Yup, hadn’t thought of that. Sigh.

Republican Utah Senator John Curtis said on Meet the Press on Sunday: “… If we don’t touch it, it touches itself.”

This smells a bit like an orphan crushing machine. Is this just a private company offloading moderation duties onto already overworked public school teachers?

Nice!

Narrator: “They weren’t.”

Possible people responsible for setting cars on fire.

• Protesters that got carried away.
• Bugaloo Bois, or other right-wing militia groups, trying to frame peaceful protesters as violent and/or just stir shit up, as is part of their M.O.
• Trump administration lackies trying to frame peaceful protesters as violent to justify police crackdowns.
• Tesla employees committing insurance fraud whilst trying to frame peaceful protesters as violent.

Also keep in mind it doesn’t have to be just one. With multiple events of cars on fire, all of these (and more) could be true at the same time.

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?

“could have” or “could’ve” not “could of”

Just the same, smashing cars probably won’t endear the generally-docile public to the cause. I would say most people (i.e. the support force necessary for widespread change) don’t want to be associated with violence.

Which is why we should be considering the real possibility that these are false flag attacks. Want to turn the general populace against peaceful protesters? Engineer false flag attacks that make the protesters appear violent. Now you can arrest peaceful protesters and the general populace will turn and look the other way.

It’s How To Be A Fascist Dictator 101. https://it.usembassy.gov/how-russia-conducts-false-flag-operations/

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-bloody-czar-did-a-false-flag-operation-fuel-putins-rise/

https://archive.ph/k3mKE

There have also been an uptick in incidents of arson, vandalism, and violence against Tesla showrooms that, while unrelated to the protests, have led to Musk and President Donald Trump labeling them “domestic terrorism.”

Keep in mind that it’s completely reasonable to suspect that at least some of these are false flag opperations orchestrated by the Trump administration to justify arresting innocent protesters or eventually declaring martial law.

There have also been an uptick in incidents of arson, vandalism, and violence against Tesla showrooms that, while unrelated to the protests, have led to Musk and President Donald Trump labeling them “domestic terrorism."

It’s perfectly reasonable to think that at least some of these could be false flag opperations orchestrated by the Trump administration to give them cover to arrest innocent people and eventually declare martial law. The more that possibility is part of the mainstream conversation, the more wind it takes out of their sails towards accomplishing those goals.

There are lots of Tesla protests going on every weekend. See https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown to find one near you.

Also see https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/ for even more (not necessarily Tesla specific) protests going on all over the place all the time.

Participate in what you can.

It can respond to users’ verbal expressions — such as “I am feeling cold” — by automatically adjusting temperature

LOL. Who in hell wants to talk to appliances like that? If I wanted to talk to an appliances at all (not really) it would be to give very explicit instructions, not some vague complaint.

and can “chat and gossip"

Translation: “We couldn’t figure out how to get an LLM to not do this, so we’re just going to call it a feature.”

Snowflakes

I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are.

See, that doesn’t need a /s. Sometimes sarcasm is obvious in written form. Sometimes it’s not.

Nice chatting with you, ChatGPT. Have a nice day.

There was nothing about your comment indicating it was something Trump said. He says a thousand dumbass things every day. Nobody can keep track of it all. You shouldn’t expect everyone to have had all the same experiences you’ve had. A comment like that really requires a /s to signal that you’re not being serious.

Incorrect. You’re in here criticizing people actually taking action, from your armchair warrior position, admitting to not actually doing anything yourself, because… reasons.

Nobody is saying these protests are going to solve everything. Not by a long shot. But they are one of the things people can do right now that will help. Evidence? Tesla stock is down 33% in the last month, and over 50% since December. That’s hurting Muskrat directly, as evidenced by Trump shilling for Tesla from the Whitehouse.

You introduced the virus vs symptom treatment analogy. Well how about this. If you have a disease, and the only medication available to you at the moment only treats the symptoms, then you still take that medicine. You work towards getting a medication that will treat the disease, but in the meantime, you don’t turn down the one you have now, or criticize others for taking it.

What’s that going to do? Who is going to pay any attention to it? Certainly not the politicians owned by the billionaires. Certainly not the billionaires for whom such an action will not hurt them in any way. You’re here criticizing this protest as being ineffective, but only present alternative actions when pressed, and your supposed alternatives are even less effective. Either put up something that at least has a credible probability of helping, or STFU.