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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Some advice for demonstrations (including propaganda of the deed):

  • Wear a ski mask. Wear rubber gloves.
  • Wear anonymous clothing.
  • Don't trust phones. Don't use them to plan, and leave them turned on at home.
  • Use a cell structure to organize, and share info on a need-to-know basis only.
  • Assume there are not only cameras but microphones.
  • Don't drive anywhere near the location of the demo. Ride-haining services are even worse. Don't even cycle in unless you can go off-road.
  • Distinguish individuals' property from corporate property.
  • The goal is to live to fight another day. A fair fight is one in which you don't get hurt.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not having the phone with you is critical. But I assume planning is done on a laptop or desktop that is obviously not taken with?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, anonymous browsers, burner accounts, and a VPN if you can. Privacy.sexy is your friend too.

You just want to set yourself up as best you can for the defense of "you can't prove that was me."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Tor browser/ I use a VPN most of the time. But for REALLY sensitive shit I turn Tor on. A lot of stuff can be purged off your computer. I use Windows 11 (haven't migrated to Linux yet! Ugh!) but I have some failsafes to reduce my location data and the amount I am exposed. It isn't perfect (nothing is) but it is better than nothing.

[–] Montreal_Metro 19 points 1 day ago

Oh no! they should be dismantled instead of burned. Some of those electric motors could be put into better use.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Been thinking about this a lot. They can say it’s terrorism. History is written by the winners.

But…

Rebellion is constitutional, but not legal. If you rebel, you die a terrorist or live a hero. Not much middle ground.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jan 6ers were pardoned, so by this logic all the car vandalisms are legal too.

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Problem with setting Teslas on fire is we can't know if it's an act of protest or if they just did that on their own.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The incident in Kansas City genuinely does sound like one just caught itself on fire.

In Kansas City, Police Captain Jacob Becchina said in a statement that an officer first observed smoke coming from a Cybertruck parked in a Tesla parking lot. “The officer used his fire extinguisher, however, KCFD was still needed as he could not put the fire out,” Becchina said. “The fire spread to a second Cybertruck parked next to the original burning one. The circumstances are under investigation, but preliminarily, the fire is being investigated for the potential of being an Arson.”

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could be insurance fraud too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Probably a lot of the time it is. Nows a great time to do it if you're gonna.

Saw a post earlier where a guy was 42,000$ underwater on his and wanted to offload it at that big of a loss before his insurance dropped it entirely.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They've become sentient, and are committing suicide.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Keep it up!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

"Trump administration looking to categorize Tesla vandalism as domestic terrorism" Because Republicans are cowards without principles who can never even think of opposing him.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Oh no!

Anyway...

[–] [email protected] 271 points 2 days ago (23 children)

In posts on X following the incident, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the incidents “terrorism” and said the company “just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.”

OK buddy.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 days ago (83 children)

The cars suck, but he's right that the company hasn't done anything to deserve this. He's the one who chose to make himself the face of Tesla, though, so however people feel about him, they'll feel about any business he owns.

Terrorism, though? Hardly. It's protest. He's the one doing terrorism by dismantling the government.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Stick to the showrooms and dealers. The victims in Las Vegas was just owners who brought their cars in to be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They can use the insurance money to get a non tesla. Clearly these confused autistic gestures are not working since the de facto tyrannyical government is not reacting to it at all and not labelling it "terrorism".

spoiler

After seeing american tesla owners drive rentals in iceland, my toughts and prayers are with each of the expensive luxury vehicle owners and their families going through this tough time.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 days ago (7 children)

if you know anything about who did it no you don't

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

It's obviously the MAGA crowd. They've spent years complaining about electric vehicles. They've just escalated that to burning them out. The police need to go have a nice chat with the rolling coal types.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

We know that Teslas sometimes just catch fire on their own.

We also know that sometimes Tesla drivers will set their cars on fire themselves on purpose. Because of that...

We also know that Elon has a backdoor into all Teslas.

Now ask yourself which is more likely, the woke liberal crybabies actually causing violence or a drug addled and politically embattled CEO of a company that lost 50% of its value in the past 3 months creating a false flag to villainize the left and get insurance to cover damage to the vehicles he can't sell?

/s (kind of)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago

Oh no. Anyways.

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[–] Snowpix 21 points 2 days ago

Ohhhhhh nooooooooooo! Let me grab my very tiny violin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

multiple is not enough.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Insurance fraud due to slow sales

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Spontaneous combustion

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