He drove at low speed, so he was clearly aiming more for intimidation than injury. Sounds kind of like terrorism, but he's right wing, so the only charge is assault.
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He is MAGA and the two tier justice system will rule it self defense.
I don't know about that. I bet they say the protestors were assaulting and terrorizing the poor car by getting in its way
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I'm sure the GOP will be working overtime to try and brush that under the rug.
Do they even have to? All trump will have to say is that the guy is a great patriot and will invite him to next SOTU.
I can already hear him saying something like “maybe I should just change the law that says you can’t drive into protesters, who knows. maybe that’s something we’ll have to look into.”
That's already a thing in Florida.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/ron-desantis-anti-riot-bill
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In Florida it's legal to run over protestors, maybe they will make that a federal rule
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I think it says everything that needs to be said that the left's reaction to disputes is to protest and maybe set some cars on fire, and the right's reaction is to (try to) kill people.
ask yourself which is more effective. the right is currently winning. maybe we should adopt different strategies.
Hey that is a violent thing to say, you should be ashamed of yourself. It's only ok to be violent if you're a white male Republican. Get back in the crowd, they're not done running you over yet.
i appreciate the sentiment, but we need to stop thinking we're doing anything by highlighting their hypocrisy
Not everything I do has to be doing anything. Sometimes I'm just trying to vent. But also expressing the sentiment matters, even if it's small. Protests usually start with venting.
protests usually accomplish nothing also.
Only if they're peaceful 🍴
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Imagine being so much of a simp for Elon fucking musk, that you drive your car into a crowd of people. This is for the loser who pays people play video games for him and kills poor people.
A sick delusional simp who follows Elon and right wing paid media too closely.
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Searching article for the word terrorism… Nope, even just “terr” only points me to “interrupted.”
Funny how they missed that. “Terrorism” around teslas is such popular news these days!
If the crowd had lynched the perp, you better believe it would have been terrorism.
Didn't Florida make it so that you can run over people if you feel threatened and are a white person? If this person feels threatened vicariously through elon I'm sure the courts will say it's A-OK
Even if they wanted to claim this, can it really extend to driving up in the sidewalk to get them? There must be some limit, right?
Before November id have said yes
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A peaceful group exercising their freedom of speech and assembly were met with an act of terror. Let's see how the freedumb lovers respond!
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...I don't think it says what the driver was driving, and somehow that's driving me crazy. I thought to look it up because I figured it's gotta be a Tesla, but "a car" could mean any brand and another source suggests it's a fucking Nissan Pathfinder!
Reminds me that conservative fucks don't even drive EVs, it's really fucking funny to me that even this guy is driving a Japanese SUV instead of a Tesler.
I mean, thank goodness it wasn't a Tesla. Imagine if that thing had driven into the protesters and then exploded! People would definitely have been injured in that case.
At our local Tesler protests, I've seen very little correlation between driver's responses and what they were driving. The vast majority were honking in support, waving, and throwing 👍, including from a couple Teslers.
Most swasticar drivers just stared straight ahead looking embarrassed. Very very few negative reactions, but they were from every kind of vehicle imaginable.
The funniest (to me) reactions were the drivers with their mouths agape and eyes wide in utter astonishment, like they had absolutely no clue what was going on. How out of touch with current events can a person be?
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Pathetic violence from the Republicans? Must be a day that ends in Y.
Free speech when?
It wasn't his fault the car was in full self driving mode. Totally normal operation!
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Trump/Elon Infatuation Syndrome (TIS)?
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