I’ll take this opportunity to remind people that Tesla vehicles are surveillance devices, and that the cops have access to facial recognition software. Plan your life accordingly.

  • @PeteZa@lemm.ee
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    1523 hours ago

    Didn’t these people advertise that they’re all domestic terrorists at the RNC?

    • @A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      Wait, that wasn’t photoshopped???

      edit: nvm - this party has truly become a parody of itself. And not just since then. Nobody should be surprised anymore, but it still happens again and again.

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    141 day ago

    Just a reminder that HitlerPig loves her because when he was running for president in 2016, she was the Florida AG, and they were about to fine HitlerPig $25 million for fraud over his HitlerPig University scam. He gave her a $25,000 contribution to her reelection campaign, and she dropped the lawsuit. So he knows she’s in his pocket. Now she’s been rewarded with the AG position.

    That, and her enormous fake boobies.

  • @TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    But if someone torches a Toyota Camry or spray paints a Ford F150 it’s just vandalism. Only when it affects the richest man in the world is it considered terrorism.

    • @CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe
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      Unpopular take, but I do believe this qualifies as terrorism. Definition 1, “the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.” Definition 4, “intimidation or coercion by instilling fear”. Haven’t seen it escalate to the level of physical violence, fist/gun fights yet. But it meets the definition of terrorism.

      “SELL YOUR SWASTIKAR NAO.” Sounds to me like…intimidation or coercion by instilling fear.

      There is more than slight difference between setting a single Toyota Camry on fire or spraypainting a single Ford F150 & specifically torching 10 Tesla charging stations, torching/shooting 17+ Tesla cars, latexing a Tesla robot, and damaging 4+ Tesla showrooms. An isolated incident can be written off as vandalism; multiple specifically targeted attacks (at least 32 objects, properties of like brand) & fuck knows how many more swastikas & nonsense put on cars out in the wild…that strikes me as the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives. AKA, terrorism. You can’t do or encourage the literal definition of a thing & then deny you’re that thing. If you’re going to be a bitch, you gotta be the whole bitch.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      Funny how just a few years ago those same people wouldn’t even have pissed on a burning Tesla. Musk decides to do a Nazi salute and all of a sudden conservatives love Tesla now.

    • @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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      Seriously good advice. Particularly since you can and will get charged with a terrorism offense. Let’s be honest here, people are going after Tesla because of what Musk is doing in the government. That means that people are using violence and intimidation in order to intimidate a civilian population or influence government policy. I really doubt that prosecutors will not have trouble making such charges stick. Just because you’re the good guys, doesn’t mean you won’t spend a lot of years in prison if you get caught.

      (5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
        (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
        (B) appear to be intended—
            (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
            (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
            (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States

      • @TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world
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        I’m sure you know this but freedom fighters have long been called terrorists to try to delegitimize their cause. It takes a very special kind of bravery to risk everything and more for what you believe in, Knowing that you’ll be slandered and slurred by what you’re fighting against. I just hope in the end they’re all vindicated.

        On another note, it’s wild that when the other side commits the same actions listed above it is never officially labeled as terrorism. We’re all living in crazy land.

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          600 mass shootings a year. 20+ targeted white nationalist massacres have happened since 2016, including the largest mass casualty event in american history in vegas, and none of those people were terrorists.

          Yet, every one of them had a manifesto, and it was covered in every new outlet. No terrorist.

          Let’s call it like it is– this is nazi germany now. Brownshirts were deputized eight years ago and people only just made the connection when he pardoned them for trying to help his coup. (Something totally unprecedented and definitely not a direct parallel to weimar germany both allowing Hitler to create a gang of street fighters but also allowing them to do the putsch, and then giving Hitler a three year jail sentence, after which he reassembled the brown shirts and started the SA who then started killing Communists and burning down synagogues once Hitler won the chancellorship)

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        Let’s be honest here. There is no violence. Expropriation is not violence.

        The capitalist denial of a difference between people and things is a major foundation of fascism.

        • @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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          If you believe the reporting, there have been violent attacks on Tesla dealerships. And even if you are not personally committing a violent act, if you are at a protest when it happens, you’ll likely get charged too.

          On a side note, don’t forget that our justice agencies and far-right militias have been known to send agents provocateur to such events to commit violent crimes to turn peaceful protests violent.

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      71 day ago
      • Wear gloves
      • Have a change of clothes
      • Have alibis
      • Spray cameras if you can
  • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    Considering Tesla’s habit of manufacturing vehicles that randomly combust… Are we sure all of these are acts of vandalism? You’re telling me that during record sales slumps and heightened apathy that the massive grifter definitely isn’t cutting corners on safety?

    • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      I think he is setting fire to them himself. I mean how else can Elon get money back on all these cars he can’t sell. I be shocked if there is actually people out setting these on fire.

      It’s a fucking setup, to goddamm convenient.

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    It might be illegal but it is also pretty based.

    I don’t advocate doing it of course and as OP stated, they are basically driving surveillance cameras.

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      It’s not a vandalism it’s a Roman paint job.

      Also Roman knows how to check manual where the cameras are.

  • Maybe someone e will ask to see results of this only to get Rickrolled again? Hope for incompetence, prepare for malign intent, I suppose.