Pardon Me?

Just a lil' FYI: you can use a marker/pen to draw on slices of cheese before you need to toss them "somewhere" and start another piece.

I mean....ok.
that means we can storm the capital and it's ok, right?

Oh noo, it caused mass terror throughout the country ... when people saw mildly vandalised pre-shitty cars, PTSD for life.

The only moral ~~abortion~~ domestic terrorism is my ~~abortion~~ domestic terrorism.
- "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
  
  exactly

So what you're saying is: the only wqy to not be a terrorist is to threaten elected officials until I get my way?
I'm off to be an upstanding citizen.
- Can't be any elected official, the waiver only applies toward a specific group.
  
  And you have to belong to a specific group.

Fun fact: a replacement windshield for a tesla is on average 1,200 - 2,000 dollars because of their dumb as fuck design
- Cyberwindshield: $1200
  Cyberwindshield wiper: 3 months backorder
  Making a Nazi supporter cry: priceless
- I heard the horse cock of a windshield wiper is almost irreplaceable because it's 4 feet long and in limited supply.
  
  It's also made significantly more expensive by the fact that it IS an actual cock from a horse.
  Purebred only, on Musk's insistence.
- You're not technically wrong since they were just early to the party with driver assistance & Lane departure warning/avoidance systems, but since the USA made those types of systems mandatory for all cars in 2023, most vehicles 2023+ will now have a similar cost.
  
  I don't get it, what does that have to do with the windshield design?
- For the cybertruck? The design of the others are mostly reasonable, I would assume every replacement part for the cybertruck is much more expensive since it's so fucking ridiculous. I've never had to replace a windshield fortunately so I don't know how much they normally cost.
  
  'mostly reasonable' they integrate into the roof glass and their shape makes them 10x the price of a new windshield
  I can get a replacement for a 2010 Ford for about 200$
- for context the windshield of a big ass semi truck costs between $65-225 or just 18% at worst or 3% at best
  and they're pretty large too
  cost src

Terrorism only applies to brown or poor people.
If you’re rich you get a free pass to do anything including genocide.
- It's only rich people who can boycott Teslas (poor folk wouldn't afford them in the first place) so it must be pardonable to boycott! Problem solved!

great title
- ohh I see it now...

Gotta be one of the biggest/fastest drops in a company’s stock value since Cutthroat Island opened in theaters.
- Which is really upsetting, because that was a good movie and the SNES game was great.
  
  Movie was fun, it just didn’t do well as far as sales go and it was expensive - so it’s considered a “box office bomb”.
  
  SNESDrunk has entered the chat

This isn't even vandalism. Zero windshields were harmed by the paint.

Remember, Trump doesn't say things that are true - or even things he thinks are true - he only says things that he thinks will benefit him to say. So yes, it benefits him to say Jan 6 wasn't domestic terrorism, and that vandalism of his boss' cars is domestic terrorism.

Plutocracy: Destroy Capitol? Ok. Destroy Capital? Not on my watch!

It’s always the opposite with these weirdos.

They're clearly destabilizing the countries integrity by checks notes vandalizing cars! Property damage is obviously much worse than actual violence, so long as the property is expensive enough. /s

Now try living here. No wonder half of us are so cynical

Why did you vote him in office?
- I didn't
- About ⅓ of eligible voters voted for someone else.
  About ⅓ of eligible voters voted for him.
  About ⅓ of eligible voters didn't vote at all- either because they didn’t want to, or were unable to.
  He won by the slimmest margin in decades.
  So WE didn’t vote him in. A majority of voters did (by the slimmest of margins). But a lot of that can be attributed to misinformation, foreign (Russian) influence, oligarchs playing the system, and so on. There was a massive influx of campaign cash for him in specific states (from people like Musk).
  Of the ⅓ who voted for someone else, the majority of them voted for Harris, and are absolutely miserable with the outcome. The bulk of the eligible American voters you meet on Lemmy probably fall into that category. When you come to them and say “why did you vote him in office?” You’re not asking the right people.
  
  I truly believe the reason is because even amongst democrats there are still a large group of people who are racists and/or sexists.
  
  That's all true but it doesn't change anything meaningful. All that matters is the end result of the election. People from other countries have every right to ask Americans wtf we were thinking.
  
  Democracy needs to be taken seriously ffs. To bad a lot of people take it all for granted.
- Many of us didn't. In fact, many people didn't vote for anybody, and that was a major part of the problem. These people, usually single issue voters, thought they had the moral high ground by not voting between bad and worst.
  Trump received the same number of votes as last election, but Harris received significantly less than Biden did last election. Harris wasn't good enough for a lot of Democrats, and they thought not voting and letting Trump win was better than tossing their morals aside on a single issue.
  
  That's a shame really. Well I hope he won't do too much damage, before he's removed from office.