I dunno I just see highly motivated consumers that want to kick the tires and light the fires on these bad boys before signing on the dotted line. It's similar to how those patriotic tourists toured the capital on January 6th, 2021.

Property damage can sometimes be considered terrorism, depending on the intent, scale, and impact of the act. Many legal definitions of terrorism include serious destruction of property if it is intended to:

• Intimidate or coerce a population (e.g., setting fire to critical infrastructure to spread fear).
• Influence a government or international organization (e.g., bombing government buildings to force political change).
• Cause widespread disruption (e.g., cyberattacks on essential services).

Tesla dealerships are not critical infrastructure, government buildings or essential services.

It's really a stretch to call this terrorism.

It’s politically motivated property damage, which is terrorism

By that metric, you could also claim that defacing a political sign during election season is terrorism. Some terrorist drew a mustache on a billboard of one of the candidates in my district. Should the FBI investigate that, too?

The problem with your slippery slope argument is that it's fucking stupid. You have to draw the line somewhere. If the FBI is going to investigate every time someone decides to huck a molotov cocktail at a nazimobile, they're going to have their hands way too full to track down real crimes.

Absolutely. Insurance companies are in the business of not paying insurance claims. They're not in the business of just wantonly giving out money. If they pay out to a client often enough, they drop that client. It's even worse for the insurance companies, cause the cars haven't even depreciated in value yet, they're still on the lot and unsold. Their retail value is set, and every swasitruck that burns, is another $100k payout. Insurance companies will only pay out so many times before their risk assessment team says it's not worth it.

And once you're dropped from one company cause you're a high risk, every other insurance provider raises their rates for you, or they refuse because they don't want the loss.

Burn enough swastikars and there's no insurance, and that's when you start to literally burn his money.

I'm prefacing this clearly; I'm not endorsing anything here.

The current regime is restricting healthcare, trying to legislate people out of existence, and straight up disappearing people. Suffragettes torched and bombed.

That's great.

Nobody cares if you gasp at the sight of protest outside of the designated protest area . Just like nobody cares if you disapprove of a picket line blocking a road because how dare they.

Like what is the end goal here put Tesla out of business? Does anyone believe this would hurt Elon? Say Tesla went bankrupt, so now Elon musk would be worth $230 billion instead of $330 billion. He would live his life exactly the same but now thousands of normal people are underwater on their cars. How is this "winning"?

What am I missing here?