Anyone surprised? The France donβt like Swasticars
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Dozen Teslas torched outside French dealership: authorities
Toulouse (France) (AFP) β 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 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
Wait was it set on fire or did the Teslas "Just Do That" as they are known to
For insurance purposes, I think they just self immolated.
In France and with Musk's actions it's "Teslas just do that" either way.
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?
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.
- 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.
Insurance isn't free.
It also becomes more expensive if some damaging event just keeps happening.
And then you take down the people insuring the Nazis and the Nazis
It gets more expensive regardless
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.
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.
Tesla probably pays a lot more for insurance these days. Insurance companies are pretty evil, that works against Tesla in this case.
Id describe them more as accountants of life and death. They're the bad guys, but evil implies a moral concept that is foreign to those people. They just don't care about you or anyone else.
Yep, that's evil. Good thing I don't have to care what it thinks words mean.
I've made fun of the French all my life for being smelly cowards, but perhaps we Americans are the smelly cowards.
Sorry France. Clearly you know how to get shit done.
As a Spaniard, France has witched it's place with America in my head.
You know america fucked up when it can overcome the implicit hatred towards your neighbor.
We have a long history of complaining and resisting to quite anything, bad or good. And also cutting head from time to time.
Those folks have been militaristic badasses through history, from sacking Rome, to Jeanne d'Arc, to Napoleon, to the modern French Foreign Legion. But they make one tactical error with the Maginot Line, and everybody calls them "cowards," SMH.
For real, France gets so much unwarranted hate. The US wouldn't exist without them.
To be fair, since we're talking about their historical militarism, we can definitively blame the French for being the reason English is so hard to learn and is an inconsistent, bad language all-around. Never forget 1066. Also, before we get the circlejerk going, let's remember that the French government plays dirty just like everyone else, like their insanely unethical nuclear testing in the pacific and their later state-directed terrorism against new Zealand in an attempt to continue said nuclear malfeasance.
ETA: (To be clear, as an american, I'd much rather be French right about now, but we need to be realistic. All humans are crappy in large groups when given unchecked power. I just want to be clear we should be hailing the French people, not the French government)
Tbf theyβre only smelly because they have better cheese than we do
There are still people here who were there for the Resistance.
That's the mentality you guys need to start adopting, because clearly the nice way hasn't worked so far.
We Americans have been propagandized all our lives to look down on the French, even before they whole "freedom fries" dumbfuckery.
We need to show them more respect.
It's the same with other EU countries, NATO article 5 has been triggered once, after 911. We came to help and lost many soldiers in Afghanistan etc. Now Russia is a major thread to Europe and the US is actively helping Russia.
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I know what they meant, but I like the implication that it's only the first of many to be burned to the ground
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