What a completely reasonable and absolutely not wasteful use of police time and resources! "Hello, 911? My house is being robbed!" "Sorry, no officers are available because they're at the Tesla dealership"
How do the police get paid again? I always forget.
Serve and Protect (the rich and their property through a taxpayer subsidy)
No one reads the fine print.
Yeah sure...the thin blue line is BS. The police always protect the wealthy property owners and bust up the working class. I believe Netflix has a US police history documentary and who they side with during upheavals.
the thin blue line means they won’t snitch on each other’s crimes… that’s the line they won’t cross….
which makes them literally a criminal conspiracy
"We are not wasting tax money here!"
DOGE approved
I'd be so pissed if I lived in Chicago. What a waste of funding.
When you're very closed to the end-game and previously safe town areas are now spawning enemies, and the music is more ominous.
20-some officers protecting shitty hunks of metal, when there's murderers, rapists, pedofiles, and human traffickers roaming free. This image perfectly sums up their commitment to protecting the Lifestyles of the Rich and Fascist over the rest of us.
no, no, most of the pedophiles and human traffickers were standing in a neat little line with hands by their sides when this photo was taken, not roaming or doing said acts.
edit: wait, chicago, so there are probably a bunch more of them not accounted for in this picture.
Class traitors. All of them.
Native here, and yeah the Chicago police union is basically its own damned shadow government. Fuck these pigs.
The Police in USA are there to protect Capital Interests. Their job to keep the status quo.
The Police in USA
Their job to keep the status quo.
That's what they do in all countries.
Not just the USA, ALL police uphold status quo.
Well said
Cops are class traitors
ACAB
Man, look at that pile of tax money.
So I guess, if you want to commit a real crime you just threaten the Tesla dealership then go do your business elsewhere
Nah, most likely Tesla money. Most often when you see police performing a "private" function like this they're being paid by the requesting party.
Just like cops escorting a funeral procession or directing traffic for a church or private school, they're paid by whoever requested the service. Police departments are like any business. They got payroll to meet, obligations to cover, etc. They can't just yank cops from their normal duties for shit like this. They use off-duty or "*retired" officers.
Say what you will about capital hiring rent-a-cops, but they're probably not doing this on our dime.
* Buddy of mine was briefly a cop, could still strap on the uniform to escort a funeral or the like.
To corroborate your buddy's story: Trump repeatedly refused to pay for the extra police needed for his rallies.
If that's the case... it's better, but I really would rather them not be able to wear the uniform or have police powers off duty outside of an emergency.
Just have some peaceful protesters staying on the other side of the street and have them in shifts, do nothing else. Waste the police resources until they give up and leave.
This is the way
Even more fun if they just stand there quietly holding foam bricks.
This seems very easy. Do it over a week with people camping there and cops will realize protecting a POS is really not worth the resources.
realize protecting a POS is not really worth the resources
who wants to tell them?
Surely the police would just stand there and watch, and not get involved...
Red rover red rover, send molotov right over
Police, on the wrong side of everything, since the start of time.
They had no choice in the matter. I am willing to bet no one wanted to stand there.
Their choice is to continue their career as a police officer. Obviously they will need to take some job to support themselves or a family, but there are so many options which don't require them to be a defense force of a harmful system, enforcing broken laws and harassing those who protest against it.
Look closer. Closer. See the chains? Me fucking either. Gawkgawk that boot deeper.
I mean, they chose to sign up.
As far as I know, there is not such thing as a "Police Conscription".
Nobody gets drafted to become a cop.
Poor summer child....
Yes Police are all slaves that have no option other than obey their masters
Cue: David Attenborough
"And here we see Dora the Explorer on an acid trip. Notice how she's completely incapable of resisting licking her monkey, Boots. Even Swiper feels sorry for poor, wet, Boots."
Who is going into that location to buy a car in these circumstances. That line of police is just as effective as any vandalism.
Hmm a new way to protest. Call the cops and don't show up.
You need to start posting that everywhere.
Y'know, you raise a good point. If I was gonna go shopping somewhere and there was a line of cops outside the place I was going, I'm absolutely not going in there lol
And who's going to protect the owner of the car once they bought it? It's a reminder that you're making a political decision when you buy a tesla.
Or, there's been a shooting and/or robbery. Not going there.
Many people that want to buy a Tesla right now would probably see it as a badge of honor
Tbh, yeah, this is a great point
You buy teslas through their site. It's not like other dealerships. The one near me is in a mall and has like two cars in it.
Hmm. Did they do that for abortion clinics when they were being bombed?
You know, that's an opportunity.
