Idk what poanet youre on but toyota makes great cars all around. The lexus RX/ toyota highlander (which is just the camry platform crossover) redefined suv crossovers. Without it suv’s tofay would be totally different. Also toyota 4cylinder hybrids get 60+ miles to the gallon the electric hybrid rav 4 in 2020 was getting 96 mpg. Toyota makes tons of wagons and sedans, tbe prius comes in wagon format the ct200h is a wagon, Camry, carola, avalon, gs300, ls350, sc400, I mean if you dont want a car that will last 3-5 decades plus that was made to last then get what you want. I cant tell you how many late 90’s early aughts toyota products are still on the road i see dozens every day. I have one. A 2004 rx330 with 225,000 miles on it. Aiming to take it to a million miles. There is a reason toyota products have great resale value, are highly desired and have stellar consumer reports ratings. And they are pretty easy to work on so you dont have to pay 200+ an hour at a mechanic if youre not an idiot and are mechanically inclined.

And if you want something else then go honda. Toyota and honda products are hands down the 2 best quality manufacturers that produce reliable lasting vehicles.

They ripped what was left of it out in 2016 and then Performed a complete vivisection in 2020 to make sure they didnt miss any remnants in any crevices as so they could ensure their neo liberal illusion of democracy could continue the class dictatorship their billionaire wall street military and prison industry profiteer donors paid for so they would be appeased and wouldn't cut off their funding.

Our gun problem in the usa is a symptom of our problem with deteriorating conditions caused by the deregulation of capitalism. The school Shooting phenomena is not new, it first manifested as the “going postal” phenomenon but now with both parents having to work and kids having shitty support structures because they are being bullied by other kids starved of proper parental guidance/nurturing these kids are getting to their parents guns and taking out their frustrations mostly on people that have bullied them and anyone standing in their way or who did nothing to stop the bullies. It doesnt take a genius to see the reality here. There was a very good documentary i saw in the last decade or so pertaining to the phenomenon.

Asking the government to be a paternalistic nanny state and protect us from Ourselves a short sighted naive way to deal with the issues.

Also most of the guns have concentrated into the hands of fascist sympathizers because democrats have been brainwashed by centrism/ neo liberalism And think its a leftist ideal to want to disarm the nation and let police continue to murder people with impunity and give citizens even less recourse to protect ourselves. And also the economic environment we are in has punished true leftists with abhorrent economic conditions snd most of su struggle to survive and afford housing nevermind be able to afford a $1500+ rifle and ammunition and we just rely on grocers and the industrialized murder industry of livestock to provide our packaged dead animal for nutrition so many are so far removed from reality and if things fell to shit in a revolution most neo liberal’s would not last a month on their own probably even less than that if they have renounced gun ownership and taken up pacifism as their answer for the deteriorating state of western neo liberal Democracy (which lacking economic democracy and blatantly opposed to it is actually an undemocratic class dictatorship)

But keep telling yourself everything will be ok and bow down to accept the bloodless right wing coup the heritage foundation project 2025 authors have planned and has obviously been in the works for the last 4 decades at least.

Honestly working class people should all be educated in basic gun safety. Its pretty fucking simple Things like operating a safety, Checking to see if there is any live ammunition in the chamber, Racking the slide to clear the chamber after removing the magazine, Emptying the magazine. Even field stripping and cleaning/ lubrication of a firearm.(if that’s too much for you just stick to revolvers and bolt action long guns)

But since nixon and reagan(who was the first American politician to push for gun ownership restrictions with support from the NRA via the mulford act after the black panther party was making strides advocating for civil rights by participating in protests open carrying long arms and side arms) Killed American education standards to prevent a highly educated proletariat now a majority of Americans cant even handle basic diy car maintenance let alone know how to use a firearm.

And today neo liberal centrists are the primary definition of what right wing maga morons consider leftists to bewhen in reality true leftists want guns to prevent the fascist takeover of our society we have slowly witnessed and were attempting to warn all of our fellow Americans about despite those warnings going ignored due to ignorant or intentional downplaying.

Yeah who can forget the famous “if i have to chose between a shark and electrocution, im chosing electrocution every time” verbal diarrhea diatribe during the election saying “I said let me ask you a question, and then he said, thats a very smart wuestion, nobodys asked me that before must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT, VERY SMART” i cant believe americans still believe our elections have any semblance of integrity whatsoever i guess we can thank nixon and reagan for gutting education standards 40-60 years ago and legacy media for shoving fascist corporatist propaganda down our throats relentlessly since then.

Neo liberals are sabotaging themselves and everyone else by blaming voters for not getting behind tepid astro turfed right leaning centrist corporatism.

You all need to wake up and realize our presidential elections are likely just as compromised by money as the rest of our political system. There are 14 traits of fascism and both parties blatantly exhibit 13 of those traits with fraudulent elections being the only trait they can claim the corruption of is plausible deniable. All you thinking that the ideals of democracy haven't been corrupted to the same point everything else has because of hurrrr durrrr democracy and “murican eyedeeeuhhhlissum” are living in an idealistic delusion. The system has proven it will not be remedied through its own mechanisms and that those with power have subverted those very mechanisms to prevent any meaningful change which means the only way forward is revolution.

