One was not an active threat to anyone, the other is a guy riding a vehicle that weighs a few hundred pounds at 30+ miles per hour on a path meant for pedestrians lol

This is the trolley conundrum.

“...so many dumb ways to die.”

I am failing to see how the cop did not do *exactly* the right thing here. If moron was going too fast to stop in time to not hit a very plainly visible cop car, he was going too fast to not hit a pedestrian. Not like he came around a blind corner and there was the cop.

Two parties in the wrong you say?

Oh I can’t wait for all the “we road rear facing as kids in xyz old car, back in the ancient past and survived” survivor bias stuff in the comments.

As a progressive, I have plenty of friends that are conservative that are not assholes. There’s a big difference between fiscal conservatives and Trump lovin’ right wing nutjobs. It's sad to see so many Republicans losing their party to fascists.

I created an account here just to tell you I love you for this comment. I’m a lifelong independent that calls a cult a cult and an asshole an asshole, regardless of which team they play for. On that note, Elon/Trump does both in spades. Go sane Americans!

Not especially true.

It’s the socially acceptable word for everyone who wants to rant about minorities, women, and/or LGBTQ groups, but fear they’ll get fired for using the known slurs.

I’m not even allowed to look at them. My wife is very permissive about the cars I own — at one point, I had six old japanese cars in various states of decay when we had only street parking. Those were okay, but Telsas are an immediate nope.

In all fairness (to me) I’m a conservative that wouldn’t buy a Tesla because Elon’s a Trump Republican. We can hold different political views and agree assholes are still assholes...right?

100% agreed. I am a political lefty actively pursuing adding an EV to the garage, and will not buy or lease a tesla. Although they are the most price competitive, the biggest reason we won’t get one is Elon’s downfall into being a rightwing edgelord chad.

A huge difference in your analogy is the price of the product.

Eh, people kept saying Teslas were luxury cars, but I’m not sure if most people actually believed that beyond the “luxury of not buying gas”.

I think there is also some hard-to-quantify loss of ‘luxury-branding’ for Tesla. It was an obvious luxury brand when it came out with the initial couple cars, but (I think) this is no longer the case for multiple reasons, like stated by many others:

Funny how people on the right rage against “cancel culture” while embracing it just as much as anyone else.

Ron DeSantis ate this exact same shit-sandwich during his primary campaign for president. Eventually these freaks are going to figure out normal people are more off-put by anti-woke culture than they were by woke culture in the first place, Gonna be weird to see where that whole culture goes from there.

I wanted a Tesla for a while and now I wont even consider one as an option.

Sort of off-topic, but has “Go Woke, Go Broke” ever worked in real life?