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Tim Gray retweeted
Whether it's Donald Trump on the right helping to starve millions of Ukrainians or Oberlin students on the left complaining about dining hall banh mi, there's been plenty of disturbing food activity on both sides.
Tim Gray retweeted
Tesla just showed a car that flies. Almost nobody read the fine print.
A guy watched the livestream on Thursday night with a bowl of popcorn. A sleek two-seat Roadster drove up a steep curved ramp, went upside down, launched off the end, flipped in the air and landed on its wheels. The crowd cheered. Elon Musk, standing in front of it, said the words everyone remembers: Well, it worked! By the time the stream ended, the guy had the reservation page open on his laptop. His credit card was in his hand.
His friend, an aerospace engineer who has spent 16 years working on aircraft and spacecraft and has a habit of reading the part of a product page nobody reads, was on a video call with him. He watched the guy’s screen for a few seconds.
Before you do that. Scroll down.
Why?
Because the car you just watched fly isn’t the car you’re reserving.
The guy stopped. He had been about to put down $5,000.
His friend spent the next hour walking him through what had actually been shown, what had been promised and what had been left out.
Here’s every detail he caught:🧵
Tim Gray retweeted
Lincoln: “This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”
Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you”
Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Trump: "I examined his ass"
Tim Gray retweeted
The largest donor in the history of the GOP uses his massive social media platform to promote far-right, eliminationist, pro-Putin, and sometimes even pro-Hitler propaganda. Now here's another article about how Democrats must distance themselves from Hasan Piker.
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Yesterday was Elon’s greatest magic trick.
It got everybody believe an amazing technological gap had just been made.
I got fooled too.
At first, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was so excited.
And don’t get me wrong , the technology, the precision at which the car did what it did, was fabulous.
However, it was not a car doing it.
And that is the true, Machiavellic genius of Elon.
There is no flying car.
There is no car at all.
It was an empty shell. As light as possible. No seats. Nothing.
Full of gas tanks.
With a maximum of 2 secs of thrust usage.
In other words, it was a drone.
A drone with a shell that looked like a car.
Imagine if it had been a square piece of metal instead.
You would have said “nice”.
The truth is, it is nothing more than that.
It was not the car that you will see in the street. It was just a piece of light metal, that had the same body as the one you wil buy.
The technology exists since a long time.
If nobody did it, it’s not that they didn’t think about it’s it’s because it is not sustainable.
It is not achievable.
So why were we fooled ?
Because most people can’t imagine the biggest entrepreneur and genius of our century would have put millions into a show and be ruthless enough to put a fake car in a demonstration with the goal of selling something that will have nothing to do with what he is showing.
It was a show. A spectacle. Pure manipulation. Ruthless, immoral marketing.
The whole “ socialism vs capitalism” or “Europe vs America” we are seeing is the result of a fabulously done propaganda.
The car doesn’t fly.
It never will.
Most importantly,
there wasn’t any car on that show.
But the brainwashed idiots that we are will rush to buy it, waiting for another two years ( 9 have passed already since the preorders), only to receive something that has nothing to do with what we have seen.
Expect the shell.
But in 2026, it seems it is what we are. Empty shells for which entertainment and lies are enough to make us dance like apes.
Porsche maybe didn’t do a flying demonstration.
But at least they will deliver exactly what they have shown. And it will drive better than any Tesla ever will ( especially if it weights two fugging tons).
Tim Gray retweeted
• Children coming home from school in coffins from 2000-2025: 529
• Children coming home from school with a sex-change surgery: still 0
YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE WRONG FUCKING SHIT!

























