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The fucking zip tie holding a keyring to the steel cable....

As if the Tesla situation couldn't get dumber, the owners really bring it home.

Also.... do you think these people tell their passengers about it whenever they get into the car? Or are the owners assuming they will have the capacity to explain it in the moment of the crash/fire?

that avenue is only for people capable of self reflection.

100% agree. Most people wont look at how their position fits in with the larger picture. They are haplessly self-absorbed in their own story-line, which I can only fault them for so much, I am a miserable sad-sack because of my inability to do this.

I was like 13 when 9/11 happened and everyone including me were heavy into revenge, the military and islamophobia.

Sounds like we are around the same age and I can say that I had a very similar shortsighted worldview at the time. Especially because I grew up in a very privileged bubble with a conservative family. It wasn't really until I went to college in a major city that I started to see and experience what the world was really like, both good and bad. I became way more progressive and had my Obama arc as well. Then I had my Bernie arc, which started to really push me away from the centrist liberal ideations. My full radicalization came in 2020, COVID and the piss poor reactions/response to it is what got me to the point I'm at today. Watching as the world around me did everything it could to fake normalcy for the sake of "the economy" was extremely eye-opening and made me extremely resentful of the establishment and everyone's unfeathered support of the capitalist machine.

All that said, back to the initial response, I think at this point its very hard for the adult liberals of our generation to make the turn anymore. They have established themselves, started families, are in the middle of their careers, all within the confines of the current system. I think we are seeing them slowly become part of the "fuck you, got mine" demographic that for a long time has been reserved for boomers and genX. Not to say that's everyone, I am definitely making a few broad strokes with some of this, but by and large its what I have seen from people in my life.

Technically nothing can be "uncooked" i dont think... lol

However, yes you are right. I don't think the political ideology of your average liberal can be redeemed at this point.

Public protest isn't a viable strategy in the west in regards to reliably extracting victories in the time span people fucking need them to happen.

This is exactly the sentiment I fail to express to my one lib friend who I talk the most politics with. They’re not a resistance lib, but they are also not a leftist. They know the system is severely broken, but are still supportive of the establishment and think it can be fixed.

I try to explain to them that I just don’t think we have adequate time left for slow progress; there are way to many immediate ramifications that will cause way too much irreversible damage by the time the slow roll of “progress” catches up. I just don’t think we can afford the slow moving Overton window that normies assume is happening. They disagree and still think change can happen by electing hundreds of AOC’s and Bernie’s as a counter to the thousands of Pelosi’s and Schumer’s.

It’s exhausting being a leftist in a world full of civility radlibs.

Fuck all the investors

Full stop, no further context needed. Fuck all the investors of everything, everywhere, forever.

The most popular democrat podcaster I know is already willing to take the reins.

Live by the fart, die by the fart. That’s what I always say.

Who?

I meant for critical support for cancer I. This instance, definitely uncritical support for Joe Biden suffering tho.

Critical support?

They’re late for the bear site meetup. Fucking drive!