Tell me this is real, it sounds too good to be real
It’s probably made up bullshit to legitimize Moron’s desire to call tesla vandalism “terrorism” and throw people in jail
I wouldn’t be angry if we got a little more serious and started doing this to ICE vehicles
Honestly, we just need a trebuchet aimed at the white house and mara largo. Mara largo is absolutely not secure, and I doubt the white house is prepared for large boulders.
Don’t forget making drones illegal and putting drone owners in jail for no reason.
The possibilities are endless!
You send this to enough people and even if it not real it will be soon.
Remember, a lot of those Tesla owners are democrats who believe in cutting fossil fuels and bought their cars before Elon went full Nazi.
Thank you!
Just because someone owns a Tesla doesn’t mean they’re bootlicking or some kind of Nazi sympathizer. And I’m sick and tired of social media frothing at the mouth for any excuse for violence.
Jesus. It’s a car! Cars are major investments. I don’t own a Tesla, but if it was Henry Ford Jr. doing this instead of Musk, you can bet your ass I wouldn’t be bending to the whims of the bloodthirsty mob to sell the car I’ve had for close to a decade because they demand it as a purity test or else I’m a target for vandalism.
FUCK THAT, AND FUCK THEM!
I can’t afford a new car right now. I don’t want a new car right now; I like the one I have. My ownership of this car is in no way an endorsement of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Jr, or any of their board members nor their actions, personal behavior, etc. It’s just a car, I like it, it’s paid for, it gets good mileage, and isn’t a smartphone on wheels.
Replace “Ford Motor Company” with “Tesla” and it’s the same thing.
You own a Ford?
Pffft. dweeb.
/s
Man I’m just impressed you stopped huffing Elon’s Nazi farts long enough to type that all out, that must have been a really emotional moment for you.
Hot people fight fascists, I don’t make the rules.
If you own a Tesla, sell it, buy a superior car for less money, the Nazi company gets own owned, you have a better ride, and no one has to scratch their keys. Everyone wins.
Mods are censoring??? Don’t tell me we are redditing already. I was just answering this guys comment and it disappeared…
There are civility rules for most communities on lemmy. It helps to keep the discussion from erupting into slap fights.
My car’s paid off. So, put your money where your mouth is and write me a check and cover the new car payments or STFU with your illogical purity tests. And the same goes to the rest of you.
No but I’ll sacrifice my pristine keys to teach you an important lesson about how huffing Nazi farts comes with consequences, like you deserve.
…and again. Censored as I responded. Seems I’m in sync with a rabid, over enthusiatic Elon fart sniffing mod…
Elon dming lemmy.world mods now, or do they hope to curry favor with the oligarchs in advance?
Maybe lemmy.world will be the next reddit :)
Looks like I had one of my comments, querying the mods, deleted too. That’s pretty sucky tbh and doesn’t encourage me for the future of Lemmy as a free speech platform. Apparently calling out a deleted comment is being uncivil… Edit: LOL it was my comment preceding yours… The generic message from the mods doesn’t actually tell you which message got deleted.
Already is.
Imagine turning to violence against innocent people, members of your own party, just because you lost an election LMAO 🤣
Of course you think it’s violence because you think stuff is more valuable than actual human life.
Jan 6
People die
“Just a peaceful protest”
Giant huff of Musky beef tallow flatulence
“Putting a scratch on a car is peak violence”
Conclusion: musk farts cause brain damage.
See also: mods
Its a little different. That pos ford has been dead awhile, and the company has been no more awful than any other car company since then. Lol maybe even a little less awful than some.
Meanwhile the shitbox at tesla is still there, and has bought his way into american government on a much bigger scale than our normal owner class. And is also going full fucking hateful fascist. At least the people who owned us before pretended we were getting better and gave us a step forward for the two back.
Yes, I do find the joke funny. No I dont want working people having there cars vandalized, whether they bought it to save the world or because they where propagandized. These tactics should applied to unsold teslas on the lots.
But comparing CONTINUED or active support of tesla, to ford or german car companies, is wrong.
Cybertruck owners have no excuse though.
Sucks to suck I guess, market conditions change, time to get a car not built by a nazi and actively acting as a rolling surveillance system for a nazi?
And sell the Tesla to…?
I guess they’re suggesting to sell the car for cheap to conservatives. Let conservatives get a car for cheap, while losing thousands of dollars. At least you get to make a statement.
And who is going to pay for that new vehicle?
now they’re just swastikar owners
AWESOME!
But I think it’s a hoax, tried finding the source and came across multiple accounts on threads posting the same thing word for word. Womp womp.
