Tesla is under investigation in Canada for falsifying thousands of sales to game our rebate system.
What if some of the vandalism at Tesla dealerships in the USA were simply insurance fraud scams?
@MeanwhileinCanada Super good point
Tesla "vandals" actually crisis actors paid by Musk
@MeanwhileinCanada Hmmm. I was thinking the vandalism wasn’t in proportion to a “typical” Canadian response. Fair point.
@MeanwhileinCanada the dealerships are corporate-owned, not independent, so it would have to be directed from the top
@MeanwhileinCanada
What if?
Probably is!
@wsrphoto @MeanwhileinCanada Doubling as false flag attacks
@MeanwhileinCanada we would not be in the least surprised.
that or false flag attacks to protect the melon.
@MeanwhileinCanada I assume Tesla has remote capability to start a fire. They used remote door unlocking to help control the fire at the Trump hotel but won't use it to release burning victims at an accident.
I don't doubt they have more capability than they admit to publicly.
@gooba42 @MeanwhileinCanada Dead people can't claim damages. Makes sense to lock them in #SpaceKaren's volatile #swasticars.
Do #Tesla 'owners' really, actually, own the product. They most certainly own any liabilities.
@gooba42 @MeanwhileinCanada IMO, It takes a special kind of idiot to design a product that fails fatal and an even bigger idiot to actually buy one.
@gooba42 @MeanwhileinCanada The explosion wrecked the interior of the Trump hotel cybertruck. The battery was intact and Tesla presumably received an accident alert and therefore knew which vehicle it was.
If a Tesla's battery is on fire then there is not going to be any power for remote control, and the electronics are probably already destroyed by then.
They do need to provide a simple and easy way to get the thing open in an emergency.
@mike805 @MeanwhileinCanada Then they can just release all the telemetry, software and remote control specs for safety audits to settle the point.
@MeanwhileinCanada
It wouldn't surprise me. People in the US have been worrying about police violence and false flags and provocateurs at the protests and I'm like-- none of those are new concerns. They may be new to a lot of white people in the US, but Black protesters here have faced these threats since forever. Those threats happen all around the world. We can't just not protest.
@MeanwhileinCanada interesting hypothesis, but I'd like to see some evidence.
@MeanwhileinCanada If they were insurance fraud scams, any value obtained from insurance fraud was more than offset in the loss of share value and sales. So if it was fraud, it was extraordinarily stupid fraud.
@profdc9 @MeanwhileinCanada I’m not sure about that. Insurance payouts are revenue. Operationally speaking, share price means nothing. But they’ll get full retail (or close to it) from an insurance payout. Tesla’s share price was always a fiction and does not equal cash.
@heartofcoyote @MeanwhileinCanada Tesla's shareholders and board certainly care about their share price. Companies these days engage in all kinds of subterfuge to prop up their share prices to satisfy investors and it is hard to imagine an insurance fraud scheme would be worth the significant negative publicity and consequent negative investor sentiment.
@profdc9 @MeanwhileinCanada The shareholders and the board wouldn’t be the ones doing it. There are others working in the company with different incentive structures… Dunno if we’ll every know, but I don’t see a reason to dismiss the conjecture.
@MeanwhileinCanada Let me guess,
They Filtered US sales through Canadian warehouses, so they could claim they were sold in Canada?
@MeanwhileinCanada or most likely sales through dealerships in canada (i forgot the word "dealership")
@MeanwhileinCanada Here's my hunch: Musk/Tesla has been buying the cars to pocket the rebate money while generating renewable energy credits Tesla can sell. It improves Tesla sales numbers for the 1st quarter which have been tanking. The cars will be sold "like new" as if the rebate was still in effect. The Tesla cost of goods sold in Canada will certainly be higher after the Trump tariffs go into effect on April 2nd. It is pure short-sighted desperation play.
@MeanwhileinCanada oh yes burn the stock, get the money from insurance and buy a stock of BYDs
@MeanwhileinCanada I've been saying this, some of these fires are vandalism (necessary vandalism) but a lot could be business owners getting rid of stock they know they aren't going to sell now.
Capitalism will be Capitalism....
@MeanwhileinCanada After the impact that Doge has had in millions of people, all the suffering and the anger, no, I think they genuinely hate Tesla. They are letting all the anger burst out.
Remember that we have already seen in the past many less educated Americans vandalizing and using violence during various demonstrations.
@MeanwhileinCanada Oh man, i thought Musk was an honest nazi.
@MeanwhileinCanada It would surprise me not at all.
@MeanwhileinCanada that would not be surprising
@MeanwhileinCanada some of these are false flag operations. I highly suspect the events in Palm Beach, literally a 16 minute drive from Mar-a-Lago. There’s no way in hell that black SUV driver’s “brakes and electronics went out,” causing him to plow into a crowd of a hundred senior citizens protesting that Tesla dealership. No way. He was a Tesla employee and this attempted murder was premeditated.
@MeanwhileinCanada If Tesla wants to get in on the Tesla burning, that is 100% okay with me.
@MeanwhileinCanada I hadn't considered this but it would not be the first time MAGA sstans have autograffitied their properties trying to blame some portion of the woke left (especially BLM). It wouldn't be only the 20th either.
@MeanwhileinCanada I predicted that would be the case some time back. There's a lot of unsellable Tesla cars to disappear somewhere - especially in Europe.
US who knows - maybe MAGA really will buy them all 8)
@MeanwhileinCanada - Sure, maybe, but I'd actually prefer "Americans really ARE angry enough to do a shitload of property damage at this point"; it would speak well of their resolve going forward.
THe words "What if" do not belong in that sentence!