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'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.
- dgrin91 2y agoSeems like dogequest site is down now.
- Bender 2y agoArchive [1] for paywall [1] - https://archive.is/AZDCY https://archive.is/AZDCY
- dgrin91 2y agoThats some pretty shady shit. I have a relative who is mostly a-political and bought a Tesla years ago with the intention of being good for the environment. Now she has a target on her back? What?
- m3rc 2y agoShe should sell it, it's important to make people who may have been "a-political" before aware of what's going on.
- genewitch 2y agoAlso sell toyota, nissan, folksvagen, Audi. Right? For the same reasons? Glad I roll American coal! ETA: i haven't driven a diesel in ~20 years, and it wasn't rolling coal. we have two japanese cars. If you can't detect the irony and self-deprecation in this comment, just move on.
- HolyLampshade 2y agoI’m not sure I follow the logic here. Let’s say a person owns a Tesla outright, and purchased it ignorant to Elon’s behavior (esp if prior to the last year or two). How does selling it benefit some cause? Tesla already has that person’s money. It’s purely a performative action?
- hexator 2y agoTeslas require constant maintenance (like all cars, plus the recalls) and many have a subscription, it's not performative. Each Tesla owner is an asset to them post-sale.
- kshmir 2y agoSays someone who never owned a Tesla.
- Workaccount2 2y agoAnd selling your Tesla to someone else addresses that issue how?
- genewitch 2y agothere is/was a meme going around "boston tesla party" and i think if people are serious they should dismantle the teslas they bought, and (freely) recycle all the parts. Just take the L; otherwise this is, in fact, performative. In fact, i'll propose this to HN. You have your tesla that you can "no longer, in good faith, continue to own" delivered to a lot i specify, and i'll livestream a team of people taking it apart, sorting it, and sending the pieces off to recycling. I will not pay you for your tesla, and you must include the pink slip. any takers? I am completely serious. I think it would be fun (for me to set up and watch), it would probably be a well-viewed stream and VoD for each car, you could share the links with friends and family to show the strength of your convictions. It's win-win-win; Tesla already got their money, recycling is good for the earth, and you get to make a statement. I also win because i will pay the team that dismantles the car with the proceeds from recycling, which makes me a job creator.
- tekknik 2y agowhy don’t you use your money and go buy one and do this instead of someone else taking a loss for you? you can even get great deals on leases you can buy at the end. come on, it’s only $50k, what’s the big deal?
- Astronaut3315 2y agoIt's not reasonable to expect someone to sell their primary mode of transportation, likely at a loss, for reasons out of their control.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoBut we have to suffer for their inaction. They have some small power to fight against it and are choosing not to. It's reasonable to watch people suffer or die but not to sell your car?
- Astronaut3315 2y agoWould someone be expected to sell their home because the builder did something unsavory? Where do we draw the line?
- AlecSchueler 2y ago> Where do we draw the line That's what we're finding out in real time. A house signifies a one time purchase for a builder, whereas a Tesla is not only a moving advertisement but normally comes with a subscription service for maintenance and support, so the connection to and enablement of the company continues after purchase and through use. Selling your house also wouldn't affect the power of the builder because his payment comes as a single packet after completing the contracted work, whereas Musk's power is supported by the stock value of his various companies and Tesla's stock price is connected to the value of their cars which is in Oost predicated on having a good resale value. If people rush to sell their Teslas then these values are negatively affected. Finally the question about the builder is A) hypothetical while the Tesla situation is actually unfolding before us today, and B) aan unfair comparison because it's unlikely a tradesman will amass so much influence that his "unsavory" acts could lead to changing the power balances in warzones, shaking the foundations of American democracy, dismantling the relations that our treaty and security organisations are built upon etc etc etc.
- browningstreet 2y agoPeople are usually upside down on vehicle purchases for at least half of their finance period. I know I am.. there's no selling my Tesla at this point. Not for a while, and probably not ever, the way things are going. That said, I'm 100% for tanking TSLA stock down to $110 to make life very very miserable for Musk..
- Marsymars 2y agoWhy $110 specifically?
- browningstreet 2y agoI was looking for support for what I wrote, but the margin call details may have been debunked.. https://www.thestreet.com/technology/tesla-stock-declines-could-cost-elon-musk-something-important https://www.thestreet.com/technology/tesla-stock-declines-co...
