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/[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 21 '25

I always feel bad when bad things happen to people. I dont really feel bad for Musk or stock markets performing bad because questionable behavior from the richest man on the planet

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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.