(While I get what you’re going for, I think it might possibly be not very flattering to consider this an uncommon word. For example, moratorium weeks are very common in highschool / college gridiron football)

I’m sorry, it appears you have eaten the onion.

I’m a tech entrepreneur, satire writer, and the fearless leader of the top venture capital firm in the world - Jabroni Capital.

Additionally, I’m not sure why blocking me is being treated as a threat - That would effectively put me in a situation where I could provide my commentary on your assertions without the need to engage with you directly. You’re largely ignoring what I’ve said already; in terms of my experience, the difference in our interactions would be minimal.

That screenshot is of an ironic subversion of a common and heavily criticized sentiment, “I’m not racist, my best friend is black!”. It takes it to a satirical extreme by implying that he would consider the association between himself and a literal black object to be the same as between himself and a black human, calling out the absurdity of the trend of “tokenizing” black acquaintances to get a “pass” on behavior. It is not an example of the poster being racist.

Anyways: That you have to assert their motivations conform to your opinion, instead of being able to show how this in any way makes a generalized statement, is pretty conclusive. This implies that the association the poster made is not clear enough for you, an intelligent person, to be able to demonstrate it through their words or framing alone.

If you want to be specific about the comparison between Saddam/Obama, it still isn’t the same - Trump is trying to compare Obama to that one person to imply negative characteristics. The example in the meme makes no comparison except arguably between a notorious anti-western leader and several of the companies poised to collapse the western economy. It doesn’t seem like an unfair comparison there - Osama Bin Laden rather famously predicted this exact situation, and as he was a very intelligent person with a prestigious education in both western culture and economics, it’s not unreasonable to think he would find the irony in this juxtaposition. It is, after all, damn near the perfect example of the culmination of his work.

Context is critical: The phrase is not being used in a racist way here - osama is the name of a specific and notoriously vile person - and invoking it doesn’t automatically make something racist. The assertion is that a particular individual is a bad person, but it says nothing about the group that person is a part of. Trump’s goal is to imply an association with a particular race/nationality that racists are biased against, and by extension that obama must be bad because of that association. It’s asserting that a specific person is a member of a group, and therefore that person must be bad.

I mean yes, I’m aware of why they’re doing it. The “tasteless” part is using yet another brutal murder of a young woman by her boyfriend, who is now trying to claim insanity, as a springboard to dunk on a completely unrelated case. Karoline Heintz really deserves better than having her death reduced to little more than an excuse to post twitch-chat-tier one liners.

(Edi: sorry, for clarity - My initial comment was to point out that this doesn’t really seem like an example of Good Christians defending the boyfriend, since everyone in the image seems like they’re doing so ironically)

These all seem extremely sarcastic? They’re just tastelessly riffing on the Lindsay Clancey trial.

… That’s all? Fuck that’s bleak.

Everyone is really readily accepting of china potentially spying on them whenever this topic comes up, and I’m just kinda curious why you think chinese companies don’t sell that user data to western companies just as western countries do for china?

I’m curious what the current numbers are - the dealerships in my area can’t keep EVs in stock they’re selling so fast. I had to go to fully another state to pick mine up.

Yeah, even low midrange EVs will out accelerate a gas car by a kinda comical amount, and the horsepower you can get is ridiculous. It’s always hard to resist smoking the douchy camero in my neighborhood when he peels out at a green light.

Also, pro tip: if your car has a recovery eye, pick up some decently strong tow straps or chain to keep in the car - many EVs are deceptively heavy and will snap the cheap common straps.

… You know there are places other than the US, right? It seems like a really unhealthy mindset to assume everything you can’t personally relate to must therefore automatically be about America.

For whatever blessed reason, I read this in in the voice of JK Simmons

I came upon a silly scene,
As they opined 'bout blue,
“The lemming’s comment rhymes!”, I screamed
An experience quite new!

Lmfao dude do it, I love it when people respond in a way that’s novel/interesting/silly. And honestly, as someone who loves puns because I am a big 'ol cornball, coming up with good horny-but-relevant puns is hilarious. There’s a few of us that are just in it for the fun, but Lemmy is at that awkward stage where there’s not enough engagement to make it feel encouraging for the newbies, but still enough that the big posting services feel it’s worth it to respond. Shouting out that you appreciate the non-corpo posts (and not downvoting dudes who post nudes, damnit!) does wonders for growing a nsfw community.

Fucking hell, and all drags on and on…

I can only answer for myself, but in that case then we’re going to figure something out. It would be a shitty situation, but not one that can’t be overcome with the power of friendship!

(Which sounds like a joke but nah really that’s how that would work out)

Wouldn’t the answer be “for what?” I’ll help a friend out with medical payments or car stuff if they can’t commute no problem - if they’re asking me for cash for something dumb, I’m probably not friends with them in the first place.

Yes, and although wear on the mechanical components of the drive system (axles and differentials especially) is higher with EVs (which accounts somewhat for their frequent appearance on that and similar lists), the model 3 (and particularly the refresh model 3) suffered mightily both from being an early entry into consumer EVs and from Tesla’s descent into fascism impacting their design. That’s in no small part why I was talking about user experience, and not mechanical reliability (the Model Y, apparently the 2nd most popular EV in china, doesn’t seem to have shown up on the list? But I’m not sure if that’s because it’s actually more reliable, or simply because they’re uncommon in Germany/Austria)

(parenthetical asides are like garlic - you can never have too many)

(Edit: Sorry, forgot this bit. The interface is likely not the whole of the cause - although this has for some reason barely been studied, if it were at the heart of the problem you would see similar accident rates / rate increases among similarly infotainment-heavy models; and they do show an increase, but not anything as dramatic as with the Teslas. It may be down to UI differences, though that seems unlikely, but until there’s more research we’ve few options besides simply speculating in the wind.)

You’re most welcome lmao, thank you for the opportunity! And rest assured I’m not defending Tesla here, just explaining their unfortunate popularity in the Chinese (and to a lesser extent world) market.

Insightful, yet shedding all excess verbiage - an excellent allegory for the cultural minimalism I mentioned earlier. Thank you!