- KolmogorovComp 2y agoWhat’s your advice to the person who’d buy it then? Sell it again?
- raisedbyninjas 2y agoThere's value in the parts and eventually there will be scrap value.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoI get the environment angle. In the current timeline though, personally I would be considering all the other EVs that are also good for the environment but don't have the albatross hanging around their ... rearview mirror. Agree it's a cruel thing to do though. I prefer the "I humped Your Hummer" type site from a decade or so ago. More humorous. Definitely mostly harmless.
- selykg 2y agoDo Teslas even have functional rear view mirrors? I thought they did everything with cameras on the dash and only had as much shitty rear view mirror as necessary to not violate the law necessitating there be a rear view mirror.
- goosejuice 2y agoIt's just like any other rear view mirror with auto dimming.
- outer_web 2y agoI didn't notice the 3's being particularly bad, the truck one is tiny, useless and presumably only there for compliance.
- archon810 2y agoOnly the Cybertruck is like that.
- gonzo41 2y agoBYD just announced they can do full charges in 10 mins. The future is not Tesla.
- base698 2y agoYou should uncritically believe them, they have no reason to lie.
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- chgs 2y agoIf you are a-political you implicitly support what’s happening.
- Jcampuzano2 2y agoAh so its just a "fuck you" if you just want to live a quiet life and care about your own life. Suddenly we have to be political and choose a side on every issue. Come on man... its tiring as hell why can't people just be themselves. Why do we all have to be 100% connected to everything all the time.
- chgs 2y agoBecause when the people around you are suffering it is connected.
- patcon 2y agoAs a Canadian, I feel quite exasperated and angry about how you frame this. Sounds very cowardly-American when your country is crumbling beneath you, taking the world down with it
- Jcampuzano2 2y agoThen you misread my post. I'm not implying be completely apolitical, just that I don't understand the expectation now that everyone has to know and choose a side and be connected to every single tiny issue there is. Its completely astounding that we're now all expected to know and choose a side about every single thing, and if we don't know about it or for a given issue we either don't have enough information to choose a side or are unaware then we're complicit. Exactly how have I harmed someone through owning a Tesla since before Elon's political stunts. And do we really expect everyone who owns one, including people who financed and would almost guaranteed take a loss and screw up their financial wellbeing for potentially years to sell it at the cost of their families financial health?
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- coldpie 2y ago> Now she has a target on her back? Well, sort of. The real target is Musk & his wealth, which is in large part derived from Tesla. The people doing this want to harm Tesla, by making owning a Tesla unpleasant, which depresses Tesla car sales & values, which harms Musk & his wealth. It does seem to be a somewhat effective approach: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/used-tesla-prices-tumble-as-embarrassed-owners-look-to-sell/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/used-tesla-prices-tumbl... I'm personally kind of neutral on the approach. It is the case that most Tesla owners are not awful people and don't really deserve to have their lives upset by this. On the other hand, society really doesn't have very many options when it comes to reigning in invincible monsters like Elon Musk. Is this approach ethical? Probably not. Is it also the best available option? Seems so. I don't know.
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- netsharc 2y agoIMO this is a stupid "activism" move, similar to declaring people who stay silent on a topic (instead of joining your cause) as part of the problem. The activist declares that people not actively joining their protest are bad people. Geez, guilt-tripping, what a great way to gain support for your movement.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoI feel like it actually worked for the AIDS issue.
- mc32 2y agoIt is. This turns off lots of moderate people. The only people that support these moves are the proverbial choir, and not even the whole choir but the really fervent members. This will have a net negative on the movement. Long term it’s good for Tesla because ordinary people don’t like these types of shenanigans.
- LightHugger 2y agoIt turns moderate people against you more than it helps. Not sure where people get this idea that moderates react well to purity spirals directed at them.
- mc32 2y agoRight. The problem is these kinds of groups don’t carry internal dissent (sometimes by definition), so they carry out and do things that undermine their goals in return for some quick but ephemeral reward.
- test098 2y agooh no, not the moderates who checks notes stand up for nothing and no one except themselves and overwhelmingly align with right wing politics. what's the moderate position on Trump/Musk, that we should accept a little bit of authoritarianism to make the government more efficient?
