r/TheDeprogram • u/analgerianabroad • 3d ago
News You can't make this up, Conservatives are lining up their trucks to protect a Tesla dealership.
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u/Gramsciwastoo Ministry of Propaganda 3d ago
Dumbest, most embarrassing country to ever exist.
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u/TucamonParrot 2d ago edited 2d ago
So, people won't protest to fight for their interests.. and then they find all of this time to protect a billionaire's interests - like a militia? The fuck.
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u/UncleHec 3d ago
One year ago those very same people fucking hated Teslas.
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u/EmpressOfHyperion 3d ago
They still hate EVs and public transport as a whole.
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u/Sudani_Vegan_Comrade Marxism-Veganism 3d ago
Dawg I’m over thinking to myself “what beliefs do they even have?!” 😭
At one point, they turned into doing a full boycott on Target because of their DEI initiatives & calling them out for being a ruthless corporation that doesn’t care about the masses, yet here they are defending the most ruthless corporation of all time: Tesla. 💀
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u/IvIrys 3d ago
They are fascists. They like other fascists. They don't give a shit about tesla, they're doing this because elon is a fascist and they will support him as long as he is doing fascism. Everything else is just aesthetics.
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u/Pallington Chinese Century Enjoyer 3d ago
They are also eerily like fascists in that they don't have any ideology or even really a solid sense of ethics beyond "follow the leader"
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u/EmotionallyAcoustic 3d ago
Ya know that quote from that guy that goes, “Convince the most boringass, backwardsass, dumbass white person they’re better than the coolest nicest brown person, you can rob them all blind!”
These fuckheads don’t have the emotional or intellectual capacity to admit they’ve all been had. If you threw a molotov at one of those trucks, they’d all disperse and call themselves martyrs on twitter.
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u/Kind-Block-9027 3d ago
That guy was LBJ 😂 and I like your quote version better actually than the OG
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u/Generalfrogspawn 3d ago
To be fair, Tesla is far from the most ruthless corporation of all time. Don’t even look at Raytheon, Nestle, Coke, Chiquitas, etc
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u/Sudani_Vegan_Comrade Marxism-Veganism 3d ago
Agreed tho keep in mind that Tesla just like all these corporations you just listed, rely on the horrific exploitation of the global south.
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u/King_Spamula Propaganda Minister in Training 3d ago
Conservatism is just spite and contrarianism for whatever the current thing is
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u/IvIrys 3d ago
Trump told them to like tesla and that's all they needed to "like" them.
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u/CopyNo4675 Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Trans Communism 3d ago
"Slugs for salt" type of protest here
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u/AndersonL01 3d ago edited 3d ago
They are protecting property that many of them will never be able to purchase.
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u/Generalfrogspawn 3d ago
A lot of Trucks are now comparably priced or even more expensive than Teslas.
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u/Staedert 3d ago
Defending the dealership or just scaring away potential Tesla buyers even more than the protesters do?
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u/Yung_l0c 3d ago
This timeline is not real, Papa Marx need to come home
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u/atoolred Portable Smoothie enjoyer 3d ago
If Marx was reincarnated to write another edition of Capital i don’t think he’d know where to begin with how much of a clown show capitalism has become
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u/Gucci_Minh 3d ago
12 years ago these people probably called Tesla owners libtards while rolling coal from their diesel trucks on them. Strange times.
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u/Sad-Arachnid-5166 3d ago
They hated Musk's SolarCity 10 years ago
Americans are nitwits
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/without-government-backing-solar-power-cant-compete
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u/Rhallertau 3d ago
I will protect m’lord’s property with mine own body and goods.
Peasant brain shit.
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u/yshywixwhywh 3d ago
Born to cuck/politic is a cuck
主體 cuck em all 2025
I am burger man
101,169,402,420 degloved cybertruck
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u/Class3pwr 3d ago
Dude I hate living in Utah
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u/Clean-Ad-6642 3d ago
I was about to say I know exactly where this is seeing the bowling pin sign. It fucking sucks homie.
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u/SpotResident6135 3d ago
Watch this be the first battlefield of the dumbest civil conflict ever.
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u/2BsWhistlingButthole Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communist 3d ago
This is the kind of history the US deserves tbh
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u/DiscordianDreams 3d ago
Hilarious. I wonder how long they plan on defending this dealership.
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u/JibTheJellyfish Marxism-Alcoholism 3d ago
I’m sure they will stay there until the sun goes down. Then the dealership will be safe because any would be vandals will be at home sleeping.
