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Multiple Teslas set on fire in Germany (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Fuck yeah!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

does this count as an attack on America?

[+] cool@lemmings.world -30 points 2 days ago (9 children)

This is not the solution.

Those could've been sold and the money used to help poor people.

Really puts into perspective how smart you people are for cheering for this. Bunch of knuckle-dragging neanderthals.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the car owners sold the car, they'd have cash but no car. And apparently they need a car, else why have it in the first place. So no, the money was never going to feed the poor.

Now the owners will get compensated by their insurance and can make a smarter choice for the replacement vehicle. Tesla owners get a message, and they only one hurt is the insurer.

[–] AsimovIV@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why did I just think of this bullshit after reading your comment?

[–] cool@lemmings.world -3 points 2 days ago

Because your herd mentality causes you to assume the crowd is correct no matter what.

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

What's your alternative? It has to be something that actually works

[–] cool@lemmings.world -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Instead of burning the cars without the owners' permission, take them and sell them.

Use the money to help those in need.

Too many "smart people" in this comment chain assume that I mean asking the owners nicely to sell them. Did we ask the owners nicely to set the cars on fire?

Really puts into perspective how smart ya'll are.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

WHO IS GOING TO SELL THEM THEN?

From what you keep repeating over and over in this thread, it seeks like you think the German state should seize Tesla's assets and sell them off.

That is an absolutely ridiculously unrealistic idea. But hey, let's say you start campaigning for it TODAY. You start convincing all the "low average intelligence" people in order to get a sufficient portion of the population on board to sway politicians to seize Tesla.

(Note that this is not 50%; for example, legalizing abortions has had far wider support in the German population for a long time, yet it's not happened so far.)

So let's be really, REALLY optimistic and say, in 10 years you will be able to get a government voted in which enacts the seizure of Tesla assets, agaojat all corporate-backed influences and interests. And somehow change the Grundgesetz so Tesla can not spend years moving up the courts to prevent this.

Do you see how this does nothing TODAY? I'm all for the systemic change; go vote and campaign in that direction, but here, in this comment section you are not offering a realistic or timely solution. Should nothing he done until your "perfect" solution becomes workable?

[–] alkbch@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

I do not condone violence but if you must act violently, at least target the dealership, not random people’s private property.

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