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- e_i_pi_2 2y agoDoes anyone know the URL for the actual site? Seems weird to write about a website and not link to it, and searching for it just brings up more articles that don't link to the site
- whalesalad 2y agohttps://dogeque.st/ https://dogeque.st/
- GranPC 2y agohttps://dogeque.st/ https://dogeque.st/
- JKCalhoun 2y agoYeah, bullshit site. One Tesla in the Omaha area where I live. Clicking it gives a Virginia address. I am aware of a handful of Tesla's within a few blocks of where I live. Not listed.
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- filoleg 2y agoYeah, the whole area within miles of downtown LA had 3 Teslas, and the area around Redmond WA (where the Microsoft HQ is) had exactly one (and it wasn't even a Microsoft employee, apparently it was someone from Pure Storage). Which is obviously laughable, as my floor of the apartment parking garage alone (Seattle, 3 years ago) had 7 (out of maybe 18 total parking spots), and my floor at the work garage (in Redmond) had way more. All in all, at this point, I am just curious how they obtained/gathered those specific datapoints. It isn't even a case of "some data is missing", it is more like "99%+ of data in the most Tesla-dominant areas in the US is missing".
- JKCalhoun 2y agoIt's like it was tossed together from random data.
- amazingamazing 2y agoI’m sure this will go well and ensure the next election has a favorable outcome.
- atomicnumber3 2y agoBecause the last 3 have gone so well
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- wormlord 2y agoI am not an expert sleuth, but using the WHOIS lookup tool it looks like the domain registrar is Japanese. Not to call everything and anything a "psyop" but if I were to set up something like this, I would do it for financial gain (shorting Tesla) rather than political gain, or to use it as a honeypot. This kind of targeting of Tesla owners after the fact is essentially a dragnet that will affect people of all sorts of backgrounds, and is less effective than a direct boycott at achieving your political goals-- since you are going to polarize a huge chunk of people against you. I think many left-leaning protest organizers would understand this, but I may be mistaken since there are a lot of dumbasses in the world. Again this is total speculation, but alarm bells immediately went off in my head.
- atomicnumber3 2y agoIs it actually possible for things to get any more polarized at this point? You're either ok with this guy doing a Nazi salute in our seat of government, or you're not. America needs to wake the fuck up and remind Nazis they are not welcome here and we already beat them once. Is this not a completely razor perfect targeted attack? No. But the guy you're supporting with these cars is fucking doxxing judges children to manipulate them. So I'm not going to fault this guy for fighting back.
- wormlord 2y agoDude people bought the cars before Elon revealed himself to be a Nazi. Owning a Tesla does not make you an ideological fascist.
- outer_web 2y agoTip of my Sean John hat to you sir.
- kshmir 2y agohttps://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1889165338337493244 https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1889165338337493244 who reported this is... actually... a jew? Oh my god.
- Jcampuzano2 2y agoSo are we really going down the road of telling people "Hey just buy a new car" whenever yours is politically inconvenient? The car already has low resale value, and if they did sell it it doesn't get it off the road. I do own one, and honestly I hate driving it around now because of the stigma but its the only car I have and while yes I could sell it at a massive loss thats both a lot of work and a waste of my time, effort, and money. It was literally the first car I ever bought and was because I liked the convenience of EV's and for the environment. Now I feel like I'm being punished for it through no fault of my own and always have to look over my shoulders, and I don't even like Elon in the first place and never really cared for him.
- kshmir 2y agoI just love the Tesla, why would I care about what other people say? It works better everyday.
- base698 2y agoThe argument goes: Because 3% of the population is antisocial personality disorder in the screens on TV and the internet tell them it's okay to commit violence against you because Nazis. You may not care but the crazy people care a lot.
- kshmir 2y agoI still don't care. I may just buy another Tesla and a handgun :)
- margalabargala 2y agoMurdering vandals is still murder. You will be locked in a small box and deserve it.
- kshmir 2y agoIt's never about shooting.
- lvass 2y agoTesla has been in the news so much recently, from things caused by external actors. I wonder if there is some ongoing short and distort.
- iamtheworstdev 2y agono you're just seeing increased public backlash against Elon being taken out on Tesla.
