I’ve heard “rare earth minerals” bandied about as an explanation for Trump’s creepy lust for both Greenland and Canada. But you know where else has rare earth minerals? The US. We just abandoned the infrastructure to extract them when China started selling them.

No, I understood the joke.

1st Gear:

The source article says Golden State, not sure why that got changed to Florida.

2nd gear: The way this administration simply betrayed one of our greatest allies, I can’t imagine Tesla ever sells another car in Canada.

So normally I would come on here and call conservatives a bunch of pejoratives, but I’ve had a number of social media interactions that make me think perhaps people legitimately don’t understand how economics and government budgets work. So this is going to be a rare, good-faith attempt from me to explain this stuff…

The US is the biggest bully since the pre 1940's British Empire. We are not ripped off or exploited by anyone. When our military or dollar-policy says “Jump”, other countries ask “How high?”. This current Administration has such a victim-mentality, or more accurately, exploits the massive desire of the populace to…

“Tee Ay Arr Arr...Ific, Terrific! Many people are saying I’m the best at Words!”

Exactly. If it was in fact “throwing his heart” and misconstrued as a nazi salute, he could have been out there the next days apologizing and promising not to make that gaff again. But what does he do? He sends a tweet making nazi jokes and then storms Europe pushing alt-right hatered and telling Germans that it’s…

“You know, one day honest citizens are going to stand up to you crooked cops!”

The problem is making a small car ain’t cheap. There’s only so far you can get in material savings alone. So the market actually has to value owning a small car (paging city dwellers that want to park), something people don’t do in large numbers in the States.

eh, the last bout of inflation was caused by all of the money that was given away during the covid pandemic.

“We also don’t want Nissan.”

Except the super rich. An economic collapse is the fastest and most efficient way to take away wealth from the working class give it to the billionaire class.

America protected and used alot of those Nazi scientists for American endeavors. Also, America didn’t even care for the war, until the Japanese attacked them. Which is one thing that you don’t do to America, directly attack it. Had Germany attacked Pearl Harbor instead, it would have been a different story I reckon.

Have our modern capitalists not done their homework, or is a genuinely free and fair market not in their interests?

ROFLMAO at the thought that that hypocritical weasel Ken Paxton gives a shit about Texans’ privacy. If Allstate used that data to snitch on customers who drive too close to an abortion clinic, he’d be celebrating and offering them immunity.

The Model Y has always been awkward-looking. These things are crawling all over Vancouver and they’re weird. They’re homely. They look like they want to be futuristic but don’t quite know how to pull that off. 

Diesel? Automatic? Sketchy? Ugly? Overpriced? What’s not to like!

This is unrelated to the Crosstrek at the heart of the original Reddit post, but I’ve always been keen on the dual range boxes found in some Australian spec Subarus. Legitimately cool stuff.