So now they need to use more power and electricity, or even call a breakdown van out, to get them fixed. Genius 😂
The stupidest expression of performative moral superiority.
This does nothing to help get people on your side. Its just arsehole behaviour.
Imagine having an electric SUV and tires deflated :O
It’s basically class warfare under the guise of climate activism.
I can empathise with the activists a little. Driving a fuel hungry 4×4 is selfish if you don’t need it.
But the asshats have no idea which cars are essential and which aren’t. There are better, fairer, kinder ways to protest. They need to sort their shit out, they’re not doing their cause any good.
Rich people won’t be affected, they keep their SUVs in their garage / gated drive. This whole activism affects working class people.
It’s funny right, ever noticed it’s always a perfectly round number? 40, 50, 60? Then a blurry photo of maybe 1?I just don’t believe it’s true. It would take *so long* to even find 60 of these around there, let alone vandalise them, that they’d be caught and have their arses kicked. Also, the young lady who does this is stupid enough to have revealed her name last time…
Great for gaining media attention.
Not so great for getting people to join your cause.
Ah yes more reasons to dislike these types of activists
Dickheads just target cars because of their shape , not because of their fuel economy .
Everyone getting so incandescent with rage yet powerless to do anything is what makes this tactic so effective. There’s only one solution: ditch the SUV.
Looking at the photos from some of their ‘sprees’ I see:
Renault Captur, Citroen C4 Cactus,Peugeot 3008
These are small engined crossovers, typically 1.2 litres or under.
These do 50+ mpg.
These are sensible, economical practical family cars. These are not affluent status symbols.
I recently traded my JCW Mini cooper for a hybrid suv that gets twice the mpg. Weird to think if they were parked side by side the mini would probably be untouched.
Lazy activism. Do it to political figures or those at the root of causing damage to the climate then people may take it seriously. Going after ordinary people just makes these activists the enemy.
If they did this round where I live I don’t know how the local parents would be able to get poor Tabitha and Quinoa to school a ghastly 100m slog down the road.
Oh look, it’s the r/fuckcars brigade – here to act self-righteous all while proving their ignorance!
At this point I’m wondering if these ignorant city-dwelling ‘climate activists’ are getting a cut from the local garages for all the new tyres that have to be bought as a result of their actions. It’s also just criminal damage at the end of the day, by a handful of childish cowards not willing to do anything actually productive.
Cost of living crisis, let’s cost 60 families about 500 each to make ourselves feel good.
Absolute cretins
Bet they felt very righteous as they snuggled into bed that night in mummy and daddy’s suburban house
I feel like my partner and I are going to be in a weird position soon.
He’s due to be recieving an SUV, courtesy of his company, on account of job as a senior forest manager. Because of his job it means he’s regularly driving over (what is frequently dangerous) undeveloped terrain with no tracks, and he’s doing it whilst hauling around sacks of nursery trees, bamboo canes, jugs (and sometimes safes) of chemical, marking tape, tape measures, signs, zip ties, his spot tracker, drones etc., and all other miscellaneous outdoor equipment such as planting bags, waterproof jackets, thermals, gaiters, wellies, multiple sets of gloves, multiple sets of shoes, a collection of socks etc.
The kicker is that we’re both ethical/environmental vegans who strictly recycle and otherwise cycle everywhere for transport. Gonna be pretty ironic if we wake up one morning to find his tyres deflated/slashed.
Just seems like a dick move to mess with strangers. Why ruin someone’s day who has done nothing to you?
Criminal damage by weak-minded people overwhelmed by feelings of insufficiency and overtaken by inane electist ideology.
Fuck SUVs. Obnoxiously big cars that people that buy them either A, can’t drive or B, drive like assholes
Imagine not caring or thinking about the disabled person or family who need their car for appointments or to be able to get around.
And imagine being so privileged that you’d have time to spend vandalising people’s cars at night.
And now 60 SUV owners have to sit idling their engines in order to run the air compressor to reinflate their tires. Moronic.
A couple of these dafties are going to end up getting really badly hurt when they get caught messing the wrong person/people
I had this done to my Polestar 2 in Manchester. Two problems; it isn’t an SUV. And it’s an electric vehicle that I charge up at home using my rooftop solar.
I was very VERY angry.
The usual pearl-clutchers are out.
Whether you agree with their actions or not, these people misunderstand the goal of these actions.
They operate under the assumption that they will not bring people on their side on the issue of SUVs. The goal is to make using SUVs impractical by frequent enough sabotage such that even people who don’t care about climate change will stop using them because its just an unreliable mode of transport.
You can complain about optics for people blocking traffic etc. They might listen. People engaging in sabotage do not care whether the public approve or not. Unlike blocking traffic, the goal is not to raise awareness.
This is stupid but so is our car centric society where if you don’t live in a city you need a car to get anywhere in a reasonable time. Three hours on public transport is not a valid alternative to one hour in the car.