I am doubtful this is true… are there any other sources?
Honest question, maybe this is silly, but what acid would be unable to eat through a water balloon, but still strong enough to eat through automotive paint?
Brake fluid?
Regular DOT3 brake fluid is quite harmful to paint especially if it’s unnoticed and won’t be cleaned off for several hours. You can pump the stuff through rubber brake lines no problem, so I imagine a balloon would be able to survive it.
You buy most acids, commercially, in plastic bottles… Those bottles would probably split nicely if dropped from a great enough height. Thus, you get impact damage, and the acid would enhance any damage done. Although, now I’m thinking about it, glass bottles would shatter better…Nitric acid, anyone?
Chemicals react with different materials differently. I’m not a chemist but there are probably plenty of chemicals that would react with the stainless steel or paint of a tesla but not the rubber in a balloon. Bleach and ammonia off the top of my head would probably mess up the trim pretty good. Doesn’t have to burn holes to do damage.
Party/water baloons are usually made from latex, which is resistant to some acids but not others.
Another option is to use nitrile or vinyl gloves.
https://glovesbyweb.com/pages/gloves-chemical-resistance-chart
You’re not really looking for long-term storage, so as long as the material holds up for a few min while you fly around… You may even want it to disolve to destroy evidence and ensure the acid is actually deployed.
Tbh I really hope nobody is flying anything particularly corrosive around in a water balloon, that has far too much potential to do harm to an unlucky randomer.
The Signal group imbeciles were pretty chuffed about an ENTIRE apartment building being collapsed on their single person target. Collateral damage from a bursting balloon seems trivial, by comparison…
Water balloons are pretty weak, something like acetone or xylene could fuck up the paint but would also damage the balloon. Acids are unlikely to do much, they’re both made of plastic polymers.
You could probably fill a water balloon with paint, though. Or epoxy.
but what acid would be unable to eat through a water balloon, but still strong enough to eat through automotive paint?
Paint strippers often come in plastic bottles, but destroys the bond between paint and metal.
Also even light acids like vinegar can be enough to etch and damage, but not remove paints - or in the case of the cybertruck, accelerate corrosion on the stainless.
Those plastic bottles that hold diluted acids and alcohols are usually PP (polypropylene) or HDPE (high density polyethylene) or similar plastics that are a lot tougher than thin, flexible plastic bags (LDPE, PET) and I imagine balloons too
Even though this is most likely fake, it’s still worth a reminder, that learning how to fly drones is a hobby that could have some extra utility if the situation develops further in a way, where things may be needed that would be illegal to mention on reddit.
And even if that doesn’t happen - still a very cool hobby.
It can be fake but fake turns to reality fast on the internet, remember tide pods?
It’s a bit challenging if you don’t have good reaction timing.
Or if you didn’t know you could mix your trims and not make the throttle cut or spike every turn
This guy drones.
Wouldn’t RC planes be easier to DIY? I wonder if it would carry more weight relative to its cost too. Bring back dive bombing?
I do not know what you are talking about. I certainly never heard of DIY cheap foam board planes you could pop a fpv camera on and fly. Certainly never would mention the word flite and test in the same sentence because I’d worry about foam board or youtube videos or a particular group getting shut down.
This guy trims.
Learning to build and fly drones has been on my to do list for several reasons. Number one they are freaking cool. Number two, if we need to defend ourselves/assassinate dictators/fight against the government, normal guns are kind of obsolete at this point.
The new edition of the anarchists cookbook needs to include instructions on how to 3D print drones and program them to take out targets with AI.
the first edition was literally random bullshit zines put together in one book… half of the “recipes” kill you…
with AI
Oh for fuck’s sake…
Lol, ML image recognition is also AI. Don’t think they want drones that talk shit.
ML target recognition is fine and good if you’re a fascist in charge of an ethnostate who doesn’t give a fuck about minimising the number of civilian casualties, but I’d’ve hoped anarchists would actually care enough to have their weapons controlled by actual people.
Source?
I know there have been similar reports recently, if your going to meme about something, back it up.
I dont think I have ever seen a meme backed up. Is this your first meme?
I knew I needed to build a drone, I just didn’t know why until now
The ideal way to deliver, uh, …cocktails.
Yes. Every unoccupied Tesla deserves a good, stiff… drink.
unoccupied
…sigh… fiiiiiiiiine.
Cameras are not a security feature. It is a surveillance feature.
