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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (8 children)

What do you call it when half the Teslas in a showroom are on fire?

A good start.

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[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 26 points 2 days ago

Oh dear ! Must be those batteries spontaneously combusting. I remember when that used to happen to Samsung phones a while back.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

At what point do the board members and shareholders fire Herr Musk?

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well, one of the board members is his brother and the rest are loyalists so probably not until a shareholder revolt.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Hence the car sales show at the White House, generating some PR to pump up the stock. It worked, for now.

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

That's fine. Let him run it into the ground. No skin off my nuts

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago

He culled everyone that wasn't his lacky early on including the actual founders

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Au contraire it's surely time for his bonus

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Today i am not ashamed to be german for once :)

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Imagine you buy a car and it gets burned down because the owner of the car company turns out to be a Nazi.

I would like Tesla to go bankrupt too but cheering on regular peoples property being destroyed is wrong.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure, I have some sympathy for those who bought them years ago.

But let's not mince words. If you buy a Tesla today, you are literally a Nazi collaborator.

Those who bought a Tesla much earlier were more like one of those few people who bought one of Hitler's paintings during his starving artist phase.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

I think Tesla owners should put anti elon stickers on theirbcars

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Read this thread man. People have become fucking deranged, cheering on destroying the property of people who likely had no reason to believe they'd be making car payments to a Nazi.

Frankly if you're not out canvassing for politicians you support or helping organize a union or something but you can find the time to cheer on the destruction of what is likely a worker's property, you need to get a grip.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you own a Telsa, sell it. It sucks but Muskrat is actually dismantling decades of institutional organization. He's an threat to our country and when it collapses he'll just fly to the next country while we burn.

Flood the market with used Swasticars that nobody wants to be associated with and nobody will buy the new ones. Money is the only thing they understand.

He's got the president of the u.s. on the front lawn hucking his cars, it's hilarious and sad.

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Were they really set on fire, or did their batteries just explode? This could very well be another case of the new and improved Pinto spontaneously going off.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)
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[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 days ago

There should be a contest which region / country / city lights up the most.

[–] muddyuk@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

Well that’s terrible. You naughty, naughty Germans.

[–] match@pawb.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

are they not afraid of being labeled terrorists and blackbagged to Guantanamo?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 days ago (8 children)

No, because they live in a country with rights.

[–] match@pawb.social 13 points 2 days ago
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

FTFY: ~~political motives~~ common sense could not be ruled out.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

That's why people use this sticker

[–] 0000@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, that was a bit of a challenge to read.

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago

I bought my before Tesla Elon mind lost his.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

They should have one to cover up the Tesla logo saying Evil Nazi Scumbag made this

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

It’s just a Roman bonfire my doods!

[–] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

"Oh no!

Anyway"

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

*tries to pretend doesn't condone vandalism*

Awwww..wwwwaaa..aahaaa..haaa..hahaaaa..hahaha HA HA HAH! HAH!

*fails*

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 2 days ago

Funny house suddenly Teslas have become more valuable as an insurance payout then they are as a car.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago
[–] FartGremlin@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago
[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Germans can be depended upon to do the right thing.

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Poor quality lithium batteries.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

does this count as an attack on America?

[–] GardeniaSky@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 days ago
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