Because admitting that using more ecological and healthy but less cheap materials in your industry practices, and admitting that health and safety and environmental regulations WORK, is anathema to a large portion of the politicians in this country.

Nah, most of the politicians in the higher levels of government for the right are about as religious as my socks. But their voters are a lot more god-bothering, so it behooves the politicians to put that face on to appeal to their base.

With a few exceptions that really are crazed zealots.

About the time a lot of complaining was coming out about the Koch Bros and Murdoch the GOP starting screaming "Soros" like they were a pokemon named that, over and over. Typical whataboutism.

On his godawful social media platform that be built because even Twitter thought he was too scummy:

>Page 2: NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!

One could argue "take our nation back" was just reinforcing the call to protest, but given the events of Jan 6th, I think it safe to suggest instead that it was another call to a coup.

• Trump sexually assaulted dozens of young women and girls. And not only admitted it publicly but bragged about it. He was not arrested.
• Trump used his wealth to campaign for the arrest and execution of five innocent men on no other basis than they were black and he still got away with it.
• Trump collaborated with Russian government elements to have the election swayed in his favor and was not only not arrested, but was fucking elected president. Then when this was officially investigated later the evidence was ignored by half of Congress on the grounds of the law doesn't matter if they win an election.
• Trump ordered a missile strike on an ostensibly allied country, extremely close to that country's international public airport, to assassinate a political figure from another nation. And didn't tell his allies he was having missiles launched in their country. And got away with it.
• Trump refused to go to a ceremony honoring US war dead so he could meet in private with Putin. Without security or staff. And got away with it.
• Trump publicly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. BOTH TIMES.
• Trump met with Russian intelligence in the fucking oval office and exposed sensitive information about US allies; and nothing happened to him.
• Trump riled up a mob and directed them to storm the capitol building to force an overturn of the election results; to wit, a coup. And got away with it.

Amazing what you can do when you have money and convince poor rural people you are one of them in spite of being neither poor nor rural.

As I understand it from half of the country it's

Terrorism: Being non-white and/or non-Christian and wanting to be treated like a human being.

Given the track record that is the more likely. However, I'm willing to wait and see what the actual fault was either way.

Absolutely agree that ultimately it's the driver's responsibility.

It's more to shut up the nits that are making this 100% about self-driving (or just dogpiling tesla) without knowing the actual cause.

My company left salesforce. There were a couple reasons, but cost was the biggest.

Oh I get it, and I believe you 100%. But I have to say that is just proof people don't vote enough. If the GOP gerrymandered the map, it's because they were voted into positions where they could. If no one challenged them, it's because the people who appointed relevant judges were voted into place.

American (and I want to make clear I am not targeting you as an individual here) has a problem with thinking only one vote matters, and it's for one guy every four years in november. Every position from the lowest city clerk to US senator matters, and we need to vote consistently for everything, not just put a ballot in for president when we're worried about a hotbutton item that we'll forget a week later.

No one in Texas deserved that. And I say that as a registered Democrat and a diehard liberal voter. No one deserved to freeze to death, ever. Except maybe the corrupt politicians that convinced your states voters to shoot themselves in the foot regarding their own power grid, then tried to blame fucking windmills for it.

There's a gigantic difference though.

The outages in Tesas were less because of the storm, and more because of two things:

1. Deregulation of the power industry allowing them to ignore crucially needed winterizing;

2. The people of Texas voting to NOT tie into the nation's grid.

If they hadn't voted that way, no one in Texas would have died, most likely. They might not have even had many lose power.

The one in the Northeast? No one voted to set up their state so that they would have no backup. It wasn't caused by corrupt companies ignoring regulations. It was just a powerful storm.

Anyone who even remotely things it wouldn't be is too young to remember that, probably. I was in middle school when it happened, and it was all anyone talked about for a long time.