Donald Trump Says Attacks on Tesla Dealerships Will Be Treated as 'Terrorism'

[beardyw]

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/donald-trump-backs-his-co-president-says-attacks-on-tesla-dealerships-will-be-treated-as-terrorism/

[ChrisArchitect]

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331316

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43337049

[Finnucane]

This means that the Tesla Takedown is having an affect. Musk is starting to feel the heat. Keep it up.

[cantrecallmypwd]

Robots got personhood early. And I guess the corporations were scared since they're legally people too.

[archagon]

On the same day that Trump turned the White House lawn into the shopping channel: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195905

So I guess Tesla is now semi-officially an arm of the executive branch. Totally cool and normal!

[TheAlchemist → archagon]

And on the same day, Elon apparently decided to put $100M into Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-tru...

[JohnFen]

It's pretty interesting how he considers violent attacks on Tesla dealerships to be terrorism, but the violent attacks of Jan 6 are not.

I'm not defending violent attacks on either of those things. It's just another example of Trump's attitude of "whatever I dislike is criminal, whatever I like is not".

[toomuchtodo → blackeyeblitzar]

1,600 people weren’t charged and 1,270 convicted for "peaceful activities" on January 6th.

https://jan6archive.com/doj.html

[toomuchtodo → blackeyeblitzar]

The list links to the prosecution documents for each person in the database. Arguing perspective is fine, but not facts.

[vdupras]

It seems clear to me that Musk is positioning itself to be one of the greatest welfare billionaire ever. The logic will go as follow:

1. Musk selflessly gives the US an immense service for which all americans should be forever grateful.

2. Some agitators try to hurt Musk through boycotts and other whatnots.

3. Because we are grateful as americans, we'll financially compensate Musk for his losses.

Plot twist: the money funneled to Musk through this rhetoric will end up exceeding any savings DOGE ever achieved.

[darthrupert]

If the attacks are coordinated and the purpose is to cause fear in the owners of the cars, it isn't entirely not terrorism.

But logic and truth shouldn't be used to defend the behavior of people who themselves corrupt both logic and truth all the time. Like Trump, Putin and Musk.

[walls]

Destroying rainbow displays at Target: cool and fun

Destroying cars that fund fascism: terrorism