Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
by _bin_ on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:50PM
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> I think all anti-Tesla hatred/actions are justified
to be clear, you think it's acceptable to destroy a car someone bought half a decade ago because of something a part-owner of its manufacturer said a few months ago?
Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
by dwaltrip on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:59PM
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Please read the entire sentence when you quote something:
> That is not to say the opposite - that I think all anti-Tesla hatred/actions are justified. I'm just refuting your opinion specifically.
Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
by _bin_ on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:06PM
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i didn't quote you that way. you said you do not think that all anti-tesla actions are justified. "actions" in this case heavily implies not picketing their HQ but the recent spate of vandalism and destruction. you didn't say you do think that all such actions are not justified.
if that is the case, then we have no disagreement, and i'm glad this cleared things up.
Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
by happytoexplain on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:55PM
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The person you're replying to isn't me. You did misquote me in your post, and then maliciously paraphrased, which is why I didn't reply, but I just wanted to point out that the person who replied to you was a different person.
Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
by _bin_ on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:54PM
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i didn't maliciously paraphrase, that's a sentiment a reasonable number of extremely online types seem to share. if you're saying i didn't seem to favor that sentiment, well, obviously.
That is not to say the opposite - that I think all anti-Tesla hatred/actions are justified. I'm just refuting your opinion specifically.
I have a lot of thoughts that run in both directions on topics like this, including this one. However, this specific case is especially far gone, in terms of drawing lines between "understandable" and "unreasonable" on any given anti-Tesla action/opinion, simply because of the fact that he and some of his supporters invoke Nazism. If it wasn't for that, I could more confidently say something like, "No, that one is over the line" for any given anti-Tesla thing. But I can't.