• Camelbeard
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      53 months ago

      In these crazy times we need to stick together and make sure they can’t break us. 🇳🇱

  • @[email protected]
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    1203 months ago

    France,

    Once upon a time you came to America and helped us defeat a king.

    Any chance you can come teach us how to protest? You folks seem to have perfected your technique.

    • @[email protected]
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      443 months ago

      Step 1) Be entitled

      Step 2) Have politicians whine that you’re entitled

      Step 3) Remind them physically that you’re entitled to be entitled or they’ll be sorry

      Step 4) Profit

      • Laurel Raven
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        93 months ago

        I feel like there should be a guillotine in there somewhere…

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          Well, that’s Step 3 in certain dire circumstances; except they end up sorry in hell. Most hope it never gets to that extreme.

          • Laurel Raven
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            23 months ago

            I’ve been hoping it doesn’t get to that extreme but the hope feels fainter every day

  • @[email protected]
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    503 months ago

    I know what they meant, but I like the implication that it’s only the first of many to be burned to the ground

    • @[email protected]
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      I like it! Solid effort. I love a good history reference pun.

      Because I believe I’ve seen you make It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia references before, I feel obligated to share what popped in my head when I saw this post ('cause my goofy brain is always forcing connections to it): “I will burn you alive like the last bitch who crossed me!” & “Ya light ONE Tesla dealership on fire and everybody FREAKS OUT!” - The French, apparently. They’re still hot!

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    243 months ago

    Between the unrelenting protests and De Gaulle I’m very glad Germany gets to call France its ally these days

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      a qoute from marge simpsons, the french can be unpredictable" one minute thier kissing your hand, the next they are chopping your head off"

  • @[email protected]
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    133 months ago

    I think we’re running out the possibility that all the cars caught fire at the same time too early!

  • @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    Here is the source:

    Dozen Teslas torched outside French dealership: authorities

    Toulouse (France) (AFP) – A dozen Teslas were torched in France in what authorities are treating as an arson attack, the prosecutor’s office said Monday.

    The prosecutor’s office told AFP an investigation has been opened into Sunday night’s attack on a dealership near the southern city of Toulouse which left eight cars burned out.

    Another four cars were badly damaged amid evidence the blaze was “not at all accidental”, said the prosecutor’s office.

    Philippe Guyot, mayor of the Toulouse suburb of Plaisance-du-Touch, told AFP firefighters had quickly determined that the cause of the blaze was criminal, adding the dealership premises had not been targeted.

    A handful of anti-Tesla actions have occurred in Europe since Elon Musk’s rapprochement with US President Donald Trump, his backing of European far-right parties and attacks on diversity.

    Sales of Tesla cars halved year-on-year in January 2025 in Germany and France.

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    143 months ago

    The fact I gotta wonder if people lit them on fire in they lit themselves on fire due to shitty design is telling of what kind of company it is.

  • @[email protected]
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    Wow, that was an oversight of the Quality Department. Very likely that they allowed non-conforming batteries be installed in those vehicles. Oh well.

      • @[email protected]
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        63 months ago

        The clue is in the word: drop sabots/clogs into things.

        Sabots/clogs are:

        • organic
        • renewable
        • recyclable

        And they store, rather than release, carbon. The eco-friendliest sabotage is sabots!

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            The legend about the origin of the word sabotage is that French workers being put out of a job by bosses installing new machinery would drop their wooden clogs (called “sabots” in French) into the machinery’s gears, thus damaging it.

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              23 months ago

              Oh cool, thanks for the explanation! I guess super glue in the charge port or something would work for a Tesla

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Industrial sites probably need a lot of electricity, they might even have their own substation

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          Like most meat, actually composting bodies would require a very hot composting temperature, constant mixing, and you’d want to put it through a grinder first, or else it won’t properly mix. Especially in the case of bones, those really need to be ground down so they can properly decompose.

          Hypothetically, of course.