Nobody plays by the fake “rules”. You think American market dominance wasn’t built on IP theft, espionage, colonial extractionism, and adversarial relationships with other powers? Have you ever heard of Amazon? Who built their market dominance by selling at artificially low prices and putting local folks out of…

Your Musk hatred, which I share, has driven you to madness. Now the rule is “if a private citizen provides something for free, they have to provide it forever”. LMAO

LMAO so now we’re expecting private citizens to fund pentagon priorities? What could go wrong?! Looking forward to Bill Gates’ donation of HIMARs vehicles!

They didn’t sell it and put pressure on conservative Dems because they don’t care enough about it. The demographics of the Dem party are pretty clear. They’ve become a party of wealthy people with liberal social views and conservative fiscal views.

Most Americans have been subjected to anti-union propaganda their entire lives. Coupled with low and declining union membership rates, fewer and fewer people actually know someone who benefited directly from a union (notwithstanding all of the implicit benefits workers enjoy today as a baseline due to unions).

This is the argument of a child. “Well, he was paying for it, so he should have to pay for it forever!”

Bill Gates could offer to foot the bill whether he owns the service or not, no?

Just get a nespresso. Way less hassle and cost, and the environmental impact may surprise you.

No, no, it also solves the housing crisis: they can just live in their new EVs. The US auto industry has pulled another fast one on the American public. They jumped the shark on EVs and got the government to subsidize the transition. We should be subsidizing the purchase of USED hybrids, if anything. 

I’m all for ending corporate subsidies, but where’s the outrage that Bill Gates isn’t personally funding the war effort?

Irrelevant. Bill Gates could easily pay for it many times over too. Why aren’t you mad at him?

I fucking despise Musk, but this is silly. They’ve been funding service there for months. They asked the Pentagon to foot the bill in September. The Ukrainian official told him to fuck off in October. Musk made a bad joke about it, but the two have nothing in common from a timing standpoint. If the Pentagon thinks…

Don’t stop there, genes play an outsized role in health and obesity. We should just off the genetically impure!

Yes, your rights end where they impinge on mine. Also, my tax dollars helped pay for the roads you drive on, so I get a say in how you use them.

This is absolutely false. Only 17% of traffic deaths occur on interstates and freeways. 48% of traffic deaths occur on roads with speed limits of 50 mph or lower. It’s for that reason that speed limiters are way more important in lower speed-limited urban areas where the distracted speeding is more likely to kill…

Now you’re talking.

File this under: “The US is a 3rd world country by any metric other than per capita GDP or military/police expenditures”.

I suppose if you can’t see a difference between not allowing vehicles to exceed speed limits and somehow controlling how much food people eat or forcing humans to exercise, there’s not much of a conversation to be had.

One important detail I didn’t see: how much does it cost?

They already have that and yet 16k people died on the roads last year. Anything else?