Neo liberal western democracy vehemently opposes economic democracy and any movement to the left. This makes it completely undemocratic and an ultimate defacto class dictatorship. But cleverly disguised pr masquerading as unbiased journalism owned by wall street military and prison industry profiteering billionaires have convinced you the house isn’t actively burning when it obviously is.

Voting between the democratic party and far right maga is like choosing wether you want to amputate your fingers or your whole arm. Its still an amputation.

The Democratic party by the measures and standards of the rest of the developed world is a center right wing party. Stop trying to convince the rest of us that voting for the neo liberal agenda is a win for society. Its only a win for wealthy people so they can virtue signal and placate people like you who really don't give a fuck about implementing actual real change.

Do you think Palestinians in gaza see the 4 years of biden as a net positive for them? What planet do you all live on? Oh i know the one where the main stream media has any credible journalistic integrity and isnt an obvious propaganda machine for wall street military and prison industry profiteers.

If the democratic party was really so virtuous and ready to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to stop trump, then they would have ran bernie sanders In 2016 and 2020 as the dem nominee. we would have just come off of 2 terms of the best president since FDR. But the dnc showed us that it preferred the prospect of a Trump administration over any prospective administration that veered left of their centrist status quo bullshit. Saying otherwise means you have your head in the sand or more likely you are arguing in bad faith.

Im not anti ev or anti Lifepo batteries, i love my lithium iron phosphate batteries. They make my impact wrench hammer off tough fasteners without having to fuck my back up. Im just pro reality and the reality is there is a serious bottleneck of lithium production.

But anyone saying we will be able to increase the lithium mining supply 10 times what it is now is selling you a bridge over the straight of Gibraltar. And maybe that bridge will eventually come but were talking about building that bridge over and over and over and over. Society also needs to stop treating vehicles like they are a disposable consumer good and sending them to scrap yards after a decade or less of use. These are realities of the market. Tell me how we are going to increase lithium mining ten times what it is now in a safe and efficient way. There is currently only one lithium mine being built in nevada but there is heavy pushback from state legislature to open up any other lithium deposits in the US but even if we did i don’t see lithium mining producing enough cheap lithium to boost ev production past triple what it currently is.

I am not saying we don’t need to transition away from ICE. But also we could have had ice vehicles continue to operate in our society for another 5 centuries if big industries weren’t polluting the environment to maintain the production of mostly useless consumer goods that end up in landfills within 6 months of their purchase. All these plastic petro chemicals littering our oceans our coastlines and every where else. Society needs to prioritize what it deems valuable and instead of doing that weve allowed a few greedy sociopaths go prioritize continual growth, profit and shareholder value over the good of society itself.
But ill be here with popcorn watching and waiting for lifepo batteries to increase in production 1000% (and this doesn’t even count the needed increase for larger industrial power tools that currently struggle to run on anything but gasoline like railway and industrial impact wrenches that are sk large and heavy they need a crane to support their weight during operation.

Just when I ask what more can space karen possibly do or say this year thats more idiotic than all the other shit he has done or said, he gives us this polished gem of a turd.

So at least 27 crazy motherfuckers have survived this? Likely induced hypoxia and worn a few extra layers to escape whatever hell they were in back home and take a gamble on odds worse than betting on black at a roulette wheel? Dayyuummmm i mean maybe if the others bought a hart or milwaukee battery heated coat and taken a tank of oxygen the odds would double in their favor?

Netflix entered into the already existing sphere of greed based commodification / exploitation that legacy media created decades ago. these legacy media conglomerates (owned circularly by the same big players in wall street black rock, vangaurd, state street et all.) dominate and control multiple industries and now Netflix is just part of that same ecosystem amassing wealth for their own self centered agenda without much, if any oversight at all. Theres just few greedy old cigar smoking men or rather boardrooms lead by these same men controling a majority of the world. Blackrock, blackston, state street and vanguard circularly own about 20% of disney and they own around the same percentage of netflix as well. Nevermind all the other media outlets they own large shareholding positions of. Greed is not the accidental result its the primary objective

You're right! But so many times i hear the wrong phrasing used to protect the institution of modern policing. Language matters. Which is why I believe “defund the police” was chosen after the george floyd and brianna taylor(and all the other mostly brown casualties of police brutality) inspired protests. It was chosen because it was destined to fail even though the police do need to be defunded and demilitarized however the proper language should have focused around ending drug prohibition which is the main factor allowing racist attitudes to continue permeating police culture and a majority of police tax payer funding goes to the enforcement of draconian drug laws that have blatantly failed their stated purpose. (Althiugh I personally believe the stated purpose of drug prohibition was never the true purpose and the true purpose was actually to increase the black market price of narcotics and funnel poor and mostly minority people into for-profit prisons despite the fact that affluent wealthy white people are the largest consuming and distributing demographic of narcotics.

Either way you are correct. one bad apple does indeed spoil the entire bunch and there are far more than one bad apple within all the collective bunches we have that comprise our modern militarized policing apparatus