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Yes, after the recent promotional event at the White House I can easily imagine protecting Teslas becomes a top priority, and that damaging one is punishable by
by fishnchips 2y ago
Yes, after the recent promotional event at the White House I can easily imagine protecting Teslas becomes a top priority, and that damaging one is punishable by death.
- wood_spirit 2y agoTrump did literally say during that event that attacking Tesla showrooms was domestic terrorism.
- UncleEntity 2y agoI'm sure the apartheidist made similar statements when Musk was a child. Didn't really work out for them IIRC.
- renewiltord 2y agoIt is unequivocally terrorism to participate in violence against civilians with the aim of causing political change. And it's domestic because it's here. It's definitionally correct.
- n4r9 2y agoSpray painting Teslas is not "violence against civilians". Even setting fire to them in a showroom is debatable if it's at night when no one's about.
- milesrout 2y ago[flagged]
- mrangle 2y agoIt is terrorism, indisputably. Arguing other point is relatively inconsequential. But if we were to argue the point, to argue that spray-paint isn't "violence" isn't going to have much credibility when it's perceived to be from the long standing "words are violence" and "silence is violence" crowd. A selective standard is no standard at all. How the spray paint differs is that it is property destruction in service of intimidation toward a political end.
- acdha 2y agoDoes that mean that Republicans engaged in terrorism when they threatened to hang journalists, shoot immigrants or Democrats, etc.? Seems like the courts might be overloaded if we redefine every threat as an act of terrorism.
- outer_web 2y agoWe need a new word then, for hijacking planes and driving explosives-laden boats into tankers. Any ideas?
- Jensson 2y agoWhy? Not all crimes with the same name is of the same severity.
- n4r9 2y agoIt's certainly disputable: https://lisa-legalinfo.com/2019/09/11/spray-paint-and-violence-what-is-physical-force-against-property-update-for-september-11-2019/ https://lisa-legalinfo.com/2019/09/11/spray-paint-and-violen...
- lovich 2y agoIt is not definitionally correct because when you or I say "domestic terrorism", despite being the same text and same sound, it is not the same as when the administration says "domestic terrorism". All they're saying is that they care to stop people damaging tesla's. Not that they are going to be stopping the dictionary definition of "domestic terrorist"
- fishnchips 2y agoIt’s against property, and political change is a vague aim, if any. In my book it’s just vandalism.