Seems the working class spends too much time attacking their own instead of actually going after elon musk
You know in those movies where the hero has to beat the living hell from a thousand grunts before they are able to get at the boss? And you don’t feel too bad for the grunts, even though they’re not millionaires or the guys doing the big evil stuff, because they chose to align themselves with a villain like the boss?
It’s kind of like that. If people don’t want to own a Tesla because they’ll be targeted for aligning themselves with Musk, Tesla’s stock goes down, which hurts the boss.
I’m not saying I support it (and I’m not saying I don’t), but saying that this is hurting the Working Class and not the real Bad Guy is missing the point.
Just to inform you: most people don’t care about the owner of their car brand. Do you know the owner of most, Toyota shares (without looking it up) ? People see Tesla, which is the most well known electric car brand, the Jones have one too, let’s buy one.
Then “most people” need to drag their thoughts further afield than their own tiny selfish little world.
Ignorance is not innocence.
Do ylu trace back minerals in your cellphone to the very child that mined them ?
I think you’re missing the point. Personally, when I watch those movies, I think about whether the guard who just got turned into a parapalegic was just an ex-military guy who picked up a security job. For that matter, I wonder about how many people joined the German military in 1932, with no idea what their country would become. They still had to be fought through to affect the leader. Yes, any given grunt, any given infantry, is hurt considerably more than the big fish, but the way of the world is that a lot of little fish must suffer before the big fish feels it.
Not every big fish can be luigi-ed. Some have a security detail.
Counter point = some folks bought Tesla (the normal ones not the weird “truck” things) because they wanted a more environmentally friendly option for a car. Back before awareness that Musk is an asshole was common.
Like some of the owners might be regretful but not in a position to sell at a huge loss and buy a different EV.
If him being an asshole is new news to you then you weren’t paying attention.
Lots of people aren’t online as much as you and I are. They might have bought an EV for environmental reasons 10 years ago without even noticing who owned the company.
Nah. Musk was calling that rescue diver saving kids trapped in cave a pedo before the model 3 came out. It was clear, public knowledge that he was a douchebag very early on.
Not everyone is online as much as we are. Lots of people are utterly unaware that ever happened.
That’s true but buying a Tesla is honestly a pretty online move.
Being unaware doesn’t protect from consequences. Even morally, in a democracy, it’s up to the people to be informed. Buying decisions drive policy. It should worry people that they don’t have the time nor tools to be informed. This alone should start a general strike.
With all the things that are looming, imagine the price you are going to pay because you were not online enough.
What if a person bought a Tesla 10 years ago (before folks knew what an asshole Musk was) to reduce dependence on foreign oil.
Do you think that person deserves to have their car vandalized?
No, but they could have cut their losses by selling when Musk’s character became clear.
EVERY big company CEO is a piece of shit. They just keep it behind closed doors. Fuckface decided to do it in the open.
You probably own clothes right now made by kids in Pakistan. How would you feel if someone set them on fire while you were wearing them?
You gonna slap the food out of people’s mouths because they shop at Walmart?
Wanna kick some homeless dude for wearing a donated Tesla T-shirt?
At some point you gotta realize everyone is a victim of capitalism and punishing them for being part of the system they’re born into is the opposite of how you get them to look around and wake up.
If they really want catharsis they’d go after Tesla showrooms. Musk actually owns those, so you’ll actually be hurting his bottom line directly, instead of fucking over someone who bought the only car you could even get during the pandemic.
Really, if you’re pissed at him fuck with him, not some random with a car payment who probably hates him as much as you do.
(I really want to say cybertrucks are fair game, but that’s the goblin talking, and you really shouldn’t listen to the goblin. If your goal is accelerationism, then we have nothing to say to each other)
That was the exact moment I realized what a dickhead he is
Yeah but I kind of expect every CEO to be on that level of douchebaggery. We wouldn’t be able to buy everything if that’s the bar, because the CEO of every company is on that level.
Also we can’t expect everyone to be aware of that story.
It’s when he bought Twitter and started going on about woke mind virus that he revealed himself as a bigger douche than most CEOs.
Yeah, the twitter debacle fucking broke him I wonder if there’s an alternative timeline where he weaseled out of having to buy it and decided to calm down and shut the fuck up afterwards.
Maybe this is the timeline where he eats enough drugs to explode his own heart on a livestream.
Counterpoint: We’ve known how fucked up he is for years. It was just hero worshipping suckers who bought into his bullshit. Anyone with half a brain recognized him for exactly what he always has been.
Cybertrucks are still an acceptable target. He proved who he was by then.
Agree. Plus they are utterly ridiculous.
