool technology when they bought the car. They also may not be able to easily afford to sell the car and buy a new or used one right away.

    This does nothing good for anyone and hurts any resistance movement and sadly makes any resistance look like it lacks empathy for fellow human beings just like how what the right is doing shows they lack empathy.

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      Eh, I think most people would agree with you here but no one would go out of their way to stop or even denounce this cause that’s at the very bottom of the list of issues.

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        Sure, but the public perception was completely different. Tesla was a leftist political statement. Electric cars? Saving the climate? What a ridiculous idea only libs would subscribe to, electric cars will never work. Teslas were keyed by coal-rolling right wingers.

        The opinion went a total 180°, and many people still own Teslas from that time. I have no sympathy for e.g. Cybertruck owners, but many Tesla owners were buying them years ago, when they were seen as tech for progressives that care about the environment.

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      And just like that we’re now all focused on the couple of (quite frankly) idiots that are burning consumers’ Teslas instead of the unsold ones at dealerships. Again. Just like every discussion of a protest is not about the tens of thousands of people protesting but about the 10 people looting.

      Looks like the attempt to control the narrative is working as expected.

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        You shouldn’t be ok with doxing people even if they are not good people.

        It’s an all or nothing standpoint. If you are fine with people getting doxxed for some reason you believe to be evil, then you inadvertently say that doxxing as a whole is fine. Eventually someone innocent is going to get doxxed, whether it be by accident (no such list of doxxed people is 100% accurate) or by someone with different viewpoints than you.

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          anyone that makes goose and gander comparisons applying to both humans and sociopaths is woefully naive.

          it’s ok when the good guys do it. we get all the exceptions, they get none. it’s a war. they’re not humans anymore. if we want to win, we have to see it that way. there is no amount of cruelty we can inflict on our enemies that will cause greater suffering than what happens if they win.

          no fucking mercy. guns.

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          You shouldn’t be ok with doxing people even if they are not good people.

          What if they’re pedophiles?

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          I don’t think you’ve looked at the website. The only individuals on there are Elon musk and cash Patel

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      I don’t care because they waste their money on bullshit status symbols while kids go hungry. Their cars literally cost more than my house.

      They can honestly get fucked and I hope a lot worse comes to them until they start doing their part to reduce the disparity in wealth.

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        There’s a used car lot across the street from my neighborhood with like 3 or 4 Model 3s under $16k.

        The Model 3 has been around long enough and priced low enough for it to be in the realm of “boring option of a car”, no more a status symbol than a Toyota Camry.

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      the ends justify the means. if we fail at this stage, dystopia will reign over western civilization for generations to come. the cruelest things we do to defeat the fascists pale in comparison to the damage they will do if they are allowed to take over.

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        Assuming for one moment that the ends really do justify the means, how is burning somebody’s car going to stop the rise of fascism?

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              it’s a total rejection of musk. it will force tesla to oust him. the car owners are just pawns in a greater war against the fascists. sorry/not sorry.

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                Ok, say this all succeeds and Musk is thrown out of Tesla. What next? He’ll still be the a billionaire with a US President as a puppet and complete “authority” to continue gutting the federal government.

                I’m usually really good at being able to be objective and see both sides of an issue. I just can’t do that with this. It’s equivalent to a gang spraying and praying and killing innocent bystanders and saying “Oh well, it was for the cause”. Like how is this any better than the right being ok with making millions of poor people homeless and hungry?

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                  honestly? i don’t think i even care at this point. we’re a cancer. i’m in favor of just about anything that reduces the global population by half without destroying the environment or harming innocent animals.

                  rwandan style genocide seems like exactly what we deserve. i’d rather see the left pull it off than the right.

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    People need perspective. The right is literally killing people with policy and detaining /disappearing citizens and destroying this country.

    The left is burning cars in protest as it actually hurts the bottom line of a right leader. The other leftists are more apauled at the burning cars than at the stuff the right is doing that is much worse.

    I’ve got news for you. This is going to get a lot worse than burnt cars if you ever want it to get better.

