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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't own one, but when I was considering which EV to buy they were on the list. I could have easily been just another Tesla owner, now getting their car burnt to a crisp or getting spray painted with Nazi symbols.

I am a unpaid union executive. I volunteer my time to groups like a Right-to-Repair advocacy organization. If the shitheads burning cars could get this motivated about these or other issues, we'd be knocking problems over like dominoes. Instead "activism" for a lot of people now means complaining on the internet and destroying the property of workers.

Frankly people need to take that type of activism and fuck right off with it. Do some real work or go home and let the adults figure it out.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I do all kinds of work organizing IRL thanks. Do you think the people that set the cars on fire were just online or something? Shitposting is useless, the real ones are taking it offline.

A bit of advice to an alleged Union man? Get some solidarity and stop supporting fascists scab. Support Unions by buying union-made cars, not ones made by a Union busting fascists.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You advise for solidarity by burning down cars of other regular people..

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I advised the person claiming to be in a union to do their part and support unions, not union busters.

I advise solidarity with non-fascists by not supporting anything that puts money into a fascists pocket.

Personally I think targeting showrooms would be more effective but I'm 100% confident Evil Insurance Companies will make things right for the downtrodden Tesla owners and they can buy a new car. Judging by most people's reactions, at least a few won't buy a Tesla.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could petition for adoption of an EV plug that isn't Tesla's. You could ask to have the Tesla supercharger network be declared anti-competitive and force Musk to divest. Bonus points if you can convince people it should be a public good.

Lots of moves could be made. Instead you advocate for bashing the fash by... Burning cars owned by workers? And somehow you fail to see how this is not just morally and logically wrong, it also harms the view of leftists in the eyes of the public?

Are you a real person or do you glow?

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The time for petitions and lobbying have passed. Our regulatory agencies have been captured and our politicians bought.

In the future it'll only get more and more dangerous to associate with Teslas at all. Anyone who values their personal safety should unload it now.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will be reporting anyone I catch destroying otherwise innocent people's property to the authorities. I will not be associated with you fucking animals.