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972·3 days agoTesla senior executives are meeting right now. They are ready to unleash a deluge of social media attacks to discredit the court decision. Attack. Attack. Attack. It’s all they know.
But in 2023, the New York Times magazine spent weeks investigating Tesla .
As a paying NYT subscriber (yeah, we exist), here is the full investigation:
It’s very clear that Mr. Musk knowingly lied about the safety of his Autopilot system.
As a result, innocents were killed. He simply believed he would never be caught.
184·15 days agoNope. I’m definitely not a bot.
I regularly post a lot of articles from some websites, but you will notice my patterns can be extremely irregular. There are some articles that I don’t find interesting/attractive, so I just don’t share them.
However, I do find the rise of sophisticated bots worrying.
I’m posting an absolute shit ton of content to support Lemmy.
You aren’t the first one to notice :)
They are not Bezos-rich, but for Charlottesville, Virginia, they are rich.
But they are rich homeowners. This isn’t vilification. It’s just a description.
If you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.
I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.
- His father owns an oil company in Canada.
- He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were Bush family kids.
- He attended Harvard University and Princeton
- His wife Heidi Cruz is a top executive at Goldman Sachs
This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.
9·1 month agoAs a non-Brit, I watch what’s happening like it’s a slow motion car wreck.
France has 2 round parliamentary elections.
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First round: You vote for someone to represent your constituency. Only 2 candidates remain.
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Second round: Two weeks later, it’s the second round. You vote for one of the 2 candidates that won the first round. The winner becomes an MP.
Throughout France, Marine Lepen candidates won 35% to 40% of the votes in the first round. They qualified for the second round. Luckily, in the second round, citizens rallied against Lepen candidates, voting for whoever was their opponent.
What will happen if Nigel Farage gets 35% or 40% 😲? You don’t have a second round…
If France used the FPTP voting system, Marine Lepen would be ruling the country with a huge majority in Parliament.
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I’m not British, so I should not get involved in British Politics. But privatizing water was a mistake of epic proportions. Keir Starmer needs to have some guts and nationalize it. Enough is enough.
The trash media (The Sun, Daily Hate Mail) talks about poor people stealing welfare, while corporate financiers stole BILLIONS OF POUNDS from you and your families:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4478wnjdpo
Who privatized water? Margaret Thatcher.
After her time in office, she became a lobbyist for tobacco companies:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-19-mn-4763-story.html
They even paid her birthday party:
Philip Morris’s chief executive, Geoffrey Bible, will chair the dinner. A spokesman for the company said: “Philip Morris is writing the Thatcher Foundation a cheque to cover the cost of the party. That leaves all the money made, like ticket sales, as profit to the foundation.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tobacco-giant-pays-for-1m-thatcher-bash-1576517.html
It says it all, doesn’t it?
Please take your water back!!! Write to your MPs.
It was always like this throughout human history. Elites take everything they can.
Representative democracy was supposed to create a balance. But representative democracy is failing because of :
1. MPs are allowed to have a second job. Many works as consultants/lawyers for big companies.
2. Donations to UK political parties are unlimited.
3. The UK voting system (FPTP)
These 3 facts are not a law of nature. Many European democracies operate completely differently.
Incentives matter. Show me the incentives of a political system, I’ll show you the outcome.