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Study Finds Many Americans Okay with Violence Against Tesla, Musk, Trump

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Study Finds Many Americans Okay with Violence Against Tesla, Musk, Trump

A new study says many Americans are okay with political violence. It found 39.8% think it’s fine to wreck Tesla dealerships. And 31.6% say killing Elon Musk could be justified.

The study shows a split by political beliefs. Among those leaning left, 57.6% are okay with smashing Tesla dealerships. Nearly half, 48.6%, think killing Elon Musk makes sense. And 55.2% feel the same about Donald Trump. That’s higher than the overall numbers, where 38.5% justify killing Trump.

Those are rookie numbers.

We gotta get those up.

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  • The study warns that such high support, especially on the left, might lead to real attacks

  • The study shows a split by political beliefs. Among those leaning left, 57.6% are okay with smashing Tesla dealerships. Nearly half, 48.6%, think killing Elon Musk makes sense. And 55.2% feel the same about Donald Trump. That’s higher than the overall numbers, where 38.5% justify killing Trump.

    rookie numbers, tbh, but way more than enough to do some good shit if organized. the potential is there.

  • Normalizing violence as political speech is a slippery slope, and this isn't the fallacy. You thought Jan was an insurrection? There were very few guns, and I believe less than fifty were charged with violence. Version 2 violent boogaloo is going to be crazy.

    God I hope I'm wrong.

      • Additionally, from Engels

        ”When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.”

    • You thought Jan was an insurrection?

      not really, no. it was more like a deeply embarrassing block party. honestly i've been at house shows with more guns and i've definitely been to parties with more violence.

      anyway violence gets shit done. you can debate the people in power until you die of asphyxiation and nothing will change in the slightest.

    • What? Am I going to do something about it? Protect Velveeta Voldemort myself? Am I supposed to feel bad if a fascist dies? Ignore the paradox of tolerance and defend their right to blame minorities? Who gives a fuck? If they first come for the fascists then I'm pogged the frick up

      I couldn't muster up the strength to feel bad if something happened, much less the @Civility@hexbear.net to not celebrate.

    • Normalizing violence as political speech is a slippery slope,

      Taking violence off the table only benefits the ones who already claim a monopoly on violence.

      Violence is already completely normalized as political speech, but only in the direction of it being used by the state and against the people. It's totally normalized for fascist ICE agents to brutally abduct people off the street, for cops to murder people (especially people of color) without consequence, or to go into homeless encampments beating and cracking the skulls of the people trying to survive there while torching their meager possessions, for small armies of militarized police to kettle and gas protesters (those people who aren't even using violence themselves but are still doing what they can to oppose its use by the state to conduct genocide), and beating them until they're literally blind. And this isn't even beginning to get into the utter normalization of the unimpeded mass murder of people in the global south to more easily steal their resources.

      What is not normalized is specifically the use of violence by regular people aimed at the state. That is the taboo. That is what the pearl-clutching liberals immediately denounce as dangerous to "democracy" (because it is a threat to bourgeois dictatorship). But it's a taboo that has to be broken if there is to ever be any hope of positive change happening within the imperial core. If it's a slippery slope to normalize violence against the state, then let's get to sliding down it! The statistics presented in this article, if they're to be believed, are a hopeful sign.

    • its already normalized by the right. better to not just be the punching bags.

    • Only way out is political violence. But it needs to be organized and disciplined

    • Political power yadda yadda you know the line.

      This is just cope, the liberal state uses violence all the time, it's just you that isn't targeted.

    • We didn't think January 6th was an insurrection. Most of us don't think it was a big deal

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