theshoeshiner

Cave men said the same thing about the horse. They gutted our communal caves and made human scale subordinate to a domesticated animal. #fuckmounts

Fucking Nazarenes. Nothing changes.

My father, for all his flaws, instilled a phrase in my brain that i am eternally thankful for... Other people don't control your feelings.

Elon in the government, and elon that runs tesla are two unrelated things.

Elon has been publicly shitty for years. The widespread arson didn't start until he was in the government. You're disproving your own position. It's clear that his role in the government was a trigger.

And sweet jesus dude... tesla is not a private company. It's public. How are you not aware of that. Elon just happens to own 90 billion dollars worth of it. His stake is essentially private property. Maybe that's what you were hinting at, but the distinction is important for other reasons.

Terrorism is simply violence to achieve political aims. It doesn't matter whether the entities are public or private. If someone bombed a house full of a politicians family members to make a political point, that would obviously be terrorism, regardless of the fact that only private property and non government employees were harmed, because the goal of the act was clearly political.

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Musk is a government employee and spends much of his time with the most powerful political figure in this hemisphere.

Attacking him and his property is an inherently political act.

If I have to explain that to you then we've got bigger problems than I thought.

The violence wasn't simply for political reasons, as you suggest. It is to accomplish political goals by causing fear and terror in people associated with that brand. That seems like terrorism to me.

Damn, pen so out of shape that he's sweating.

The definition doesn't set a limit on the number of people injured by an individual act.

Setting a bunch of lithium batters on fire is absolutely dangerous to people nearby. The fact that none have been killed yet is simply a sample size problem.

Arson is inherently a violent and lethal act. And honestly I'm very doubtful about your assertion that power loss is somehow more lethal than a fire. Almost 4k people died from fires in 2022. I can't find the corresponding stat for power loss, so feel free to do some research.

Imagine if animals did this with human babies.

Terrorism is the act of using violence or intimidation for political gain/control.

That's exactly what their motivation is.