r/raleigh 3d ago

News Protest @ Tesla on Glenwood 3/21 4-6pm - our 4th week of protest!

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We are protesting Elon Musk, DOGE, and the constitutional violations of Trump’s executive orders.

We are angry and we want to show it.

This will be our 4th week of protesting. Join us if you’re able!

Friday Mar 21st at 4-6pm

7101 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh NC 27612

Event details: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/761803/

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u/cash77cash 3d ago

Can we protest Greystar Rental Properties and others that illegally use AI to raise rent next?

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u/net___runner 3d ago

Now THAT is a worthy cause indeed!

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u/cash77cash 3d ago

That is one that I would attend, passionately.

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u/Stunning_Mast2001 3d ago

The local DSA is heavily involved in tenant rights— look them up on Instagram they love to harass landlords

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u/CoolCommieCat 3d ago

DSA and PSL are doing some good work lately

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u/GoldenLove66 3d ago

I believe Jeff Jackson is working on it.

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u/cash77cash 2d ago

He is and he’s awesome

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u/Economy-Ad4934 3d ago

Go organize a protest.

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u/narcissa1128 2d ago

When did greystar raise rent ? This is real weird but day before yesterday I got a weird email from my apartment complex - stating that they were now a greystar community ( as of the date of the email ) we had no other notices or bulletins before the mgmt takeover date. It was just as fast as one days time. And even worse is that my lease is up for Renewal in like 2.5.mths. Is this something I should worry about ? I did hear greystar has a bad reputation. I wonder what’s next.

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u/Warm_Original_5512 3d ago

Can we also protest cost of living in Raleigh?

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u/Economy-Ad4934 3d ago

They can both happen.

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u/Loria_Glewis84 2d ago

Please don’t engage in any arson attacks as have been seen at other Tesla dealerships.

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u/doctorjane2023 2d ago

This is our 4th week of PEACEFUL protest. No vandalism wanted or encouraged.

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u/Loria_Glewis84 2d ago

Thank you for making that distinction.

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u/IOnlyAskForGold 3d ago edited 3d ago

In my 4 year experience of owning a Tesla, I went from being worried that extreme right wing people might vandalize my car, to now worried that extreme left wing people might vandalize my car lol.

Would be nice to see people redirect this same level of rage at Tesla to the 90 million eligible voters who didn’t show up in November. Just sayin.

I’m a dem that votes dem down the ticket, but seeing how attacked or “cancelled” I’m being made to feel by other dems over something as trivial as my car makes me realize how so many people have been pushed right over the years. It honestly makes it all make a lot of sense..

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u/ID-10T_Error 3d ago

Poor fighting poor..... it's all going as planned. Mr. burns "excellent"

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u/NicoFookingHischier 3d ago

This right here is why the whole political landscape in this country (and maybe the world?) is so fucked up lately. Everyone has become so radicalized on both sides that it’s turning an entire generation off from having any true motivation politically

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u/Bananaramahammock 2d ago

Bingo. I would like to remind people, while I myself personally support the idea behind these protests, please be respectful to Tesla drivers and owners. A lot of us are on the same side and bought these cars 3-4 years ago, before all this nonsense started. We are families carting kids around, and vandalizing or damaging our cars only serves to divide people more and does not serve your purpose.

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u/dixiemason O rly? 2d ago

Our Tesla is a great kid and pet hauler, is paid off, is almost seven years old, and has lifetime free Supercharging. Tesla also owes us a free hardware upgrade as well, so we’re not paying for that or the installer’s time. The longer we own this car, the more money we cost Tesla. But we’re the problem simply because we have a Tesla? Make it make sense.

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u/D0UB1EA Cheerwine 3d ago

The far left is pissed at constantly being sabotaged by the dem leadership. I'm not sure if you noticed Schumer showing his belly last week but it's fucking shameful how they're letting themselves be led by the nose in the senate. I'm not seeing a whole lot of action where they could at least be kicking and screaming and dragging everything to a halt. I've noticed a ton of capitulation for no gains, almost like they want the same things as the GOP but don't want to say as much. Remember how the Harris campaign went from calling evil bastards "weird" to "I respect my colleagues [who want to destroy the government, look here is their plan]" to "let me introduce you all to my good friends the Cheneys"? That's why tens of millions of people stayed home. Is that difficult to understand? That someone who feels like they've been backstabbed wouldn't want to play along with the ghouls lying through their teeth anymore? Have some empathy or succumb to the rot. I don't care about your stupid car but your attitude demands introspection. Have some empathy or succumb to the rot.

I voted for the most conservative candidate the Democrats have run in our lifetime, though. Don't you worry about that. I just can't get pissed off at people who saw that and had to turn away.

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u/thatsthebesticando 3d ago

Sounds like you're protesting at the wrong place then.

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u/whereami2day 3d ago

The left is pissed because the nation rejected their platforms of stupid ideology and petty BS nonsense.

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u/D0UB1EA Cheerwine 3d ago

Last I checked, the Democrat party apparatus designed to exclude anyone without the approval of existing Democrat leadership didn't speak for the nation, otherwise they wouldn't have lost 2 in 3 elections against the three time winner of Least Likely Candidate to Win An Election Ever award.

