This is me with mormonism. I never truly believed. The Bible and the bom were just stories to me. I tried, I really, really wanted to believe in it, to feel that "holy spirit" everyone was talking about, but I simply wasn't convinced. Everyone around me claimed to believe though, people that I trusted, so I thought that maybe I could fake it till I make it and it would eventually just "click". It never happened, and by my mid-teens I finally reached the point where I didn't even want to believe anymore. So, yeah, I'm also atheist now.
I've been seeing this attitude a lot the last few days "I see that you're doing something, but it's not a total and immediate fix, so fuck off". And you just know that the ones doing the criticizing haven't done and don't plan to do jackshit, because that same mindset justifies inaction in themselves. Either this place as a terrible pessimism problem (believable, Occam's razor and all that) or there's some people being actively, intentionally discouraging (idk, I don't doubt it. I've seen crazier propaganda).
Okay, that's creepy. I just saw an 11 minute video of the "diplomacy" meeting (I think the Forbes one), and I haven't even watched the one you linked, but I glanced at the comments and most of the highest upvoted ones are identical between the two videos. There's some serious botting going on.
I don't understand how it's possible for "retarded" to be a slur but "bitch" be fine. Either way you're turning immutable characteristics into an insult, so what's the difference exactly? I guess there's some contexts where it's not as bad, like when you hammer your own hand and yell "son of a bitch!". But as a sailor-mouth myself, directly calling someone a bitch, especially a woman, is vile to me. I don't care how big of an asshole she is.
As someone who grew up on Medicaid and free school lunch programs and shit and worked a string of shitty jobs to stay afloat, I thank my stars that I wasn't some billionaire's kid. They might even think that they're happy, but you can see it in their eyes they ain't.
I'm simply in favor of raking Tesla over the coals using the power of protest and purse.
... And selling a used Tesla does that how? Tesla sells new cars, remember? They made their money from that car already, it's too fucking late.
NGL, personally, if I had a Tesla I'd sell it because I don't want that image, but I'd be under no illusion that it hurt Tesla in any way. The only thing that changes is now some other dork is driving my old used Tesla around, except this new owner presumably has no shame about driving a Tesla or they wouldn't have bought it.
The only way I can think of to hurt Tesla as a used Tesla owner is to attack their reputation by continuing to drive it but slap on one of those "I bought this before Elon went crazy" bumper stickers, all while constantly complaining about the car to scare people out of buying a new one. I don't judge people for wanting to buy a Tesla in 2015. Selling it just guarantees that the next owner will be the type of person who wants to buy a Tesla in 2025, who I will totally judge. Financially, Tesla doesn't care which of these people owns the used, out-of-warrany car, but in matters of image, which do you think musk would rather have behind the wheel?
This is me with mormonism. I never truly believed. The Bible and the bom were just stories to me. I tried, I really, really wanted to believe in it, to feel that "holy spirit" everyone was talking about, but I simply wasn't convinced. Everyone around me claimed to believe though, people that I trusted, so I thought that maybe I could fake it till I make it and it would eventually just "click". It never happened, and by my mid-teens I finally reached the point where I didn't even want to believe anymore. So, yeah, I'm also atheist now.