• Ithorian@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This is so stupid, burn other people cars because of some stupid Millionaire. People are just dumb

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      22 hours ago

      If you have a car that valuable without comprehensive insurance, you were going to learn a hard lesson one way or the other imo. Something as simply as a bad rain storm can really expensive damage. Also, from an impartial perspective, used cars that attract crime seriously harm sales of other used and even new examples; Hyundai/Kia is an excellent example of this. Tesla has already lost virtually all of its reputation yes, but knowing it might be burned to the ground at any second will have even Elon supporters second guessing a purchase.

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        10 hours ago

        So it’s fine to destroy insured private property? It’s not like that’s zero cost for the owner of the car

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          2 hours ago

          I never claimed it to be fine, to be clear, but again from a purely objective standpoint it seems like a pretty small cost to pay to contribute to the erosion of power a fascist, racist, hateful, and truly dangerous borderline hegemon wields. Perhaps I’m limited in perspective, but at first glance I see 2 main outcomes assuming you’re siding with the vandals: -The Tesla owner disagrees with Elon and was able to claim insurance on the car they’d likely otherwise take a bath on if they tried to sell (especially in Germany) and presumably wanted to get rid of: win-win. -The Tesla owner agrees with Elon and is an enemy of the vandal, which I’m sure they’d consider a win-win (damaging the market image of Tesla, harming an enemy)

          To clarify once more, I am not saying I agree with or support the efforts of arsonists targeting regular people, but it seems like there’s asymmetric cost on the side of Tesla assuming properly insured/financially positioned owners so what they’re doing makes sense overall, and is likely effective. Let’s be real, Teslas are positioned as luxury vehicles; these aren’t people scraping buy that are being harmed.