The Archivist
17 March 2025 · 18:21 UTC

Imagine if climate activists said that petrol and diesel vehicles need to go, so we should all go out and…

Imagine if climate activists said that petrol and diesel vehicles need to go, so we should all go out and vandalise and burn those vehicles, while abusing their drivers. They’d be called extremists. But Tesla attacks? Widely cheered. Our public life is broken. /1 https://t.co/OJx0qVtpKD
Post 2 of 4 · 17 March 2025 · 18:21 UTC
Celebrities post things like this, and are again cheered. Ordinary people are harassed and even assaulted, in car parks, because they might drive a Tesla. Not one politician or law enforcement person I’ve seen is yet to condemn the behaviour. /2 https://t.co/DukQ5NFnMN
Post 3 of 4 · 17 March 2025 · 18:21 UTC
Talking to friends or people here, overwhelmingly the feedback is “well…Elon. It’s deserved.” Many for years have (rightly) condemned Rupert Murdoch’s contributions to public life. Are we all out there ripping Foxtel dishes off ordinary people’s homes? No? /3
Post 4 of 4 · 17 March 2025 · 18:21 UTC
I’m disgusted by the descent into mob rule that these idiot platforms now make completely imperceptible to previously sane, sensible people. The poison of US politics now entrenched everywhere, by use of these platforms. Where everything is a gun-slinging Western. /end

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