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      Why limit it to just teslas? Make everyone who wastes money on a luxury vehicle while their are starving children regret it.

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        Its about hurting musk more than anything else. Its not about attacking luxury. Its not about attacking green. Its about hurting Musk since he is destroying lives with his doge bs. This is said as someone who has no interest in vandalizing Tesla’s. But I understand where they are coming from.

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        Because ‘luxury’ is a sliding scale. A lot of dudebros spend 100k+ on ‘trucks’ that have never seen dirt, let alone hauled anything. An acquaintance of mine has a V12 Jaguar that he has lovingly coddled back from the dead by sheer will and a LOT of late nights in his meager garage. He’s just to the positive side of ‘poor’ but that car is his fun-money-entertainment (doesn’t have kids or a GF at the moment).

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      the “left” has been in collusion with the right the whole time

      no right and left citizens but just citizens caught in the crossfire being fed the horseshit that it is the US “two-party system”

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    This is gonna be the thing that splits the left into “fuck yeah burn them” and “this is going too far” and then nothing will get done because we’ll focus too much on infighting. Can’t we all come together for something not stupid like destroying random people’s cars? If you’re going to take drastic measures, at least do something more productive. Throw a Molotov at your representatives’ cars instead. I have no tears for a burnt Tesla, but I wish people were using this energy to punish more deserving people in more meaningful ways. I’m still waiting on all those “Luigi copycats” people keep thinking are gonna appear

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      I’m still waiting on all those “Luigi copycats” people keep thinking are gonna appear

      There’s been 2 attacks on CEOs since… The copycats are appearing.

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      What about destroying unsold teslas, as well as other acts of resistance?

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        Fine by me, vandalizing a car that’s already been bought is where I think it gets pointless and counterproductive. Trashing the dealerships and corporate locations is great because the business is suffering, rather than a random person.

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        Destroying unsold Teslas at least doesn’t hurt people who may have bought their cars just because at one point Tesla made the best EVs (not even close to the best cars, but definitely the best EVs in terms of powertrain and battery. A while ago, anyway). So there’s way less collateral damage and fewer people to alienate.

        There is one caveat though. The dealerships are probably insured and would financially be better off having the cars burn as nobody’s buying them right now. Though maybe if enough Teslas burn, Tesla dealers become uninsurable. Now that would put them out of business real quick.

        Additionally, if someone managed to somehow disable a Tesla factory without directly hurting the workers, that would bring tears of joy to many people. The workers themselves are just simple laborers though. It’s not like jobs are easy to come by right now and I’m sure plenty would leave if they could. So I hope nobody shoots up a factory with workers inside or something. Even leaving the moral implications of homicide aside, it would also instantly boost Elon and Tesla in a lot of people’s eyes if something like this happened.

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        I think the charging stations would be good. It’s not like they’re that useful for anyone not driving a tesla. Even when your non-tesla car can be used in one I’ve heard of people getting harassed by tesla drivers for doing so.

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          Interesting idea!

          Hmm maybe. I’m not sure on the specifics. I thought other cars could use those and that’s why they sell those adapters.

          Also it sorta feels wrong to me, ngl. Like one should be hitting oil and gas infrastructure instead.

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          Unfortunately Tesla chargers have been becoming open to other manufacturers to use as well. They no longer serve just Teslas.

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      I don’t know why but some leftists will just find the dumbest fucking hills to die on, while completely ignoring real causes that actually move agendas forward.

      Where is this energy in our unions and community groups? Where are these people in town halls and school board meetings? Where are the canvassers, the volunteers, the organizers?

      Stop burning cars and start doing some of the damned work you cowards. Invest in your community and show people you’re helpful and trustworthy instead of psychotic and destructive.

