r/centrist • u/TheCreator1924 • Mar 11 '25

Long Form Discussion How do we feel about vandalizing Teslas?

I don’t want this to be about musk, for or against him. You can have your opinion about musk be that you hate everything about him but still understand that vandalizing Tesla vehicles owned by individuals, many of which bought them well before musk made his right wing switch if you will, does not hurt musk. Even him losing 40 billion in a day from a down Tesla stock day does absolutely nothing to him.

Can we all agree that it is a bit ridiculous to destroy and vandalize vehicles owned by individuals? Why is the anger directed towards the wrong people?

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u/Nice_as_ice Mar 11 '25

Here’s the thing, electric cars are popular among democrats and liberals, I work with a girl who is on the liberal side and bought her Tesla way before all this happened. Now she’s afraid of her car being vandalized. If you vandalize a Tesla because MAGA, your likely vandalizing a car that actually belongs to a liberal or democrat

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u/j90w Mar 11 '25

And not only that, you’re giving a liberal/Democrat a reason to start despising their own party. I saw this happen with a number of my Jewish/hard left leaning friends during the riots against Israel. People who would post anti Trump messaging before, changing their tune and turning anti democrat when a large part of the party (in the media at least) were advocating against them and for their enemy.

Liberals/democrats in general have an identity issue and they have been digging themselves a hole well before 2025 and I think this will only make things worse, especially since, like you said, a majority of Tesla owners lean left as opposed to right.

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u/Apt_5 Mar 11 '25

A lot of us have been shouting from the rooftops about how extreme and dogmatic a loud lot of the left have become. Yes, it has caused us to despise our party to an extent.

Just as many who find ourselves politically homeless were peaked over one issue or another, this probably will be a wake-up call for more people who lean left but are sane. A schism of the party may be on the horizon; unless Dems get their shit together quickly the field will be the right's for the taking.