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[–] polycrome@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Has anyone else heard that people are trying to return their new Teslas and Cybertrucks because they are apparently infested with bedbugs?! I guess they are in the factories and dealerships and have just been crawling into the cars at night?

It wouldn't surpise me if Elmo and the news are trying to keep a tight lid on it so people won't find out, and Conspiracy nuts are saying that Tesla is torching their own Cybertrucks in the dealership lots to contain the spread.

I didnt belive it at first but a friend of mine took a Lyft in a Tesla the other night and started to feel itchy but the back seat was dark and she was on her phone. While she was getting out, she noticed a bunch of tiny spots on her dress and they were bedbugs!

Naturally she freaked the fuck out and the driver apologized profusely begging her not to give him a bad review before speeding off.

She refused to go into her apartment afterward and spent a few hours in the laundry room practically naked running her clothes in the dryer! Apparently high heat is the only Way to get rid of them?

She's still traumatized and insists she still feels them crawling on her even though an exterminator with a bedbug sniffing dog assured her the apartment was clear.

Has anyone else heard about this? It's so messed up, considering they're such expensive cars!

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the paranoia thing after having had bedbugs is so fucking real. why do fascists love spreading plagues so much? do they all just jack off to 'snow crash' all day?

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They think hygiene is a conspiracy

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

I like my version more.

If you've ever been to the bay area, and this actually comes up in the most recent 'behind the bastards' episodes, the entirety of silicon valley, where a lot of modern anglophone fascism comes from, is made entirely of four things:

  1. reinventing the dumbest philosophy of dark ages, now with cyberpunk flavor

  2. calling the scifi story they read that one time "logic"

  3. "reinventing the Torment Nexus, from their favorite dystopian novel 'Do Not Build The Torment Nexus'"

  4. weird sex stuff. which is sometimes pretty fun.

so I think "they all jack off to snow crash, especially the parts with the fifteen year old" is equally plausible.

then again; por que no los dos?

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I've had this problem and I've done the same laundry dance. It is extremely stressful.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Were those 4 trucks I heard burned at a dealership? That would track.

[–] rustbuckett@lemmings.world 17 points 1 day ago

Oops. Wrong Hitler.

[–] alanjaow@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Rick: "You know, Mr. President, the more you use that word, the less impact it has. At this point, it's like a terrorist is just a guy you don't like."

Pres: "Shut up, you terrorist!"

This is from memory, so isn't gonna be fully accurate. Ah well.

[–] Overconfidentiality@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

Kinda wish the same thing would happen to insert other us based car manufacturer just to see the spin. But fuck Elon, glad some people are waking up to his idiocy. Too many people have too long equated wealth with integrity & intelligence.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is the inevitable conclusion of decades of justifying endless violence by labeling people "terrorists". The word has no meaning other than "target of the state". And now the state is this.

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"And now the state is this."

"It was at dawn of Abril 25 of 1974, during the parade of Practical Cavalry School, in Santarém, that (Capitan) Salgueiro Maia uttered the famous speech:

' Gentlemen, as everyone knows, there are various modalities of State.
The socialist States,
the capitalist States,
and the state we came to.
Well, in this solemn night, we will end the state we came to!
So, whoever wants to come with me, we go to Lisbon and we will end this.
Whoever is voluntary, go out, form up.
Whoever doesn't want to go out, stay here.'

Every 240 of those man that eard this words, spoken so firmly, so characteristic of Salgueiro Maia, formed up immediately in front of him.

Next they went to Lisbon and marched on the dictatorship. "

And with more and more military/citizens joining in through the day, they ended a 41 year old dictatorship that kept Portugal in poverty and ignorence.

Another great man, Commander Seixas Louça, of the frigate "Gago Coutinho" in the river Tejo,
going out to open waters to join a NATO mission, was order to go back up river, stand anchored in front of "Terreiro do Paço",
(the open square and nevralgic center of Portugal, from where most of the ships went to the discoveries of globalisation more than 500 years before, and where the Ministries are today)

AND ORDERED TO SHOOT on the city, on their brothers in arms and citizens, if the "movement" continued.
He refused. He did take the ship there, but didn't anchor and pointed the guns up.

