There's no reconciling with a narcissistic parent.

Dammit! I was so busy all this time worrying about whether an extremely obvious Nazi salute was a Nazi salute, I didn't even notice all that other stuff that nobody has been talking about at all.

Black Lives Matter was not "far left." It was mainstream liberal. The Overton window has really gotten completely ridiculous in this country.

No corporations will EVER back anything that is actually far left. Leftism is inherently anathema to them.

There are.

Trump isn't threatening to charge people with domestic terrorism for leaving Tesla dealerships alone, is he?

Microplastic brain

He's a narcissist. Trust me, he cares. Yes, he will lie. He will lie to the world and to himself. Because he literally CANNOT cope. But that isn't going to serve him. The more he lies to the world, the more deranged he will look, and the more he lies to himself, the more he will crash out mentally and self-destruct.

Yes and no. It's really hard to boast about your "mandate" when a large and still increasing portion of the population publicly hates your guts and thinks you're doing a shit job. It's not enough by itself to meaningfully hurt him, but it does make him look bad and undermine his leadership. It is bad for his image, and image is an important component of power.

It's also bad for his ego and could potentially lead him to behave even more erratically in ways that are ultimately self-destructive. Narcissists famously don't do well in the face of being perceived negatively. The worse his ratings get, the more humiliating it will be for him. It is important to hurt their morale at every opportunity, even if it's not nearly enough to stop them on its own. Demoralized, defensive MAGA will always be a weaker foe than energized, popular MAGA.

Right? Now do his head.

Apparently they keep getting tickets in China because they didn't bother to adjust the settings to accommodate Chinese roads and traffic laws. Result is Tesla is getting utterly crushed by BYD in their one major market that doesn't care about Elon's antics.

Surely that will help the situation.

I got mine for saying we needed to cyberbully Elon Musk to suicide. A little edgy maybe, but old Reddit wouldn't have batted an eye.

This is wild. When it happened to me, I thought I had just inadvertently crossed the line (and was surprised it had taken me more than ten years to do so). But now I see it's a whole thing. I guess Reddit is officially enshittified.