Why is this article so bitter?

Critical Racer Theory?

and a breeze running across the back of my neck which will give me a sore neck the next morning

This looks like something someone would use to abandon young Haley Joel Osment in a forest.

CI\             /IC

I thought this was pretty straightforward? 

Steadying his massive elephant rifle against a well positioned rock, the ‘Housing and Zoning Inspector’ for Troy Michigan, calmly emptied his entire stockpile of high-powered ammunition into the engine block of the “Excursion” Jeep.

OMG, this thing makes me so sad inside.  The absolute nothingness of it all is actually a bit frightening.

This looks so much like a RAV4 that I was wondering if the wrong images were posted with the article.

Calling him out for... discussing a video that is about a Tesla. Which is an accurate discussion of what occurs in the video.

Are you saying James May has a Mach E?

I will be off for the next two days and hence there will be no NPOND on Thursday or Friday. 

The best episode of Community is no longer available on Netflix.

Excuse me Elizabeth, but this is clearly another short-seller hitpiece on noted philanthropist and Tony Stark-irl equivalent, Elon Musk. I have been assured by numerous people online that he is an amazing and perfect person, and by extension so are his companies.

It’s very nice, but he could have literally done ANYTHING, and he chose this.

I had the same takeaway. I mean, you drove on the interstate through the midwest, this isn’t the Highway of Death through Baghdad. I live in Kansas and everyone wears masks. Hell, you get bad looks if you DON’T wear masks around here. Sure, out in the sticks there are more people that put up a fight to mask wearing.…

Yup. Some people really, really want to claim the mantle of victimhood. I guess that “I drove across the country, and nothing happened” isn’t clickbaity enough for Jalopnik.

This was a weird article and I think it was pretty tone deaf. Unless he’s omitting something, he was never in any real danger. It felt like kind of a slap in the face as someone who might *actually* be a victim of a hate crime - a relatively flamboyant black city boy. What are his concerns? That someone might think he…

Oh, a look.

I felt attacked from all sides — the bullying tractor-trailers on the highway, the flatness, the cold, the constant anxiety about where it would be safe to piss.