FBI launches Tesla threats task force: 'This is domestic terrorism'
FBI launches Tesla threats task force: 'This is domestic terrorism'
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his DOGE team are leading efforts by the Trump administration to drastically cut federal government spending and staff.
No worries tesla owners of lemmy: your president is addressing your biggest concern
Literally no one is getting hurt. No one is actually “terrorized.”
This is the most frustrating timeline.
Whoa now. Some people bought their teslas an indeterminate period of time ago and are now afraid that people will look down on them for it or they'll have to file an insurance claim. And even putting a "I bought this before he went crazy" bumper sticker on the back to show ANY form of solidarity is a personal attack on them.
And that is obviously the real issue. Not the people who chose happiness and transitioned to their actual gender identity and are now afraid that they'll be violently assaulted for it. Or immigrants who are afraid they'll have their visas or permanent residencies revoked and get deported to a random country. Or, you know, anyone who cares about any of those issues and are worried that the rest of the planet will hold them accountable for the horrific crimes coming out of our government.
But nah. This shit is the real issue. Gotta protect those purchases. Protesting is good so long as it doesn't impact anyone who matters. And this is the kind of shit where people will complain that it is a waste of government resources and how it only serves to protect musk's interests. All while they quietly are happy because it makes them feel safe and snuggly.
Let's be real here. If Elmo weren't the first lady, no one in the government would give a shit (granted no one would bother Teslas either). This is pure cronyism at its finest.
Terrorist acts don't have to directly hurt anyone. Terrorism is meant to invoke terror.
Burning a cross is terrorism, but doesn't directly hurt anyone. It's meant to send a message.
This is not the same as burning crosses, and I don't believe it's terrorism, but the point stands.
well then my summer camp counselor (who told us a spooky story) was then a terrorist, meaning we all went to Terrorism Camp!
That’s not true at all. A Trump swallower drove his Nissan Pathfinder into a protest crowd, and another shot protesters with a taser. People are getting hurt alright.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-stun-gun-tesla-protest-2049243
you had me at Trump swallower
Oh, they're terrorized. This is the worst thing they've ever experienced. That's who we're dealing with.
Here you go FBI start here
If domestic terrorism is such a focus why'd they shutter their KKK and White Nationalist investigations and kill their metadata tracking tool?
Because they'd arrest 90% of the government if it continued.
Torching a Tesla: terrorist. Murdering innocent school children: thoughts and prayers.
Americans are getting dumber by the second at this point.
Corporations over people. Capitalism over community. That is the American way.
🙂↔️✋ Saving kids
😁👉 Saving companies
lol we have less protections and rights as citizens than a fucking car
White Mass shootings ≠ terrorism
Destroying some Asshole's cars = terrorism
Tesla > lives
Insurance does not cover terrorist acts.
If Tesla vandalism = terrorism.
Then Insurance pay = 0
When are they going to investigate Tesla for EV rebate fraud, covering up safety issues, or falsifying crash recording data?
Don’t insurance companies exclude acts of terrorism?
They also won’t cover 3 out of 4 tires getting slashed but that’s neither here nor there.
There's a real simple solution if your insurance won't cover 3 out of 4 of your tires getting slashed.
This is not true and never was. Insurance will cover any number of slashed tires as part of comprehensive. Stop spreading disinformation.
It varies, but a general rule of thumb is that any personal insurance (home, life, auto, boat, whatever) will pay out for a terrorist attack but commercial policies (property insurance, loss of revenue, workers comp, etc) won't unless they specifically pay for terrorism coverage. That said, even the personal insurances will generally have exceptions for war and mass scale destruction (e.g. nukes).
Which mostly boils down to the reality of any kind of insurance policy: In isolated cases, they'll pay out. The bigger the incident, the more they will fight it and the more likely they are to pull out of a region.
Which is kind o a moot point since many/most auto insurers already refuse to deal with teslas due to their high repair costs and other fun stuff that they pretend isn't a factor but totally is (the tendency for a car on "full self driving" to plow into oncoming traffic milliseconds after "full self driving" was logged to have been disengaged by the user).
Which is the other "secret" in all this "Won't somebody think of the tesla drivers?!?!!?" stupidity. Yeah, teslas were often very competitively priced in their categories (in large part because of government subsidies that only musk was eligible for) and were very much an option for the people wealthy enough to buy a brand new car. But the moment you try to get insurance for the tesla you are going to take ownership of in one or two business days? You suddenly are shunted to a special insurer with higher rates and anyone with half a brain would raise DOZENS of red flags at that.
Fun fact: insurance doesn’t cover terrorism. Do with that what you will.
Right wingers consistently shoot and ram cars into peaceful protestors: I sleep
Random individuals destroy private property of random individuals: REAL SHIT
Wow. Maybe they'll drag their heals on that the way they've dragged their heals for 10+ years on Trump being a Russian asset.
So stupid. I don't want my tax dollars used for this.
Don't worry. ThEyRE DrAINiNg ThE SWaMP!
We'll all have so much money back in our wallets soon that we'll be able to afford eggs again!
Burn a few and get a little satisfaction. Burn some more and you get some more satisfaction. Burn 'em all and you get complete satisfaction.
Meanwhile you have right wingers shooting at the president, Driving into crowds and as far as was aware the ones shooting at the power stations was also right wingers. So please do tell me why the left damaging a corporate property are considered terrorists but those other right wing nut jobs are not?
Man, Trump has really fallen for Musk. I think it's a beautiful rom-com in the making
I wonder if Putin would hire some thugs to vandalize Teslas. He did just that with fossil fueled cars in Germany and blamed climate activists
I wonder if anyone ever warned about the terror laws being abused?
Let me think...Oh yeah, now I remember, there was, and I was one of them.
Wait - headline unclear. Are they calling the task force domestic terrorism?
No it isn't.
I could see Teslas being considered weapons of mass destruction based on how difficult it is to extinguish fully-charged Li-ion battery fires, or have they changed the chemistry and electrolyte to something less dangerous by now?
"is Psycho" and should "stop being psycho"
Well, he is so close, would he just realize he is just projecting...