Agree, but right now we have bigger fish to fry. We are in chemotherapy mode to save democracy, anything that hurts Tesla is good for now. We can debate the pros and cons of the dealership business model if we survive.

Hey thanks for the input, this helps!

One of big hurdles with therapy is finding a therapist that won’t gaslight me with capitalist propaganda when I express political or career angst. Being well adjusted to an insane system is not the goal I’m looking for.

The voter turnout was very low, Trump’s active supporters are more like a third of the country, which is still too much, but not insurmountable. And many of those were just one issue voting dummies. I think Trump’s hardcore base is closer to 20%.

No one is looking to incite a civil war, even if many people on both sides fantasize about it. War is grueling and terrible and we are still too comfortable to risk it. BUT. I think preparing ourselves for the eventuality is wise. Really the best move we could make would be a general strike. It’d be a bloodless deathblow to this stupid stupid situation.

Hannah Dugan is a hero and a patriot

I think he just needs the boots and spurs to fill out the costume

Honestly if we treated each other as well as we treated dogs we’d already be in paradise.

If we break Tesla, we break Elon. Keep the pressure on!

For sure. Not that we don’t have problems, but corporate overlords mining our data or censoring us for political back scratching aren’t among them. That’s all imma trying to say.

Based on the comments, I’m not so sure. Louder for those in the back.

Bluesky is a for-profit company that is capitalizing on the Xodus. They may be better for the time being, but the march for more and more profit will end the same as it always does. Enshittification. They are not the good guys, the fediverse is.

Agreed. My beef is mostly with generative AI, which is deeply unethical in its training and implementation.

Yes and that is not sustainable, eventually you gotta pay the piper. At some point you have to be profitable. LLMs are great at a very limited use case, but these tech charlatans want to shove it everywhere for everything and it pisses most of us off. I can’t imagine any regular person paying for it.

You’re assuming there will be a next time. When the AI bubble bursts, and it will, the whole economy will go down with it. AI companies are massively in debt and have a product that ranges from utter shit to kinda okay, and absolutely no sane way to monetize it. Everyone outside of tech, you know, the customers, fucking hate AI. It has stolen their work, jeopardized their livelihoods, wasted their resources and made the most insufferable asshats in history very wealthy.

Ha! I’d love to read a hillbilly lotr

Be peaceful but prepared for the possibility of violence. There has to be a threat behind the protest or it is for nothing. It has to cause pressure. It has to make life difficult for power. Sometimes that means disobeying police and causing damage. By no means, start a riot, but if the police order you to disperse, make them make you disperse. I recommend people to open carry at protests. It sends the message that we aren’t afraid to fight.

Excessive wealth concentration is an existential threat to humanity on the scale of the atomic bomb or supervolcano.

For the first time in awhile, I’m proud of my dumb state. Way to send Elon home crying!

Want to help? Plant pollinator gardens. Easy peasy. Even some pots of local wildflowers on your patio. It all helps.