splinter

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Politely, I think this comment is unhelpful. What do you propose that they do? Our government is based to a large degree on the assumption of good faith. The Supreme Court, for example, has power because the constitution says it does. They don’t have the capacity to actually enforce the rulings they hand down.

The current president has basically said that he doesn’t care about the constitution, and is just concerned with stealing power for himself and his cronies. Elections are supposed to be our mechanism for dealing with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I understood that. My comment was calling out OP.

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

Who said it resulted in no difference in voter turnout?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’ve just had a great idea! I’m going to create systems level change by posting memes attacking people for posting memes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Grow a damn backbone!

Self-righteously resigning only works if the other side wants the organization to continue functioning. Musk and his cronies want things to fail. This is literally what they want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Is plastic vegan?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I’m aware. The collateral for the credits are EV sales, hence my shorthand.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Please stop publicizing this asshole.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It appears at the moment that the instructions were acknowledged and that the helicopter pilots were mistaken about which plane they were avoiding, not that they ignored instructions.

And regardless, the purpose of an air traffic controller is to monitor traffic continuously. Having the prescribed number of atcs would have made space for the tower to see that the helicopter was on a collision course and act to avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You misread the sheet slightly. The total profit for the year was $7.1 billion, of which $2.8 billion was renewable energy credits. I.e. their profit would have only been $4.3 billion.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You are. Without the EV credits, Tesla would have folded years ago.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying his killing was justified?

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