Any time attention is focused on one place, there's less on another.
Take the moment and target something else.
Chicago has a pretty big police force unfortunately. Looks like around 12- 13k little piggies (source)
So about 25 cops here leaves... roughly 12- 13k cops in the rest of the city :P
ETA: fun facts, the Chicago Police Dept budget is just below $2 billion. That puts it right below Slovakia's entire military budget. Slovakia's population is ~5.5 million vs. Chicago's 2.7 million people.
Chicago alone has almost as many cops as the entirety of Ireland (which has 14.6k cops for 5.3 million Irish citizens)
That would probably work if there wasn't a ridiculous overabundance of cops in just about all American cities.
As it is, there's enough of them to function as a private security force for billionaires and their property (their primary raison d'être) in greater numbers than usual like this without neglecting any of their usual oppression of minorities, poor people, and especially combinations thereof.
Sure, you gotta still use stealth and planning, but you're dealing with a different level of attention.
Vandalism normally isn't a high priority in the cities I've been in. People report it, and the response time is slow, even in wealthy areas or business centers because it's just not an emergency. They'll dispatch a car or two, or the equivalent, but they won't send bigger numbers, and any kind of riot response is going to be slower because they're held back for the obvious target.
Same with small numbers of people making quick strikes at targets that support the main focus of the actions.
Couple that with coordination at targets and false actions to distract, and you can do some decent amount of work in the time you'll have
Any time attention is focused on one place, there’s less on another.
This was a significant plot point in Die Hard with a Vengeance
Bo Burnham's How the works works seems to be an appropriate anthem right now
Seriously, that dude is a genius. He pays for it with his mental health, so thank you Bo.
Goes to show what the priorities are
That really makes me want to buy a Tesla. They must be great if all those cops have to protect them.
If the police are lining up to protect it, that just means it belongs to someone filthy rich.
Those cops have more important places to be.
Well there's no political convention to beat protestors at right now in Chicago.
Wasn't there a famous movie scene about nazis, cars and illinois?
I hate Illinois nazis
I'm not sure. It's dark and I'm wearing sunglasses.
At least they protect them from the customers too :)
I think you're on to something... The pigs are protecting the public from the evil oligarch's company.
Yea, that's the ticket!
The optics on this are great. Any potential customer is reminded that if they buy a t*sla, they earn a target on their back
Somehow I don't think that'll draw in customers.
Artists, where is the "SSwastikar" where the first two "s" are the Nazi SS logo, the third s is an actual swastika and the "T" is the Tesla logo? I can't draw for shit and the AI generator I use flagged it for inappropriate content...
Not what you asked for, still some kind of „art“ :)
Look at all those short fat slobs. I bet they have at least one punisher tattoo.
Bullies group with bigger bullies. More at ten.
My dyslexic ass read that as "protesting" but my brain refused to think that was a sentence that made sense and I read it again and Yep. There it is.
Rdx user spotted, automatically based
So i guess liberals are going to attack and burn certain businesses that they morally disagree with and in retaliation conservatives are going to start attacking and burning "woke" businesses. Eventually one side will emerge victorious and can rule over the ashes. Great plan America.
If I were the chief of Chicago PD and somebody called in a bomb threat I'd place, maybe, a patrol car or 2 nearby.
I dont understand targeting the Tesla dealers. Short term, I would think insurance would be a revenue recognition bonanza. Longer term, if violence continues, insurance rates would increase, so there's potential expense drag there.
All I'm saying is that targeting the commodity is misplaced aggression.
Maybe I am thinking about it wrong.
I think that Tesla doesn't have a typical dealer network and they own their dealers which gave them a lot of trouble from the law.
It's about ssending a message
Tanking Tesla stock costs Musk a lot. Trashing unsold teslas means Tesla makes a lot of insurance claims. Short term that’s as good as a sale, well not really, the insurance only pays the replacement value which is less than the sell value, so it hurts their profits a bit, but it reduces stock and that does help a little. But if there’s a pattern of Tesla dealerships getting entire fleets destroyed, their insurance rates go up, which hurts their profits a lot more. So they’ll raise prices and sell fewer cars, which hurts their entire business.
Once or twice, it’s no big deal for Tesla. If the pattern keeps up then of going to start to squeeze them.
Musk has been a toxic asset for Tesla for quite some time, even before recent DOGE shit. I’m not sure why they don’t remove him. I get that he has majority shares, but there are still mechanisms for removing him.
Individual acts will never overshadow an organized movement. But individual acts may stoke the public consciousness, though they can also stoke those in power. It's a tightrope to be sure.
