Being middle class always struck me as having a moderate amount of disposable income after all regular life expenses.

I’ve been getting shit since “Bad and Bougie” became a thing that the bougerouise were “middle class” in pre-revolutionary France.

Because “middle class” isn’t a mathematical range, class are not defined that equally.

In modern America we have:

1. Oligarchies

2. People who don’t have to worry about money.

3. Homeowners living paycheck to paycheck

4. Renters living paycheck to paycheck.

Really you could combine 3 and 4, but home ownership is one of the last big investments people have. When “American middle class” became iconic, homeownership was just taken for granted.

It’s a vague outdated system to expect there’s only 3 classes in the American economy

If I lived within driving distance of DC or a Tesla factory I would be…

Thought that was clear:

lots of Americans would love to switch locations with you so they could have the opportunity you’re wasting.

Websites publish what people will click.

People will click what’s shared on social media. And people will share this stuff just like they will slow down for a car crash.

With stuff like ad blockers, they’re also catering to people who still don’t use ad blockers. So, lowest common denominator

Protesting a dealership when no one wants to buy one is performative.

Where protests should be happening is factories because even if Musk has to shut down one day, that is expensive, and it’s expensive to start it back up again.

So what’s really effective is protesting factories and not letting workers in.

For a day or two.

Then leaving till it’s started back up for a couple days, and just repeating that. Make them open and close production constantly. Make Tesla workers tires of the bullshit, better yet make Musk fire them so they get severance and unemployment.

So:

Look at the risk/reward of what you want to do/say at a dealership. Nothing you put on a sign is going to change anyone’s minds.

To quote a saying that’s been around for way to long:

You can beat the charges, but you can’t beat the ride

Meaning it doesn’t matter if what you’re doing is illegal, cops can still beat you, take you to jail, and just drop charges 10 minutes before you get to see a judge.

Edit:

moderately upscale suburb of DC with a particularly liberal (not leftist, liberal) population base. The protest has been happening every Saturday for several weeks now, and usually pulls around 200-300 people

Why the fuck is 200-300 people next to DC not fucking protesting politicians?

I assumed you were in some random city, you all are literally right next to DC and instead of taking advantage of that you’re wasting your time with this?

Go fucking protest the actual government in DC, lots of Americans would love to switch locations with you so they could have the opportunity you’re wasting.

Especially since DC is probably the last place that needs people to be discouraged from buying a Tesla right now.

Not good enough…

Whoever he texted “no nudes, yet” too is also a shit bag and as much as cops love getting phone records, they can prove it if they weren’t habitually looking the other way till something becomes national news.

Because her husband never sought professional help for his mental health problems and was never officially diagnosed with PTSD, the VA denied Linda’s claim to receive dependent death benefits – a tax-free monthly payment worth thousands of dollars a year.

Yeah…

If you’re not in the system, the surviving spouse is going to have a lot more difficulty after you pass than if you’d have done it while alive.

Especially right now, I doubt the motivations of the author presenting this like the VA is doing something wrong

You might find this interesting:

https://piainsagency.com/car-dealer-insurance-coverage/

But you’d definitely find it informative.

It’s like Red Green used to say.

The symbolism is destroying an entire company.

Musk doing multiple Nazi salutes on national television at CPAC did more, his rampant cuts of the government did more to hurt Tesla’s image.

Especially because those are the big reason for protests…

Like, what you’re doing is saying the reason people don’t like a convicted murderer is they were convicted.

That is them facing consequences.

The protests are a consequence not a cause.

Do you honestly think people think that destroying some cars will bankrupt him?

I have tried explaining multiple times how that makes him money…

How would something that makes someone money ever bankrupt them?

That’s a rhetorical question, I’m not wasting anymore time on unproductive things

We need more punks, but we need more of other stuff too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHhIoUxOisM

…

Ok

So, in that clip the joker had taken money from someone, and is destroying it.

You get that?

An unsold Tesla, if set on fire, will make Tesla the same as if you gave them cash for MSRP.

That is more profit then if you bought one because they’re sold under MSRP right now for 0% interest.

Does just… Literally anything I am saying make sense to you yet?

The joker destroyed wealth, but destroying an unsold Tesla gives musk more money than if you purchased it

Now listen here old chap…

Sometimes people listen to Drill in the mornings to stay awake and codeswitching isn’t always a conscious behavior.

The cost to insure a Tesla Model 3 went up 30 percent last year.

I’d absolutely love to understand how these protests raised insurance rates for the year before the protests started.

Cuz buddy, that’s basically time travel, and it would be fascinating to learn how it works…

But what’s probably more likely, is the stuff I just explained, and your article agreed with me on.

I have zero idea if you’re agreeing with me intentionally tho, because you literally just put a link with zero context.

Anyone smart enough to not like it is stuck in a perpetual state similar to Chidi seeing the Time Knife.

Bruv…

Are you under the impression for insurance for a manufacturer on their existing inventory is the same thing as a random person’s insurance on a personal vehicle?

Edit:

And the liability to insurance companies has existed for a long time…

Tesla locks down their supply chains, there’s no option besides “manufacter parts” and Tesla sucks at making them.

So a fender bender could be months to get fixed, and insurance may be on the hook for rentals for that period on top of higher than average repair costs, which leads to Teslas being marked “totaled” when others would be repaired …

Like, I agree in spirit, but you just don’t understand what’s happening…

But if you set a Tesla on fire at a Tesla lot…

You just made Elon more money than if you bought it.

That’s important for people to understand

This whole time I can’t help but think…

What’s the point in burning unsellable cars that take up real estate on sales lots?

If you burn them Elmo gets the MSRP (probably more) from insurance, if you don’t burn them, no one is buying it anyways. The few that are, use the 0% down 0% apr loans and Tesla loses money on those.

Setting a Tesla on fire in 2025 makes Musk more money than buying one.

Let them rot on the lot.

Quick edit:

If you want something that will help, organize protests at the manufacturing plants.

We don’t need to protest stores that have zero buyers anyway…

But shutting down and restarting production lines is insanely expensive. And Tesla workers are almost guaranteed to hate their job already. That’s the weak point, that’s where pressure should be applied.

But…

Schumer just gave them the budget votes and increased presidential powers…

trump continuing to act like trump is as unpredictable as Hitler not stopping at Poland…

Who could have seen that coming?

They had to use a lazy Photoshop of kids running wild in a museum, because literally any museum can, should, and would kick them out immediately.

Not reading the article (why is an article even posted here) but the author is at best writing an article they know will piss people off.

It’s rage bait, which is likely why OP posted it

Do you know engines?

Clock speed is basically RPM. And core/threads are cylinders.

So a 4 cylinder 1.8L engine at 5k rpms isnt necessarily doing more than a 350 v8 at 4k rpms.

So the numbers do mean something but you can’t just pick the one with the biggest number either.

Tomshardware.com isn’t what it used to be, but they keep an updated cpu list of how good they are at different workloads.

Tell someone “don’t get upset” and they’re gonna lose their shit

Tell them “don’t panic” and they’ll listen most of the time.

Diminishing returns.

4k on a 75in and 8k on a 75in isn’t a big difference.

Not to mention most streaming content is 1080 for bandwidth and tvs upscale to 4k. So while there is difference, it’s hard to quantify upscaling, and even if you find a store with displays, they’re being fed native 4k.

If you go to rtings.com or a similar site you can compare specifics and see that there is advancement happening.

It’s just not like back in the day when they could keep doubling resolution.