I’m torn. It seems like a crazy overreaction (because it is).

It’s satire, which even more than most humor, is hard to translate.

Prediction: these comments will have many examples of Poe’s law.

In the 70s, when I convinced my dad to buy a BMW 2002, there was a huge difference. The BMW was small and efficient. It had IRS, SOHC, and fuel injection, and disc brakes on all 4 wheels.

I bought my first Mercedes - a ten year old Mercedes 300D - in 1989.

Especially if they don’t share.

“I think their version of the douchy know-it-all college student is anti-American.”

Which reminds me....

But they DO have a camera factory that makes decent Hasselblad (and Pentacon 60) clones.

I have a friend (whom Christie later screwed over) who socialized at his house. He said their marriage seemed “friendly enough.”

Yup, all eight of them.

Is it better to give this over the Mob? Because that’s the alternative, realistically.

These places are legal because the alternative, mobbed-up loan sharks, are worse. This guy is indicted, not because of payday loans, but because of deceitful payday loans. You can hate him but tolerate the industry as a whole.

I’ll add “both countries are hard-drinking” to that list, IME.

It’s possible that Tesla’s formula nailed it well enough there’s no real reason to replace it. Think Volvo 240, but electric.

The same argument, more or less, has been raised and refuted several times already in this thread.

She’s very defensive and very paranoid. There were rumors she told Bill not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit - which, if he had, would’ve prevented his perjured deposition, and subsequent impeachment. I would love to know if that rumor is true.

Relevant:

“A country could get away with a fuckin dictatorship if everyone thought enough alike.”