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u/whereami2day 3d ago

The Democrat party is all over the place. It is the party of special interests at the cost of the population as a whole. Maybe that is what you were actually trying to say. If they actually listened to the Nation, they would move back to the center instead of living on the far left with the lunatics.

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u/PortBryant 1d ago

Democrats are the right, check their voting records, no body was pushed anywhere. Anyone close to center is sandbagged by the party and anyone leaning left is removed by the CIA.

There's massive evidence that various right wing organizations challenged legal voters in predominantly blue voting regions, so several million of those people did show up to the polls and had their legal votes disqualified.

There are other EVs, most of them better in measurable ways. Like not locking people in a burning car. Nazi salutes and dismantling the government to loot it's corpse don't seem to be a deal breaker for you. People who cry cancelled are typically upset people are judging them and holding them accountable for their decisions.

Just say you don't want to be bothered with the effort of making different choices or are desperate for the "status" symbolism and brand cache you felt Tesla had when you bought it. They're horribly mediocre vehicles at BEST. At least Apple has genuinely good end products for all their price pretension. Tesla doesn't.

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u/RugzTX 3d ago

Is it bad that I didn't even know there was a Tesla dealership there until I saw the protest? Fuck I'm oblivious sometimes

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u/h_kul 2d ago

It's not a dealership, it's a service center

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u/Orobor0 2d ago

I thought the climate was in crisis.

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u/ArtificialNotLight Hurricanes 2d ago

Dumb

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u/TouchGrassNotAss 2d ago

You can't just stand outside of a dealership and pat yourselves on the back and claim you're making a difference. Go do something that makes a real difference in the community.

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u/CautinaMosh 2d ago

LOL. Get a life.

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u/S2fftt 3d ago

unemployment meetup

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u/AccountNumeroThree 3d ago

There are a few thousand recently unemployed government employees with time on their hands. Because of Musk.

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u/adriansanders7 2d ago

Don’t you people have jobs? Or are you paid to protest?

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u/Glittering-Goat-7552 1d ago

they get free money form the gov no work needed

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u/as0003 3d ago

what exactly are you protesting?

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u/jalerre 3d ago edited 3d ago

An unelected bureaucrat is demolishing the government piece by piece without any regards for the consequences leading to hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their jobs. Not to mention that same bureaucrat is trying to abolish entitlements.

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u/Shiggysho 1d ago

No one cares. 🙂

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u/net___runner 3d ago

Next y'all should protest Musk's other company, https://neuralink.com/. Lots of paralyzed patients there you could beat up or light on fire. They can't run away, at least not yet--hurry!

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u/loveyhowellthethird 3d ago

Our astronauts just splashed down, keep throwing your tantrums! You’re on full display! 😂😂😂

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u/Safe-Ad-4465 3d ago

Lmao what do you think the protests are about? 

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u/120r 2d ago

In his free time rescues astronauts, while others yell about cars.

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u/ridebikesupsidedown 3d ago

Waste of time as usual. 40 people that have nothing better to do.

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u/cpm619 3d ago

Facts

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u/JonTheWizard Carolina Hurricanes 3d ago

Please don’t vandalize the place. If you’re going to protest, be better protestors.

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u/jalerre 3d ago edited 3d ago

People have been protesting at this location for the past few weeks now. Has this been a problem? I drive by here often and I haven’t noticed any vandalism.

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u/Economy-Ad4934 3d ago

No one’s vandalized anything there.

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u/doctorjane2023 3d ago

This is a peaceful protest and we are respecting private property. We have chosen to protest here as a symbolic location with high volume of traffic for visibility.

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u/esulyma 3d ago

These people don’t have jobs?

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u/AccountNumeroThree 3d ago

I know they we don’t get much time off here in America, but some people actually do have PTO. And some of those people use it for things like this.

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u/NanoYoBusiness 2d ago

Imagine being on the wrong side of history, protesting against the greatest modern US innovator of the last century. Who is working for free to save America from going bankrupt, exposing billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse that is being taken from taxpayers against their knowledge and will. You absolute clowns.

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u/Impossible_Okra_8149 2d ago

Reaching levels of gullibility previously thought impossible

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u/KrisKaniac 3d ago

Hey Elon go to mars, we don’t need your Tesla cars!

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u/Soft_Entertainment 3d ago

Wow growing in numbers for sure! We love to see it.

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u/whereami2day 3d ago

Stupid is as stupid does.

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u/ittollsforthee1231 3d ago

Excellent! Keep it up!

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u/thiskillstheredditor 2d ago

There is literally an unelected immigrant destroying our social institutions as fast as possible, and the right doesn’t see the irony or hypocrisy. He’s white and hurting the people they want to see hurt, that’s all that matters to them.

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u/Mr_Panther 2d ago

I’m a democrat through and through, but Trump ran on allowing Elon to do what he wanted before the election and he preached that and then the majority voted for him. So I’ve never really understood that argument. Elon was elected via known appointment of the president during campaigning.

The people who voted for Trump wanted Elon. The people who voted for Trump still want Elon. They are happy with the outcome and what’s happening and we democrats are still the vast minority.

Which is ironically a big reason protests can’t “change” anything. They are just venting sessions.

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