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"I have lots of progressive ideas in my head, I'm actually immune to propaganda despite my actual behavior that is entirely consistent with capitalist ideology"

AOC buying a Tesla isn't "weird" or "anti-socialist", rationally navigating marketplaces to find loopholes is within the ideological framework of being a technocratic PMC under neoliberalism. The entire idea of 'tax rebates for electric vehicles' is probably one of Biden's main accomplishments lol

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

AOC's mysterious death in a solo car accident countdown clock starts ticking

brace-cowboy "I fuckin' told ya, bro! Didn't I tell ya! Shoulda' listened to me!"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

"I drive a Tesla but I'm not a freak, I'm just exploiting the tax rebate lol" ideology isn't what you believe, its what you do

You shouldn't buy the overpriced, defect ridden car from the company run by the mobbed up business psycho plutocrat of the 21st century, Tesla.

You should buy the overpriced, defect ridden car from the company run by the mobbed up business psycho plutocrat of the 20th century, Ford.

The entire idea of 'tax rebates for electric vehicles' is probably one of Biden's main accomplishments lol

He's just recycling the same schtick that gave us Bush's roads full of Hummers in the early 2000s. The Cybertruck is the Zoomer's version of the H2 / Suburban / 4Runner.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn I really haven't seen a Hummer is a while. They're all a different kind of swollen thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been seeing more hummers than i have in a decade. I don't know where they all came from, its like people who got hard seeing the hummer EV but couldn't afford one found a loop hole.

I don't know where all these H2 and H3s came from but i'm amazed they're even still on the road.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been seeing a lot of those big chonky Rivian trucks. I don't even expect to see a cybertruck at this point

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The Rivians are basically compact vehicles compared to the Hummer EV and the cyber truck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm taking the third position and getting a Volkswagen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

TIL, the Third Way is just a lane on the Autobahn.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

AOC buying a Tesla is completely on brand for her art house progressive PMC aesthetics and values, which she has demonstrated again and again. I'd have been more surprised if she had bought an actually good hybrid like a RAV4.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Spitting straight fire here

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

...mostly from the battery compartment about five seconds after going over a speed bump in a strip mall parking lot

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

who gives a fuck, tying ideological expression to product or media choices is a mistake. gotten to the point where people think reading one book but not another is activism.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I wouldn't buy a Tesla, but doesn't this fall under "no ethical consumption under capitalism"? I'm not personally entirely thrilled by that phrase, but I've heard it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well thats true but i think thats more reserved for basic commodities not the overhyped, overpriced self crashing Elon Musk car

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It’s also applicable to EVs, just not the overhyped, overpriced self crashing Elon Musk car

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just to get some clarity, is the argument here that buying a Tesla is capitalist ideology because Elon? Is it that being motivated by “muh tax break” is fundamentally the same mentality as the bourgeoisie? Or is this it driving a car instead of taking public transit?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The middle one I think. Probably trying to make some point about purposefully choosing to participate in capitalist social reproduction

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That doesn’t really make much sense to me even though I hate Elon M*sk and would love another reason to dunk on his worshippers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yea idk what op is on either tbh

If Tesla made good EVs and the state is subsidizing it and I need an ev, I'll take advantage of it lol, motivations behind the subsidy be damned

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

AOC buying a Tesla isn't "weird" or "anti-socialist", rationally navigating marketplaces to find loopholes

I mean, don't most of us do that? I've been exploiting loopholes in Costcos warranty policy for years.

Telsa sucks and all but idk how this is any different from her buying a CRV besides aesthetics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Caring about AOC's choice of car is the real error

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

The solution is to stand in solidarity with our lesbian sisters and buy or preferably steal a Subaru

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I just do it for the diamond lanes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

imagine buying a car lmao

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I say this about twitch streamers, why are you falling for a MLM but ur a socialist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I mean yeah but also is buying a Tesla worse than buying any other kind of car? This is why I bought a motorcycle from ~~Russia~~ Kazakhstan instead.