• driving_croonerEnglish
      22·
      1 month ago

      More expensive, ugly and prone to malfunction to the rest of Tesla cars, also it came out at the same time that Musk embraced fascism openly, so anyone with a CT had to deal with the politics of that.

    • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      1 month ago

      imagine being the biggest fanboy of all time for something and every single person you talk to about it laughs in your face, including your own kids

      i have no sympathy for these people but they spent big big money on a deeply embarrassing purchase and are now desperately trying to justify it (imo)

        • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          1 month ago

          now that you mention it i feel sure they’re the same guy type, separated only by time. i’d throw $20 down on there being at least one family out there with a cybertruck dad and a nft-shithead son.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      I’m honestly surprised Musk didn’t make the cybertruck as oil-consuming as humanly possible because it is nothing more than an “own the libs” vehicle.

      I cannot believe I thought he was cool in like 2015.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    1 month ago

    the only thing that makes sense is this dingus bought a cybertruck and his daughter correctly made fun of him for it so he had to write a book where he was actually correct and his mean rude daughter sees the error of her ways

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        1 month ago

        Whenever I start reading something like this I really wish there were a section where it explains what this doofus means by ‘liberalism’

        The objections we liberals can offer always feel as feeble as a dad telling a teenage girl that she should be very careful riding in cars with other teens who drink. You sound like a schmuck compared to the cool boy who drives seat-belt-less with artfully tossed Hunter Thompson paperbacks on the back seat.

        ???

        Hunter S Thomas was a liberal though…?

        • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          12·
          1 month ago

          Apparently it’s having a reformist temperament

          To put it simply, Gopnik organizes the Right, Left, and liberals according to reaction, revolution, and reform. There’s a certain clarity and accuracy to the division, but because Gopnik’s idea of politics is primarily based on individual temperament, he’s drawn to a classification system that is essentially psychological. In his schema, conservatives are reactionaries, leftists are revolutionaries planning to bomb their way to utopia, and liberals are reformers committed to what Max Weber called the “slow boring of hard boards”—that is, parliamentary politics. This is how they’re oriented under liberalism, but liberals turn revolutionary when exposed to kings, and Marxists plan to proceed from proletarian dictatorship to communism step by nonviolent step. Hell, there’s even an important place in monarchism for wise royal reforms. But Gopnik is so committed to the temperamental model that he has been moved to question the wisdom of foundationally liberal campaigns up to and including the American Revolution.