Imagine that I googled for you and linked:
Articles about nationwide protests over the last few weeks
Articles about Teslas burning at dealerships
An article about a GOP headquarters building burning with ICE = KKK written.
Where have you been?
How is he not fired? Incompetence and ignorance is one thing, but when you combine it with effectively insubordination… well, you better be right. And he is not.
Honestly, I don’t think Lemmy, or any other anonymous social media can really counter this. Outside of heavy moderation in the opposite direction, anyway, which doesn’t feel great.
It’s just too easy for hostile governments to spin up as many dozens of accounts as they need to argue against you, argue on your side (but badly), and simply just drown you out. It doesn’t take much of that for real people to retreat. Why would you post an opinion that you know is going to immediately get shit on by a dozen “people”?
It was legitimately funny, when it was still a joke. The memes were good. There was no way that idiot was going to be a serious contender. It was all in good fun.
At least until someone would say, “you know this is just a joke, right?” Any kind of self-awareness was banned within seconds. Now I don’t know if you’re familiar with volunteer moderators, but it’s pretty rare that they catch that kind of volume 24 hours a day within seconds.
I fully believe there were state-level troll farms operated by a hostile foreign government moderating that subreddit.
… and now they’re applying that to the entire site.
That sounds like the_donald applied to the whole site.
If there’s a patriot running that prison, you can just release these political dissidents. You know they haven’t committed a crime. You know they’re being held illegally.
Maybe they’ll do what Trump does. Just agree to it and then don’t do it.
Seems to be only California Teslas for now.
to arrest them
to arrest whom?
No. As of 7 days ago, he has not been paid the $50 billion. The judge’s order is holding for now.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/elon_musk_appeals_voided_pay_package/
Did that actually get paid out? Last I heard the judge said no, multiple times.
I wouldn’t go after individual Tesla owners. It wasn’t always like this. They adopted the earliest and cheapest (in the US) EV. I won’t buy one now, but I would have three years ago.
I understand the dealership thing. Are most of them directly corporate?
The perfect example is the paranoid ethnostate in the middle east.
You say that, but are they wrong?
Let’s not water down the term “traitor” during, well… you know.
As long as it’s more and not less.
Plus it’s a great opportunity for dozens of trolls to push a republican narrative on social media. Maybe a message to anyone left-leaning to stop voting.
Even in the Cabinet it’s probably just Tulsi Gabbard that is guilty of treason. The rest are just idiots.
Now the Senate, however… There must be a reason impeachment hasn’t happened.
As long as there’s a clear confirmation dialog.
WaPo has changed to dark mode.
Hillary was wrong in the same way W was wrong and several before her.
It was shitty and borderline illegal, but not much more than smoking weed in the wrong state is illegal. Everyone else is doing it and the law is rarely enforced.
Hillary fully deserved a slap on the wrist. And it would be good if it stops. But it was also unusual to pick that time to enforce it.
And what these guys are currently doing is wildly more reckless and irresponsible. At minimum it disqualifies them from the job. Prison time should be a possibility.