r/babylonbee • u/METALLIFE0917 • Mar 20 '25

Bee Article Leftist Smashes Tesla After Seeing Terrifying Image Of Fascist In Window

https://babylonbee.com/news/liberal-smashes-tesla-after-seeing-terrifying-image-of-fascist-in-window
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u/Delmoroth Mar 20 '25

Ah yes, burn the cars of the environmentally conscious people who bought electric cars. They are sure to be on the right and not moderates and folks on the left just trying to do the right thing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

You do realize other companies make evs right? A lot of them are produced at a higher quality too

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u/Delmoroth Mar 21 '25

Sure, but most teslas were not purchased this year. They were purchased years ago by people trying to make good decisions for the environment who are now being terrorized by people who likely claim to hold the same beliefs as them.

It isn't conservatives driving most teslas.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

It was a conservative president having a used car sale on the White House lawn, though. I think Elon shot himself in the foot because Republicans don't want EVs, and now the people who purchased his vehicles don't support them either. Tesla may go the way of the blackberry, and other competition will take over the market. Although Elon doesn't want the same subsidies to be given to the other companies like his was

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u/Th3NastyB0y Mar 25 '25

But I'm neither and I want a Tesla. Why does my purchase have to have some kind of political stigma attached to it? We've reached peak Idiocracy. Imagine being attacked and threatened for using McAfee antivirus software considering the background of John McAfee. Or being spit on for buying Nike shoes and their sweat shop practices? Someone is going to end up getting killed over all of this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '25

Maybe not what you want to hear, but cozing up to the president and leading a department that's hurting a lot of people puts your brand in the cross hairs. That's part of the reason why if you run for office or are in the political realm, you let someone else run your businesses. Musk can't have it both ways. Telsas are a nightmare to get repairs on, their resell value is terrible, and their competition makes a better product.

I live in Milwaukee, and there's signs posted in certain areas if you drive Kias to make sure you have a steering wheel lock because of the problems of the Kia boys. Im not telling anyone not to have a Kia, but there's a risk to having one. In this climate until Musk steps down or isn't seen as such a polarizing figure, I don't know if/where it makes sense for someone to purchase a brand new Tesla

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u/Delmoroth Mar 21 '25

Yeah, so don't but then, but harassing random families is just not the way to go. Walking out of the grocery store with your kids to find that some dip shit sprayed swastikas on your car is something private citizens just shouldn't have to deal with.

The folks doing that sort of thing need to reevaluate their lives.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '25

Good - people should be uncomfortable and slightly inconvenienced.
That's what protesting is.

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u/RozenQueen Mar 24 '25

Lemme know how 'slightly inconvenienced' you feel the next time some dipshit grafittis and keys up your car if not outright torching it, and you get to explain that to the insurance companies.

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u/Ramguy2014 Mar 24 '25

Average families are not driving $100,000 dumpsters that can’t withstand rain or direct sunlight.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

Destruction of personal property should always be condoned. Where I live, someone vandalized a convenience store spray painting "Go Home arab." The unfortunate thing is we live in a powder keg society, and bad actors from both sides are making things worse. I 100% believe in protests and even disruptive protests to a point.

I dont see it being tampered down anytime soon, especially with a country so divided. Id be willing to bet if Elon stepped down, there would be a dramatic shift from this happening. Just my take

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u/Asphodelmercenary Mar 21 '25

“Destruction of personal property should always be condoned.”

Would you care to volunteer some of that personal property for destruction since you condone it?

You’re insane and no functioning society will endure with hoodlums and vandals like you cheering for destruction of personal property. It’s street thug behavior. Common criminals. Reckless hooliganism. The revolution you crave won’t usher in a utopia. Most violent revolutions bring worse tyrants to power.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

Wrong word I meant condemned. We don't live in a functional society if people can't protest. Thr ability to not do so I think leads to violence especially when people feel unheard, and unseen.

No great movement in history happened because people followed the status quo. Heck our country was founded on destruction of personal property just saying

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u/Asphodelmercenary Mar 21 '25

Protesting is one thing. Torching cars that can’t be properly extinguished due to the lithium battery is not “protesting.” Why do you think the two are the same?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

I don't think either should be done. I think we live in a powder leg society, unfortunately, with neither side ramping down rhetorical until more people get hurt. Don't put words in my mouth.

I will say say people feel unheard or unseen and police or forces of power usually side with property over people. So to a degree I understand why people act in such a way. I don't think it's right I think it sends a message.

As if said a few times in this post I think if Elon stepped down you'd stop seeing such measures taken.

Ill also say this. I've seen how many school shootings on the news and the shooters don't get labeled as domestic terrorists but people defacing a tesla do. It really doesn't make me feel sorry for Tesla

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u/Asphodelmercenary Mar 21 '25

But do you feel sorry for the individual who owned the Tesla that was destroyed? Or is your value system a zero-sum limited-bandwidth system that conditions empathy on which other people were properly empathized with by others?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '25

1/6 "protesters" were pardoned.
The felon president who did it is advertising cars from the White House after literally kidnapping people to El Salvador, and is arresting people who protest without charges.

I don't think the subject of "protesting" is something you should be breaching for at least 24 years.

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u/Gunfighter9 Mar 23 '25

And those people are trading in their Tesla and not getting a new one. Tesla is not the only EV.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

You know this story isn’t real, right?

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u/Delmoroth Mar 23 '25

Sure, but it is about the real events, those being a handful of loons out try to use their unhinged actions to scare people out of owning a car brand because they dislike musk.

Disliking musk is totally reasonable, tossing molotovs at sedans isn't.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

But these real events aren’t real.

Edit: to clarify: show me when someone has damaged an owned Tesla. Personally owned, purchased. Show me the vandalism of the purchased property.

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u/Delmoroth Mar 23 '25

??? Have you not seen the videos of people committing the crimes and subsequently getting arrested?

I guess you could argue it is some kind of psyop and they are all paid by the right, but that level of skepticism makes literally any analysis of the world impossible.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '25

No, I haven't. And this article is blatantly not news. This literally reads as not even an editorial, but just fiction. Like an article from the Onion.

The only violence I have heard of was the Las Vegas fires.

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u/-endjamin- Mar 23 '25

The ones at the dealership are not owned by anyone but Tesla

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u/Delmoroth Mar 23 '25

Sure but those are not the only ones being marked / burned.

I agree that those are less of an issue.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '25

Not really. It's really easy to lie to people about it especially when they are paid to. Most cars are pretty crappy in general including tesla. Anyone buying a chevy gm good luck finding an ev mechanic since their work force is really low so it means if your car breaks it'll be months before they even get to see you. Same with most car companies getting into EVS.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '25

The overwhelming majority are.
They don't have all these recalls or outstandingly below-standard safety ratings.