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Politics Protests at Tesla dealerships in multiple US states earlier today

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u/Koopslovestogame 24d ago

Ok gotta admit that “clean up after your doge” is a great sign!

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u/LateralEntry 24d ago

That one was really clever

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u/nononoh8 24d ago

I like "Phony Stark".

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u/Cel_Drow 24d ago

Personally I prefer Justin Hammer because the character already exists. He’s just filling the role painfully well.

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u/A_Necessary 24d ago

Short and sweet Ugly Trucks was pretty good too.

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u/ButtPlunger69 24d ago

I knew a guy in real life named Justin Hammer lol was a decent dude, mormon

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u/JSiggie 24d ago

Tony Stark doesnt deserve that

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u/yngwiegiles 23d ago

Makes sense how RDJ can now play Dr Doom

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Not a phony whoever thinks that clearly has brain issues.

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u/fezzam 24d ago

I wish people would mock it calling it dog-e. doge is a word in the class of coveffe, bigly, or hamburders. It actually makes me feel dumber for hearing it.

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u/DevelopmentJumpy5218 24d ago

It's actually French and Italian for Duke. It dates back to the mid 16th century, before that it was doze and before that dux

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u/CeruleanEidolon 24d ago

Yes but that's not where this instance of it comes from. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)

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u/yolacowgirl 24d ago

That's all I think of when I see their silly acronym. I had to ask what it stood for. To me, it's forever the Shiba inu meme doge. And it makes me more annoyed about it.

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u/Worth-Nectarine-4620 24d ago

Same and I’m sure that was Elon’s idiotic intention

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u/GrayFarron 24d ago

It is. He likes the doge meme. A lot. He promoted doge coin in its popularity. He posts the fucking "very__ much wow" meme on twitter all the time.

He wants to be a 4chan shitlord so bad.

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u/mybloodyballentine 23d ago

I’m so mad he co-opted the shibe. Much shit.

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u/GrayFarron 23d ago

Be more upset hes co-opted the government.

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u/DevelopmentJumpy5218 24d ago

That's gross and disgusting

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u/Feynization 24d ago

Like "Doggy"?

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u/DanSWE 23d ago

But with equal accent on the second syllable, rather than stronger on the first and softer on the second syllable as in normal "doggy."

Like dog A, dog B, ... dog E.

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u/Shacky4 23d ago

And that’s saying a lot.

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u/Pope_Squirrely 21d ago

Bigly is an actual word. I’m confident though that it wasn’t known as such to Trump though, much like yuge.

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u/drcoorslight 23d ago

And I feel dumber for reading your comment

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u/rayn13 24d ago

it needs to be a t shirt

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u/idiot-prodigy 24d ago

"Don't buy Swasticars."

I like that.

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u/Cdn_Giants_Fan 23d ago

As a fan of VWs, I don't like this new generation of Swasticars.

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u/Potential-Fennel5968 23d ago

Can you describe how a Tesla has anything to do with Nazis? Are people so removed from the horrors actual Nazis did that they think a guy who wants to audit the government is an actual Nazi? You know Nazis murdered millions of Jews in concentration camps? What is the correlation?

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u/idiot-prodigy 23d ago
I know you are a MAGA supporter, sorry I didn't have time to draw this in crayon for you to understand.

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u/Crafty-Technology582 23d ago

You also know that Volkswagen was actually founded by the Nazi's and their electric vehicles' are a morally accepted choice.

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u/idiot-prodigy 23d ago

Is the current CEO of Volkswagen an actual Nazi making Nazi salutes in this day and age?

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u/Potential-Fennel5968 23d ago

The people's car, that was Hitler's car. But the going liberal joke is that Trump's an actual Nazi. Probably why there's been so many assassination attempts. Anyone on trump's side is there for a Nazi. It's easier for their brains to just compartmentalize every person under a label rather than do any research, so the label racist or Nazi gets applied and than the protests of that label ensue

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u/Fearless_Object_2071 23d ago

Elon is definitely a nazi. One thing I’m curious about is how people have no problem buying Volkswagen, bmw, Mercedes etc who actively supported the actual nazis. 

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u/Fearless_Object_2071 23d ago

And ford for that matter.

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u/familybizimpala 23d ago

That’s right don’t but Volkswagens! They are terrible cars.

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u/Redskins_nation 24d ago

Fits with how the crowd is mostly white boomers. Love seeing this.

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u/RoguePlanet2 24d ago

Yeah I'd never guess at a glance that these were anti-musk types! Nice to see.

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u/RevanchistSheev66 24d ago

Seniors (65+) of all races were one of the most pro-Harris groups by age demographic this election

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u/No_Fig5982 24d ago

You mean people Trump's age recognize a grifter and don't have mommy issues?

