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Oh Lord, we should have known if we didn't. The Wankpanzer is basically an Apartheid era enforcement truck, except with sheet metal falling off.

#Musk and his fans aren't even proper fascists, they're parodies of the fascists they *want* to be. 🤦🏼‍♀️

The intention should be taken completely seriously, and we should also laugh in their faces.

Onward, #TeslaTakedown!

#tesla #cybertruck #clustertruck
slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Slate · We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.By Vivian Chenxue Lu

"Decades later, the Tesla Cybertruck, lately a prime target for protesters demonstrating their dislike of CEO Elon Musk, blurs the boundaries between the battlefield and the public street. When Tesla released the Cybertruck in 2023, its dramatic style polarized the public. Popular theories abounded about its unusual look. Many speculated that its inspiration had come from spaceships of science fiction. In discussing the car’s aesthetic early on, Musk referenced cyberpunk and Blade Runner, a film that features sleek metallic vehicles, though with rounded silhouettes designed for aerodynamic speed. He’s also used the phrase “The future should look like the future”—a reference, his biographer Walter Isaacson said, to a question his son Saxon asked him once: “Why doesn’t the future look like the future?”

Whether or not this was intentional, the Cybertruck’s harsh, sharp edges remind us, instead, of something from the past: the larger armored personnel vehicles that patrolled streets throughout Musk’s youth in apartheid South Africa. In the 1980s, the Casspir proliferated across the country, moving from the battlefield and onto the streets. Initially improvised as a way to circumvent international sanctions against the apartheid government, the Casspir mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle was invented and produced domestically. It was a rugged all-terrain vehicle intended to withstand gunfire and mine explosions. It could drive up to 60 mph and be modified to add artillery functions.

Eventually, the Casspir was deployed to patrol townships, the residential neighborhoods where many Black South Africans lived (...) By the 1990s, the Casspir had become an iconic global symbol of apartheid oppression."

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Slate · We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.By Vivian Chenxue Lu

Ah those long-ago days of innocence when people just mocked the Incel Camino instead of trying to burn them all down (before nature did it anyway).

(It won't let me put 2 videos into one post so the second is in the reply)

ABC7: Video shows Tesla Cybertruck completely submerged underwater in Ventura Harbor

"VENTURA, Calif. (KABC) -- Video shows fire crews in Ventura pull out a Tesla Cybertruck from the bottom of the harbor.

The incident happened Monday morning at the Ventura Harbor.

The fire battalion chief says someone was trying to launch a jet ski when the Cybertruck sank.

The vehicle was completely submerged in the water when crews arrived..."

abc7.com/post/video-shows-fire #tesla #teslacybertruck #cybertruck #underwater #nazisubmarine #nazisub

NBC Bay Area: "Three people in a Tesla Cybertruck couldn't be rescued after a crash in Piedmont when the vehicle became fully engulfed in flames, authorities said Friday after a preliminary investigation.... The Alameda County Coroner's Bureau said driver Soren Dixon, 19, and passengers Jack Nelson, 20, and Krysta Tsukahara, 19, suffocated from smoke inhalation.... " (3/1/25 article)

nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east

NBC Bay Area · Tesla Cybertruck prevented rescue of 3 victims in Piedmont car crash, authorities sayBy Bay City News
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Sign that all the protests against Tesla (and in particular Cybertrucks) is having impact. The article:

"According to reports from the Cybertruck Owners Club, an online forum, Jaroje isn't alone. The resale value of the Cybertruck—once hyped as the ultimate status symbol—is tanking. Prices on secondary markets are cratering, with some used models selling for tens of thousands less than their sticker price, which starts at about $80,000."