Elon in the government, and elon that runs tesla are two unrelated things.

Elon has been publicly shitty for years. The widespread arson didn’t start until he was in the government. You’re disproving your own position. It’s clear that his role in the government was a trigger.

And sweet jesus dude… tesla is not a private company. It’s public. How are you not aware of that. Elon just happens to own 90 billion dollars worth of it. His stake is essentially private property. Maybe that’s what you were hinting at, but the distinction is important for other reasons.

Terrorism is simply violence to achieve political aims. It doesn’t matter whether the entities are public or private. If someone bombed a house full of a politicians family members to make a political point, that would obviously be terrorism, regardless of the fact that only private property and non government employees were harmed, because the goal of the act was clearly political.

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Musk is a government employee and spends much of his time with the most powerful political figure in this hemisphere.

Attacking him and his property is an inherently political act.

If I have to explain that to you then we’ve got bigger problems than I thought.

The violence wasn’t simply for political reasons, as you suggest. It is to accomplish political goals by causing fear and terror in people associated with that brand. That seems like terrorism to me.

The definition doesn’t set a limit on the number of people injured by an individual act.

Setting a bunch of lithium batters on fire is absolutely dangerous to people nearby. The fact that none have been killed yet is simply a sample size problem.

Arson is inherently a violent and lethal act. And honestly I’m very doubtful about your assertion that power loss is somehow more lethal than a fire. Almost 4k people died from fires in 2022. I can’t find the corresponding stat for power loss, so feel free to do some research.

Terrorism is the act of using violence or intimidation for political gain/control.

That’s exactly what their motivation is.

Did you have issues with that definition when a couple of hicks shot up a bunch of electrical equipment?

No one has to be directly or physically injured for the act to be an attack.

I’m all for tesla dealership vandalism, but doesn’t it pretty much fit the bill as terrorism? It’s violence against noncombatants to achieve political aims. Whether we agree with it or not doesn’t really change that definition.

More than likely her parents were from Laos. Despite being born in Thailand, she is probably considered a Laotian citizen. It’s very unlikely they would have accepted her back otherwise.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

To the degree necessary for education, absolutely.

Schools have to maintain a certain level of order and conformity to function as intended. Courts have already ruled as much. You can’t engage in behavior which would prevent the system from working as intended e.g. walk around topless, yell profanities, play loud music, etc - things which you can obviously do in other public spaces. Wearing full body animal costumes or barking randomly, claiming its your identity, is just as ridiculous and just as disorderly.

With that said, schools probably already had the tools they needed to stop this, so I’m not sure why a law was needed. Unless there was actually some furry zealot fighting against a school board.

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

The average life expectancy of a black male in the US is 72 years. Are you saying they’re just choosing not to pull SS? Something doesn’t seem right with your stat.

Okay but where is Koalamps.