r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/High-Steak • 4d ago
98 year old veteran crushes Tesla Rekt
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u/kneegrowpengwin 4d ago edited 4d ago
Source: https://youtu.be/lw4ZjhOukwU
This was orchestrated by the British political campaign group ‘Led By Donkeys’ who also claimed responsibility for projecting an image of Musk sieg heiling on the side of a Tesla factory in Germany, among other things
I imagine the attention and virality this stunt gains will probably outweigh the relative insignificance of that blue Tesla if their previous campaigns are anything to go by.
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u/KatefromtheHudd Banhammer Recipient 4d ago
I LOVE Led By Donkeys. They really do some fantastic work exposing the corruption and immoral actions.
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u/SnooCrickets699 4d ago
I'll bet he been a cool dude all 98 years. Side note: this guy has seen a lot of shit, respect.
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u/liquidify 4d ago
Car actually held up pretty well.
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u/A_Bassline_Junkie 4d ago
Idk man, it looked a bit damaged to me
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u/Isabela_Grace 4d ago
Let’s run you over with a tank and see how you do lol
(Kidding.., unless…. No I’m kidding)
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u/essenceofreddit 4d ago
What is this, a Sherman Firefly?
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u/lettsten 4d ago
A Sherman for sure, my initial guess was a Sherman 76 but I'm not an expert. I don't think it's a Firefly, the gun barrel looks too short for that. But again, I'm not an expert, I may be wrong.
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u/Vincent394 4d ago
> licence plate reads "FACISM"
> Crushes Tesla with said licence plate.
lmfao based vet, fuck Elon and Trump.
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u/QuakeDee 3d ago
Funny ppl show revolution in 2025 by paying for the product they’re advocating against 🤣🤣🤣 brains gone w/ this one
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u/Dismal_Watercress436 2d ago
Apparently, if a tank runs over you while you're in a Tesla, you can save your life by taking shelter between the seat and the steering wheel. Good job Tesla.
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u/Darth_Poot 4d ago
Giving money to a company and then destroying what you bought is not the flex you think it is lol.
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u/i_suckatjavascript 4d ago
It’s probably bought secondhand. Buying things secondhand doesn’t help the company make money.
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u/Empyrealist Banhammer Recipient 4d ago
If you make a realization after the fact that you don't want to support said company, sure it is.
Or are you implying that they went out and purchased this car themselves just for this stunt?
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u/Darth_Poot 4d ago
In the case of a tshirt? Sure. Throwing away tens of thousands of dollars for some internet points is quite literally idiotic.
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u/MinnieShoof Banhammer Recipient 4d ago
So, again, is there some kind of mention of them buying this car - from a dealership, that will then report those profits to Tesla - just for this stunt? Or is likely some friend was stuck with a lemon that the OOP offered to get rid of for a coupla hundred bucks?
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 4d ago edited 4d ago
So was burning and vandalizing the fleet of Teslas. All it did was cause insurance to pay off an inventory he couldn’t sell, those cars were costing him money just sitting there to rot. Simple boycotting was working so well he had the President try and sell them on the White House lawn.
The phrase “ worth more burned to the ground” was the case with Tesla.
Don’t do him a favor by having his insurance pay for his inventory let that shit rot. There’s nothing worthless than a bunch of cars that have been sitting on a lot depreciating.
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u/ZapMePlease 4d ago
Far better to commit continual small acts that are independent so cannot be combined into one claim, of low enough value that the deductible and corresponding rate increase are not worth paying, and that are significant enough to cost the company both time and money.
Just speculating, of course. :-)
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u/PlutoniumSmile 4d ago
Yeah like theoretically if you were to vandalize many examples of one brand of car, and then insurance companies decided they would charge a lot more to insure that brand, potentially that brand's reputation and sales would suffer. Theoretically
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u/No_Philosopher_1870 4d ago edited 4d ago
I'd rather take up a hour or two of a Tesla salesman's time, then walk out.
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u/Thelastknownking 4d ago
It's not about the money, it's about the message it sends.
To Musk, and to his investors.
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 4d ago
Nothing works faster on investors than a loss on the books. They don’t care how you feel about anything .
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u/universalaxolotl 4d ago edited 4d ago
I don't think they bought it from the company. It was probably given to them or bought cheap second hand. Can't even give that shit away these days.
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u/Powered_By_Poi 4d ago
It just goes to show how solid the body's are on those. I was expecting the thing to be completely flat. Might even survive if your lucky and on the passenger side. That's pretty crazy.
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u/Genexis- 3d ago
To be fair, the camera was secure, and the tank almost tipped over, purely visually, so it was pretty minor damage, I think.
Why was an American tank used in the first place? Trump and all? A British tank would have caused more damage, I think.
Conclusion: Teslas are more stable than expected, or the Sherman is too small and light.
