German police said that four vehicles were set on fire in Berlin on Friday morning, and that political motives could not be ruled out.
  • Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    Whatever you may think of Tesla or Muskrat, vandalising a persons vehicle is a pathetic move.
    Exactly the opposite of Luigi, not even a Tesla dealership but gravely punishing the lowest in the food chain. Not to mention the environmental harm it causes.
    Whoever does this is a coward.

  • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    If they want to hurt Tesla, attacking their customers’ cars won’t help

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    While I get that people try to hurt Tesla’s sales, please don’t set random people’s property on fire. You might destroy the live of someone who bought a car before Edolf Musk rose to power and displayed the extent of his insanity.

    Couldn’t care less for Tesla’s fresh out the factory tho

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, I recently saw a Tesla here with a sticker on its back reading:
      “I bought this before Elon went crazy”

      Those will probably get wildly popular to secure their cars

      And I’m all with you, that destroying people’s property is just a shit move…

      Edit: and forgot to add:
      There are still quite some anti-EV people around, that just seem to hate on EVs in general
      If such a fucker destroys my Renault EV, I’d be more than just pissed

      • rmrf@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        2 days ago

        national “buy comprehensive” day would be a pretty strong signal to send

        • naeap@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          2 days ago

          Sorry, English isn’t my first language, so I’m not sure what you mean with “buy comprehensive”

          It’s a bit hard to describe for me, how I understand it, without just translating it directly ;⁠-⁠)
          (Would be “umfassend” if that helps)

          So, I understood it like extensive, exhaustive

          But I’m not sure how that would translate to my shopping.
          Would I just buy everything I need all at once?
          But what signal would that send?

          I guess, I just don’t understand it correctly.

          Thanks for helping me out here, I’m a bit stuck here…

          • modus@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            They are referring to the insurance policy covering the vehicle. Comprehensive insurance covers vandalism and fire.

    • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      That’s true. In an unrelated note there’s a tesla gigafactory near Berlin. Also, there’s a brand new train track to it. Also unrelated, I heard fires are really bad for train tracks.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
      01·
      3 days ago

      I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property, but Teslas are not cheap.

      I doubt anyone who’d lose one would have their life destroyed.

      • naeap@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 days ago

        Many people save up for such a major expense, like a car
        So they save up for years, because they really would like to have that one specific car and then some idiot comes around and destroys it, because he doesn’t like the owner of the manufacturer

        And many people bought it while Tesla was pretty much the only decent EV

        and even if the driver could buy the car without selling his kidney, it doesn’t mean, that he has a bunch of cars in his home

      • tiramichu@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 days ago

        So what are we saying? Destruction of people’s property is cool if it passes some arbitrary threshold that seems like they must be “well off” to own that property?

        Does that also mean it’s cool to rob anyone who owns a macbook, on the assumption they’d have a cheaper laptop if they weren’t loaded?

        Where I live, the taxi drivers primarily are driving Teslas and other electric cars because they do crazy mileage for their job and so over time the Tesla is actually the most economical choice for them. And that’s just a regular working class job.

  • 60d@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    2 days ago

    Just pay your deductible and you get those dmarks without the hassle of trying to sell a car nobody wants! Genius!

  • Ithorian@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 days ago

    This is so stupid, burn other people cars because of some stupid Millionaire. People are just dumb

    • rmrf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      2 days ago

      If you have a car that valuable without comprehensive insurance, you were going to learn a hard lesson one way or the other imo. Something as simply as a bad rain storm can really expensive damage. Also, from an impartial perspective, used cars that attract crime seriously harm sales of other used and even new examples; Hyundai/Kia is an excellent example of this. Tesla has already lost virtually all of its reputation yes, but knowing it might be burned to the ground at any second will have even Elon supporters second guessing a purchase.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        So it’s fine to destroy insured private property? It’s not like that’s zero cost for the owner of the car

    • Shezzagrad@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Are you purposely malicious or just stupid? AfD, extreme violence against protesters supporting Gaza, currently being tried in the ICC alongside Israel and britian. Germany and clearly most of western Europe and America ike Nazis and have for a long time because the they were the inspiration for the Nazis