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Archaic first-past-the-post causing policy lurch once again.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So let me get this straight. They're selling EVs and literally pulling out the charging stations so you can't charge an EV but they're also.... buying a bunch of armored EVs from Tesla??

This is some real "the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" type shit.

If this fucking idiocy wasn't so god damned dangerous and wasteful it might be more funny.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like when Reagan removed the white house solar panels. Pure vice signaling

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From a different thread, we had a chat about this. "Whatever the opposite of virtue is". While in a literal sense the opposite of Virtue is Vice, it doesn't carry the same connotation. Someone mentioned "Scumbag signaling", and I think that's a better term.

Because, you have to admit, most vices feel great and are cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I agree and do enjoy many of the things labeled vice by the state. I don't consider them vices though. Greed, pollution, racism, those are vice.

I get what you're saying though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

more like deliberately favoring the business of one company over others to me. and with the industry voluntarily switching over to the nacs (iow, the tesla style charger), which company with an already developed dc charging infrastructure will benefit?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Exactly, they're removing them so they can buy new ones from Elon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yup. It's Standard Oil all over again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I don't know. Sounds efficient to me. /s

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I put together a little short story about how I would like to see Donald Trump meet his demise. Drowning in eggs:

The once-proud leader, now stripped of title and dignity, stands in the center of the barren, concrete abyss. The abandoned Olympic swimming pool—thirty feet deep, dry as bone—has become their final stage. Above, the gathered masses stretch in every direction, a writhing sea of anticipation.

They do not jeer. They do not boo.

They simply chant.

"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."

It starts as a murmur, a low thrum of human voices vibrating in unison. Then it grows, swelling into a deafening roar that rattles windows, that shudders in the bones of every person present. A chant as ancient as it is absurd, a single-minded invocation of punishment.

The first egg arcs high overhead, tracing a lazy curve before splattering against the fallen leader’s shoulder. The yolk bursts, oozing down his baggy, ugly, now-useless suit. A streak of yellow, the first of many.

Another egg. Then another.

Then dozens.

The first impacts make them flinch, stagger—hands raised in a futile shield. But soon there are too many to dodge, too many to deflect. They curl inward as the sky rains viscous judgment. The chant never stops.

"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."

Shells crack. Yolk drips. The scent of sulfur and shame thickens in the stagnant air. It coats their skin, their hair, their pride, turning them into something less than human. Something… egg-like.

At the top of the pit, a child—no older than seven—steps forward. They hold their egg with both hands, cradling it like something precious. Reverent. With a deliberate motion, they lob it downward. It strikes the leader square on the forehead, exploding with an almost musical plap. The crowd erupts into a fresh crescendo of cheers, but the chant never falters.

"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."

No escape. No reprieve. The pit is smooth concrete, slick now with raw egg and humiliation. They can do nothing but stand there, endure, become part of the ritual.

Somewhere in the throng, a vendor hawks boiled eggs. Another sells cartons to the unprepared. A man in a chicken suit waves encouragingly at the crowd.

The night wears on, but the spectacle does not end.

It cannot end.

Not until the last egg is thrown. Not until the last voice is hoarse.

Not until the world is rid of this one, failed leader, broken not by swords or exile, but by the inescapable weight of public yolk and scorn.

"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Eggsellent!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The inescapable weight of public yolk

Lol nice

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Efficiency! Stupid fucking traitor to the US and our only livable planet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

But those eggs are gonna be cheaper, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

President musk is on board with this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Soooo.. when's the auto auction?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Are they going to bring out the coolaid so we can all move on with our lives or whatever is still functionally left?