I was a libertarian in college. So yeah, college students don't have enough awareness to realize that another Trump presidency could mean the end of America (if SCOTUS doesn't beat him to it).
I guess they have to drag it out for diplomatic reasons, but the High Court has set a condition that the US cannot satisfy: The State Department nor the Department of Justice can guarantee that he would be granted First Amendment rights. It’s established precedent in US law that constitutional rights only apply to citizens. Judicial independence prevents them enforcing any agreement to the contrary.
slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers.
I see statements like this often, especially about Tesla, but I've never seen or heard reviewers mention it as a problem compared to other cars.
Originally low maintenance cost was pushed as a huge advantage for electric cars, because an EV has fewer components that are likely to break.
But particularly Tesla has been criticized for often very expensive repairs, but also other EV's where a new battery that may be harmed driving over something, can cost as much as a new car. Where on an ICE car it would be a minor repair.
You don't see reviewers complaining because they have a financial and social interest in keeping the lies going. Tesla service centers are shitty, their management is shitty, and Tesla refuses to fix the problem because it costs money.
I only really talk to one person who used to ve a real tesla fanboy. He pre ordered the currently new model and he would always tell me that he can't wait for his new car, and i thought he was just lying, because the car was always just one month away from delivery. When it finally arrived, it had so many problems that he said he wouldn't accept it like it is and the guy was basically: okay, they deliver it to the next on the list and he's on hold again, so he just took it and let it be fixed along the way.
First time he brought it to one of their "garages" he didn't see the car for 3 or so month. They didn't fix any of the cosmetic problems, and most of his problems still persist, but they changed the transmission and acted like they didn't. Then he had a crack in the windshield, which wasn't a tesla problem, but to get a new one they told him it takes like 6 month. He sold the car later for what ge said was a very good price, vut i find that very hard to belive, because the car had many cosmetic issues, and was also very loud, because a lot of things in the cockpit just creeked and rattled.
You're not supposed to be shitty to your corporate customers until after you've captured their business and they're dependent on you. Elon can't even enshittify properly.
Politicians who don't care what we want because they're entitled to our votes as long as they're not as bad as Republicans.
Right now Schumer and Biden are trying to pass a "border bill" that would make some of the things we gave Trump shit for legal. Like, Biden really wanted to codify that any sitting president can "shit down the border" and prevent any asylum seekers from entering.
A child could see that if that passes, republicans will always say it needs done in office. Millions of people will be hurt by it, but it gives moderate Dems another knife to Dem voters throats:
Vote for me, or republicans will do that thing I just passed a law to let them do!
And there's no guarantee the Dem won't do it anyways.
It's really like watching a real life Brewster's millions, Biden keeps doing shit that's going to cost him the election, but apparently even listening to someone 40 years younger or even slightly to the left isn't something Biden can handle.
He only compromised with Republicans, and then gives them everything they want.
If protests don't work to change Biden's mind, what will?
Voting for Republicans at this point - or voting third party - is voting for fascism. There is precisely zero chance that Trump will handle the Gaza Genocide better than Biden will. If Trump wins, I would expect him to order a few B-52 squadrons to carpet bomb Gaza “to help Israel”, and then he’d also probably do the same to the West Bank just because he thinks it’d make him look like a big boy.
Not voting at all is the real worry. It takes effort to vote. And when you can’t even rally your base against trump then you ducked up bad. He literally saying that he does not have to appeal to his base because he has them with the threat of trump. Fine then they just don’t give a fuck any more. Disengagement is the name of the game and we all lose
The back half of "Blue no matter who" was supposed to be primarying out regressive Democrats. Much like Labour in the UK, the party is doing its best to disenfranchise and disengage with actual progressives, so this is slow going.
It's not impossible, though: Republicans, to their current horror, let the inmates run the asylum and it shifted their political alignment from "capitalist" to "fascist".
It reminds me of the Star Trek TOS episode "City On The Edge of Forever."
When McCoy goes back in time to the 1930s he changes the future and ends the Federation. When Kirk and Spock go back they discover that a rising anti-war sentiment would lead to America staying out of WW2, allowing the Nazis to take control of the world.
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