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  • You know in 2021 I thought that the MSM was deliberately ignoring the issues with EVs and promoting overly rosy timelines as part of a political agenda.

    After seeing the massive amount of FUD they published about EVs over the past year, I think they are just bad at their jobs.

    It feels like the media covers EVs based on vibes versus doing actual research. As a result they've consistently publish articles that are either borderline nonsense hopium or complete doomerism.

    IMO I still think hybrids will be instrumental tech over the next decade. Those 300 mile EVs often get much worse range in weather conditions that are common in many parts of the country. It's also simply going to take considerable time for fast charging infrastructure to become ubiquitous enough to truly address range anxiety.

  • I get that social media seems to be a constant stream of outrage with nobody actually caring, but I think this story might actually derail her.

    There are articles in Fox News, NY Post, and other conservative media outlets about this. They are fairly critical. The fox news one includes tweets from a "country boy" who is like "there's a difference between taking an old animal out back and a fucking puppy".

  • I'm convinced this was a foreign attempt to stir up and/or signal boost controversy.

    Dude is the mayor of Baltimore. A DEI hire in that city would be a wealthy white man. It's also had serious issues for decades regardless of who was in charge.

    There isn't an American alive who doesn't know this. Trump commented that Baltimore was a rat infested shit hole. Obama commented that Baltimore had serious issues. There was a fucking Broadway musical where the opening song is how much the protagonist loves Baltimore where she giddily describes being surrounded by filth, sex offenders, and addicts.

    There are different types of ignorance. Calling the mayor of Baltimore incompetent due to DEI falls under the "living under a rock for several decades" type of ignorance that I have a hard time believing is common among Twitter users.

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  • Thanks for that last part.

    The reason I immediately jumped to the bullying is because I feel like I've seen this story a million times. Someone loudly proclaims some extremely popular moral opinions. In the process, they then proceeded to insult whatever morally defunct out group.

    At first it seems great. After all, bigots/Nazis are horrible people that need to be put in their place.

    However, over time, the definition of bigot/Nazi widens to the point where it essentially becomes meaningless, while the vitriol towards whatever group becomes more and more unhinged.

    I remember on reddit there was a sub called justneckbeard things. It started by roasting toxic neck beards. However by the end they'd just be posting pictures of obese nerds, making wild and completely unfounded moral assumptions, and then using those assumptions as a justification to bully people.

    I honestly don't think most of the people complaining about bigots are here to protect tolerance. I think they're just toxic people who enjoy being cruel.

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  • Ffs. Let's look at this thread.

    The top comments are by far just assholes. They dismiss and demean people like high school bullies. They are overly cruel, and blatantly attempt to justify that behavior like pretending their targets are just deplorable who deserve to be treated like this.

    I find it disingenuous that you focus on the comments downvoted to hell and completely handwave away this obviously shitty behavior.

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  • Please explain to me, in detail, how the people responding to my comments aren't being overly aggressive, outright hostile, extremely dismissive, and overall disrespectful.

    The main dude responding to me immediately called me a bigot, and is in other parts of this post is "joking" about how bigots should be burned. When I pointed out that was kinda fucked, he made a "joke" that I was a sexual deviant.

    This is high school bully behavior. You guys are bullies who tag people are problematic to justify shitty behavior.

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  • Oh fuck off. You are blatantly just an asshole using social justice as an excuse to justify your cruel behavior.

    50 years ago you'd be the type of person saying DnD players are satanists and bullying them in the name of Jesus.

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  • Okay so you'll notice I didn't have any specific criticisms of discovery listed, and people in this thread are calling me a bigot, dismissing my opinion, and being general assholes to me.

    There also is someone who comes in, implied that the legitimate criticisms that have nothing to do with identity politics are BS and the real reason OP doesn't like Discovery is that they are a bigot.

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  • You assholes hop into IPs that were longstanding homes of nerds and then act like high school bullies.

    Honestly I doubt you give two shits about social justice. You just use it as a justification to be a cruel asshole to people.