The huge loss (in sales volume and therefore 2nd hand price) has mainly occurred because Musk is meddling politically.
Shit dropped from drones is just icing on the cake.
I am 100% in support of boycotting Tesla.
Just if someone bought a Tesla as their personal vehicle 10 years ago because they wanted an environmentally friendly car - before we knew what an asshole Musk was - I don’t think they deserve to have their personal property damaged/destroyed.
Sell the car.
At this point they’d get almost nothing for it - certainly not enough to buy a replacement car.
I’m just saying it helps to carefully target the people you actually are trying to hurt. It doesn’t help a movement if they start hurting bystanders.
Musk is the one hurting Tesla owners with his policies. Yes tesla owners are collateral damage, but the US government cares very little about collateral damage.
Ya man. That’s pretty much it. Destruction of already paid for and profited on privet property is absolutely pointless.
If you wanna hit these guys hard, people like Elon and his billionair ilk. Take they’re money. That’s what they fight for anyway, that’s all they want and it’s their most greatest fear.
Take their money give them a menial job somewhere getting paid $15.45 an hour. See how they like it.
I dont think its the best way to get at their money but if they continue to get vandalized and ppl either sell them (flooding used market) or don’t buy them, the stock price might return to normal amount. I’m not advocating for that but it seems like a solution
Any alternative solutions for affecting a wealthy persons money?
Musk has lost about half of his money because much fewer people want to buy a Tesla now.
Waiting for an explanation of how we take down a billionaire
They have the drones. They have the acid-filled balloons. Seems like they’ve got the recipe?
They need an address…
I certainly don’t have it. Bet no one here does. If we did, we could send polite letters requesting change.
We already have a demonstration of how to do that a few months ago.
Billionaires have to be fought in their wallets. Use their precious “free market” against them.
So far, Tesla stock is down about 60%, sales are tanking, the company image and brand is badly damaged, recovery seems far away, and frankly bankruptcy seems closer. If Tesla dies, Musk loses billions, AND his most lucrative division.
It will also hurt the wallets of many other Sociopathic Oligarchs, who are also heavily invested in Tesla. Destroy a few other companies like that, and they may start to listen a bit harder.
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I think fighting billionaires in their wallets is the exact wrong way because they have so much money it doesn’t even affect their personal life when they lose 90% or more of their wealth.
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Musk already is in a position of power which no money of the world can (or maybe should) buy you. So even if he loses all his money he will still have that power and continue to abuse it.
They dont think about money like we do. I remember a situation in a TV show where a successful actor lost half his money to a crooked financial advisor, and he was commiserating with his normal friends.
“I lost $30 million!”
“Wow, thats awful, how much of your money was that?”
“About 50%.”
“So you still have $30 million?”
“Yeah, but I lost $30 million.”
“Yeah, but you still have $30 million!”
“Yeah, but I LOST $30 million!”
Rich people often focus on how much they DON’T have, rather than how much they do have. That’s why they are always grasping for more, despite having no use for it at all. It’s a mental illness like hoarding, except it’s money instead of old newspapers or cats.
When a Sociopathic Oligarch like The MuskRat loses half his fortune, he isn’t thinking “Who cares? I’ve still got more than I’ll ever need.” All they can think about is how much they lost. This Tesla crash will haunt him until the day he dies, even if it recovers, which I increasingly doubt it will. 50/50 it ends in bankruptcy within a couple of years.
That’s why we should double and triple down and make it really hurt. I’ve taken to actually asking Tesla owners what made them turn into a Nazi. I don’t bother to stand around waiting for an answer, I don’t care. I just want them to hear how people are judging them harshly for their choice of vehicle.
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While this is funny as hell (and likely fake, because everything on the Internet is fake, and probably gay), it’s a good reminder of just how incredibly fucking not-what-you’d-expect of the shit hits the fan civil war wise. Farmers with drones and some fertilizers can really fuck some shit up
The IRA used farm equipment, I think a manure spreader, to spray tens of thousands of gallons of fuel at a military installation.
Just one example of that type of thinking.
Wow, just looked it up, but it didn’t quite hit me until I saw one of those things work.
More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_tactical_vehicles_of_the_Provisional_IRA
This would have been of the liquid variety, rather than chunks, but you get the idea.
Every time I see this I think just how fucked we are if this is developed. Then I saw the hybrid drone warfare in Ukraine and I know we are pretty fucking close.
Awesome. I support people fighting as hard as they can to defend their country.
So now you just feel justified in destroying strangers cars? You are terrible people harming strangers for fun.
The term you were searching for is vandalism.
