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    1 year ago

    When he was spending money on electric cars, solar, renewable energy storage and (relatively) low-cost space travel.

    You mean… all those things that came from public institutions (ie, universities) and not parasites like Phony Stark?

    It honestly baffles me how many people have forgotten that Musk was heralded as basically being irl Batman

    Yes… by a media completely given over to licking the boots of the wealthy. Soooo… no leftists involved at all.

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        1 year ago

        And how many of those people actually spent time implementing these improvements?

        Probably not much… and probably because people at universities are smart enough to understand that electric cars doesn’t fix any problems at all.

        in a country where everything has been designed around cars

        When you’re in a hole it’s best to stop digging. Continuing to rely on cars because fixing the mess that was caused for the benefit of capitalist parasites is “too expensive” is pure madness.

        There were a lot of people on the left who weren’t associated with the MSM

        Lol! Such as whom? I think you have a very weird idea of what “left” actually is.

        The reason why the hardcore lefties liked him was because they saw him as a necessary evil.

        Really? Leftists just up and forgot how capitalism worked because… why, again?

        then we’ll back him until he stops being useful.

        Leftists understand that capitalism will never fix the problems capitalism has caused. Period. None of this is new - this has been general knowledge amongst leftists for more than a hundred years now.

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            Seriously, what is the point of developing an electric car if you believe cars shouldn’t exist?

            Well hallelujah, friends… the right-wingers have finally found a pretext that none of us can beat - they messed things up so badly that none of it can be fixed, and nobody should even try. I don’t know why they just don’t go public with that - they already have one believer right here.

            Seriously, what is the point of developing an electric car if you believe cars shouldn’t exist?

            You do understand that there are more uses for batteries than cars, right?

            How many people still use plastic containers? How many people still drive cars?

            Plastic containers did’t fall out of the sky - neither did cars. The people who benefit from their production doesn’t live on Mount Olympus - we can strip them (and the political structures that enables them) of their power and fix these things. It’s not some pipe dream or an ideal - it’s literally the only way to guarantee humanity’s continued survival on this planet.

            but they aren’t grounded in reality

            The only thing you seem to have “grounded in reality” is that the destruction of literally everything should be “compromised” with. It seems the only thing you are willing to do is compromise - but I guess that’s where the money is, huh?