- spacemadness 2y agoHN seems to be really struggling with the why here. The bubble that people live in on here is wild to me. Maybe you have issues with the tactics, but the why is pretty clear.
- tyleo 2y agoAgreed. The whole financial news market seems to be like this though. I see headlines like, “Tesla drops on Cybertruck quality issues.” Get real, everyone knows the brand is damaged.
- rapsey 2y agoTesla short sellers have been using the media for many years.
- outer_web 2y agoTesla sales plummet 70% yoy in [country] "It must be fud!"
- rafram 2y agoThe CEO is hardly an external actor. What you're seeing is the personality behind a personality-driven business steadily destroying his reputation, and his business along with it. Elon Musk's public image went from "real-life Iron Man genius inventor" to "Nazi salute guy" - his businesses can't just brush that off.
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- FreebasingLLMs 2y agoGonna just put the obvious on the table: it is one thing to fuck with a Tesla dealership, it is quite another to seek out random owners to fuck with. If you are doing the latter, specifically going to someone's residence to fuck with their automobile, I sincerely hope you get shot in the head with a large caliber gun and your brains are splattered on the ground. That is what you deserve. Enough fucking around and coddling these FREAKS.
- pbasista 2y agoI do not understand these kind of hate-promoting acts against the Tesla car owners. If someone owns a car made by a Elon Musk's brand, it does not automatically mean that they are also supporting Trump's BS policies or Elon Musk's unhinged crusades. It might just mean that they like the car. If someone intentionally conflates these two concepts, they are just finding an excuse to bully others. If you want to protest against Trump or Elon Musk, go for it. Organize marches in DC every week. Protest with your wallet if you like. Do not buy their stuff. Or sell your stock. And I am sure there are other ways to express your opinion in an intelligent way. But please, do not spread hate against people who happen to own their products. It is disingenuous. And it might lead to vandalism or even violence. By far not every Tesla car owner is an Elon Musk fan or a Trump's supporter. Even if they chose to keep their car after "Musk went crazy", it does not automatically mean that they support Musk's or Trump's actions in any way, shape or form. They might just have chosen a different way to protest.
- goosejuice 2y agoIt has already lead to vandalism. Shooting at dealerships, lighting superchargers on fire. There's people spray painting Nazi and keying swastikas on Teslas. It's only a matter of time before it's done on a Jewish person's car. Mind-blowingly dumb.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoAlready done, news came out of it in the last day.
- tesin 2y agoI don't think #notAllTeslaOwners is going to convince people not to have these visceral emotional reactions. I'm not entirely sure what people expect when the worlds richest man makes a point of trying to make millions of people unhappy, trolling or otherwise. This is the natural outcome.
- pbasista 2y agoHaving an emotional reaction is natural. We are intelligent species. We can deal with outbursts of emotions and tame them. The problem is if such emotions materialize into physical actions like hate speech, bullying behavior or worse.
- jmuguy 2y agoYeah this definitely doesn't help anything. I don't know why some people can't understand that everyone can get behind dunking on Elon Musk, because he is clearly an alien wearing a human suit. But doxxing Tesla owners is absolutely stupid.
- kgwxd 2y agoIt doesn't help anything, it hurts. It puts people in danger. It paints protestors as "terrorist". It gives Elon something to point at to claim himself the victim. Which is how we know actual Tesla protestors aren't behind it.
- anothereng 2y agowell if you're not part of our team you're the enemy now. -them
- lesuorac 2y agoIt really is telling how much the Elon backlash is targeted at Tesla instead of say Twitter or any of the other companies. It's ok to admit you don't like the cars or the FSD fud. But if you really don't like the guy why are you giving the other companies a pass?
- _moof 2y agoThe belief is that Musk's wealth is mostly tied up in Tesla. I have no idea if it's true, but that's what underlies the focus on Tesla as opposed to, say, SpaceX. By hurting Tesla and bringing down its value, the idea is that Musk himself is brought down.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago> The belief is that Musk's wealth is mostly tied up in Tesla. DDG’s search AI answer thing told me that Musk owns 410M shares of Tesla, which is priced roughly at $224 per share, which is about $90B of his supposed $305B net worth.
