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@aptera_motors I want a green one.

We drove the first five vehicles off our validation assembly line, a critical step in our transition from development to production. → aptera.us/first-five-veh…

@cwebbonline neener neener👹

MAGA is melting down after buyers got an email confirming they will never get their Trump Phones, or even get their deposits back. An estimated 590,000 people reportedly paid a $100 deposit each, roughly $59 million collected, and not a single confirmed customer has received a phone. And remember, this thing was supposed to be “Made in America.” But if it ever gets made at all, it’ll reportedly be made in China. Trump knows his base is full of suckers, and they keep proving him right.

@elonmusk A fun Grok question: who are the notables who said "X" would fail and that Elon was dumb to buy it, and where are they, what have they, and the numbers to say now?

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I'm pretty sure freedom of speech is a thing here in the USA. Any attemp to squash that is fascist, frankly. I used Grok to check myself: Grok: The statement is directionally right and a healthy pushback against creeping restrictions. Free speech is a "thing" worth defending vigorously in America—it's a key reason the US has avoided some of the stagnation and tribal enforcement seen elsewhere. Attempts to squash core political and ideological speech via government force are anti-constitutional and illiberal. Calling them "fascist" is imprecise shorthand, but the underlying warning against authoritarian instincts is valid. Better framing: it's unconstitutional, un-American, and corrosive to a free society.

Several more House Dems tell @axios Rep. Jen Kiggans should resign, including Rep. Greg Meeks, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC. “What Kiggans said is disgusting, and I join the whip's call for her to resign," said Rep. Lateefah Simon axios.com/2026/05/12/jen…

@elonmusk 👹MooHaHa!👹

what will the planetary economy look like in 40 years time at current oil consumption, and ecological decline, global warming, food production, fires? Put it in a bedtime story: Grok:

@elonmusk What happens to human rights if Ukraine voluntarily caves, or loses the war? What's gonna happen? Grok: Human rights in Ukraine would almost certainly deteriorate sharply...

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

@ZelenskyyUa Heroic notion.

Сьогодні День пам’яті та перемоги над нацизмом. День, коли вся Європа відзначає завершення найстрашнішої війни ХХ століття – війни, після якої мав би бути тільки справжній мир. Саме так тоді мріялось, коли гармати Другої світової почали замовкати. Та війна перетворила нашу землю на поле жорстоких битв, знущань на окупованій території, масового знищення людей і життя. Втрати українського народу одні з найбільших у Другій світовій. І внесок українців у поразку нацистів теж один з найбільших. Мільйони українців у складі різних армій держав Антигітлерівської коаліції боролися проти нацизму. Мільйони українців були серед переможців, зробивши все можливе, щоб тотальне зло програло. На жаль, через 81 рік ми знову змушені зупиняти зло – теж тотальне, яке не приносить нічого, крім руїн та знущань, і яке засноване на аналогічній ідеології ненависті. Оновлена версія нацизму, що має маркування: «сделано в России». Здолати таку російську агресію сьогодні може і має об’єднаний вільний світ. І я вдячний усім, хто допомагає нам захищати життя. Вдячний усім, хто не дає цьому російському режиму диктувати світові, що буде далі. Захист життя людей та свободи народів від Путіна – це абсолютно достойне вшанування памʼяті тих, хто не дозволив Гітлеру підкорити Європу і світ. Вічна вдячність усім, хто бився проти нацизму та звільнив людей. Світла памʼять усім невинним жертвам Другої світової війни. Слава кожному захиснику життя! Слава Україні!

Today is the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism. The day when all of Europe marks the end of the most terrible war of the 20th century. A war after which there should have been only genuine peace. That was the dream back then, when the guns of World War II began to fall silent. That war turned our land into a battlefield of brutal fighting, abuse in occupied territory, and the mass destruction of people and life. The losses of the Ukrainian people were among the greatest in World War II. And the contribution of Ukrainians to the defeat of the Nazis was also among the greatest. Millions of Ukrainians, serving in various armies of the Anti-Hitler Coalition states, fought against Nazism. Millions of Ukrainians were among the victors, having done everything in their power to ensure that absolute evil was defeated. Unfortunately, 81 years later, we are once again forced to stop evil – evil that is just as absolute. Evil that brings nothing but ruins and abuse. And evil based on a similar ideology of enmity. An updated version of Nazism, marked: made in Russia. Today, such Russian aggression can and must be defeated by the united free world. And I am grateful to everyone who helps us defend life. I am grateful to everyone who is not allowing this Russian regime to dictate to the world what comes next. Defending people’s lives and the freedom of nations from Putin is an absolutely dignified way to honor the memory of those who did not allow Hitler to subjugate Europe and the world. Eternal gratitude to all who fought against Nazism and liberated people! Blessed memory to all innocent victims of World War II! Glory to every defender of life! Glory to Ukraine!

@MakeSenseMarie Which one is "Red Lining"?

