Well either they sell them at a loss or they just let them sit on lots forever.

Tesla would rather recoup some revenue than just scrap all their remaining inventory.

Let’s not pretend like these children aren’t having this behavior reinforced by their parents.

Obviously not, but lead contamination kinda is. This shit happens because of cost cutting.

At some point prices will get so low that it’ll make sense to buy a Tesla and rework the body so no one knows it’s a Tesla.

We tend to find older practices barbaric because they were unscientific and didn’t work, not because they became obsolete due to better technology. Like, lobotomies and shock therapy are barbaric and that has nothing to do with our technology being better. They were just stupid scams.

Iran is already under strict sanctions, what else is there? Pretty sure he’s powerless to do anything about this unless Huffpo is suggesting he should declare war on Iran.

I think this is a very strict small-r republican moral framework for understanding government legitimacy, but I don’t think the consent of the governed has to strictly come from casting ballots in an election.

When a government loses their legitimacy they have to rely on violence against their own people to remain in power, and this is true whether there are elections or not. Zelensky would lose power if he was not kidnapping Ukrainians off the street to fight Russia, therefore, he needs to employ violence to retain power.

Compare that with Hamas, who never lack fighters and don’t bother with conscripts because the masses are willing to fight and die for them.

Hamas is able to operate because of the many people willing to volunteer their help as smugglers/informants or hide them from Israel intelligence or join them directly as fighters. Guerillas live and die by their support from the people, a guerilla movement like Hamas would not be able to exist without the masses. Their continued existence, itself, proves legitimacy imo

Not to say that Zelensky has lost legitimacy, per se, just to say that I don’t think using a moral framework based on elections will tell the whole story. I do question his legitimacy, though, which is why I don’t think he’ll be in power next year. Hamas, on the other hand, isn’t going anywhere.

Would you say Ukraine’s government is also illegitimate because they aren’t having elections?

Okay, so by this logic Israel can revoke the legitimacy of other governments simply by preventing elections.

Hamas aren’t the ones preventing elections. They don’t lose legitimacy just because other parties have illegally halted the electoral process. They’re not the obstacle.

It’s only entrapment if you’re rich.

Deepseek, Huawei, Tencent - China isn’t just a factory for the West anymore. They’re not the go-to for advanced tech, but they’ve become a go-to for advanced tech.

I think it’s too late to slow down their growth.

This is classic underdevelopment, like how Europe and the US deliberately withheld vital equipment and machinery from Africa to prevent them from building their own industrial base.

It’s obviously way too late for this tactic to make any sense, though. China can’t be underdeveloped, they’re becoming a tech leader at this point.

Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty.

It’s not just a few anymore. Israelis are waking up and you shouldn’t be erasing the heroic Israelis who refuse to serve in the IOF. They’re also ethnic Israeli Jews, after all.

smdh this is why I only accept Xi bucks

Removing the US boot is a necessity first step.

Same.

Shit sucks for us, but lifting the US boot off the neck of the world will make up for it.

It was a pump-and-dump scam, I’m almost sure of it.

Someone made millions off of that Xeet.

Well the US should stop underdeveloping other countries if they didn’t want people to flee those countries.

Certainly, but Israel is Zionist.