Elon has been publicly shitty for years. The widespread arson didn’t start until he was in the government. You’re disproving your own position. It’s clear that his role in the government was a trigger.

it’s also been a fairly slow burn up until he started donating money to trump, and then inevitably, became a part of the government.

People have high thresholds for when things are deemed “problematic” and right now, it seems like elon musk is definitionally, an oligarch.

and again, i said it previously, just because something is motivated by political reasons, doesn’t mean it’s being done for political reasons. The whole point of terrorism, is doing terror, explicitly for the purposes of political power. Obviously burning property to the ground isn’t going to be very conducive of this.

And sweet jesus dude… tesla is not a private company. It’s public. How are you not aware of that. Elon just happens to own 90 billion dollars worth of it. His stake is essentially private property. Maybe that’s what you were hinting at, but the distinction is important for other reasons.

oh sorry, you’re right, it is a public company. My mistake. Surely that makes it more of a government entity right? Surely public companies are strictly protected against terrorism than private companies are. Surely, that must be the case.

Terrorism is simply violence to achieve political aims. It doesn’t matter whether the entities are public or private. If someone bombed a house full of a politicians family members to make a political point, that would obviously be terrorism, regardless of the fact that only private property and non government employees were harmed, because the goal of the act was clearly political.

yeah, this is a clear cut case of terrorism. But if you’re going to start defining something like politically motivated arson as terrorism, you’re only a few steps away from defining something like a mass public protest as “verbal terrorism” which, must be just as effective as real physical terrorism.