If the person is willing to pay the cost to keep their current setup whatever… but vandalization will provide an economic motive for the victim and others around them to revise their behavior.

Unless you’re completely destroying the car beyond repair (thats serious felony material), your vandalism is actually acting to enrich Elon Musk. Where do you think replacement parts for a vandalized Tesla will come from? The victim will be forced to buy those parts from Musk even if they hate him.

Caveat: other than the original Roadster, I’ve never considered Teslas good cars. The Cybertruck might be the dumbest vehicle made in the last 40 years. SO, on to MY hot take.

I’ve spent years and years restoring a 1973 Porsche 914 from a bucket to a beautiful driving machine. Blood, sweat, tears, and money. Hard earned money and my own blood, my own sweat, and my own tears.

It’s unbelievably pretty now. It looks expensive. It drives like a bat out of hell on rails. It’s everything I strived for.

If someone vandalized it, it would be pike gouging at my heart. Writing words in any dust in it would scratch the paint.

With that out of the way, I’d still laugh if I saw a vandalized Swasticar.

A bit of a scary thought, not predominantly due to finger biting over those cars specifically. I’m just imagining the kind of violence we might inflict on each other in the coming years.

For instance, pretend tomorrow’s headline is… oh , say:

One third of 1% of all Teslas have been vandalized each day every day for the past week, and activists promised to maintain the strict schedule.

How long would it take before we saw some significant White House action? And what might a social response look like in the streets? Would any Priuseses be safe?!