This post is a bit off-topic: it’s about anti-fascism, not anti-car-centricity. It’s great, don’t get me wrong, but it belongs in a different community. I’m not going to remove it for now since folks are already commenting on it, but please refrain from posting similar in the future.
Understandable, this was just the first community that came to mind
Wow, what a miraculous recovery!
It’s wild to think that the political valance of this has flipped 180 degrees. Not long ago, I would have assumed that this was done to trigger the libs.
If you have followed Elon Musk beyond just his public “tech guy” persona it’s not as much of a 180 as you’d think. At least in terms of Musk. The public perception of him has done a swap but I’d still say it’s inaccurate. The fact that we have a “party swap” on a billionaire like this is mostly testament to how both parties work for capitalist billionaire interests in their own way.
Musk has always been a narcissist. His political goals have always been aligned with his capital and seizing of power. If he could get to the same place he was today by being an oil Barron he would have done so. It should be a wake up call for people that associate their political beliefs with red or blue to realize how flexible these parties are in serving the interest of billionaires. And not necessarily a “shift” in Musk. Musk has always been this way.
Anybody who saw a literal billionaire as some sort of progressive pro-environment figure is beyond dumb.
Well, it’s the lie silicon valley has sold. A lie that is falling apart (hence the right wing shift of the tech oligarchs). The lie was “Making the world a better place” we could use technology to “fix” the contradictions of capitalism. It did this primarily through liberal aesthetic based improvements. Which a lot of every day people confused with actual progressive material improvements.
You’ll still see it today with people defending Bill Gates as he continues to maintain the aesthetics. Still seen as a “progressive billionaire” as inherently contradictory that term is.
This is a WWII vet. Them dying off is part of why fascism is back on the rise.
That and the absolute failure of “Denazification” in favor of “fighting communism” following WW2. The western powers aligned with former Nazis instead of purging them from any political position.
We’ve had a generation of Nazi sympathizer in power building to this moment. And while the actual brown shirts may be dead their children are very much trying to take up where their parents failed. Musk being an obvious example.
And while the actual brown shirts may be dead their children are very much trying to take up where their parents failed. Musk being an obvious example.
Citation needed here…give me a moment…
Oh wow. Yeah. Okay. Notable vocal racist Joshua Haldeman and more
TIL the true meaning of an OG
Really? In Fuck Cars? You’re celebrating an old dumb fuck destroying an EV with his vehicle that is far worse than any car will ever be?
So it’s not really fuck cars then, eh?
Sure tanks are def not good for the environment and EVs offer an easier method to getting to a distributed clean energy network, but lets just take a moment to appreciate the circumstance of a WW2 veteran destroying a modern day symbol of nazism and fascism.
Good use of tank.
This is what I would expect my late Grandfather and Great-Grandfather (both fought for USA in WWII) would be doing, and also probably punching their sons in the face for who they voted for 3 times in a row.
Eliminate hatred.
Eliminate the right.
cool…?
“I used my car-killing-car to kill a car with my car-killing-car. Also something something Nazis.”
I mean it’s a tank… what did you expect it to do? Age is almost a useless descriptor. It’s a giant tracked vehicle made to traverse major terrain.
Edit - def read that wrong in the doof ty for catching
I get the feeling you think the tank is 98 years old.
To be fair…
veteran Ken Turner used a Sherman tank, one of the most widely used tanks used by the US and its western allies against the Nazis in World War II
…the tank is WWII-era as well as its driver, so it’s at least 68 years old. (According to Wikipedia, the M4 Sherman was produced between 1942 and 1957.) Not 98, but definitely an antique.
I def read that wrong my mistake. Thank you for correcting
This guy is fun at parties.
This guy gets invited to parties?
Read the title again, it’s the driver who’s 98