The Wolrd needs more people like Capitan Salgueiro Maia and his 240, that knew when to take action,
and more like Commander Seixas Louça and his battleship of warriors that knew when not to take it, because they knew what war was, and that the "movement", wasn't it.

The only good things about Antonio Salazar (Slytherin....yeah Rowling used his last name as the first name of the wizard) was (mostly) keeping Portugal out of the wars (mostly) and dying.
Certainly.

[–] baratheon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

my mother went to work in Lisbon this day and returned safe, no one died. My dad was enlisted overseas and returned home soon after. and a couple of years later, i was born. We still celebrate these heroes every year in our national Revolution day. I was fortunate to not have to know what living in a dictatorahip is

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

My grand mother was arriving in the city in a bus with my mother with 3 years old beside her and my aunt on her lap.

I had to leave some friends behind on the past years.

I listened to my grand mother. They didn't listen to theirs.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago

Who wouldn't mind terrorizing Elon Musk? He should be terrified.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago

By far the absolute worst election promise of Trump47 was to give blanket immunity to police for murder, which directly leads to "don't let this extortion turn into a murder, and don't say liberal shit".

Musk recommending to pardon George Floyd cop murderer is a ploy for protests and crackdowns on protests. During Trump45, the Jerusalem capital/embassy was opportunity to murder protesters, and he also amplified George Floyd protests as a re-election ploy to keep suburban moms safe from the uppity negroes.

Musk is intentionally inciting domestic violence through his divisive and hateful recommendation. He'd just prefer the violence be directed at angry negroes than his cars.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Indeed, the Government of Putin protecting Nazi owned property.

[–] graphene@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Terrorism is politically/religiously motivated violence.

So is he trying to say that attacking a (supposedly) independent, non-government owned corporation, which is (supposedly) held and headed by a person who is officially nowhere on any governments payroll, is political?

This is just like with the murder of Brian Thompson, the charges reveal the truth of what they think.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

Terrorism is politically/religiously motivated violence.

...By non-uniformed personnel, against non-state actors, for the purpose of using visceral public fear to achieve political goals.

Uniformed vs state is war

Non-uniformed vs state is insurrection

Uniformed vs non-state is war crime (unless against insurrection/ terrorism I suppose, in which case its just war/ counter terrorism).

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It’s weird, fascist, demented behavior.

[–] mrbeano@lemm.ee 175 points 2 days ago (3 children)

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Those are the "goodie" terrorists... The fascists!

He's talking about the "baddie" terrorists... The antifascists!

Their goal is also to normalize political persecution through designating everything antifascist as a crime.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 69 points 2 days ago (6 children)

terrorism

n 1: the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

Well, kind of sounds like textbook terrorism. And to be clear, I'm cheering on these terrorists. This is terrorist on terrorist action and, in my opinion, a fair and fitting response.

[–] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago (28 children)

Property damage is not violence against civilians.

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days ago (12 children)

If that's the definition, then I think it's textbook not at all terrorism. One of the standard definitions of violence, and the one that I agree with, is using force to hurt a person or living being. In other words, you can't use violence against an empty car dealership in the middle of the night. So it's not violent.

The target is the company owned by Elon Musk, and he is a member of the government. In other words, the act of inflammation is a protest against the government, not against civilians.

It depends on the arsonist, but I don't see these acts as ones that are designed to make people fear anything. Rather, they are designed to help people band together and fight against Elon Musk and his evil Nazi ways.

And then you've misidentified the goal. I think one of the goals, other than helping people band together, is to hurt Elon Musk's company economically. Now you might argue that people want to inflict economic costs upon him because of related political goals, but now you're getting into indirect reasoning, which would allow you to argue that anything, any act at all, or not acting in the first place, counts as terrorism.

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[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.

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