France,
Once upon a time you came to America and helped us defeat a king.
Any chance you can come teach us how to protest? You folks seem to have perfected your technique.
Step 1) Be entitled
Step 2) Have politicians whine that you’re entitled
Step 3) Remind them physically that you’re entitled to be entitled or they’ll be sorry
Step 4) Profit
I feel like there should be a guillotine in there somewhere…
Well, that’s Step 3 in certain dire circumstances; except they end up sorry in hell. Most hope it never gets to that extreme.
I’ve been hoping it doesn’t get to that extreme but the hope feels fainter every day
I envy the French and their ability to fucking be disobedient.
The average French must have a huge carbon footprint with all that arson going on
Any idea for eco friendly industrial sabotage? This is definitely purely hypothetical
The clue is in the word: drop sabots/clogs into things.
Sabots/clogs are:
- organic
- renewable
- recyclable
And they store, rather than release, carbon. The eco-friendliest sabotage is sabots!
…shoes? I must be missing something
The legend about the origin of the word sabotage is that French workers being put out of a job by bosses installing new machinery would drop their wooden clogs (called “sabots” in French) into the machinery’s gears, thus damaging it.
Oh cool, thanks for the explanation! I guess super glue in the charge port or something would work for a Tesla
Aren’t bodies compostable?
Like most meat, actually composting bodies would require a very hot composting temperature, constant mixing, and you’d want to put it through a grinder first, or else it won’t properly mix. Especially in the case of bones, those really need to be ground down so they can properly decompose.
Hypothetically, of course.
Industrial sites probably need a lot of electricity, they might even have their own substation
They need to talk with the quality control department.
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Anyone surprised? The France don’t like Swasticars
Dozen Teslas torched outside French dealership: authorities
Toulouse (France) (AFP) – A dozen Teslas were torched in France in what authorities are treating as an arson attack, the prosecutor’s office said Monday.
The prosecutor’s office told AFP an investigation has been opened into Sunday night’s attack on a dealership near the southern city of Toulouse which left eight cars burned out.
Another four cars were badly damaged amid evidence the blaze was “not at all accidental”, said the prosecutor’s office.
Philippe Guyot, mayor of the Toulouse suburb of Plaisance-du-Touch, told AFP firefighters had quickly determined that the cause of the blaze was criminal, adding the dealership premises had not been targeted.
A handful of anti-Tesla actions have occurred in Europe since Elon Musk’s rapprochement with US President Donald Trump, his backing of European far-right parties and attacks on diversity.
Sales of Tesla cars halved year-on-year in January 2025 in Germany and France.
I know what they meant, but I like the implication that it’s only the first of many to be burned to the ground
The fact I gotta wonder if people lit them on fire in they lit themselves on fire due to shitty design is telling of what kind of company it is.
First as in first of many.
Wait was it set on fire or did the Teslas “Just Do That” as they are known to
In France and with Musk’s actions it’s “Teslas just do that” either way.
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I’m loving France these days!
For burning Elon’s property?
For having very few hydrants 🤷♂️
No, for resisting fascism instead of kissing oligarchs’ behinds in an attempt to ratioanlize immorality.
To some extent, we are all paralyzed by the immense complexity of the world and we all have two choices:
- resist
- give up, comply, and conform
Should we assume you’ve made your choice?
Yes
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That’s nasty
I read a great comment on here from someone that destruction of Teslas on a lot is not the right tactic or is not as effective because of they simply get replaced (and more get made) and paid for with insurance money.
I read that spray painting personal Teslas is great for spreading the fear in media so that people don’t buy one in the first place and they sit unsold on lots.
The orgional person that said it was much better with the points than me. Did anyone else see it / can link it it?
Yeah but if you burn the whole showroom gonna be awhile before you can even buy more to sell more Teslas anyway. Which would be a huge disincentive to try to sell Teslas again anyway.
Insurance isn’t free.
It also becomes more expensive if some damaging event just keeps happening.
It gets more expensive regardless
And then you take down the people insuring the Nazis and the Nazis
Tesla probably pays a lot more for insurance these days. Insurance companies are pretty evil, that works against Tesla in this case.
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Yep, that’s evil. Good thing I don’t have to care what it thinks words mean.
Paint ball guns do some real damage to a cars finish. Happened to my car before Tesla existed and the paint sunk into the finish and was impossible to cover up.
In high-school some people froze their paintballs and it made dents. I would never suggest it.
- Buy a share in a publicly-traded insurance company.
- At a shareholder meeting, ask if the company has factored increased political risk, vandalism, arson, third-party damage from arson, etc into its premium calculations for: Tesla owners; Tesla showrooms; Tesla charging stations; car parks that even have Teslas in them; any other conceivably exposed company or individual.
- Repeat with every other insurance company.
- Repeat said concerns in every other possible medium (is there a Lemmy community for insurance actuaries?)
- Sit back and watch people and businesses scramble to avoid “the Tesla tax” of ever-increasing insurance premiums.
Oh my gosh. It’s the same tactic as getting rid of pigeons. You don’t destroy the eggs, you make them unusable (plaster eggs). Because destroyed eggs are immediately replaced by the pigeons with functioning eggs.
Yes!