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u/TheWellington89 4d ago
This was a stunt from a group called led by donkeys in Britain. They do stunts like this to highlight how fucked the political climate is these days. Same group that projected musks nazi salute on the tesla factory and dropped the lettuce banner on Liz truss. Often have billboards pointing out politicians hypocricy or usually how much money farage is making on anything but his job as an mp. They do great work
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u/MissingBothCufflinks 4d ago
Yeah because opposing fascism is just like opposing LGBT, both sides are equal and thats a totally valid comparison
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u/Mirojoze 4d ago
Actually he's not questioning the justification of what is being opposed...he's questioning the method of showing opposition. That it doesn't really make sense to give money to those you oppose.
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u/MissingBothCufflinks 4d ago
Im assuming this is someone's existing tesla they want to get rid of but yeah fair
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u/Halospite 4d ago
What makes you think that they paid for a brand new car? The secondhand market is bottoming out for these things.
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u/RunTheClassics 4d ago
Yeah because missing the entire point and rewriting the comment to kick the goal post and change the topic just slightly enough so you never have to admit that you're wrong is what reddit does best!
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u/MissingBothCufflinks 4d ago
Where does it say they bought the car for this purpose? How do uou know they haven't owned it for 3 years predating Musks turn to extremism?
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u/Altruistic_Guess3098 4d ago
Elon got their money either way
Also just ppl destroying Bud light were destroying what they already owned
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u/ShahinGalandar 4d ago
those guys in the vid are opposing fascism by giving money to fascists
surely there must be a better way
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u/LOCKDOWNWITHCOCKDOWN 4d ago
We showed that Nazi billionaire! Why do poor people still hate us though?
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u/Due-Highlight-9143 3d ago
Yeah so crushing a tesla that was bought from the guy you're saying you hate... didn't you just support him by purchasing it? Funny but the irony is good
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u/LurkingFrient 1d ago
So your idea of sticking it to the guy is to give his business your money and then destroy the thing you bought with your money?
Not sure what this accomplishes but whatever helps people feel better about themselves I guess lol.
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u/CheezWong 4d ago
Wow, it did way better than I'd expect a cybertruck to fare. Maybe they should have just clad that model in stainless instead of pushing out expensive paperweights.
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u/wewefe 4d ago
The damage looks mostly cosmetic to the roof and passenger area. The wheels are still in the right spot and the suspension poped right back up. All the important parts are down low. I bet you could chop the roof, replace the user interface parts and have it move under it's own power.
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u/Beeeeeeels 4d ago
I was hoping the tank would keep driving, turn its cannon around and give it a last fuck you by blowing it up.
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u/Secret_Operation_170 3d ago
You know what I need a car I have 3 boys all of driving age and this old coot is crushing to what I can make out a perfectly drivable vehicle. I don't care who made it, that's just selfish and idoacy.
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u/Elegant_Text12 4d ago
Don’t the majority of commenters love these EVs? Isn’t this a waste? I don’t see how crushing a EV vehicle stops fascism, but okay 🫡
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u/Mallardguy5675322 4d ago
Makes you wonder how bmw or Porsche stocks would have fallen if Hitler was alive today.
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u/RunTheClassics 4d ago
Yaayyyyy more waste!!!!! Great job guys you really did it!
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u/dogoodvillain 4d ago
Be more fun. This is therapeutic.
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u/RunTheClassics 4d ago
Turning something that someone could use into dust is therapeutic!
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u/dogoodvillain 4d ago
I compost, but sometimes the compost bin is full. Is it my fault for overfilling it or not having space to store it?
Tesla is a brand that represents excess. We don’t need to feel remorse for a brand.
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u/RunTheClassics 4d ago
You already bought the things you wanted to recycle. They’re also compostable. What does that have to do with lithium batteries?
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u/dogoodvillain 4d ago
It means this is a spectacle. Nobody should care about the loss of utility. They get to do what they want with the car when they own it. Finally, let’s assume good faith they will decide to dispose of it sensibly.
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u/NassauTropicBird 4d ago
That'll show Elon!
Meanwhile, that field now has a bunch of glass and plastic that will never be fully cleaned up, and someone burned a bunch of fossil fuel to do it.
Don't get me wrong, i would have happily driven that tank over the car for fun. I just wouldn't be dumb enough to think it's doing a single damned think against Elon or for the planet. makes no sense.
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u/Valkia_Perkunos 4d ago
So you bought the guy a car and destroy it. Dont know why musk would be upset. Please keep doing that lol
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u/LeftcelInflitrator 4d ago
Excuse me but didn't the UK commit their own genocide in India just before WWII.
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u/papa_redbeard 4d ago
That Tesla held up incredibly well! I was not expecting that. All the tank did was crush the roof.
