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1d ago

More than 80 Tesla vehicles damaged at Hamilton Mountain dealership

www.cbc.ca /news/canada/hamilton/tesla-dealership-vehicles-damaged-1.7488806

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I bet the dealership damaged them to get a insurance instead of trying selling them 😂
- It's a strategy that wouldn't surprise anyone, considering that Tesla is being investigated for EV rebate fraud in Canada.
  
  Fuckin' shitpumps robbing us taxpayers
- 1000% insurance fraud.
- This is why I'm opposed to that vandalism happening. If cars are vandalized, they get insurance payouts. If they are left alone, they rot on the lot, not selling, and hurting the bottom line. Protest the dealerships, that will be enough deterrent. No need for the vandalism imo.
  
  Not if we keep burning them and the insurance drops their policy. So let's keep burning them and get the insurance to drop their coverage.
  
  You know if you get into a car accident your insurance goes up. If insurance adjusters see there's a very real persistent and constant danger of Tesla's being lit on fire while at the dealership guess what happens to insurance rates at those dealerships and for Tesla in general of course? What's going to cost them more money at the end of the day?
  
  Doesn't get headlines or move momentum forward though. The fire is more visceral. Who cares about money right now. The world is burning might as well burn theirs.

These dealerships should probably pivot away from selling cars from a Nazi-owned company, eh?
- Tesla doesn’t sell through independent dealerships. This only affects Tesla owned dealerships. Which is nice.
  
  LOL. Time to close shop, then. 😆

Thoughts and prayers.

You misspelled "Swastikars", it's okay though I still understood what you meant.

I am a used car salesman just for the day.
That'll buff right out.

Good job... but could we work on getting those numbers up?
- Nothing stopping you...
  
  Except the lack of dealerships in MI and only have showrooms that have limited amounts to burn. Would have to torch the whole building.

I think 80 is the high score so far! You definitely don't want to fuck around and find out in Hamilton.

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Oh no......
Do it again.

❤️

Rookie numbers. 80 cars is nothing to a billionaire.
- It causes the insurance companies to crank up the fees for insuring Teslas, which makes people think twice about buying a Tesla, which results in way more than 80 lost sales.
  Tesla's valuation is already overinflated based on expectations of future growth rather than current market, so those lost sales end up translating into way more of a loss in value for the stock price than those lost sales' literal dollar value.
  Billionaires often leverage their stocks as collateral for loans, so those stocks losing value can end up costing the billionaire more than the dollar value loss alone.
  There are some advantageous feedback loops here.
  
  they already are, i believe insurance for the truck is double or triple of similar vehicles. or the owners are probably uninsured themselves, which is probably not the case.

I would love to play felon a song but couldn't find my microscopic violin.

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Okay so what you do, see, is you get that punkin' chunkin' trebuchet out from storage, right? Okay, then . . .

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