I would be willing to bet that they didn’t give back all of the surge that came from the initial announcement, and they’ll get another one when the deal is actually signed.

I would advise them to talk to their senator.

Unless it was specifically “it would be ridiculously racist to say ‘George Floyd got what he deserved’”, then I would say that the context was not that important.

So, you would gladly pay taxes for things that you didn’t agree with if they met your arbitrary standard for efficiency? Did you know that most “wasteful government spending” stories are completely bullshit created by libertarian billionaires who *gasp* don’t want to pay taxes? Have you considered that you are being…

Eh,... Porsche was leveraged all to hell on that deal and it’s why they went bankrupt. It’s not that they just had so much money laying around that they could acquire a company that sold 60 times more cars at that point. At that point Porsche was making more money dicking around in the stock market (frequently dicking…

You lost money during Obama’s term? You must have made some terrible fucking moves because the Dow Jones went from like 8000 to 22000 under Obama.

And in your mind, what does less regulation result in?

The problem is that if given the choice, people like you would pay NO taxes. You would always find something the government did that you didn’t like and use that as justification to not pay anything. The system doesn’t work when its voluntary because people who benefit the most from society (the people who use…

I doubt that would come to pass if the people with millions of dollars showed more concern for the quality of life of those who have less.

You literally say that the money in your 401k “doesn’t exist.” Why are you worried about it? You’re going to say “because I’m counting on selling at some point”,... but the ultra wealthy, unlike you and I, have the ability to get access to tax free cash without selling their stocks. So, their equity has very very real…

Because it would be very unpopular to do that with the people that it would actually affect.

Do you feel better now?

Things have changed that make the traditional thinking less applicable to reality, IMO. Mainly cars on last so much longer on average than they ever have before. If you’re going to drive a vehicle for at least 10 years, a 6+ year loan is much less of an issue. I think the last thing I saw was that the average age of…

That’s absolutely true... But being stabbed in the back is sometimes more painful.

Volvo is owned by private equity after being sold off by Ford. Fisker and Nikola were startups that weren’t publicly listed either.

And yet, look at how much effort you’ve put forth fighting to tell other people they shouldn’t be offended...

I think the bar handled it as well as they could,... Implying that the bar shouldn’t have done anything because “it was a joke” is the problem.

The idea that because the line doesn’t exist because it isn’t in the same place for everyone and therefore can’t be crossed is weak bullshit.

When it gets put up shortly after 6 cyclists get run over by someone who was harassing them, it sure as shit does imply that running over cyclists is funny.

Neither do you.