That first one, anyone can do.
Really? Anyone can order local TV news stations across the country to read scripted propaganda of their choosing? You’re just going to straight-up deny Sinclair Broadcast Group’s unbalanced political power exists?
Of course intimidation is the point – psychological/political intimidation, not physical. Context matters. Don’t try to pretend that the other MPs were scared they were gonna charge at them with taiahas or something, because that’s bullshit and you know it.
Okay but in this thread we’re trying to express solidarity with the Maori; do you mind?!
That’s true; I’m maybe being a little unfair to to the guy. That said, I was thinking more in terms of the song being an anthem for Gen X, and the generation as a whole letting us younger folks down.
people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation
That wasn’t an accident and it didn’t just ‘happen;’ it was the very deliberate result of a combination of automobile and oil industry propaganda and US government policy back in the 1930s-1950s, motivated by several factors ranging from utopian modernist city planning to good ol’fashioned racism.
Some random sources to get folks started:
Does that actually make it easy, or just less hard?
(Je l’envisage sérieusement, d’ailleurs.)
There’s another '80s song on the tip of my tongue about how Gen X is gonna fix everything that makes me feel distinctly let down every time I hear it these days, but I can’t quite remember. It’s less metal and more pop, kinda halfway between “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby, but I don’t think that’s it. Any ideas?
I can’t claim that one because people were hating him before I was born.
The Internet is a massive force multiplier. This is why groups like the heritage foundation works to research how best to utilize it. They don’t focus their people on public protests or half the shit the left does.
That’s my point: the left doesn’t have the equivalent of groups like the Heritage Foundation to figure out how to do that force multiplication. It takes resources to do that, and the only people supplying the resources are doing so in service of capital, not against it.
Just think for a minute how many people have shown up to protests across the country for the past 10 years. Think of what they could accomplish if they instead created content like this.
A protestor and a trained think-tank analyist who does propaganda as their full-time job are not interchangable. You can’t just tell protestors to create content like the right-wing bot farmers instead; they don’t have the skillset for it. They also don’t control the platforms like Murdoch, Zuckerberg and Musk do, for that matter. There are many, many strategies that make right-wing propaganda so effective that left-wingers simply cannot replicate without a fuckton of money, no matter how much unskilled volunteer labor they have.
No one was harmed by the haka.
The vote was delayed.
Did he fucking stutter? If anything, it sounds like delaying the vote was an attempt to prevent harm.
Maybe some of the other members feel intimidated now.
That doesn’t count as “harm” either, you dishonest ass.
Twisted Sister: “We’re not gonna take it!”
Narrator: “They did, in fact, continue to take it.”
No it isn’t their full time job.
So you’re saying the staff at orgs like the Heritage Foundation aren’t getting paid? Where’s their $108 million in expenses (according to Wikipedia) going, then?
You keep making bullshit blanket statements. You need to understand that not all compromises are the same – what you compromise on and why matters. AOC was not ever going to get the party to budge on Zionism, so what’s the fucking point of destroying her credibility and effectiveness on other issues by tilting at windmills?
Speaking of which, you have no credibility and I don’t give a fuck about anything you have to say. Go away.
It’s also significantly more expensive than slate or a maverick.
Yeah, it seems like it’s in a different class than a Ranger/Maverick/Slate, at least in price if not size.
It also seems like they’re still in the “throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks” part of the design phase, talking about things like the midgate and the storage tunnel under the bed that might double as a footwell for third-row seating. Between that and the almost-cabover design (which I kinda like, but which would be pretty unpopular among people who care about crumple zones) I’m pretty skeptical that the Telo “truck” will make it to production, especially while keeping all those promised features and specs intact.
Edit: also also, I could be wrong, but I think there’s a point where towing capacity gets limited by how small the towing vehicle is in terms of weight and/or wheelbase, regardless of how strong its motor, brakes and frame might be. I’m a little concerned the Telo might be pushing that limit.
if AOC acts like that, how is she ethically any different from the likes of Pelosi?
If you’re too fucking stupid to understand things like compromise and strategic voting, that’s nobody’s problem but your own.
Take a really hard look at yourself
You need to take your own fucking advice and quit being a condescending dipshit.
Because it’s literally their full-time job.
I can confirm that the Maverick is pretty much exactly the same size as a '90s Ranger, having parked my Ranger next to one before. The proportions are pretty different though, with the Maverick having a larger cab (four doors) and a proportionally smaller bed. A Maverick (and probably the other two you mentioned) would definitely be a good choice for people who think they need a truck for personal use.
However, there is one problem with all of those vehicles, which is that none of them are actually trucks.
You can tell the difference between a truck and a not-truck (a car-based “ute,” like an El Camino) by the fact that there’s no gap between the cab and the bed. Real trucks have body-on-frame construction, not a unibody, and can have the pickup bed replaced with custom flatbeds or utility beds or whatever.
In some sense it often doesn’t matter because a unibody ute would fit most people’s needs just fine. Until you want to do actual truck stuff, and then it matters. For example, the Slate Truck is rated to tow 1000 lbs, the Maverick is rated for 2000 lbs (or 4000 with the tow package), and a '90s Ranger is rated for up to 6000 lbs. (Mine can’t do that – it’s an I-4 manual 4x4, which is the worst configuration for towing – but an appropriately-configured V6 automatic 2WD one can.)
They put in the work because the oligarchs are aligned with them, so they have a basically unlimited firehose of money to pay people to shill for them.
Meanwhile, leftists have to rely on volunteer labor.
Ah, yep, that was the one! I was thinking it might’ve been Phil Collins/Genesis, but when I looked through their discographies I didn’t recognize the title.
Thanks, not being able to remember was really bothering me.
Good point. Still, it was made in the '80s, by which time the Boomers should’ve known better about their [lack of] willingness to fix shit, so I hope you can understand my confusion.