And yet this twit is held up as an icon of management.

Of course what’s going to happen is that Apartheid Manchild fanbois are going to buy a Tesla, then one of these stickers to have people not urinate on their car or whatever.

Huh. It’s almost as if I already said that.

And linked to the instructions for the Model Y.

And already pointed out that they’re well-concealed which is not what you want for an emergency.

Almost.

I think you’ll find most cars have visible, obvious, manual door latches on the inside. I know the XPengs and BYDs certainly do.

The free speech absolutist gets upset when people don’t want to talk on his platform.

So they bought whatever “this” is while Apartheid Manchild was still in the womb?

The Manchild has never been a decent, normal human being. (The upbringing he received at the hands of his creepy father prevented that from being possible.) He was always what he is now. He just wasn’t rich enough to not care if people found out.

A truckload of “actual military support” that has such tight strings attached that it was basically useless except for a very fragile defensive posture.

Only this week has the USA actually finally allowed the Ukraine to go on the offensive with its kit.

Thing is, people leave and decide after a day or two they’re comfortable hanging out with Nazis, so they go back to the Nazi bar.

I genuinely think worse—far worse—of anybody with a Xhitter account, to the point of presuming that they can’t be trusted with anybody non-male and non-white. There are consequences, in the end, to supporting fascism, no matter what excuses people contrive.

This is something that can be addressed with owners, but what about passengers? Should they be carrying one around?

How 'bout Tesla just makes fucking mechanical door handles again?

You should not have to watch a video or read a manual to open a freaking car door.

👆 That right there.

The fuck are people supposed to do who don’t even own the car?

👆👆 And that even more so.

We have literally centuries of knowledge of human-machine interaction. We know what works and what doesn’t. We know the importance of getting this right from watching what would be a literal lake of blood if put into one location before us. And one of those things that works is making sure the emergency tools are very obvious and in our faces. The rear door instructions for the Model Y alone are a horror show for anybody who has ever been in a crisis before. And then on top of that not all Model Ys have such a latch anyway.

Everything about Tesla’s doors are horrific.

1. Not all Teslas have mechanical latches on all doors. Specifically some Model Ys don’t have them on the rear doors, apparently. (This is addressed in the article.) ¹

2. The mechanical latches have often been panned on the safety front because they’re inobviously located and operated. Point 4 addresses this further, but look at the instructions for the rear door in the Model Y in particular.¹ This is complex and confusing without panic and adrenaline. (This too was addressed in the article.)

3. Not everybody knows about the mechanical latches. While one could argue that the driver should know their vehicle, what makes you think the passengers are going to know this, especially given the poor placement of the latches. Especially given just how convoluted the rear door releases are. (This was also addressed in the article.)

4. When people are in mortal danger, figuring out complicated things, or remembering obscure things like where the manual release latches are, is not going to happen. If the control to open the door isn’t open, obvious, and in your face, you will not remember it unless you’ve been specifically trained to have this in your immediate-recall memory. That’s why pilots of aircraft spend so much time drilling the same thing over and over again. Or people in militaries. Or people in emergency services like fire departments. (This was addressed in the article as well.)

¹ From https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-AAD769C7-88A3-4695-987E-0E00025F64E0.html “Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.”

Technically speaking you’d have to say they did war crimes by modern standards.

A lot of what you describe wasn’t actually criminal at the time, see. It was called “war”.

Doesn’t make it any less horrific, mind.

“Set” to flee.

The best time to leave X for being a Nazi bar was at least a year ago.

The second best time to leave X for being a Nazi bar is right now.

And they’re “set”. Implying future.

So … you’re comfortable with fascists in your bar?

Congrats! You’ve got a fascist bar!

I mean, you do you and all that shit, but you’ll find that over time all you’re going to get is fascists as normal people bail out on you.

Ah, yes. Pandering. A sign of true quality in a human being.

You seem nice.

His ire of the Jews was because he believed they were the cause of the financial ruin his people experienced.

The full story here is very, very, very dark and implicates the WWI Allies.

There are no innocent parties in the Shoah outside of its victims.

Control doesn’t make money making easier when that control destroys the economy. It turns out productivity drops when people are treated like shit. You can see that happening at Twitter and Facebook both, for example.

But you’re right that this is about control. It’s just that it isn’t necessarily about the money except insofar as having a lot of money gives you a lot of control. Shitlords like the Apartheid Manchild or Harvard’s Robot wouldn’t care if they lost money … as long as everybody else lost more.

I made a little table showing the highest marginal tax rate from 1913 to 2022 coded in blue for Democrat presidents and red for Republican:

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• The first Democrat run saw a stunning rise of 66% in the highest marginal tax rate due to the insane expense of WWI.

• The first Republican run saw a drop of 48% as the nation moved away from the war economy and into the post-war economy.

• The second Democrat run saw a sharp rise of 38% at the beginning and a further rise of 28% by the end of their run because of the Great Depression and WWII in that order.

• The second Republican run kept the ultra-high (91%!) highest marginal tax rate during the post-war boom with no change.

• The third Democrat run saw the rate fall by 21% over its span.

• The third Republican run kept the rate as-is over its span.

• The fourth Democrat run (single-term) kept the rate as-is over its span.

• The fourth Republican run dropped the rate by 39%

• The fifth Democrat run saw an increase of almost 9% over its span.

• The fifth Republican run saw a drop of almost 5% over its span.

• The sixth Democrat run saw an increase of almost 5% over its span.

• The sixth Republican run saw a drop of almost 3% over its span.

• The final Democrat run (and the last data I have) saw no change.

If we factor out the war years (up to the end of the second Democrat run) we don’t see a huge pattern of differences in tax rates, given that those are the highest marginal tax rates and people in that bracket tend to have many ways to evade taxes. (Apartheid Manchild recently complain/bragged that he paid an amount of taxes that turned out to be 3-4% of his income where the vast majority of people pay well over 11% of their incomes, for example.)

So I doubt it’s money. It’s something else.

Other interesting notes that pop out at me:

• the Great Depression happened in 1929 under Republicans (~3.5 years)
• the recession of 1937 was under Democrats (~1 year)
• the recession of 1949 was under Democrats (~1 year)
• the recession of 1953 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
• the recession of 1958 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
• the recession of 1960 was under Democrats (~¾ years)
• the recession of 1969 was under Republicans (~1 year)
• the recession of 1973 was under Republicans (~1¼ years)
• the recession of 1980 was under Republicans (~½ years)
• the recession of 1981 was under Republicans (~1¼ years)
• the recession of 1990 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
• the recession of 2001 was under Republicans (~¾ years)
• the Great Recession happened in 2007 under Republicans (extending into Democrats) (~1.5 years)

Here I see a distinct pattern that should alarm anybody running a business since lost sales account far more for lost wealth than alterations in the highest marginal tax rate.

Because Vivian Jenna Wilson transitioned.

It really is that simple.

Before that event Apartheid Manchild was a dick, but mostly of the poorly-socialized technonerd variety. Still a dick, but not perceived by most as being a threatening dick.

After that event, where he coined (to my knowledge) the phrase “the woke mind virus”, he jumped deep into the MAGA swill.

Before that event he was kinda/sorta hailed as a “real world Tony Stark” but never really particularly accepted. People liked his products (well, let’s be honest: product) and otherwise didn’t give much of a shit about him.

After he went Full Metal MAGAt he became the object of worship and adoration of fellow MAGAts on Twitter (before he bought it, even), getting the uncritical acceptance he’d always craved and never really got.

And it turns out he wants to feel like he “belongs” more than he wants to sell shit.