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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 33 points 3 hours ago
[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 57 points 4 hours ago (3 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.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

They've become sentient, and are committing suicide.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 minutes ago

I was JUST about to say; how do we know they didn't just do that? or that this wasn't a buggy firmware update that just did that? or a malicious firmware update that did this?

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago
[–] ragingdachshund@lemm.ee 30 points 5 hours ago

Oh no. Anyways.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

The engineers did this, Teslas just kind of do this.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 24 points 3 hours 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.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 23 points 6 hours ago

Probably god's will or something. What's the pont of investigating.

[–] Curmudge_john@lazysoci.al 88 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 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)

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If unsold teslas catch fire, i'm convinced it's some insurance scam. A car sold and a car gone that they can't fix anyway

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

They've already shown what they are capable of, in terms of scam behavior, up in Canada.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 52 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Didnt the Nazi party burn down the Reichstag and blame it on the other party?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They blamed it on the communist party, yes. There were 8 parties represented in the Reichstag at the time though.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Thank you. My history has unfortunately become a bit rusty

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 67 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Insurance fraud due to slow sales

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 211 points 15 hours ago (80 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.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

"Evil attacks", like we're killing puppies, or something.

It's vandalism against machines, and the only victim here is the insurance companies.

[–] ragingdachshund@lemm.ee 21 points 5 hours ago

It’s not terrorism. They were just peacefully touring the dealerships. Just like January 6. Peacefully touring.

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