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        you’re assuming those things aren’t being done simultaneously. additionally, the type of misplaced violent rage you will continue to witness is born from oppression and having no voice or power. eventually, the caged animal thrashes regardless of what it damages, itself included. it might not be rational or logical but it has to be expected as an outcome. we are not going to stop people from burning shit down. it simply will never happen. too many people feel they have no other way to make it known that fascism will not be the way of life here than to scare the shit out of our leaders through violence and a demonstration of the people’s willingness to execute.

        you can fucking hate that this is happening, but it is always going to. i’m not personally going to condemn these kinds of responses because i recognize it as an emotional and forced reaction to living year after year in a country that doesn’t give a shit about you but will exploit you until you die. tesla is a representation of what the last 70 years have come to: we are now speeding on the path towards technofascism and they’re not even doing it behind our backs. people are going to take their anger out on the fascist car endorsed by our fascist presidential figurehead and sold by our South African fascist president.

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        do you think that after defacing a Tesla the person is real tired and has to take a nap for a while

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        Random peoples’ cars may not be getting burnt, but they are absolutely getting damaged by keying or spray paint or whatever. I know at least one owner who had something like that happen to them and they now fear for their family’s safety because of it. That’s not cool.

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          It’s really cool, actually.

          People buy expensive cars while children starve just so they can look good in front of their peers. I support whoever damages their status symbols.

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      I’m fucking pissed at leftists who burn teslas. It’s an incredible waste of an electric car … It’s terrible for the environment. There’s better things to burn down if you want to create change

      Anyone who thought Luigi copycats would appear is coping and I’ve been saying that from the start. And I say that as someone who wishes they would.

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    I fundamentally disagree with doxing regular people. It’s one thing if it’s a public figure who is actively antagonizing people and using anonymity as a layer of protection against repercussions for their awful acts. But publishing the names and addresses of people who simply bought a car is not something we should be doing.

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      Normally I’d agree.

      But, I don’t really care anymore.

      One side has crossed all sorts of lines and now pushback is happening. Innocents always get caught up in situations like that.

      They can sell their Teslas.

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        Isn’t this just class infighting though, something completely against the benefit of the workers so the owners can continue to pick our pockets while we aren’t looking?

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          It’s never class infighting when you are attacking class traitors. They are free, of course, to stop being class traitors.

          Same logic applies to cops.

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              It’s not like we’re accusing them of planning it.

              But the bottom line is the owner of the company they are supporting is a NAZI who bought a presidency and is deconstructing our government and illegally firing thousands of Americans.

              If you continue to drive/buy Teslas, you are supporting that Nazi and empowering him to do more damage to our country.

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              If they are still driving a luxury car made by Nazis, to promote Nazism, even when it becomes very obvious a nazi symbol… Yes, they are.

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                First, Teslas are not luxury cars, haha. You could buy one for $35,000 USD right now, and their build quality is significantly subpar of luxury.

                To the main point - look, I get it, the CEO is a Nazi and fuck anyone who buys or bought a Tesla recently, but punishing a working class citizen with a 5 year old car and telling them they need to take a loss and cough up for a new vehicle is extremely stupid and naive.

                I sure hope you dont own a Volkswagen, as it’s a symbol of Nazism.

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                  Is the current execs of Volkswagem supporting a neonazi, right now?

                  No.

                  I still don’t own one, however.

                  And yes, I get it. Sometimes it is an inconvenience to oppose fascism. Wah.

                  And 5 years ago, Musk was still a shitstain, so even that excuse is flimsy as fuck.

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                  Luxury doesn’t imply quality. Plenty of luxury items are worthless trash, and it’s pretty clear that a main reason for their price dive is to do with context more than the product.

                  but punishing a working class citizen with a 5 year old car

                  Is this something that is actually happening? Or is this a hypothetical edge case that assumes anti-Tesla activists are ignorant?

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          Not when that part of the class is determined to ruin everyone else in the class. Nazi’s aren’t a part of the community.

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                Because everyone is rich like you and can afford to just buy a new car because some CEO revealed himself to be an evil cunt. You are so out of touch it hurts my head. If folks like you are the majority of the people on the anti-musk side we are so very destined to lose this war. So discouraging, ugh. We have no chance at all with that mindset.

