A president touting Musk’s cars from the White House shows this: the Tesla boycott really irks him

[AE-NMidlands]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... la-boycott Article finishes with a nice irony:

It’s too early to tell, of course, whether Trump’s attempt to drum up business on his friend’s behalf will bring the Maga faithful flocking to the rescue of a beleaguered brand. But if they do decide en masse to trade their trucks in for Teslas, at least we can all enjoy the irony of the people otherwise most furiously resistant to electric cars being suckered into accidentally cutting their carbon emissions by a president who doesn’t appear to believe in the climate crisis. These days, you take your pleasures where you can.

[dan_b]

Schadenfreude is underrated in my opinion.

[Stinsy]

I've never been a fan of Musk. And I've never been a fan of Tesla cars. However the stories I'm hearing of cars being vandalised and people attacked makes me uncomfortable.

As for all this, I find it very sinister indeed:

Photos removed due to political nature.

[Joeboy]

Did he really do that with right wing intent? I ask as I don't much follow the press. Are these real ads out in the world and who pays/benefits from them?

I don't want them on the board and have removed them. We won't be propagating the view from either side here.

This is getting up towards the political line by inference. It's the right side of it for the moment but those ads are not.

I think it's terrible that people will be left feeling like victims due to their car choice. Cowardly acts of destruction too.

[Stinsy]

Did he really do that with right wing intent? I ask as I don't much follow the press. Are these real ads out in the world and who pays/benefits from them?

I don't want them on the board and would ask the poster to remove them. We won't be propagating this view from either side.

This is getting up towards the political line by inference. It's the right side of it for the moment but those ads are not.

I think it's terrible that people will be left feeling like victims due to their car choice. Cowardly acts of destruction too.

It was a “throw my heart out to you gesture” towards the crowd. Pretty much every famous person has been photographed from an angle that looks like a Nazi salute.

The billboards in London are real. Clearly very well-funded and well-organised. Very strange.

[dan_b]

There was a case in California this week of a vandal who managed to set himself on fire whilst trying to destroy some Supercharger stalls. It's all getting very unpleasant.

I'm not proud to be driving a Tesla at the moment.

[Joeboy]

Did he really do that with right wing intent? I ask as I don't much follow the press. Are these real ads out in the world and who pays/benefits from them?

I don't want them on the board and would ask the poster to remove them. We won't be propagating this view from either side.

This is getting up towards the political line by inference. It's the right side of it for the moment but those ads are not.

I think it's terrible that people will be left feeling like victims due to their car choice. Cowardly acts of destruction too.

It was a “throw my heart out to you gesture” towards the crowd. Pretty much every famous person has been photographed from an angle that looks like a Nazi salute.

The billboards in London are real. Clearly very well-funded and well-organised. Very strange.

Should be able to track that back to FF funding?

[AE-NMidlands]

Photos removed due to political nature.

What photos or adverts? Maybe my adblocker has stopped me seeing things which appear on oother screens?

[NoraBatty]

Did he really do that with right wing intent? I ask as I don't much follow the press. Are these real ads out in the world and who pays/benefits from them?

I don't want them on the board and have removed them. We won't be propagating the view from either side here.

This is getting up towards the political line by inference. It's the right side of it for the moment but those ads are not.

I think it's terrible that people will be left feeling like victims due to their car choice. Cowardly acts of destruction too.

The ads here are political activism. Protest by billboard.

He claims the gesture he did twice was not meant how it looked.
Then was lambasted by the German ADL 2 days later for making jokes about the holocaust and its political instigators.
Just hours ago he has posted something else incendiary, aimed at blaming the atrocities back then on public sector workers, not the man/men in charge.

The vandalism is disgusting. Showrooms have been shot up, and firebombed. Thankfully, no one so far has been injured.
Some people are opting to putting stickers on their cars distancing themselves from Musks views.
These also gain media attention, and i presume meet the standards of exemption for such moronic vandalism.

This type of vandalism and violence also seems to be part of political discourse in the USA now. Bomb threats and physical violence being perpetrated against beer companies or those that buy a brand of beer that supports certain types of people, being the other side of the coin.

[Stinsy]

Did he really do that with right wing intent? I ask as I don't much follow the press. Are these real ads out in the world and who pays/benefits from them?

I don't want them on the board and would ask the poster to remove them. We won't be propagating this view from either side.

This is getting up towards the political line by inference. It's the right side of it for the moment but those ads are not.

I think it's terrible that people will be left feeling like victims due to their car choice. Cowardly acts of destruction too.

It was a “throw my heart out to you gesture” towards the crowd. Pretty much every famous person has been photographed from an angle that looks like a Nazi salute.

The billboards in London are real. Clearly very well-funded and well-organised. Very strange.

Should be able to track that back to FF funding?

Hard to know who’se funding it. Finger has been pointed at “Led By Donkeys” who are part of Greenpeace. Very slick though, someone is putting in a lot of effort to defame Musk in the UK. I have to admit I’m a bit confused by it all.