I have seen a lot of tesla vandalism online the last few days and I’m kind of on the fence about it.

I’ve seen several examples locally here in BC, Canada.

I think totally warranted at newly purchased teslas going forward. Also it serves as a deterrent for potential future buyers.

But vandalizing a car that is a few years old I think is lame. Those driversare already being punished enough by driving something around that’s worth less than scrap.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    My hot take: yes it’s perfectly acceptable.

    You are only partly correct when you say “cruelty doesn’t change minds”. I’ll up that and say that you cannot change the mind of a jackass who buys cyber trucks, no matter what you do.

    What you do is show them that there are consequences to their choices, that they’re not somehow immune like they think they are on Facebook or on their preferred social media echo chamber.

    And if that doesn’t change their minds or makes them consider their choices much more carefully, then they fucking deserve it.

    EDIT: also, that’s written in the dirt, isn’t it? Is that what we call vandalism nowadays? What do you call it when the french burn a few cars down when protesting, a world war? Just go wash the shame off, you slob…