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                  Because everyone is rich like you and can afford to just buy a new car because some CEO revealed himself to be an evil cunt.

                  Lol. Buddy, I can’t even afford a Tesla. And yes, if by owning a specific vehicle I was supporting a FUCKING NAZI who bought a presidency and was deconstructing the democracy I live in and firing my fucking friends from their federal jobs, you better bet your ass I’d do something about it. Like selling that fucking car and getting another one.

                  Sometimes you have to grow a pair of balls and do the right thing, even if it inconveniences you. And no one who owns a Tesla is in a position to be massively inconvenienced by getting rid of it.

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              Not sure if you noticed, but it’s 2025, not 1938. Yeah, Volkswagon fucked up by supporting Nazis almost a century ago. The Tesla thing is happening NOW. Volkswagon is not the same company it was almost a century ago, just like I’m sure Tesla won’t be the same company almost a century from now, when the fucking Nazi that runs it is dead. Volkswagon is also highly responsible for the much, much safer 3-point seatbelt being standardized. So they’ve made positive contributions.

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                It’s not moronic, you are literally suggesting burning random people’s cars because the manufacturer is a nazi. I pointed out another example of such a manufacturer, and you have a problem with it.

                Or if you want to be like that, how about just all classical voltswagons.

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                  It’s not moronic

                  It is, because the arrow of time moves forward and you’re talking about a company a century ago vs. now as if literally nothing has changed about that company or the rest of the world around it in that time.

                  If it was 1938 right now, I’d be advocating burning the fuck out of Volkswagons. It makes literally no sense to do that now.

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          Isn’t this just class infighting though

          Nah. It’s trying to affect the bottom line of an extremely wealthy person who uses his wealth to the detriment of average Americans. Limit the wealth. Limit the amount of damage he can do. Or, we could do nothing to his bottom line and he can become even more wealthy and do even more than buy a presidency and deconstruct our government, illegally laying off thousands of federal workers.

          Also, I can’t afford a Tesla. So I’m not even sure if I consider Tesla owners to be of the same class as I am.

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            You do know he already got paid for those so you are not impacting anything except some rando innocent person who now will actively hate your cause and move further towards the fascist side? Or maybe you don’t. Know it or not burning peoples Tesla’s is one of the absolute worst and stupidest moves someone can do if they actually want things to change. That just adds one more them to the “us vrs them”.

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              Personally, I think people that own them should dump them, flood the market with used Swasticars nobody wants to be associated with. However, direct action does seem to be having an impact.

              I suspect anyone the victim of this type of crime will think twice about buying another.

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              The damage done to the Teslas costs insurance companies money. Insurance companies hate paying for stuff, so if this is sustained, insurance rates for Teslas will increase. That combined with dealing with the vandalism itself gives customers a reason not to use a Tesla, which means car dealerships and rentals will sell less, who will then purchase less ultimately losing Tesla money. People who buy expensive cars from fascists who are actively controlling our government aren’t innocent, and IMO the people vandalizing Teslas are doing more for society than the peaceful parades and book clubs are since it actually costs them something.

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                And all those peoples whose cars burn turn to the MAGAts in a rage and join the team up to ‘own the libs’ even harder. Even if the plan worked, which is highly unlikely, it would do more damage than it would help. Yeah it would be great to tear down Musks fortune. Not going to stop Trump from being president though and it will make more people want to vote for his side next time. Yeah. That sound super helpful. Y’all are so convinced you are right that no argument is going to change your mind. You are as bad as a MAGAt when it comes to listening and really thinking about things you do not immediately agree with. Ignore the forest for the trees…

                If these are the best ideas and people that the left has to offer we are never going to win this. Ugh.

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                  If they’re pushed away from harming property owned by the relatively well-off but not from committing genocide on actual people, then that’s on them

                  If these are the best ideas and people that the left has to offer we are never going to win this. Ugh.

                  Do you have any better ideas?

