Counterpoint, all it takes is one person to die in the car because the car disabled itself on them while trying to get to a hospital, and suddenly hungry lawyers are swooping in all over your entire company.
I imagine the manufacturer will have some excuse about "if it was an emergency they should have called an ambulance" and I also imagine that won't stand up to a stiff breeze in court.
That's great until two years from now when all parts for that model year will stop being manufactured. If you're lucky, newer models of the same car share a part number. If you're not, the first time you need a new belt tensioner or torque strut you're buying a new car. I drive an 05 Civic and I can usually still find parts for it only because it's one of the most popular models to exist in America. My partner drives a similar year Suzuki and it's now actually impossible to repair over half of that car because of parts unavailability. Old cars are great until they need to be fixed.
I'm not really arguing in favor of buying a "new" car especially because you wouldn't catch me dead in anything more recent than a 2015. But there are some considerations to be taken into account when you're buying a car old enough to have its own drivers license. More considerations, when it's old enough to have its own license that would have already expired.
Cosmoteer kicks ass
The situations are clearly different because of the rabid faith of conservative followers, but that being said, it seems relatively easy enough to get on TV/media first and start spreading around "Republicans want to take your porn!" The situation could be explained pretty concisely within a 20 second TikTok or a shareable YouTube video.
Now don't get me wrong, if American political debate soils itself any further than it already has and fully becomes two-side mudslinging and nothing else, then I'm going to need to either leave the country or become radicalized. But it's becoming clear to me more and more these days that if the democrats want to throw their weight around they're going to need to lower their standards a bit. Instead of half hour appeals to judgment we need more 30-second dunks. Poli Sci students need to hear a detailed and nuanced discussion of a bill, but it's been readily proven again and again ad nauseum that the average person does not.
And I'm not advocating that they lie, only to use the framework of a lie in order to spread the message. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its shoes on, specifically because the instant something might maybe be relevant to something someone thinks exists, somebody is on Fox news spouting 30 second dunks about it. The instant we hear what's going on with the bill rider somebody should have been on TikTok, YouTube and X posting a 30 second dunk about how Republicans are abusing education bills to steal all porn from everyone, everywhere. Don't lie, but take strategies from their playbook. I want an account doing blow by blow daily updates on everything the R's have their grubby mitts in, in the same way that there are accounts doing blow by blow daily updates about exactly how many children they accuse Kamala Harris of having eaten. Except this one will have credible sources.
Point being, personally, I'm growing extremely jaded and tired of the way political discussion works in America. On one hand we have the Democrats making an effort to fully explain away and good faith debate (most of) their bills, with a handful of notable and upsetting exceptions. On the other hand we have a pit of screaming pigs that will debate nothing, will source nothing, will sneak last minute riders into bills they had nothing to do with, and will lie at the top of their lungs constantly and without regard to what they are lying about. The pigs in question have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of rising to a level of proper political discussion expected from an elected official, and it's becoming clear that if the relevant populace isn't going to vote out (or in some cases, isn't going to be allowed to vote out) the representative, the only way to engage with them effectively in a political sense is to sink to their level. At which point we are all well and truly fucked and what gods remain in the world have abandoned us.
It definitely already is and some people will literally buy huge gas sucking trucks that they don't need just to stick it to the libs or whatever
Just throwing away money really but the reasoning is insane