Honestly, who cares. This is hilarious
It’s cosmetic damage only. Car still works. Tesla owners are, right now, driving around a symbol of modern day fascism. People warned them about it for months that this is happening.
Does it suck for the people who own one and have no other vehicle they can drive instead? Yeah. I feel bad for them. But it’s unfortunately a necessary evil…because it’s working.
It’s collapsing the Tesla stock price. Teslas are becoming difficult and expensive to insure. It’s becoming risky to even own one or drive it around. It’s making Trump and Musk extremely uncomfortable, to the point that Musk made Trump promote his company on the White House lawn. It’s been one of the best American protests that we’ve had in a long time, and it only inconveniences one group of important people - current/potential Tesla car/stock owners.
Musk, and billionaires in general, need to understand that when you try to take away the rights of Americans, we will fuck your business over. We will make sure that you can’t sell your product, and that owning your product is risky, expensive, and not worth the price.
What rights has Musk taken away?
Nobody is here to hold your hand and get you up to speed Sealion.
He has dismantled the government, clearly you can see why that would be a bad thing.
They’re destroying America.
He’s a non-American who has fired hundreds of thousands of Americans from essential important jobs that are necessary to keep our country functional. I hope he falls foot first into a wood chipper, and has to spend the rest of his fortune keeping himself alive.
He is not dismantling the government but yes he has fired many government workers. He works in a position appointed by the POTUS in an attempt to reduce bureaucracy, waste, and fraud. The government still exists and employs millions of workers(approximately 3,000,000).
I mean I can understand doing this outside the US, but in the US there are much better ways to protest then destroying private property. I mean even if this would somehow get rid of Musk completely you still have a fascists government with Project 2025. This only helps to divide the American people further and the people in charge propably are happy to see it and simply will exploit this division further.
The only divide is between capitalists (those that make money by owning equipment others work on) or workers (those that work directly for their living). Why should workers be held to a goody two shoes standard when those brainwashed into fighting against their own allies do things like drive cars into protestors or do lynchings? People’s cars getting damaged is way less important than the extra-judicial kidnappings and literal genocide going on.
Also as a side note, private property is property held by buisnesses in order to make money of of them, you’re reffering to personal property, which is what people own for their own use as tools. Thats the distinction when people speak about abolishing private property, it doesn’t mean you can’t own your own house, it means you can’t horde houses to profit from people’s living situations.
Protest Musk, not individuals. Ruining other peoples’ cars is just retribution and in-fighting. If you want to send a strong political message, don’t pick on the little people.
this is what they want us to do
Sneak preview of the upcoming American insurgency?
Yes. This is the most hopeful news I’ve had all day.
Send in the dogshit robots!
I will eat my hat if enough Americans can get up off their richest-nation-on-earth-sized asses and actually fight the system in any meaningful capacity. These Tesla vandalisms are cathartic but not at all going to have impact on anything other than Tesla and Tesla owners.
I am betting the current ruling class is just fine if the people are organizing to vandalize a car brand instead of actually marching on Washington or organizing an actual strike that could do harm to businesses.
We are fat cattle in a gilded cage in this country. If you opened the gates we wouldn’t know where to go or what to do. We would likely just construct a new fence.
i mean, i don’t disagree with anything you’ve said except the rhetoric that it is an unchangeable constant.
sure, this is all true. beating the idea that it’s an inescapable reality into american’s heads online sure isn’t going to help change it tho. these people are still people, just like you.
friendly reminder that unless you build your drone from scratch or flash some fancy firmware it has an ID that gets broadcast and can be traced back to you. be safe
Bet you get drone control laws before you gun control laws in the US.
Just tape a gun to a drone for immunity.
Lmao there are already drone control laws
I must have missed the new laws that have a mandatory 3 day waiting period to buy a new drone, drones can only be purchased from a licensed dealer, dealers have to check against a national registry that a buyer is not prohibited from buying one, felons can’t buy drones, and that straw purchasing a drone is a federal offense. Must have missed all that.
But… the drone show loophole!
They are currently trying. The are trying to ban DJI drones as the first step.
It’s going to be hard to ban electric motors, wifi chips and accelerometers.
Sure, the average user who needs to buy a DJI drone may be affected, but drones are made from parts that are ubiquitous.
How would it be traced to you? You can buy drones second hand for cash.
DJI drones, for example, broadcast an ID at a loud enough wattage that it can literally be triangulated and traced back to the controlling radio Tx without any difficulty.
It got a lot ruzzian wannabe drone pilots killed early on in their invasion of Ukraine, before they learned to change the firmware on them first.