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        As someone who was raised in a conservative family but who climbed through a great many hoops to finally arrive at socialist thought: if you nutters were the left while I made that journey, I doubt I ever would have finished it.

        The world has enough psychos in it, please stop hurting people who you can’t even be sure are complicit.

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          I was also raised in a conservative family, and leftists vandalizing stuff didn’t stop me from arriving at socialism, at most it delayed it slightly since I wasn’t yet aware of what the driving factor was, which I ended up connecting later. Everything leftists do pisses off conservatives who have different motives, I don’t think vandalizing cars from fascists running our government is exceptionally different and I don’t think most people who are still developing a baseline political framework can afford them anyways so it doesn’t directly affect them.

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      I’m not seeing normal people on this website. Am I missing something?

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      They didn’t “simply buy a car”, they bought a symbol, and everything that brings along with it.

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        If you buy one today, sure, a few years ago, before their QC issues and mush really started fucking with the company, they weren’t an awful deal.

        Even the cyberdumpsters, you could have been on a waiting list for 3-4 years and paid a solid downpayment.

        What happens if mush buys out Rivian, all those retroactively turn to shit?

        They’re also probably trapped in a loan. That 50-60k car was financed. it’s now worth 1/3 of it’s original cost. A lot of people who shouldn’t have spent 50k on a car will because monthly payments make it affordable to them, now they sell it and can only replace it with a hundai.

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          I guess it sucks to buy a car from a nazi, huh?

          This is not new… how long has he owned twitter? 3 years ago? How long has it been since he accused a lead of a rescue team of being a pedo? 9 years now?

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          now they sell it and can only replace it with a hundai.

          Which is exactly what they should do, hopefully it puts a used one out to further prevent a (committed) buyer from getting a new one.

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        probably artificially kept up by investors, or by musk or his cohorts so they can sell thier stocks before it crashes.

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        Because investors know that they will almost certainly eventually be bailed out by a massive government purchase, so they bought the dip.

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        The same way a brand new crypto coin suddenly gain a lot of value. You bump it until you’re not the last moron holding the bag.

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    People showing exactly where they draw the class line in here lmao

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      Anyone who has the excess wealth to afford a tesla and chooses to buy one over helping those in need can get fucked.

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      Musk called a guy a pedo because he was angry they didn’t use his solution to save kids that would have died if they had waited for him. That was in 2018. Wanna bet most Tesla on the road were sold after that happened?

      Musk was shit way before the current events, people still supported him financially.

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          I mean… No, Amazon shouldn’t exist? What’s the point you’re trying to make here?

          I’m just pointing out that there’s a shit ton of people that just decided to ignore the fact that Musk is a moron that has no business managing a multinational company and none of them deserve compassion now that they suddenly realize that maybe they shouldn’t have bought a car from him.

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      It’s working tho. Have you seen how butthurt Elon and Donald are? Tesla stocks going down?

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      I don’t care about a manhunt for tesla owners, specifically.

      All rich people can get fucked though. Millionaires and billionaires. They need to be working overtime to fix the problems they caused. Otherwise, they’re enemies and deserve to be treated as such.

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      i hope your not that naive, the point is to send a message, and TESLA is clearly suffering from the falling sales and the continuing boycotting and vandalism is working. Also the fact that teslas in general have defect issues anyways.

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      Unfortunately due to how insurance works, damaging Teslas is yet another way to raise premiums.

      Also, this isn’t about joining a cause anymore. This is about the only method of retaliation left. I assume most who could afford a Tesla (which was always on the higher priced side of things) are also those who could have by now afforded to do a trade in for basically any other car for months by now.

      If I myself somehow still had a Tesla, I’d get rid of it for a used car if I had to. If I could afford it though, I’d pay for a punk band to create a song against Elon and Trump, and shoot a music video of said punk band and friends destroying the Tesla in slow mo and lighting it on fire, ending it with the car blowing up.

