In fairness, Volkswagen has done far worse than Tesla.
Dishonesty, law-dodging and other psychopathic behaviors is a feature of corporations and their owners. It's part and parcel of how enterprises must conduct themselves to thrive in ultra-capitalist societies. This is not limited to the most visible corporate psychopath in the United States or his companies.
You know where else subpar doctors find employment? Insurance companies. A lot of doctors who aren't good enough to be actual doctors serve as medical insurance claim adjusters.
That's one helluva team of mercenaries you're gonna need to storm that ultra-militarized Salvadorian concentration camp and sift through 40,000 innmates all dressed in white with shaved heads to find the poor dude whose life Trump ruined.
The 3rd Reich lasted 12 years and Trump's regime is mirroring the Nazis pretty closely. I expect it will last a few years too until it's overthrown, sadly.
I agree with you that you can't change the past and you can only change the present - and that's it's not terribly constructive to say coulda-shoulda.
But honestly... It takes a particularly dim-witted individual to vote for Trump the first time, and a complete and utter moron to do it again the second time. It's not like nobody could see any of this shit coming, and anybody with an IQ above room temperature knew this was gonna happen. That's what's so damning!
The time to rise against Trump was before the election. Because frankly, unless you're willing to risk being shipped off to a concentration camp without due process or worse, whatchagondo about it now...?
Don't create evidence for the GestapoICE to come get you and send you to a Salvadorian concentration camp some day. It's not smart to post what you think on the internet these days.
Indeed. I fully believe Apr 14, 2025 will be the date chosen by history and whatever equivalent of the Nuremberg trial of Trump and his henchmen a few years from now for the official beginning of the US dictatorship.
I am indeed lucky because the company I work for cares about its employees. It's literally written in the company statutes: the company exists to make money of course, but first and foremost to serve its workforce and the community, and takes decisions to maximize the well-being and the personal growth of the employees and the community.
We took an honest look at including AI in our workflow, but we decided it wasn't worth the social destruction. Only a few employees use it - mostly the marketdroids to generate illustrations on the sales literature.
I am aware that this is a rare type of company and I cherish that job.
I didn't say America was a real democracy. Everybody knows it's a plutocratic, gerontocratic, racist former slavers' republic that pretends to be a democracy - and everybody else around the world has been following suit for decades out of convenience.
What I said was that it will officially cease to be a democracy the minute Cheeto and his henchmen flat out refuse to obey the judges. Because lawlessness is the most basic, most easily recognizable, and most consensually recognized sign of a dictatorship.
They stopped the shipments cold türkiye.