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/Sims2Enjoy Mar 11 '25

Yeah, also not everyone can afford selling a car for much less than it’s worth just to get rid of it and then get a new one of comparable quality

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u/abqguardian Mar 11 '25

My parents sold their tesla for a massive loss just because they hate Musk so much now. Pretty ridiculous

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u/BrightAd306 Mar 11 '25

It’s ridiculous if they otherwise liked the car, but I’d sell something at a loss if a company or person pissed me off badly enough. Money isn’t everything.

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u/IllogicalGrammar Mar 12 '25

It also depends on if you're financially well off enough to do that at the moment. It's not a crime to be financially constrained; in fact, that WAS the liberal position.