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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Being middle class always struck me as having a moderate amount of disposable income after all regular life expenses.

    I’ve been getting shit since “Bad and Bougie” became a thing that the bougerouise were “middle class” in pre-revolutionary France.

    Because “middle class” isn’t a mathematical range, class are not defined that equally.

    In modern America we have:

    1. Oligarchies

    2. People who don’t have to worry about money.

    3. Homeowners living paycheck to paycheck

    4. Renters living paycheck to paycheck.

    Really you could combine 3 and 4, but home ownership is one of the last big investments people have. When “American middle class” became iconic, homeownership was just taken for granted.

    It’s a vague outdated system to expect there’s only 3 classes in the American economy





  • The symbolism is destroying an entire company.

    Musk doing multiple Nazi salutes on national television at CPAC did more, his rampant cuts of the government did more to hurt Tesla’s image.

    Especially because those are the big reason for protests…

    Like, what you’re doing is saying the reason people don’t like a convicted murderer is they were convicted.

    That is them facing consequences.

    The protests are a consequence not a cause.

    Do you honestly think people think that destroying some cars will bankrupt him?

    I have tried explaining multiple times how that makes him money…

    How would something that makes someone money ever bankrupt them?

    That’s a rhetorical question, I’m not wasting anymore time on unproductive things



  • Ok

    So, in that clip the joker had taken money from someone, and is destroying it.

    You get that?

    An unsold Tesla, if set on fire, will make Tesla the same as if you gave them cash for MSRP.

    That is more profit then if you bought one because they’re sold under MSRP right now for 0% interest.

    Does just… Literally anything I am saying make sense to you yet?

    The joker destroyed wealth, but destroying an unsold Tesla gives musk more money than if you purchased it



  • The cost to insure a Tesla Model 3 went up 30 percent last year.

    I’d absolutely love to understand how these protests raised insurance rates for the year before the protests started.

    Cuz buddy, that’s basically time travel, and it would be fascinating to learn how it works…

    But what’s probably more likely, is the stuff I just explained, and your article agreed with me on.

    I have zero idea if you’re agreeing with me intentionally tho, because you literally just put a link with zero context.


  • Bruv…

    Are you under the impression for insurance for a manufacturer on their existing inventory is the same thing as a random person’s insurance on a personal vehicle?

    Edit:

    And the liability to insurance companies has existed for a long time…

    Tesla locks down their supply chains, there’s no option besides “manufacter parts” and Tesla sucks at making them.

    So a fender bender could be months to get fixed, and insurance may be on the hook for rentals for that period on top of higher than average repair costs, which leads to Teslas being marked “totaled” when others would be repaired …

    Like, I agree in spirit, but you just don’t understand what’s happening…

    But if you set a Tesla on fire at a Tesla lot…

    You just made Elon more money than if you bought it.

    That’s important for people to understand


  • This whole time I can’t help but think…

    What’s the point in burning unsellable cars that take up real estate on sales lots?

    If you burn them Elmo gets the MSRP (probably more) from insurance, if you don’t burn them, no one is buying it anyways. The few that are, use the 0% down 0% apr loans and Tesla loses money on those.

    Setting a Tesla on fire in 2025 makes Musk more money than buying one.

    Let them rot on the lot.

    Quick edit:

    If you want something that will help, organize protests at the manufacturing plants.

    We don’t need to protest stores that have zero buyers anyway…

    But shutting down and restarting production lines is insanely expensive. And Tesla workers are almost guaranteed to hate their job already. That’s the weak point, that’s where pressure should be applied.




  • a tiny tidbit of Christian-specific trivia?

    Bruh, the crusades was an extremely important event that occupied centuries of both European and Middle Eastern civilization’s history and we’re literally still dealing with the fallout on a global geopolitical scale…

    I remember when my decades old red state public education was considered shitty, but do people really think the fucking crusades was “a tiny tidbit of Christian-specific trivia”?


  • The bill, which was opposed by all but one Democrat in the House, boosts defense spending by $6 billion and reduces non-defense spending by about $13 billion while also giving the Trump administration more leeway on future spending decisions.

    Democrats have raised alarm about empowering Trump further while his administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, has been rapidly slashing government programs and cutting workers in a push to reduce the size of the government.

    Neoliberals aren’t on our side.

    Fuck right/left, we need to start thinking bottom/top. And the vast majority of our government are beholden to the top 0.01%. The reason everything is a culture war these days is they’ll do anything to avoid a class war.

    Because 99.99% beats 0.01% regardless of wealth disparity