Cylusthevirus

The GOP platform is now whatever a spoiled, narcissistic old fart is in his 70s is annoyed about today and I'm expected to just take these people seriously. I have to interact with them on a daily basis. There are tens of millions of the fuckers at least. How is this real life?

Jesus lived in a region conquered by the Roman Empire. Many of his fans at the time wanted him to be a conquering ruler and overthrow them. His answer in the text amounted to, "that's not why I'm here." Nominal Christians trying to install a Christian Government have missed the point of their own text so hard it's actually kinda funny.

Jesus: Share resources among those that need them, it's very hard for rich people to enter heaven.

His Followers: Temporarily embarrassed billionaires who idolize wealth and build literal golden statues of their favorite rich guy.

Jesus: Hangs out with tax collectors (i.e., agents of the Romans, who were not popular), hookers, low status foreigners, and people with terminal diseases.

His Followers: Ew, drag queens and brown people. Gross.

Jesus: Encourages non-violent responses to his own capture pending execution. Tells many parables about forgiveness and treating foreigners as neighbors.

His Followers: Immigrants are invading us! They terk our jerbs! BOMB IRAN!

Anyone seeing a pattern here? The reality is that Christianity isn't really a belief system for them, it's a cultural identity or tribal marker. You don't have to actually believe any of this shit or behave accordingly. All you have to do is say the right words and present the right image. Right wing Evangelical Christianity is a hollowed out husk; an empty aesthetic presenting as a belief system that promises that anything you do will be wiped away if you say the right words and give money to whatever charlatan is giving his Dollar General Ted Talk today.

Then what's the stuff in your original post about "being afraid of ideas?" Which ideas, exactly, were you referring to? Being nominally Communist and functionally Fascist?

The CCP are not an ethnic or national group, they're a malevolent political movement and opposing them is the farthest thing from xenophobia. They run China and create untold misery for Chinese citizens. Being originally from Singapore does not mean you're not working for the CCP and that is absolutely relevant to this situation. Data privacy is one issue, nation state surveillance is another. There are quantitative and qualitative differences between them and both must be addressed. Google, Meta, and Amazon et al need to be reigned in, broken up, and some board members should see jail time. TikTok, (yet another front for the CCP like ALL Chinese Corps), needs to be handled differently and the CCP's malfeasance should be exposed and talked about.

Compare and contrast Huawei and say, Cisco. Cisco's equipment is occasionally annoying and bad for consumers and their business practices suck. Huawei equipment is a national security risk. Big difference and you can't even get into that without referencing the CCP because they're driving it.

Tom Cotton's a dipshit and worded the question in the dumbest possible way, but stopped clock, etc.

What the fuck? The CCP is no more Communist than North Korea is a Democratic Republic. I don't give a shit about the CCP's ideas because there's only one they seem to care about: power. You can tell because of how they treat their own people. Corporations operating out of China are either controlled by the CCP behind the scenes or their leadership gets disappeared if they get too critical. It's happened a number of times; ask Jack Ma and several others ... if you can find them.

The fucking CCP is every bit as bad as the damned Nazis and anyone that simps for them should go live under their regime. I'm sure you'll have a great social credit score. Just don't depict Emperor Xi as Winnie the Pooh or watch the fuck out.

No one really cares that much about the D&D lore

You uh ... might want to walk that back a little before they show up.

Well ... then 1.5k for the good battery and other options and like ... another 5k for shipping related expenses. That blew my mind how expensive it was to import.

And you get a truck 3 dudes can pull backwards with a top speed of like 36mph. It's basically a very robust power wheels.

Oh, Biden ordered the invasion did he? Or should the rest of the world have just let Russia do whatever without a word?

Well no, of course they don't. But this company's options will be a) don't do that in Euro autos or b) don't do business in the EU. Which do you think they'll pick?

Complexity and additional maintenance. Anytime someone introduces stuff like this they should think about reliability. More doodads = more shit that can break.

Unless you parallel park constantly and can't make the existing methods of doing that work, I suspect this may not be worth it.

May not fly in the EU. Their data protection laws have actual teeth.

For some reason all I can see while looking this is the absolute mountain of paperwork it must have created.