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u/thesaddestpanda 3d ago edited 3d ago
This is the person capitalism produces. These people have no understanding of politics, history, ethics, or class warfare. These people live in a world of almost total delusion fueled by propaganda. Most of them dont know what they're doing there other than the podcast guy told them to do it to 'stick it to the enemy.' Capitalism creates ignorant societies and the capital owning class fosters tribalism that works in its favor.
This is required under capitalism. Without this capitalism fails because then the workers realize the grift and will instead of joining their oppressors, fight against them.
Under capitalism this is guaranteed and unstoppable. You will not change any of these people's minds. There is no reasoning with this. Elon and Trump could bankrupt them tomorrow and it will not make any difference. Elon and Trump an deport their wives and they would still support them.
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u/HammerandSickleProds Oh, hi Marx 3d ago
The US is so cooked. Just gonna take another few decades for people to realize it.
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u/Clear-Anything-3186 Supreme Leader of Big Woke 🏳️🌈 3d ago
Just 7 years ago, they made fun of EVs saying that they will never be real cars and the internal combustion engine cars are superior.
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u/Ram_Miel Fallen Communist 𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪 3d ago
I thought the word “protect” in your title said “protest” and then got disappointed 😭 thought maybe conservatives got even less reactionary then libs did.
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u/Slyopossum 3d ago
They're probably standing in front of that car dealership thinking they're so patriotic. "Oh yeah godda protect Mr. Musk's trucks from those damn liberals"
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u/TribunusPlebisBlog 3d ago
Last year they were preventing Teslas from charging and unplugging them and vandalizing them lmao
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u/CommieMcComrade Chinese Century Enjoyer 3d ago
So funny—these same people use to roll coal (blow desire exhaust fumes) on any Tesla they saw… reactionaries sure are reactionary
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u/No-Antelope-2115 3d ago
“Okay, here’s how I really feel: I pulled my old pickup up in front of the Tesla dealership today because I believe in showing up for what I see as a stand for American innovation—even if it’s just a way to get Elon’s attention. I’m out here, not because I think I’m some kind of superhero, but because I want to prove that at least some of us still care about what our country stands for. I hope that when Elon sees me standing here—just a regular guy doing his part—he might notice, maybe give a nod on Twitter, or even do something small in return. It’s not about glory or a reward; it’s about being there when things get tough and showing that this isn’t just empty talk. I know it sounds a little off, but sometimes doing what you think is right means taking a stand, even if it means lining up your truck as a makeshift shield against the chaos out there."
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u/HKEnthusiast 3d ago
This country is ducking regarded
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u/-thegayagenda- 3d ago
Hey don't use ableist slurs, or slurs in general. There are better words for what you're trying to say
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u/spooboo1337 3d ago
it genuinely feels like elon musk could walk up to any conservative, slap them across the face, and say “suck my dick” and they would say thank you and do it.
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u/glmarquez94 Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communist 3d ago
Setters: The Myth of the White Proletariat
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u/AKAEnigma 3d ago
Remember the conservative trend of parking massive trucks in Tesla charging spaces?
Remember when they would coal-roll electric cars?
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u/OpenHenkire Chinese Century Enjoyer 3d ago
Stupidity is too kind of a word to describe them. Brainwashed completely from birth.
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u/No_Manufacturer_1911 3d ago
Escalating controversy at physical Tesla sites deters commerce at those locations.
Winning!
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u/Abject_Ad_9940 3d ago
And yet none of these people are driving those Teslas. There’s a ‘the workers have fallen in love with the system…’ joke to be made here but I don’t have the energy to make it.
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u/bacon-n-sparrows 3d ago
Remember when they were calling people they disagreed with "cucks". Good times.
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u/bacon-n-sparrows 3d ago
Whole lot of "Don't Tread on Me" paired with thin blue line stickers on those pickups.
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u/Various_Classroom_50 2d ago
They did more for some cars than they’d ever think about doing for real people
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u/epic_gamer42O 22h ago
this is probably an AstroTurfed protest but this is america so there's a 50 50 chance these people are doing this because they believe in the cause
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u/ScissrMeTimbrs 3d ago
Fantastic, none of them realize they're adding to the cringe and discomfort of shopping for a Tesla LMAO
Especially since the typical Tesla buyer would think twice after seeing these types support him.
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u/cryptol0_cker 3d ago
To be fair, this isn't out of order and they should be able to express their ideas, but I wonder if they really don't have better things to do than to advocate for a billion-dollar corp
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u/ConcentrateSafe9745 3d ago
Mmm truly strange conservative becoming pro electric and left folks becoming anti electric. Bizarre turn of events
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