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So now they need to use more power and electricity, or even call a breakdown van out, to get them fixed. Genius 😂
The stupidest expression of performative moral superiority.
This does nothing to help get people on your side. Its just arsehole behaviour.
Imagine having an electric SUV and tires deflated :O
It’s basically class warfare under the guise of climate activism.
I can empathise with the activists a little. Driving a fuel hungry 4×4 is selfish if you don’t need it.
But the asshats have no idea which cars are essential and which aren’t. There are better, fairer, kinder ways to protest. They need to sort their shit out, they’re not doing their cause any good.
Rich people won’t be affected, they keep their SUVs in their garage / gated drive. This whole activism affects working class people.
It’s funny right, ever noticed it’s always a perfectly round number? 40, 50, 60? Then a blurry photo of maybe 1?I just don’t believe it’s true. It would take *so long* to even find 60 of these around there, let alone vandalise them, that they’d be caught and have their arses kicked. Also, the young lady who does this is stupid enough to have revealed her name last time…
Great for gaining media attention.
Not so great for getting people to join your cause.
Ah yes more reasons to dislike these types of activists
Dickheads just target cars because of their shape , not because of their fuel economy .
Everyone getting so incandescent with rage yet powerless to do anything is what makes this tactic so effective. There’s only one solution: ditch the SUV.
Looking at the photos from some of their ‘sprees’ I see:
Renault Captur, Citroen C4 Cactus,Peugeot 3008
These are small engined crossovers, typically 1.2 litres or under.
These do 50+ mpg.
These are sensible, economical practical family cars. These are not affluent status symbols.
I recently traded my JCW Mini cooper for a hybrid suv that gets twice the mpg. Weird to think if they were parked side by side the mini would probably be untouched.
Lazy activism. Do it to political figures or those at the root of causing damage to the climate then people may take it seriously. Going after ordinary people just makes these activists the enemy.
If they did this round where I live I don’t know how the local parents would be able to get poor Tabitha and Quinoa to school a ghastly 100m slog down the road.
Oh look, it’s the r/fuckcars brigade – here to act self-righteous all while proving their ignorance!
At this point I’m wondering if these ignorant city-dwelling ‘climate activists’ are getting a cut from the local garages for all the new tyres that have to be bought as a result of their actions. It’s also just criminal damage at the end of the day, by a handful of childish cowards not willing to do anything actually productive.
Cost of living crisis, let’s cost 60 families about 500 each to make ourselves feel good.
Absolute cretins
Bet they felt very righteous as they snuggled into bed that night in mummy and daddy’s suburban house
I feel like my partner and I are going to be in a weird position soon.
He’s due to be recieving an SUV, courtesy of his company, on account of job as a senior forest manager. Because of his job it means he’s regularly driving over (what is frequently dangerous) undeveloped terrain with no tracks, and he’s doing it whilst hauling around sacks of nursery trees, bamboo canes, jugs (and sometimes safes) of chemical, marking tape, tape measures, signs, zip ties, his spot tracker, drones etc., and all other miscellaneous outdoor equipment such as planting bags, waterproof jackets, thermals, gaiters, wellies, multiple sets of gloves, multiple sets of shoes, a collection of socks etc.
The kicker is that we’re both ethical/environmental vegans who strictly recycle and otherwise cycle everywhere for transport. Gonna be pretty ironic if we wake up one morning to find his tyres deflated/slashed.
Just seems like a dick move to mess with strangers. Why ruin someone’s day who has done nothing to you?
Criminal damage by weak-minded people overwhelmed by feelings of insufficiency and overtaken by inane electist ideology.
Fuck SUVs. Obnoxiously big cars that people that buy them either A, can’t drive or B, drive like assholes
Imagine not caring or thinking about the disabled person or family who need their car for appointments or to be able to get around.
And imagine being so privileged that you’d have time to spend vandalising people’s cars at night.
And now 60 SUV owners have to sit idling their engines in order to run the air compressor to reinflate their tires. Moronic.
A couple of these dafties are going to end up getting really badly hurt when they get caught messing the wrong person/people
I had this done to my Polestar 2 in Manchester. Two problems; it isn’t an SUV. And it’s an electric vehicle that I charge up at home using my rooftop solar.
I was very VERY angry.
The usual pearl-clutchers are out.
Whether you agree with their actions or not, these people misunderstand the goal of these actions.
They operate under the assumption that they will not bring people on their side on the issue of SUVs. The goal is to make using SUVs impractical by frequent enough sabotage such that even people who don’t care about climate change will stop using them because its just an unreliable mode of transport.
You can complain about optics for people blocking traffic etc. They might listen. People engaging in sabotage do not care whether the public approve or not. Unlike blocking traffic, the goal is not to raise awareness.
This is stupid but so is our car centric society where if you don’t live in a city you need a car to get anywhere in a reasonable time. Three hours on public transport is not a valid alternative to one hour in the car.