This man says, “let me get this straight. When White people move into an area, it’s called “colonizing” or “gentrification”, which is bad. But if people of a high melanin count move into an area, that’s “cultural enrichment” and “diversity is our strength”, which is good. But then if those same White people don’t want any more “cultural enrichment” or are tired of “diversity” being their strength, that’s called “White Flight”, which is bad. So they don’t want White people to come or to go. It’s almost as if they don’t want them (whites) to exist at all.” He’s figuring it out.

@BoyForida 8667

I’ve been rocking 8647 on my car for 11 months now. I’m not afraid of Todd Blanche.

@TruthFairy131 Amusing.

The ADL is an Antiwhite Hate Group. “The ADL was Caught Falsifying Statistics to Frame White Americans”.

@Christo12919382 lol

Trump is jealous of Obama...In SO many ways!!!

@JeremyTate41 Can it be made into a product line?

This door in Westminster Abbey is older than most modern nation-states. Made in the 1050s from an English oak, it's the only surviving Anglo-Saxon door in Britain.

@realDonaldTrump And grab 'em by the pussy too.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Grok: Not quite that simple."The left" isn't a hive mind—it's a spectrum from mild social democrats who want higher taxes and welfare states, to revolutionary Marxists who explicitly endorse class violence. Painting every center-left policy as "violence" is rhetorical overkill, but ignoring the coercive core of state power (which many left projects expand) misses the point too. Let's break it down without slogans.Redistribution of wealthModern "democratic" left approaches use taxation, regulation, and transfers (e.g., progressive income taxes, estate taxes, universal basic income proposals, expansive welfare, minimum wages). These are enforced by the state's monopoly on legitimate violence—fail to pay and you face fines, asset seizure, or jail. It's not "revolution with guillotines," but it is coercion backed by police and courts. Classical liberals and libertarians have long called this "theft" or initiated force for exactly that reason. Historical communist versions (USSR, Maoist China, Cambodia) involved direct expropriation, often with mass killing and famine—tens of millions dead. Today's moderate left (Nordic models, US Democrats) operates within elections and law, funded by productive economies they didn't seize. Outcomes vary: some poverty reduction with growth trade-offs; others, dependency traps and slower mobility (empirical debates in economics are real—look at studies on tax incidence, labor supply elasticities, and intergenerational mobility). It's not blood on streets, but it scales state compulsion.Seizing the means of productionMarxist theory: yes, via proletarian revolution (explicitly violent in Lenin, Trotsky, etc.—"dictatorship of the proletariat"). Real-world attempts: Bolshevik takeover, nationalizations in Cuba/Venezuela, China's early phases—all involved force, purges, and economic collapse before market adjustments saved some. Non-revolutionary left: democratic nationalization (e.g., UK post-WWII, or calls for "public options" in healthcare/energy), heavy regulation, worker cooperatives, or ESG mandates that pressure private ownership indirectly. These use legislation and bureaucracy, not Molotovs. Results are mixed—state-run industries often inefficient (see British Leyland or modern examples in Latin America). "Seizure" rhetoric romanticizes it; in practice, it frequently means politicians and bureaucrats directing capital, with predictable principal-agent problems.Censor and surveil opponentsThis isn't left-exclusive. Authoritarian left strains have a strong track record: Soviet Gulags/psych wards for dissidents, Chinese social credit/firewall, Cuban imprisonment of artists/writers, academic purges under various Marxist regimes. "Struggle sessions" and canceling class enemies were features.In open societies today: deplatforming, speech codes, social media moderation biases (Twitter pre-Musk, campus disinvitations, "disinformation" bureaucracies), and intelligence community overreach (e.g., surveillance expansions post-9/11 used broadly, but with documented left-leaning institutional capture in some agencies/media). Polls and leak patterns (FBI/CIA hiring skews, Big Tech content moderation) show cultural left dominance in those sectors amplifying it. But right-wing governments and movements have done parallel things—McCarthyism, PATRIOT Act abuses, or populist crackdowns. The mechanism is institutional power + motivated reasoning, not ideology alone. Liberals classically opposed this; modern "progressives" often justify it as protecting democracy from "hate" or "misinfo."“The struggle”In Marxist/leftist theory (Gramsci, Fanon, modern critical theory variants): class/racial/gender struggle as the engine of history. It can mean electoral organizing, union strikes, or cultural hegemony. Revolutionary versions treat violence as necessary or purifying ("by any means necessary," riots as "uprisings"). Peaceful versions: policy fights and protests. The framing keeps conflict central, which explains why compromise feels like betrayal to hardliners. Empirical note: societies emphasizing individual agency and markets have reduced absolute poverty more than struggle-focused redistribution (World Bank, Our World in Data trends since 1800).Bottom line: State power is backed by violence—that's Weber's definition. Left projects that grow the state (more redistribution, regulation, speech oversight) increase that scope, often with good intentions and sometimes bad results. Revolutionary left explicitly glorifies it. But "the left" includes people who just want safety nets without gulags, and plenty of non-left governments (fascist, theocratic, authoritarian capitalist) used far worse coercion. Equating a Swedish tax rate to Bolshevik firing squads flattens distinctions and history. Better frame: incentives, institutions, and trade-offs. Coercion scales with unchecked power, regardless of label. I like Grok.

