Came here to say this. I guess it could be considered violent because someone COULD get hurt…but I also feel like calling it violent to start is misleading and disappointing.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a great book exploring this concept. Why is destruction of private property even considered violence, and why is private property more protected than vulnerable populations? Why does the average person, not owning private property, even consider this dynamic?
I’ve heard of this book. It’s on a long list of things to read for me. I feel like I have to have this same conversation every time there’s a protest somewhere in the world where property gets damaged. That tired line of “I don’t understand why these people destroy their own city.” as if any of us own anything involved. It’s such an annoying thing that we are brainwashed to think this way. Like yeah, it’s my city, but if want to plant flowers in it, i can’t. If i want to plant crops in it, I can’t. If I want to decorate it, I can’t. If I want to have say in how it’s used and developed, I mostly can’t. So who’s is it again?
The word “violence” hasn’t historically been specific to just people. One can get violent with a vending machine or in British English one could say “the reporters did violence to my speech”, meaning they twisted the meaning of what was said. Violence is nearly a synonym for damage.
Beyond that most Media refers to Arson as violence, the fact that they’re using the word with property instead of a person isn’t unusual or suspicious.
It is inaccurate.
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That statute is bullshit! Just because a corporation has some federal contacts doesn’t mean they need or deserve extra federal protection.
Unfortunately it will probably take a defendant with very deep pockets to hire very good lawyers to defend charges based on the statute…
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Stop. Hammer time.
How are unsold Teslas “government property”? Oh that’s right, they aren’t. Fucking fascists.
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Elon entering the find out stage. It is yet to be determined if his programming will allow him to actually learn the lesson.
If this keeps up at this rate then it won’t be a spike it will be a trend. You want to be trendy don’t you?
“I love my car. It’s the safest car,” Ramsdell said. “I’m not going to let somebody else judge me for the car I drive.”
It’s not and you are, you’ve just chosen not to care.
Oh no those poor cars, such horrible violence and suffering caused to these inanimate objects
I mean the craziness of how much power musk has makes me really consider that wild conspiracy about how musk hacked the election could be true.
Not a conspiracy when Trump literally says Elon helped secure states like Pennsylvania.
And just like that, worrying about climate change has become a thing of the past.
ridiculous statement, you can hate Elon and Tesla, while caring about climate change. You may not be aware there are other electric vehicles not associated with Nazis. Right now, Elon is pushing for changes that increase climate change by supporting the Trump administration. Dealing any kind of social and monetary blow to Elon and his companies would hopefully discourage him from continuing his actions.
Forget climate change, have you considered the amount of toxic chemicals released into the atmosphere by burning down even one of these vehicles?
Even if 1k burned unnecessarily, it’s No where near as impactful to the environment as the bad decision making a country with a GDP of 27 trillion USD will be making. We passed the largest bill to deal with climate change (Inflation Reduction act) the world has ever seen and now that may all get thrown away because of Donald, financially backed and influenced by the CEO of Tesla. Not only will Donald not fight to combat climate change, his is actively encouraging it by implementing policies that encourage fossil fuel use.
So in order to combat Trump’s lack of interest in reducing fossil fuel use, the solution is to destroy the most popular brand of electric cars, because the owner is of said electric car brand is helping Trump increase fossil fuel use, thus actively shooting himself in the foot.
Make it make sense.
Nobody said Elon is smart.
Are you denying that Donald is encouraging fossil fuel usage and by extension worsening climate change? Are you denying that Elon chose to financially support the candidate that would worsen fossil fuel usage?
How does Elon profit from that?
What?
Give me a break, you don’t give a single shit about the environment.
Neither do you.
This is the dumbest take I swear. If it’s that bad to burn ONE, what do you think happens when you take the richest dude on the planet who directs slaves to extract the metals from the earth to make many more of them a year, the supply chain for which is incredibly polluting, and many of them just randomly do that themselves, requiring THOUSANDS of gallons of water to put out each time, and put him in charge of US govt’s spending priorities?
Spoiler alert:
Forget climate change
Lol what?
And just like that, worrying about climate change has become a thing of the past.
To you, apparently. Not those of us who have our eyes and minds open and are actually trying to make positive change.
So you’re saying EVs are bad for the environment in general, or is it only when they’re produced by a particular person?
The time for worrying has passed it’s time to prepare and hold on
