(03-28-2025, 12:27 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(03-25-2025, 10:34 PM)mikesez Wrote: What makes you so sure an idiot who destroys a Tesla is "left"?  What if I tried to make you answer for the behavior of Warren Jeffs? You'd say, "that's not fair, he doesn't represent my side."  Great.  People who burn Teslas have nothing to do with the point I'm making either.  I'm talking only about elected officials, appointed officials, prominent lobbyists, prominent pundits.  I'm not talking about arsonists.

(03-28-2025, 07:41 AM)mikesez Wrote: You can hate Musk or Trump without being a lefty or a liberal or a Democrat.

(03-28-2025, 09:00 AM)mikesez Wrote: I wasn't going to say this but there's even an internal logic even to people who burn Teslas.
They want to affect Elon's bottom line by making his product uninsurable. 
They consider the individual Tesla owners as permissible collateral damage while they rampage, and they consider it unlikely that they will be caught.
It's not right, and it's not ethical, but it has an internal logic, so it's not deranged.  I'm not defending it but I am saying it's not mental illness.

First you say it's impossible to know even know the political affiliation of whoever is doing it, yet somehow you claim to know their internal logic, justification and motives. 


P.S.  Since Trump has an internal logic to Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal, are you finally willing to admit that he's not deranged?

Someone burning a Tesla today clearly hates Elon. But that doesn't mean they are Democrats or leftists. They could be anarchists or communists or foreign terrorists.

And I never said Trump was deranged.

We all actually agree about Trump's personality around here. We all say he's a shallow, stubborn narcissist who doesn't understand most issues deeply, although he's very skilled at showmanship and relatability.

We just disagree about if it's good to have such a man as President.

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