      Actually, how about you find poor people who own a Tesla and reach out to them. I’ll crowdfund for them so we can make this music video happen, and the proceeds will go for them to buy a new car. Find me more than one and I can do different music videos - maybe dubstep or electronica while this guy shoots his plasma cannon at it. Or Classical music or an orchestra as we destroy a car with icicles and rust for example.

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        I’m sorry, do you genuinely think that burning some random guy’s car is actual retaliation?

        You really underestimate how many people buy above their means for cars.

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          I’m sorry, do you genuinely think that burning some random guy’s car is actual retaliation?

          When that car has become a symbol, definitely. The car being burnt isn’t random after all.

          Otherwise your statement has the same energy as saying we shouldn’t burn some random guy’s work uniform. It omits that this is the uniform:

          You really underestimate how many people buy above their means for cars.

          As far as I’ve seen, most Teslas being scorched are dealership ones, not personal ones. But even if it were a personal one, isn’t insurance mandatory in the USA? Probably would get a bigger payout if someone did torch it rather than trading in at a dealership. And would definitely probably get more out of it than if it were just keyed and the tires were punctured. Bonus, one less swatsicar in circulation.

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            When that car has become a symbol, definitely. The car being burnt isn’t random after all.

            It is some random man’s car still. I didn’t say it was a random car. And likely someone who hates trump too, since they’re driving electric

            Thw car wasn’t a symbol when they bought it

            Bonus, one less swatsicar in circulation

            One less electric car. You want to actively destroy the environment to own the conservatives. Not passively. Actively.

            Also no, coverage for your own car is not mandatory, what?

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      Cause? What cause? They finally found their version of Trans people to target.

      Let’s be completely honest here. We know right hates LGBT because they can’t be openly racist anymore. People NEED to hate and fight something. They’ll use anyone and anything as the target to lash out.

      Now we have people target Tesla because Musk is unreachable… Really? That’s the avenue you want down? World’s easiest target and you pick one thing he’s associated that’s good and will effect normal people? Cool. Checks out. You can’t put face on starlink, spacex or twitter anymore apparently.

      It’s stupid and while so far removed from anti LGBT the other groups were targeting, this isn’t a race to the bottom.

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        Is it stupid if it works?

        Also, I didn’t know people were born Tesla owners. Interesting stuff.

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        have you actually seen his sales, and stocks, hes definitely negative impacted by it, you should really go read some news. Also please correctly refer them as LGBTQ+ people, when you use the former definition you are doing it on purpose almost seemingly out of the same way right wingers say.

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        I want my information removed. Absolutely! Just provide us with proof that you’ve sold your Tesla. Email takedown@dogeque.st. We only accept scanned documents in JPG and PNG formats.

        Can I mirror this website? Of course! Anticipating that some might try to take us down, we’ve designed DOGEQUEST to be super easy to mirror. It’s just a single HTML file—no backend or external services required. Simply save the page from your browser. To display the map, you’ll need to supply your own Protomaps tileset. Grab one from https://maps.protomaps.com/builds/. Save the .pmtiles file as ‘tiles.pmtiles’ in the same folder as the DOGEQUEST .html file. You can reduce the size of the PMTiles file from around 120GB to about 15GB by extracting just the United States using go-pmtiles. Now, host both the .html file and tiles.pmtiles from the same directory using any web server that supports range requests. Seriously, any web server will do. And voilà, you’re all set!

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    I went there and there are 5 people listed on it, like Elon and Kash Patel. If they have regular innocent people on the site it isn’t showing them to me.

    The vast majority of icons are just dealerships and superchargers.

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    It still looks like there’s a clearweb site: https://dogeque.st/

    I’m not sure if it’s a mirror or the OG. Love the custom cursor.

    And, for convenience, the .onion link: dogeqstqzn2yjns2d6ccns7aa52tglno63ay2uv2orfvd7e23khcsxid.onion (you will need Tor to access)

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      “DOGEQUEST values your privacy and does not collect any personal information about our users.” 🤣

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    The site is nearly useless anyway. It lists very few actual car owners and the ones I’ve looked at weren’t even accurate.