Sadly, after reading a few books about operation paperclip, yeah, a lot of them did. Including Von Braun, who used slave labor at Peenemünde and used it very much like a renewable resource.

Even if you were alive then, there’s nothing you could have done to stop it and the vicious cycle it created- things are cheaper because they’re made overseas which is important because the jobs to make those things here no longer exist and thus we need cheap things instead of the things we bought at prices that…

Well, we were 100% ok with it when it was textiles and literally everything else. The big difference here is that there is no American company that’s making money off it. 

And Werner Von Braun was just a pawn of the German government, and not at all responsible for how his rockets were used... Again, we will bend over backwards to justify the products of ex-nazis... 

That’s because we loooooove to outsource our programming to places with cheap labor and just like everything else, there’s no way that could ever bite us in the ass.

That’s because there’s every reason to believe that a wrecked GT-R can be made to function again by a determined (and talented) amateur mechanic with a decent set of tools and a heated garage.

Did you notice how many made up stories you saw from liberal lawmakers about how the Appalachian hurricane disaster probably did more good than harm and probably set those inbred hilljack moonshinin’ confederates back in their places? Or how Biden took the opportunity to talk shit about his political enemies in the…

Anyone ever notice how this really only happens with Asian products? (also, I noticed they tossed in Russian cars here to stop the overwhelming flow of... what, exactly?)

My only quibble is that they’re still happy to sell everyone else their fossil fuels, just no longer using it themselves. Which feels a bit... hypocritical. Then again the US has led the field for years in selling other folks the shit we’d no longer use ourselves so I guess it evens out. 

Here’s the thing: if you need a drink to fly, you should not be flying. 

OK, you win the internet today. 

$ 700 for a rusted out ‘72 vw beetle. It was an absolute piece of garbage. I loved it because it was my first car but it was terrible. My mom had to borrow it for a day when her car was in the shop and when she got home she asked my dad what the fuck he was thinking when he thought this deathtrap would be a safe car…

I (really don’t) hate to say it, but every VW and Audi product could disappear off the road tomorrow and I doubt anyone would even notice. 

Remember this: rich people are rich people first and whatever else they are is a distant second.

The Porsche 914. To me, it’s the only Porsche that kept the spirit of the originals- small, light, a wee little 4 cylinder engine and that’s about it. Also it has pop-up headlights.

The beauty of the Karmann Ghia is that it’s pretty much perfect as it is. That’s not to say that it’s the most beautiful car ever, just that there is absolutely nothing you can do to it aside from painting it that doesn’t make it worse. It’s why you’ll never see any modded ghia that looks better than the original.

What I love about the new mail truck is that they did not give a single fuck about looks and went for functionality only- that goofy high roof? easy to stand up in. That low low hood? easy to see pedestrians and kids when you’re driving in neighborhoods, where you’ll spend most of your time. That crazy bumper? You’re…

Well you have to start somewhere and none of them started out making better products, they all started making cheaper products that got better and then innovated.

Yeah yeah yeah, the exact same thing was said about the Japanese in the 60s and only ever seems to apply to asia.

But a half-assed solution is still better than “we won’t do anything until we have a perfect solution with no problems at all.”- it works in many other places, it does what it’s intended to do, that’s a win.