[estebank]

> No normal person engages in this stuff, it’s hyper activists part of organized groups with real financing

I guess I'm not a normal person then. I didn't realize that I was a hyper activist because I drew on some cardboard and that my group of friends was being financed. I better go demand for my Soros-check from them.

[monero-xmr]

Are you planning on going to a Tesla dealership again to protest? This was top of my Reddit algorithm for several months, no one even mentions it anymore

[runako]

Over that timeframe, did anything change about the relationship of the CEO of Tesla and the US government?

[monero-xmr]

Doesn’t Musk own the “Nazi social media” website now? Shocking that people literally destroyed Tesla dealerships out of anger and now no one even bothers to show up anymore

[runako]

Is it possible that you did not fully understand the reasons people were protesting at Tesla dealerships?

Perhaps the protests were less about Twitter than you may be assuming, and more about something else that happened much later than the Twitter acquisition?

[noxer]

They protested un-elected president Musk who will stay in power forever. Then he left his position exactly like communicated from the very start and people now think that they won, even tho they only annoyed tesla dealership employees and tesla owners.

[lostlogin]

You don’t think it got under Musks skin?

That was the point.

[anigbrowl]

How are Tesla sales doing

[coryrc]

Because they won? Have you seen Tesla's sales numbers and market share?

[noxer]

They didn't care about Tesla they wanted to "hurt" Musk Musks net worth is about $270 billion more today compared to when the protests began. Does this look like winning?

[goatlover]

Conveniently you left out Musk's DOGE effort to take a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy that people were protesting. And those protest did have the effect of making Elon unpopular enough that the administration didn't want to keep him around.

[noxer]

I didn't leave it out, it doesn't matter to my point. I refute the part about "winning" because clearly the protest did nothing to Musk it only had severe negative effects on thousands of other people.

He left his position as planned from the beginning, the protest had zero effect on what he did trough DOGE.

[goatlover]

That's not true. DOGE did not achieve it's goals of massive cuts. Unless the real goal was stealing information.

The negative effects were on all the people fired, thus why Virginia swung massively toward the Democrats in the 2025 elections.

[ChromaticPanic]

A completely meaningless number that would crater if he dumped his stock to materialize it.

[noxer]

Bring better numbers that show where the protest "won". I wasn't the one using the stocks as metric for "protest success".

[philk10]

yes, there's a group still goes once a week on Monday and I go when I can. There's also one on Wednesday at the main Social Security office Totally normal people there, not being paid a dime