I stand corrected!

The Olympics is literally a competition between countries. Of fucking course it’s political!

More to the point, coverage in other countries did not edit it out. This was uniquely American censorship/spin.

WTF you talking about? If anything, aquiline noses are associated with Romans, not Jews.

🍊🤡, surely?

Sleazy data brokers are softer targets [for protests] than ICE itself. Just sayin’.

“Raison d’etre”

(Not sure if you didn’t know or were just betrayed by auto"correct")

And besides, what’re they gonna do, put them in prison?

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be” – Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts

In factual reality, you own every bit of hardware the thing comes with and every capability of it. Anybody who tells you otherwise is a goddamn liar and a thief!

End. Of.

Edit: I downvoted you because of the “technically they haven’t paid for the feature yet” part, not the “it’s cheaper to manufacture without having a second line” part. Make no mistake: everyone who buys the vehicle pays for the feature. Some are getting swindled into paying for it twice.

Flock is a terrorist organization.

Except it is, because the Republicans make it political.

There’s not a left or right wing way to trim a tree. There’s a correct way and a wrong way. It’s about how many miles they need to do in how much time.

Yeah, and the Republicans want to force it to be done wrong while claiming the opposite. It’s nonsense, but you can’t deny the nonsense exists.

It only takes one side to politicize.

Probably not!

It’s not as if the Republican dipshit actually knows anything about the subject. He’s just mouthing off with a self-serving post hoc fallacy. In reality, he has no fucking clue whether the pruning was done correctly or not – and it probably was done correctly, given that the workers hired by the utiilty were actual arborists – because the mere fact that the power lines fell is not by itself proof of error. It’s entirely possible, for example, that the storm was so extreme that no reasonable amount of pruning (i.e. anything short of clear-cutting) would’ve saved those wires!

And if the utility had gone “anti-woke” and clear-cut them, he would’ve just been bitching in bad faith about that instead.

If the utility company actually cut their tree-trimming budget to save some canopy, then that is a massive management failure, full stop.

You’re falling for the bullshit. They didn’t “cut the tree-trimming budget.” If they spent less (which is disputed by the utility, BTW), it would’ve been because they employed actual arborists who did all the pruning they thought was actually necessary, and that turned out to save money compared to indiscriminately hacking them up like they’d been doing before.

The Republican morons are accusing the utility company of caring about the tree canopy, using skilled professionals to do a more careful job, and saving money in the process. That’s what they’re trying to spin as somehow a bad thing!

The article references another article from a “conservative media outlet,” which itself references a video interview the “woke NES CEO” apparently gave (months ago, before the storm). Here’s a direct quote from that second unashamedly-biased article:

During an August 2025 appearance on Urban League Live, Broyles-Aplin said NES – which she noted outsources its tree trimming – avoids aggressive trimming practices and instead relies on species-specific plans overseen by in-house arborists.

“We care about the canopy. We have to live here too,” Broyles-Aplin said at the time.

“And so I don’t want us out destroying the canopy,” she added. “We do species specific trimming…We take a lot of pride in making sure that we are cutting the trees in a healthy fashion.”

…that’s it. That’s their smoking gun, that they think is so terrible. The most damning things the ‘woke Democrat’ said in the interview: “car[ing] about the canopy” and “cutting the trees in a healthy fashion.”

Okay, I don’t think you understand the point I was making.

I’m not saying I think there’s anything “woke” about tree trimming, or that having certified arborists who know what the fuck they’re doing is somehow a bad thing – the notion is ludicrous.

What I’m doing is explaining why they (Republican morons) claim there’s something “woke” about tree trimming (i.e. explaining the kernel of truth that they’re twisting out of proportion to form the basis of their lie), and how they’re wrong.

Going back to the beginning, you wrote…

“He seems to be saying it’s a Democrat value to do things wrong on purpose?”

…and I was explaining how, although that’s what the Republican moron might claim, it’s ass-backwards compared to factual reality.

What he’s actually saying is that it’s a Democrat value to do things right on purpose, and complaining about it. That’s an even more insane and broken mentality than you gave him credit for.

To continue your EMT analogy, it’s like if Republican morons were bitching and moaning that trained paramedics were a thing, and wanted ambulances to be staffed by quacks doing bloodletting and trying to balance bodily humours instead. (Which, with RFK Jr. in charge, probably isn’t far off!)

I don’t fucking care. It is dangerous to underestimate him (or his handlers, or whatever – doesn’t matter!).

What matters is that he doesn’t have to be smart or literate to have his brownshirts murder you, so it’s way past time to quit treating him like a goddamn joke!

You’re the one who doesn’t know how any of this works. Haven’t you ever heard of an arborist? They even have a professional standards organization that offers certifications and everything.

More to the point, the article references this interview where somebody from the electric company apparently describes their pruning standards. If you think such standards don’t exist, explain WTF you think is going on in the interview!

I know because the chance I’m wrong is absolutely minisule compared to the likelihood of the person being an anti-science nutjob.

I didn’t say it was a strategy. I said it was reality, and that you delude yourself at your peril.

I don’t control how leftists vote. Neither do you. The difference is that I’m willing to accept that truth and you apparently are not.

You move left, or you finish off democracy and probably eventually die in an ICE camp. I’m not even exaggerating; those are literally your choices.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

No. Another public demonstration of a dictator’s contempt for the Constitution. He fucking knows. Don’t let anyone pretend he’s merely ignorant and not deliberately evil.

Lots of great cheeses

That’s what he said: “extremely niche recipes you aren’t making.”

You ain’t some artisanal dairy in the French Alps that’s been making cheese the same way for 200 years, and neither are any of the lunatics complaining about US pasteurization laws.