As crazy as it sounds, maybe Elon is a time traveler from the future knowing that his only way to stop climate change was to convince the right wing to buy EVs to own the libs.
That would be the only logical explanation for the Nazi salute.
/s in case it wasn’t obvious
France outdoing the US in Tesla protests is last week’s news. The US is catching up. From the article:
Last week, Tesla charging stations in Boston were set ablaze… Gunshots shattered windows and damaged cars at a Tesla showroom in Oregon…And Colorado authorities arrested a woman accused of tossing Molotov cocktails at Tesla cars parked at a dealership and allegedly spray-painting an expletive at the entrance.
Seems like a leopards face eating scenario.
Definitely a lot further to go, but down 50% since December is still pretty crazy.
Damn power hungry admins always keeping the sweet sweet bot ladies for themselves.
Still haven’t gotten one. Guess the bots don’t like me.
How many story points is it to get to 2nd base?
I love Brandon Sanderson, but his world building and complex magic systems aren’t for most people. I’ve tried to get my wife to read his stuff for years and she just has never gotten into it.
The reason Harry Potter was so commercially successful is because the vast majority of the public doesn’t want to learn about allomantic properties of 16 different metals and how they have internal/external, physical/mental, enhancement/temporal and pushing/pulling effects.
They don’t want to learn about adhesion, gravitation, division, abrasion, progression, illumination, transformation, cohesion, and tension surges - and how bonding a spren through oathes increases your ability to surgebind. Their eyes glaze over when talking about the cognitive and physical realms.
Most people just want to hear “yeah some people are magic and can wave wands, say some magic words and poof magic happens.” That’s why it’s one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
But yeah, I’ve just learned to accept that while I love some Sanderson magic systems, it’s not ever gonna be for everyone. And that’s ok.
I think a lot of the problems with the current administration wouldn’t change if Trump was Luigied. Dismantling our federal institutions, consolidating power in the executive branch, stripping away human rights - all those things would continue.
However, I think that the support for Putin nearly exclusively comes from Trump himself.
You are correct
Trump is such a master negotiator. Betray our allies, threaten to leave the UN, stop all cyber security operations against Russian, lift sanctions against Russia that are working, block Ukraine from joining the UN, and say that any chance of ending the war has to result in Ukraine ceding stolen territory.
All before negotiations even start. What a mastermind.
This song was my jam circa 2000
I’ve been trying to think what the Trump / Vance plan was. Like you said, it was obvious that Vance was there to pick a fight. But I couldn’t tell if they were legitimately trying to blow up diplomatic relations like they did, or if they thought they were going to get the upper hand in exploring Ukraine for their natural resources.
Either way, it was disgusting to watch.
True, but it was just an internal memo. I’m sure the public-facade won’t be as honest.
In my experience, Lemmy users are pretty old compared to most other online communities. I don’t know if there’s been a poll, but my guess is most users are older than their late 30s.
Hopefully y’all old mother fuckers have gotten some ass by now.
The gall of these billionaires to just buy a news organization and then blatantly state “we’re not going to do news anymore” is just incredible.
Even Rupert Murdock had the courtesy to come up with the Fox News “Fair and Balanced” slogan (even though it was completely full of shit).
Bezos is just like “yeah we’re going full on propaganda, go fuck yourself.”
It seems like it would be lucrative
My mind read that as “it seems like it would be lubricative” and it still made sense.
Suck on my chocolate salty baaaaaaaaaawllllsss
Just goes to show how effective it is to repeat a lie so much that people start to accept it as fact. By continually calling DOGE a “cost-cutting” effort, they’ve completely framed the conversation how they want.
It sickens me that these cuts are seen as “saving money”. It’d be like if I told my wife I saved us a ton of money this month by not paying the mortgage.