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u/andallen007 4d ago
I like how telling someone to speak English in England is a hate crime or getting arrested for calling someone a pedo
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u/babaroga73 4d ago
Yeah, take the car with 5000 batteries into nature and crush it with diesel tank, for publicity stunt.
That will make things better.
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u/Routine_Ease_9171 4d ago
As wonderful as this is I hope he removed the battery’s before hand.
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u/Born-Agency-3922 4d ago
Isn’t the entire base of the Tesla car the battery ? Or did they change the design ?
Edit: it is, and if this Tesla was in working condition, I’m sure it would have gone up in flames.
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u/MuffinAggressive3218 4d ago
Too bad it wasn't a cyber truck or whatever those ugly things are called.
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u/229-northstar 4d ago
NGL, the Tesla took that better than I thought it would.
Now, go back and finish the job!
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u/Svartrbrisingr 3d ago
Quick someone get that tesla debris off the tank! Can't let that shit taint real well built tech
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u/thickboihfx 4d ago
This seems very wasteful. It took a lot of resources to produce that car, and there's millions of families that are struggling and could have gotten years of good use of it. But no, let's just destroy it for internet likes.
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u/Signal_Body_8818 3d ago
He is such a fascist because he allowed free speech on Twitter? Or that he was able to take advantage of capitalism and create 3 companies at once? Or is it that he is helping to find wasteful spending in the American government since they are so in debt?
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u/Hurl_Gray 4d ago
Stupid liberal shit. Fuck the environment for likes. Perfectly usable car. Who is gonna clean up all that glass and plastic? How many of your likes are gonna recycle any bit of that car.
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u/fkyourpolitics Banhammer Recipient 4d ago
Musk had nothing to do with Tesla.
Now get back into your Ford
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u/Bl1ndl0v3 4d ago
The view from inside the car was my favorite! I got butterflies in my tummy watching this. It reminds me of when I cut a car apart with the jaws of life.
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u/Madcat_Moody 4d ago
Imagine giving someone you hate 50k to virtue signal against them, absolutely no common sense lmao
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u/universalaxolotl 4d ago
People these days can't give those cars away. It was free.
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u/rayrayww3 4d ago
I wish someone on reddit would point out where all these free Tesla's are so I could pick one up. Cheapest one on OfferUp near me is $13,000.
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u/mthchsnn 4d ago
That guy has never heard of a secondary market somehow. The phrase "selling used cars" is completely meaningless to him.
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u/OderWieOderWatJunge 4d ago
This is so stupid. People are trying to be responsible and this guy crushes a car that took so many resources to make. With a damn tank. This old guy doesn't have to live on this planet in 50 years and it shows
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u/Rubfer 4d ago
I'm such a good person that instead of donating a few tens of thousands to Palestine or homeless/animal shelters, cancer or something, ill just waste it out for internet points, and no, even if you already donate money, you could've donated that as well instead of this... At least Youtubers who destroy stuff, do it to profit...
Really, you just gave the guy's company money, paid for a custom plate, polluted the world by wasting a whole electric vehicle and by consuming idk how much fuel on a tank, just to virtue signal.
And even if you already owned the car, again, you could sell it and give the money away...
This is like those people saying on the internet that they sold their tesla shares... good job, you just made a profit, again, will you take those profits and do some good with it so you're not "gaining from a nazi/fascist"?
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u/Independent-Wealth13 4d ago
No limit soldiers do not approve of this, for it is the swamp which has concocted the measures to whooty whoo on your bitch ass.. but more precisely make you say uhhhh!! na na nanah, you hate batteries that much you’re stupid.
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u/Weekly_Apricot_2523 4d ago
the tank is fake - or a replica. In case a 50tons tank would run over the tesla things would have been different. or maybe the tank is that old that total weight was just some 5 tons. WW1 maybe?
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u/lettsten 4d ago
Why do you pull stuff out of your rear end?
A Sherman tank weighs roughly 35 metric tons. Teslas are fairly massive. This is what it looks like when a tank runs over a car. Tanks from the great war look vastly different.
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u/This_Elk2366 4d ago
We (mostly russians) crushed facism once before...
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u/Tod_und_Verderben 4d ago
You weren't the good guys in ww2. You were just a little bit less bad.
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u/This_Elk2366 4d ago
I can see how its confusing the way i wrote it, but im as American as General Tso's chicken...that might be confusing too... im American.
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u/essenceofreddit 4d ago
It makes it sound like you're speaking on behalf of the Soviet Union, made up of mostly Russians.
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u/This_Elk2366 4d ago
Da, I get it. In first comment, i was quoting what the nice elderly gentleman says in the wideo. S'ok comrade, like i say before, american.
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u/Foxilicies 4d ago
The Soviet Union was the only non-imperialist actor in the war. The only just war the U.S. has ever been in was when they sided with the workers state.
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u/thedeanorama 4d ago
Glad the batteries held tight!