At least I think I’d rather watch that than The Lion King ;-)

No arguments with you on bailouts. Pleasure cruises are not comparable to airline flights, in terms of their societal need. One is 100% discretionary and the other is existential to modern society as we know it. But it’s just as silly to actively root for their dissolution.

That’s a very fair point. But in reading many of the comments here, I can’t help but conclude that the former is mostly a “façade of justification” to legitimize motivations that actually spring from the latter.

While I get that there are legitimate concerns about pollution and working conditions, so many responses here simply distil to “ I think cruise ships are gross and excessive, don’t like their food, think their patrons are undesirables, can’t fathom why anyone would enjoy being on a ship, and would *NEVER* go on one if…

See above. Both of those issues are addressed.

Nuance and reading comprehension are clearly not your strong suits. Or perhaps you just don’t care and/or entertain yourself with finding excuses to be contrarian online. Hey, I get it, we’re all bored silly right now. That being the case, I’ve got the time to walk you through this:

What the fuck are *YOU* talking about, jackanapes? You’re responding to an assertion I did not make. Please point out where I said people don’t need cars.

Reminds me of a Stanhope bit about how bad hookers have it in a recession. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s definitely worth a YouTubing, since we’re all stuck at home anyway.

If you didn’t need a car before coronacrisis, you sure as hell don’t need one now, with no one going anywhere to do anything. If you had one before, and it stopped working, auto repair shops *are* considered essential and I don’t think anyone is disputing that classification, so get it fixed.  No one who needs it will…

If our starting point was 1905, then yes, someone would have to initially produce a new car in order for anyone to be able to buy it used. But in 2020 there are over 260 million cars already in circulation in the US—plenty to keep everyone mobile for at least the next 5 years if not a single new one was built, let…

If you didn’t need a car before coronacrisis, you sure as hell don’t need one now, with no one going anywhere to do anything. If you had one before and it stopped working, auto repair shops *are* considered essential and I don’t think anyone is disputing that classification, so get it fixed. Auto sales are most…

Auto service was specifically called out as essential, so I’m certain service departments remain open.  Auto sales is not essential.

Which is fine. Any nominal increase in price will undoubtedly be worth all the lost productivity of hours spent waiting for sweaty Bill Wide-Tie to “check with his manager”.

Not always, if you’re paying cash.  See McParland’s article from several months back.

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If you didn’t need a car before coronacrisis, you sure as hell don’t need one now, with no one going anywhere to do anything. If you had one before, and it stopped working, auto repair shops *are* considered essential and I don’t think anyone is disputing that classification, so get it fixed. Auto sales inarguably non-…

I believe our point of contention is not over bias in preferences, as you assert, but simple semantics. I opine, and believe most others would as well, that excitement for a vehicle =/= enthusiast vehicle or automotive enthusiasm in general. While pretty vague terms on their faces, I think the colloquial understanding …

Counterpoint: Auto manufacturing is nearly a zero-sum game, so the laughable abundance of CUV’s/SUV’s that all the makers feel compelled to foist have pushed us out of other model choices and into the “mediocre”, just not via sedans. Performance vehicles are indeed relegated to boutique and exotic status, almost to a…

I’m not sure how calling people out for interminable, condescending behavior and labeling them for what they are, is, in itself, “talking down”. Calling a spade a spade is part of the adult conversation. The fact that those who scoldingly self identify as “woke” (hence wokescolds) not only refuse to accept or even…

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