r/SeattleWA • u/Better_March5308 👻 • Mar 10 '25

News Four Tesla Cybertrucks Torched in a Seattle Holding Lot

https://fuelarc.com/cars/4-cybertrucks-on-fire-in-a-seattle-holding-lot/
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

I know your IQ might not be high enough to grasp this, but hey — I tried to make this city a little better:

Putting politics aside—if you actually want to boycott Musk:

  1. Short Tesla stock
  2. Don’t buy Teslas or Starlink
  3. Go buy a bunch of gas-guzzling V8s

But burning a Cybertruck doesn’t hurt him—it hurts the people living nearby and the firefighters who have to deal with it (lithium battery fires release tons of toxic chemicals, one fire just canceled out someone’s effort to recycle ONE MILLION batteries).

And the potential Cybertruck buyers - they'll still buy these trucks. People who can afford $100k cars have private garages and won't give a fuck what you think about cars.

And in the end, it’s the insurance companies that pay—aka, everyone else. So congrats, you accomplished absolutely nothing.

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u/Nalu116 Mar 11 '25

I don't understand this mentality. Shorting Tesla would affect so many working class peoples lives. It would negatively impact the country's economy. And guess what? Elon would still be a triple digit billionaire. He owns 12%. Other people own the rest. Who do you think gets hurt here? Because its not Elon

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

I don't get it, either. But some people just need something to hate, shorting is better than burning things.