That really makes me want to buy a Tesla. They must be great if all those cops have to protect them.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Wasn't there a famous movie scene about nazis, cars and illinois?
I hate Illinois nazis
I'm not sure. It's dark and I'm wearing sunglasses.
At least they protect them from the customers too :)
I think you're on to something... The pigs are protecting the public from the evil oligarch's company.
Yea, that's the ticket!
The optics on this are great. Any potential customer is reminded that if they buy a t*sla, they earn a target on their back
Somehow I don't think that'll draw in customers.
Artists, where is the "SSwastikar" where the first two "s" are the Nazi SS logo, the third s is an actual swastika and the "T" is the Tesla logo? I can't draw for shit and the AI generator I use flagged it for inappropriate content...
Not what you asked for, still some kind of „art“ :)
My dyslexic ass read that as "protesting" but my brain refused to think that was a sentence that made sense and I read it again and Yep. There it is.
Look at all those short fat slobs. I bet they have at least one punisher tattoo.
Bullies group with bigger bullies. More at ten.
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So i guess liberals are going to attack and burn certain businesses that they morally disagree with and in retaliation conservatives are going to start attacking and burning "woke" businesses. Eventually one side will emerge victorious and can rule over the ashes. Great plan America.
If I were the chief of Chicago PD and somebody called in a bomb threat I'd place, maybe, a patrol car or 2 nearby.
I dont understand targeting the Tesla dealers. Short term, I would think insurance would be a revenue recognition bonanza. Longer term, if violence continues, insurance rates would increase, so there's potential expense drag there.
All I'm saying is that targeting the commodity is misplaced aggression.
Maybe I am thinking about it wrong.
I think that Tesla doesn't have a typical dealer network and they own their dealers which gave them a lot of trouble from the law.
It's about ssending a message
Tanking Tesla stock costs Musk a lot. Trashing unsold teslas means Tesla makes a lot of insurance claims. Short term that’s as good as a sale, well not really, the insurance only pays the replacement value which is less than the sell value, so it hurts their profits a bit, but it reduces stock and that does help a little. But if there’s a pattern of Tesla dealerships getting entire fleets destroyed, their insurance rates go up, which hurts their profits a lot more. So they’ll raise prices and sell fewer cars, which hurts their entire business.
Once or twice, it’s no big deal for Tesla. If the pattern keeps up then of going to start to squeeze them.
Musk has been a toxic asset for Tesla for quite some time, even before recent DOGE shit. I’m not sure why they don’t remove him. I get that he has majority shares, but there are still mechanisms for removing him.
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