American independence was NOT to stop “shamelessly enriching the elites”. It was about a different set of elites being able to shamelessly enrich themselves.

Prove me wrong.

What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?

Ew.

What do you mean, potatoes are closer to tomatoes than to sweet potatoes or onions?

Botany is a scam.

And probably made of chocolate? I can see where they might have picked that one up.

Traditionally, you’d pay the middle class well and then bring in migrants that you can exploit quite easily.

This however does not maximise short term profit, because the pay sheet is eating into that.

So you need to lower the middle class wages, but then you have open rebellion when they earn about the same as the slaves migrants. So you need to get rid of the migrants, so that the middle class can take their place.

And that’s how I met ICE.

Honestly, top pop/rock charts have been filled with so much bland, repetitive and uninspired “music” that I wonder just how much of that isn’t AI with a coat of paint over it…

Well I mean, if you fell asleep with that cute, satisfied look, it was absolutely worth it!

I heard the “OUTCH!” In this image.

Don’t know about availability in the US, but at least in Europe there are many, many alternatives out there, both from traditional brands (Mercedes, BMW, etc etc) and more recently, from Chinese brands.

A friend bought a BYD Seal the other day, he got a total bargain for their top version at 41k€, but that got me looking into them, and their lineup is looking pretty impressive.

In Europe at least, Chinese cars.

Last month on my neck of the woods, YoY car sales were up 16% and yet Tesla was down 68% this month alone, while BYD was up 331,6% (yes, 3 digits).

With these changes, Tesla isn’t even in the top 10 anymore (at one point it was #2!) and has been leapfrogged by BYD, who seems very likely to continue climbing and break into the top 3 sellers.

Tesla is dead.

Wait what? 50$ for speeding? LOL what a joke

The idiot digs deeper, and shows his true colours. Asinine.

He who sucketh a dick can accommodate a second one.

Why are you crossing out China?

Did you miss the massive investments China is doing there, to buy influence?

Here’s one: https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-photos-show-byds-massive-hungary-factory-taking-shape-2025-4

No. We get exactly what his comment is about.

If he was in the renewables camp, there would be no point, in this discussion over solar, to bring up nuclear. It’s absolutely unrelated.

What he’s doing is pushing the thought into people’s heads that nuclear is a good solution, and that’s why I’m calling him out for. For being a shill.

No. I type less.

This is the sort of stupidification of issues that we see from bot farms: cherry pick one point, then blow it out of proportion so that there’s no more nuance, no more gray, no room for middle ground.

Everything becomes black and white, polarised, simple: with us or against us.

Fucking moron.

This just hands over an EU country to the Russian and Chinese influences, which is why Hungary is where it’s at in the first place.

This is the kind of thing that needs covert counter-ops: undermine and question orban at every online forum, constantly make Putin look bad, push against every single government policy, etc.

So basically what they’re doing to every other western nation.

How idiotic.