Focusing on the 20 or so unknown people who have burned #Tesla s rather than the remarkable success of a grassroots campaign to devalue Musk’s brand is dishonest and just amplifies the right’s propaganda.
The right response is, ‘when you let a deranged billionaire buy and rampage through our gov causing massive harm to the American people you should expect outrage. In a country that venerates violent opposition to tyrants, you should expect a few to take it to extremes’ #doge #elonmusk
Someone on FB was decrying the impact this is having on owners of the shoddily built luxury cars, claiming they’re “mostly our people.” Pobrecitos.
Meanwhile, I traded in my inherited Tesla for a Kia and couldn’t be happier. The car actually works and is unlikely to kill me.
@JoshuaHolland a not-so-subtle trumper here on mastodon was calling me a hater because I said people shouldn't choose tesla when they commute with Uber. He said it will have a bad effect on the poor who are trying to make a living on Uber. Yeah Right!
Whatever happened to "The tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of patriots"?
Not that I really ever agreed with it...but THEY did.
@JoshuaHolland Fox news seems to be trying to convince its base that hammer welding vigilantes are everywhere taking whacks at any Tesla they see.
That fear campaign seems... fine to me? Fox viewers weren't going to buy Teslas anyway and this just cements it. They're hobbling any "we gotta buy Teslas to support Trump" movement on the right in its cradle by turning up the fear. I don't like scapegoating the poor saps caught up in the hysteria, but if they want to generally convince the public that it is dangerous to buy Teslas that seems fine to me.
At least this is a useful pivot from before, when right wing media was trying to convince their viewers that EVs in general were battery-powered death traps. Now only Teslas are!
@cscott It's the BLM strtategy. Very effective if you repeat it constantly.
@JoshuaHolland If they skip Social Security payments, you ain't seen nothing yet.
@Olyindivisible @JoshuaHolland We just have to wait for all this pain to hit someone privileged enough to fight back.
@JoshuaHolland correct, and one can say all of this without it being interpreted as condoning violence or destruction of property. People with social awareness and empathy get this. Those drawing a hard line of 20 years in a foreign prison are scared.
@clusterfcku yawn. Tell that to John Lewis and African Americans who got beat up, lynched and murdered for decades. Take your posturing and go shove umit up your entitled white ass.
@JoshuaHolland I think the correct response is "elect a criminal, get a crime-ridden country" Or something to that effect - feel free to workshop it.