- outer_web 2y agoPlenty of people have quit twitter, others are victims of their own social media addiction but are at least simply using a free service rather than paying 30k+. Most probably haven't launched a satellite in recent months but could be looking at alternatives. I haven't done the work to compare auto CEOs but one of them has gone well out of his way to make his shitty opinions unavoidable.
- Shanesan 2y ago> others are victims of their own social media addiction but are at least simply using a free service rather than paying 30k+ Yeah, well many Tesla owners are victims of wanting to do better for the environment in the way that they could before Elon went full psyop. The difference here is that Twitter users are still actively perpetrating and reinforcing his platform to speak dangerous nonsense. The Tesla income was reported on a shareholder filing, for many, before 2020, and realistically doesn't matter anymore. If someone still has Twitter, they are shockingly accepting of the goings on.
- kgwxd 2y agoTesla protesters are behind this in the same way Ukraine invaded Russia.
- gedy 2y agoThis is certainly the way to win next elections.. If someone is really concerned about so-called fascism I don't think smashing VW Beetle windows in 1935 would've helped anything - in fact it would've just made things worse.
- rafram 2y agoIt seems unlikely that Democratic Party election strategists are behind this random BS site.
- gedy 2y agoI agree, I'm commenting on the passionate types who (mis)direct their energies on stunts like this.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoNone of them will even lightly condemn even arson and property damage so its wink wink nudge nudge.
- lvass 2y agoNow that you mention it, this type of escalation is exactly what the president would hope for if his goal is some form of the Enabling Act.
- krapp 2y agoI don't believe the horrors of Nazi Germany would have been made worse if people smashed the windows of VW Beetles. And besides, if someone turns to fascism just to piss off the anti-fascists who smashed their car windows, then it was never about the car windows, they're just looking for an excuse.
- anigbrowl 2y agoVW Beetles were not produced until 1938, but I get your point. What don't get is your idea that things would have been worse. Worse how? Within a few years the nazis were beheading people for distributing postcards critical of the regime. It's equally arguable that they might not have got as far as they did if people had been more willing to stand up to them in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_and_Elise_Hampel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_and_Elise_Hampel
- meristohm 2y agoEasier to excuse as ignorant the people who bought a Tesla sedan before Elon Musk made it very clear his views. For fighting back, consider limiting extreme action to cybertrucks? These boxes of space junk off an 80s movie set came out after his views were more and more out in public. If he's going to not insulate himself (ego) from his companies, as many other CEOs do (takes extra effort to dig into campaign funding and other actions by individuals not so public), that makes it easier to act in ways he and any neo-fascist apologists don't like.
- puppycodes 2y agoliterally every car company has already doxed you.
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- SideLinesOfCode 2y agoHow is this not political intimidation? It’s basically saying “someone go do something, here’s a list of people to harass”
- AlecSchueler 2y agoWas it the same when Musk was sharing the details of judges' families on X?
- tim333 2y agoI wonder if Musk may reconsider his actions as a result of the general outcry, not that I approve of the likes of dogequest. I mean in to 1990s they reduced govt employees by 426,000, consolidated 800 agencies and got rid of 640,000 pages of rules without the arbitrary cruelty. The doge stuff is quite unnecessary. (source doonesbury https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16 https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16)
- humanofearth 2y agoIt's a publicly traded company. It's hurting America as a whole worse than they falsely accuse elon of harmful acts. Stupid people.
- traumatised 2y agoDoing all that because you disagree with someone in the government is kinda wild ngl, especially considering that Tesla used to be a leftist-leaning car due to EVs and etc
- sorka 2y agoIn the same boat. Bought '24 MSP last year which has been sitting in the garage for the last month. Love the car but wish I could justify driving it off a cliff at this point. I have 3 other cars, so it's not a big inconvenience but it is a gigantic paper weight. I knew I had to park it when I realized I had to check the live view on the cameras every 10 seconds. This level of extremism is exactly what the half that voted against trump did not want and now we have it on both sides.
- indoordin0saur 2y agoI wonder if any of these efforts are being funded by the Chinese government. They certainly have both political and financial (BYD) incentives.
- tamaharbor 2y agoSupposedly everyone is selling their Teslas, yet there are very few great Tesla bargains on the used car markets. I smell BS.