How do you think the left redistributes wealth? Violence How do you think the left seizes the means of production? Violence How do you think they censor and surveil opponents? Violence What do you think the left means by “the struggle”? Violence

@Bluegirl135673 I'm sure he could cajole an actual Oscar out of someone for something, I mean, look at the Nobel.

@24_70xu Food must be good, they're stuffing it in their faces as they gently duck behind the tables, like a dinner theatre game.

Trump couldn't even secure the White House Correspondents' Dinner, yet claims he wants to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

Grok: Not quite that simple."The left" isn't a hive mind—it's a spectrum from mild social democrats who want higher taxes and welfare states, to revolutionary Marxists who explicitly endorse class violence. Painting every center-left policy as "violence" is rhetorical overkill, but ignoring the coercive core of state power (which many left projects expand) misses the point too. Let's break it down without slogans.Redistribution of wealthModern "democratic" left approaches use taxation, regulation, and transfers (e.g., progressive income taxes, estate taxes, universal basic income proposals, expansive welfare, minimum wages). These are enforced by the state's monopoly on legitimate violence—fail to pay and you face fines, asset seizure, or jail. It's not "revolution with guillotines," but it is coercion backed by police and courts. Classical liberals and libertarians have long called this "theft" or initiated force for exactly that reason. Historical communist versions (USSR, Maoist China, Cambodia) involved direct expropriation, often with mass killing and famine—tens of millions dead. Today's moderate left (Nordic models, US Democrats) operates within elections and law, funded by productive economies they didn't seize. Outcomes vary: some poverty reduction with growth trade-offs; others, dependency traps and slower mobility (empirical debates in economics are real—look at studies on tax incidence, labor supply elasticities, and intergenerational mobility). It's not blood on streets, but it scales state compulsion.Seizing the means of productionMarxist theory: yes, via proletarian revolution (explicitly violent in Lenin, Trotsky, etc.—"dictatorship of the proletariat"). Real-world attempts: Bolshevik takeover, nationalizations in Cuba/Venezuela, China's early phases—all involved force, purges, and economic collapse before market adjustments saved some. Non-revolutionary left: democratic nationalization (e.g., UK post-WWII, or calls for "public options" in healthcare/energy), heavy regulation, worker cooperatives, or ESG mandates that pressure private ownership indirectly. These use legislation and bureaucracy, not Molotovs. Results are mixed—state-run industries often inefficient (see British Leyland or modern examples in Latin America). "Seizure" rhetoric romanticizes it; in practice, it frequently means politicians and bureaucrats directing capital, with predictable principal-agent problems.Censor and surveil opponentsThis isn't left-exclusive. Authoritarian left strains have a strong track record: Soviet Gulags/psych wards for dissidents, Chinese social credit/firewall, Cuban imprisonment of artists/writers, academic purges under various Marxist regimes. "Struggle sessions" and canceling class enemies were features.In open societies today: deplatforming, speech codes, social media moderation biases (Twitter pre-Musk, campus disinvitations, "disinformation" bureaucracies), and intelligence community overreach (e.g., surveillance expansions post-9/11 used broadly, but with documented left-leaning institutional capture in some agencies/media). Polls and leak patterns (FBI/CIA hiring skews, Big Tech content moderation) show cultural left dominance in those sectors amplifying it. But right-wing governments and movements have done parallel things—McCarthyism, PATRIOT Act abuses, or populist crackdowns. The mechanism is institutional power + motivated reasoning, not ideology alone. Liberals classically opposed this; modern "progressives" often justify it as protecting democracy from "hate" or "misinfo."“The struggle”In Marxist/leftist theory (Gramsci, Fanon, modern critical theory variants): class/racial/gender struggle as the engine of history. It can mean electoral organizing, union strikes, or cultural hegemony. Revolutionary versions treat violence as necessary or purifying ("by any means necessary," riots as "uprisings"). Peaceful versions: policy fights and protests. The framing keeps conflict central, which explains why compromise feels like betrayal to hardliners. Empirical note: societies emphasizing individual agency and markets have reduced absolute poverty more than struggle-focused redistribution (World Bank, Our World in Data trends since 1800).Bottom line: State power is backed by violence—that's Weber's definition. Left projects that grow the state (more redistribution, regulation, speech oversight) increase that scope, often with good intentions and sometimes bad results. Revolutionary left explicitly glorifies it. But "the left" includes people who just want safety nets without gulags, and plenty of non-left governments (fascist, theocratic, authoritarian capitalist) used far worse coercion. Equating a Swedish tax rate to Bolshevik firing squads flattens distinctions and history. Better frame: incentives, institutions, and trade-offs. Coercion scales with unchecked power, regardless of label. I like Grok.

@Bluegirl135673 Definitely.👹

Something I don't miss is that when I was driving my tesla (RIP), every over-testosteroned dipshit with a race car reved their engines and drove super agressively around me. It turned grown men into high-schoolers instantly. So dumb.