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A brilliant idea from my mom:
If you own a Tesla and wish you didn’t, run an auction where people can bid on taking a sledgehammer to it.
@inthehands while I get the sentiment, wasting a car, especially an electric one (batteries) is very un-environmental way of protesting
@tymwol (1) So remove the battery out and sell the rest as scrap metal after.
(2) You are not the first person to nitpick me about environmental optimization of protest in the replies, and…look…you know what’s least environmentally friendly of all? Letting oligarchs gain authoritarian power. The sunk material cost of a handful of cars is peanuts by comparison. Big picture!
@inthehands yeah, but I don’t think that it hurts Elon if you buy a car from him and destroy it. You paid for it, so it’s yours. It’s like burning your books to protest against Amazon. There are ways to protest that simply are more efficient and make more sense.
@tymwol @inthehands literally the first sentence is "if you own a tesla"
This is a suggestion on how to ditch a white elephant.
@inthehands @tymwol I'd contend that selling it at 50% of current market rates would do more. A dozen Teslas getting smashed up might turn some heads but I don't feel like it would make much difference. Start selling them low and you drive down resale value, AND get some cash out of it. If the market is his vulnerability, -use- that.
@http_error_418 @tymwol
Yes, that’s clearly the thing to do at large scale. The sledgehammer auction is more clever fantasy, or at most a publicity stunt to be done with high visibility but in low numbers.
@inthehands @http_error_418 @tymwol I disagree that selling Teslas at below market rates is useful. I think the better goal is getting them off the streets entirely, rather than giving away free money to his supporters, who will be happy to pay cut rates for their dream car.
People who can afford to buy Teslas are largely people who can afford to simply send those cars to recycling without needing to be compensated for their losses, like Sheryl Crow and Elvira.
@inthehands @http_error_418 @tymwol And I don't really have any sympathy for the people who stretched their budgets to buy Teslas when they really couldn't afford them, and now cannot afford to replace them. There were plenty of other options, and ample evidence to demonstrate how much of a scumbag Musk has always been.
@gcvrsa @http_error_418 @tymwol
You are in need of this thread: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114111252633879171
@inthehands @http_error_418 @tymwol No, I already read that thread, and I understand it and agree with it, in principle. I understand how markets work, and why tanking the price of used Teslas harms new sales.
@inthehands @http_error_418 @tymwol I don't know about you, but my public reputation is worth more to me than the price of a Tesla. Teslas aren't economy cars, they are luxury cars, social status symbols.
I'm going to be exploring what legal options we might have for getting rid of the Tesla Supercharger station in Brattleboro, and hopefully all of them in Vermont.
@gcvrsa @inthehands @tymwol I don't have much sympathy for them either. I'm thinking of pragmatic wins and how we might persuade people to do things that will further the goal even if we think they're somewhat (or even very) shitty people.
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