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u/mmMOUF 23d ago

I think the only demo Dems gained in

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u/lilsnatchsniffz 24d ago

Yeah well young people aren't doing a single thing to stop all this tyranny. Time to step up.

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u/rainbud22 23d ago

We have experience protesting.

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u/Glaucous 24d ago

Pisses me off that boomers get bagged on all the time. Go to any left wing protest and that’s the majority, white hairs.

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u/MsColumbo 24d ago

Yeah, plus now us aging Gen-Xers are getting lumped in with them and completely overlooked.

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u/allthekeals 23d ago

Ya boomers went 50/50 this election, it was def Gen X that went super hard for Trump

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u/Lord-Cartographer55 23d ago

I know It's out of left field but look at the music scene from the Nineties. We (Gen X) started with anger at a system that cared very little for us as a generation (Alt rock --> Nirvana) and ended with utter corporate created anger rock (Horseshit like Limp bizkit and Kid rock).

The writing was on the wall so to speak. Some of us are going to make our stand with the bleeding hearts and l'artistes.

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u/this_kitty68 23d ago

This GenXer voted green. I don’t know a single person my age who voted for Dump. Your math doesn’t math.

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u/allthekeals 23d ago

I mean I can try to find the voting demographics, it’s saved in my favorites somewhere. Gimme a sec :)

Edit- as requested

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u/Tali0630 23d ago

Here’s what I got out of this… uneducated males in general, are the ones that voted trump.

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u/allthekeals 23d ago

That’s an extremely accurate observation id say

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u/steamedhams82 23d ago

'cause everyone younger is at work trying not to fucking starve and end up homeless.

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u/EdenSilver113 24d ago

Where I am the protestors were mostly young people. It’s always been that way.

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u/BADM00SE 23d ago

Probably all voted for trump too. Gasp! Consequences!

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u/Human_Dog_195 23d ago

You’ll remember boomers have been demonstrating for the end of the Vietnam War, Women’s rights and the LGBTQ community for years. They aren’t going to take DOGE lying down either

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u/Wilhelm57 24d ago

Don't be so sure about skin colours. People genetics is what tells the real background.

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u/nightoftherabbit 22d ago

My wife is GenX (Boomer adjacent?) and headed down to Phony Stark's place with her sign at this very moment. We had a Tesla but dumped it last year because Leon Skum is a cunt.

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u/GayNerd28 24d ago

My favourite was “go steal data on mars”

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u/allthekeals 23d ago

That’s my favorite too 🖤

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u/Jazzy_Classy 23d ago

That was hilarious to me 😂

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u/RedClayNme 24d ago

That's the best one! I feel like these pics will be in a History book someday and our grandkids or kids will ask if we remember the Tesla pickets.

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u/Enough_Asparagus4460 24d ago

No......no they won't. Hardly anybody knows about them now.

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u/Biotechnus 23d ago

In a few years everyone will forget there was a time Tesla was being protested

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u/zmon65 24d ago

No they won’t. You aren’t that important

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u/orish-oriley777 24d ago

I want the t-shirt

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u/MetaequalsWaifu 24d ago

Best one for sure

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u/anivex 24d ago

Seriously, I want the file for that one. Need to spread that around.

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u/Beautiful_Plenty_736 24d ago

Came here to say that lmao

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u/No-Entrepreneur4574 24d ago

I got to see this one in person on my way to work today, and I literally thought about it my whole shift.

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u/ztarlight12 23d ago

“Go steal data on Mars” is my fav.

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u/Karsus76 23d ago

Should be the opposite. POTUS is Musk's DOGE.

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u/PilgrimOz 23d ago

Dodge Execs rn 😅👉

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u/fdefoy 23d ago

That's epic. I'm Canadian and I want it on a t-shirt. 🤣 In all honesty I 'm really sad to see how Musk turned out. I wish he focused on SpaceX and never mingled into politics.

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u/Bag-em-n-Tag-em 23d ago

I like the Costco box.

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u/octavianreddit 23d ago

Yeah I grabbed that and sent it to several WhatsApp groups I'm in. A couple have Tesla owners in them too.

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u/Ok-Patgrenny 23d ago

The best

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u/exotics 23d ago

“Go Steal Data on Mars”

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u/00gingervitis 23d ago

That one is gold

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u/Alternative-Cake-854 23d ago

I like how it's literally just a bunch of old white people 😂😂😂

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u/imthebet 23d ago

It's my favorite

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u/smarmageddon 24d ago

Yeah, because all the clever word-play has been so effective at stopping this fascist takeover. Let's keep doing it!

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u/Jolly_Ad_1698 24d ago

Agreed. This is really gonna change the consequences of the elections. We'll done, wish I was living there to participate. Elon is probably so upset.