Bye.

Sad that anyone even had to clarify what’s going on, but given how proudly and aggressively ignorant a lot of Americans are about anything outside of their bubble...

Yes, let’s discuss the broad range of enlightening ideas regarding killing abortion doctors, beating up gays, suppressing votes, gutting the middle class, grabbing pussies etc. God, the two world views are just a hairsbreadth apart can’t we all just get along

You’re fucking kidding me, right? You have to pay taxes because it’s the law. And you know why you pay taxes? To pay for infrastructure. Like roads. Police. The fire department. Defense. The fucking military. If you make more, you pay more. That’s how the system is supposed to work. It’s not a fucking maze that only…

Dude you are wrong from the very first sentence to the very last.

That’s a dog whistle if I’ve ever heard one.

The amount of bootstrappers in these comments is depressingly high.

“He certainly knows the facts.” That is, I believe, something that no one has ever said about Trump before.

“I’m all for diversity, quality of life improvements, and genuine acceptance of any and all colors, creeds, and life styles”

There’s actually more to the highway traffic protests than merely annoying people, but it’s not targeted enough.

No, taxation is not illegal because society, through its elected representatives, have decided that certain costs are to be borne by society as a whole. Thus, taxes.

There is no way for an owner to “clarify exactly what their car can and can not do before they go testing features that relieve control from them on public roads” in the case of autopilot. The limits of its abilities are opaque to the user. Which is why a half-baked system is worse than nothing at all.

Maybe you should be responsible journalists and not repeat Tesla ad-copy since they haven’t earned that level of trust?

UPDATE: 1:18 PM: Tim Bradshaw, one of the reporters behind the FT’s initial story, says that the paper is sticking with its initial reporting: