@njm1314@lemmy.world Oh look, we were just talking about this kind of issue! It's a damn shame how all these military people started gleefully firing on all the protestors, which always happens.
During heavy rain, flush-fit door handles have short-circuited, trapping people in their cars.
This whole thing roots back to Elon Musk being a twat.
He had a habit, in the early days of his involvement with Tesla, of demanding some particular change to the design (and being able to make it stick because of his position) because it would be "more awesome" in his mind. There were a bunch of them, which wasted millions of dollars even back in those much smaller-scale days, and the whole "electronic door handles" thing is that. It's obviously worse in pretty much every way (among them cost, reliability, and safety), but he thought it would be awesome, and he's a self-important blockhead who can't hear any criticism, and so here we are.
Absolutely not. It'll be much better for all concerned if he mentally deteriorates while he's still physically well, so that he's acting like a lost grandpa at press conferences, visibly shitting himself, forgetting what's going on in interviews and not even being able to cover it as well as he currently does his forgetting-what's-going-on-and-covering-it, all that stuff.
Let it play out to do as much undoing as possible to the cult of "Trump can do no wrong" because they're trying to double down to their friends and family about how he definitely didn't just spend five minutes yelling about "the Japs" and drooling when he was talking to reporters or something. That would be my wish, at least.
I haven't heard that his defense team is trying to claim that... I feel like if that was reality they would have. Maybe not, but I feel it.
Almost as if they don't particularly give a fuck about Charlie Kirk or anyone else outside their own family, really
Yeah. Also it's a fucking very, very first step start. Like "Now that I know you raped all those children you are NOT welcome at the Christmas party, mister." I mean, technically it's better than inviting them in, I guess.
I 100% assume that the McDonald's employee who called on him is fake in some way, and they tracked him down through some kind of spy apparatus shit and just don't want to give away their methods.
I have no evidence and I don't really know how these things work, it just seems way way more plausible to me.
Why was this life worth more than a school shooting victim or a starving Palestinian child?
Or the life of Melissa Hortman?
I mean, I know exactly why, but I would like to hear them explain it.
Sure, that's fine, and I agree with him on that. I am pointing out the way that "lesser evil" arguments seem to be embraced and warmed and welcomed when some entities are the target, and met with WHAT THE FUCK ANYTHING EVIL IS EVIL I WILL NEVER when some other entities are the target. Just the whole "lesser evil" type of argument coming from unruffled just automatically seemed hilarious to me.
Matthew Dowd No Longer With MSNBC After Furor Over Comments Following Charlie Kirk Shooting — Update
Meanwhile, every instance of something horrifying happening to a Democrat is featured on Fox News with Tucker Carlson squinting angrily into the camera saying it was all their fault, and he hopes it happens again.
I mean it is valuable, I guess, to maintain some standards of non violence even when "they" are not. I'm just saying the double standard is relevant.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd on MSNBC wonders whether the Charlie Kirk shooting may have been “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.”
Well... holy shit man. You can't say that on TV, even about a bad person.
Pretty much. Some decades ago, I read a story from a guy who didn't have a lot to do at work because things were poorly organized, and he created a script to just move windows around and enter numbers and gibberish on the screen, and he would leave that running and just sit at his desk daydreaming. Eventually he got promoted, because every time his boss stopped by, it looked like he was actively doing stuff (which wasn't true of most people there).
Not really... "not guilty" can mean, he didn't do it, or else he was temporarily insane because he was in pain from his medical condition, or even Ed Snowden's "yeah I did it and it was illegal but at the end of the day I was right to do it and I think I can convince a jury of that." Or just the OJ Simpson "let's talk about something else for a while and change the subject" defense. It could be a lot of things.
But I do get it that that might be their defense and they're just not saying anything about it because they're waiting for the trial to lay out anything at all about it.