If the Chinese companies entered the US market at a ~10-20% discount from other Asian automakers, they would have made their own market.

1st Gear: It would take me a long time to try a Chinese car. The issue I have is that I work in the power industry where there have been decades of “don’t even think about buying Chinese pipe for a steam line”. When Kia/Hyundai came to America, I could see they were building crappy cars, but I knew they could make…

I’d argue the window for Chinese cars was for EVs in the last few years. That’s their window in a lot of markets. They can design and structure companies and manufacturing ops specifically for an EV lineup. They’d spend too much trying to catch up in the ICE world, but have a unique opportunity to set themselves up…

You can already pick up a decent used one for $20-25k

474 out of 1000 black babies are aborted. The vast majority of planned parenthood abortion sites are within walking distance of minority communities. Margaret Sanger was a racist and was pro eugenics. Apparently, cheering on genocide is woke now?

Wait are we really not going to use this opportunity to address that the abortion rate is far greater in the black community. Isn’t that what this movement is all about. Addressing systemic inequalities. Blacks are totally targeted for abortions and the numbers prove it.

Not sure where you are looking, but the cheapest 996 Turbo on Autotrader or CarGurus is $38,000 and it’s got the same mileage as the car above. The rest are in the $40- to $50,000 range.

Still better looking than the brand new Silverado....

Ever look at the Model X door handles, they sag and then don’t line up. Tesla is like Apple making cars, sterile, boring designed interior I would never want to spend time in.

I think you’re on to something about people defending their purchase to the ends of the earth. Nobody likes admitting they made a mistake or were duped. The amount of tribalism baked into some automotive communities is kind of astounding.

There is a sizeable contingent of Tesla owners who would literally die before admitting any flaw with their vehicle. Hell, they actually do die by driving into immovable objects because of Musk’s reality distortion field convincing them that their cars can drive themselves.

And your response should tell you all you need to know about why it is YOU who is misinterpreting 1984. Orwell WAS a literal Anti-Fascist. He fought actual fascists, instead of the incompetent moron we have as a President. And even he, especially he, was quite a proponent of freedom of speech and personal liberty.

You know that there are people who aren’t conservatives (me, for instance) who feel that we’re over-correcting and don’t agree with erasure, right?

Hell, the joke from the Live Show is about how insanely offensive and awful blackface was during that era.

Yeah, I feel like with these kinds of things it’s usually better to slap a disclaimer on at the beginning.  “Hey, we thought this was funny and in the right at the time but now we realize its not and here’s why”

I’m also a middle aged, cis-hetero, white, male and if people say they are offended then I won’t argue they shouldn’t be because that’s just dumb for me to do. But if we start making perfection the only acceptable option for historical figures and entertainers then we aren’t going to have a lot to watch. I don’t know…

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

I think 30 Rock always had its heart in the right place with social satire, but there are instances—particularly in terms of queer representation—that haven’t aged well. This at least seems like a step in the right direction. And in the end, 30 Rock is still one of the best sitcoms of the century. 

Thoreau’s premise was that living simply allows people to focus on more important aspects of life. It has nothing to do with adventure or “roughing it” or risk taking. i.e. how far he was living from his family’s house doesn’t have much, if anything, to do with his premise.

This might be a weird stance but... If you can watch a show with dragons in... or a show with Zombies in... or a show with habitual space travel in... how can you draw a line in the sand about a show that dares to believe a good cop might exist?