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  • This isn’t a concept vehicle, it’s the Cadillac Celestiq. Got to test drive one once; feels great, handles great. Emphasis on “rich” Shadowrun villain though. Lucky for you, if you have a spare 350K lying around, it can be yours today! Promo article of a Cadillac Celestiq, GM's luxury station wagon EV

    (obligatory fuck GM, they as a company are personally responsible for this car-dependent hellscape we live in, for the destruction of many communities, and of course they are happy to provide luxury vehicles for the wealthy to navigate it as painlessly as possible. This is not an ad and my knowledge of this vehicle was acquired involuntarily. The least I could get out of it was a turn at the wheel.)

    Also, consider this an official petition to bring back (affordable) station wagons (yes, that is what this is) in the EV age instead of bending over backwards to get any sort of useful range out of trucks (including the ones masquerading as SUVs.)




  • I’m saying there didn’t need to be results tampering for the election to be a sham. The ruling class doesn’t need to undermine their own system in such an obvious way in order to get the results they want. So even if the precise count was perfectly understood, with perfect transparency and security, it would still be trivially easy for the wealthy and powerful to manipulate the outcome as a class, to manufacture their own voter base, and obfuscate their individual roles in doing so. The exact count of the election isn’t the only thing that operates on blind faith.

    So let’s say we spend all our energy fighting for perfect election transparency, whatever that means, to be and remain the case forevermore. For what? So we can vote for a person that might win, and if they win might implement their platform, and if that platform is effective might solve some of our problems, and if those problems are solved we might be making progress towards a society that might be more equitable? And when one or all of those cases don’t follow, as all evidence and history points to being the case, then we can finally feel justified in pointing fingers at other voters who are just as powerless as we are? Why don’t we just cut to the chase and fight for a system that grants direct power to the majority, the working class, and eliminates the influence of capital?

    We’re arguing over stale crumbs right now man, over a party that did everything they possibly could to tell us they would not be addressing our needs, come on this is silly and a distraction at best. Whether or not we operate on the assumption that Trump’s win was legitimate, the system is just as rotten and the path to moving beyond it is exactly the same.

    Excuse me for making assumptions and wall-of-texting you but this whole voter blaming thing really gets under my skin and the election tampering meta to me lands way too close to that conclusion for my tastes.