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If say the Proud Boys opened up a car manufacturing plant and started producing cars, would it also be wrong to do "violence" (lmao) against people driving their cars? Where do you draw the line? Musk is much more damaging to society with his mainstreaming of fascist, machismo, white supremacist takes than the Proud Boys are, but I bet you'd have no problem with that.
And do you really think making people second guess buying a Tesla wouldn't hurt Musk whatsoever?
I think it would behoove you to stop with this kind of negative thinking. Yes, Musk is bad. Yes, he owns Tesla. But promoting acts of violence like that will not make the world a better place, nor will it discourage people from buying Teslas
You just keep saying violence, no matter what, is bad, which I know you and no one else believes. You're lying to defend Musk and people supporting Musk. What reasoning do you have that acts of violence against Tesla and Tesla owners won't make the world a better place? You seem to be relying heavily on the childish idea that violence is bad no matter what, which again you don't believe. And of course if violence is directed to people who drive Tesla's or their cars, people would absolutely be discouraged from buying Tesla and in return hurting Musk. We all know this, but here you are lying again.
You're arguing in bad faith because you have nothing to counter anything I'm saying.
A lot of Teslas are old enough that some of the people driving them probably bought them used. Also while id be perfectly fine with people for example smashing the screens on tesla charging stations cause I find it funny, it is rather counter productive to attack car owners. I drive a Jeep, Jeep is owned by GM and GM is a shit company would you damage my car even though its old enough to drink and GM saw none of the money from me buying it.
Irregardless if you wanted to damage Tesla park a faulty model S near their factory, its libel to explode and that would be a PR fuckfest.
Honestly there are enough non-critical thinking reactionaries these days that would rush out to buy Teslas the moment they heard they could upset someone on the other side for doing it that the impact to sapes might not be as high as you would hope and the increase to service requests for Teslas would probably generate a lot of revenue as paint and tire replacements tend to be way higher on lrofit margins than you think
There aren't even close to enough of them. They're not going to trade in their Ford F-900 for a "wimpy, girly" Tesla no matter what Musk does. They'd much rather be seen as manly and tough than backing Musk. He doesn't have the cult leader following like Trump does.
Mmmm maybe... I know that honestly his right wing pushes in policy have impacted sales but I wonder if it would be enough to actually tip any scale or just be a rounding error that gets people fired and jobs compressed to save more money