#Cybertruck battle

[familythings]

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[drbtinglecannon]

Saw a cybertruck in person today on the highway driving home

They somehow look even uglier in person. Also it's been raining all day so that hunk of shit is gonna be rusting over quickly lol

[epicwinsft]

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[fan-collector-geek]

Cybertrucks be like

[wigoutlet]

Tesla Cybertruck in Fortnite Trailer

[saywhat-politics]

"Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades... Will pay any amount."

A West Coast-based real estate mogul and Elon Musk fan named Keith Wasserman triggered a tidal wave of schadenfreude on social media after begging for "private firefighters" to come "protect our home" in the city as it's menaced by raging wildfires.

Los Angeles has been battling with several out-of-control fires this week, prompting evacuations. Well over a thousand structures have burned down already, and fires are expected to grow due to growing winds.

In a Wednesday tweet, Wasserman begged for help, asking if anybody had "access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades."

"Need to act fast here," he wrote. "All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you."

[raptorific]

Honestly, too, the biggest thing you can do between now and the ballot booth to stop Trump is to, in your day to day life, treat support for him like a big joke at the expense of the supporters. Make it cringe. Yes, he is evil and a legitimate threat, and yes, it will be dangerous if he's elected, but his supporters like evil, like being threats, and want the dangers of his being elected to happen

What they hate and fear is being the object of ridicule, which is, in fact, the appropriate response to meeting someone dumb enough to support that man. Create an atmosphere in real life where people who support him know that people are laughing at them behind their back. They love to "trigger the libs" and they think scaring people counts as impressing them, but they hate to be targets of mockery, and if you want to depress Trump's turnout at the polls, put this one idea in the heads of his supporters: "if I support Trump, they're all gonna laugh at me."

Seeing a MAGA hat or a Trump sticker in public should yield the same level of derision and mockery as seeing somebody driving a cybertruck.

Like, obviously pick your battles (remember some of them have guns and none of them are very smart or secure in themselves or else they wouldn't support him) but I promise you, the core demographic targeted by his base is "insecure people who want to feel like a big man" and making people understand that Trump supporters are viewed as scared little babies who need encouragement from a failed game show host to feel like a big man without pissing their pants will undercut the primary incentive for supporting him

[argumate]

Ramzan Kadyrov published a video on Saturday of himself driving the vehicle, which he said had been sent to him by “the strongest genius of our time,” Elon Musk, before it was adapted.

Musk later denied giving the vehicle to the Chechen leader. “Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he owns.

love this timeline

[quartergremlin]

God gives the strongest battles to the toughest soldiers and mine is not doxxing myself so I can roast the cybertruck at the event that I'm at. Just know. That it looks very stupid.

[mariacallous]

Over the past few weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have both made some huge plays to attract specific groups of men: young ones, in Trump’s case, and white ones, in Harris’.

Harris’ supporters have been hosting huge Zoom calls organizing “white dudes,” while Trump’s made appearances on a wide assortment of fratty podcasts and livestreams. The campaigns’ strategies with these voters are completely different, and they’re each creating their own vision for what masculinity could look like in their parties.

Let’s talk about it.

How Trump and Walz Are Redefining Masculinity

Before this week, Adin Ross, the 23-year-old streamer, had been known for playing NBA 2K, allegedly inadvertently tipping off authorities about accused rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tate’s plans to flee Romania, and getting kicked off Twitch for spewing slurs and hosting the white nationalist Nick Fuentes. This is certainly not the best résumé when applying to become a political commentator, but it was enough for Donald Trump to stream with him for more than an hour at his Mar-a-Lago home on Monday in what equated to a virtual campaign stop, complete with Ross apparently committing a campaign finance violation by gifting Trump with a gaudily-decorated Cybertruck.

The Ross stream is just the latest in a series of streams, podcasts, and TikTok appearances Trump has made with a specific subset of hypermasculine creators who cater to an audience of politically disaffected young men. Trump has long catered to this group, acknowledging their support across fringe parts of the internet in the run-up to his election as president in 2016. But this cycle, he’s engaging with them more directly—appearing, for example, at UFC events—in the apparent belief that this will help turn out younger voters.

The partisan gap between young men and women voters has nearly doubled over the past 25 years, with men growing increasingly more conservative, according to recent polls. With these numbers, you’d think Trump would have little to worry about with this demographic, but some experts suggest that despite this growing divide, the likelihood of young men between the ages of 18 and 29 actually going to the polls might be low.

“He’s trying to pull out base intensity. These young men often don't vote, especially the newcomers to the field,” says Rachel Kleinfeld, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Getting them to care enough to come vote—it's easier if it's something more emotional. All politics runs on emotion.”

She continued: “Most cultures have rites of passage to grow up. It's not an easy thing to do, and we don't in America. And we lost, for a generation, a lot of traditional role models … What we got in their place were these internet influencers and celebrities whom a lot of people aspire to be now.”

Democrats are attempting to create their own contrasting vision for masculinity in light of Trump embracing these creators. Last week, Mike Nellis, a Democratic digital strategist, helped organize the White Dudes for Harris organizing call, where dozens of white male politicians and celebrities spoke to thousands of their white male counterparts about voting for Harris. Throughout the call, many of the speakers—including Harris’ veep pick, Tim Walz—made the case for these same disaffected young men to abandon the Republican Party.

“I think that there are millions and millions of white dudes in this country who are sick and tired of MAGA politics and who reject Project 2025 and need a model and permission structure for something else, and so that’s what we’re doing with White Dudes for Harris,” says Nellis.

Nellis saw Harris’ decision to bring Walz onto her ticket as another play at attracting white male voters. “The guy's a father, and what would be like a ‘real man’ on paper. But here he is supporting and advocating for women's rights. He's campaigning for a woman of color for president. He's talking about ending gun violence,” says Nellis. “There are new models out there, and so I think that there's a fight over what it means to be a man.”

“We've had a cultural problem with young men for a number of years that is now becoming a political problem, and both parties are recognizing it,” says Kleinfeld.

Back in 2019, I profiled a YouTuber named Joey Salads who was running for a Staten Island House seat against Nicole Malliotakis. He never stood a chance at winning, but his Instagram model girlfriend, nice cars, and 10 million followers convinced him he had a shot. Salads admired Trump, seeing him as someone for whom the rules also did not apply in the pursuit of money and success.

4chan incels and hypermasculine YouTube pranksters had been viewing Trump as a role model even before the former president was elected. In 2024, those influencers and brainrotted forum posters have more influence than ever, and they’re paying it forward to the man who made it all possible.

“In a way, they’re kind of like post-incels, having overcome some of their inceldom with fame and followers but retaining the resentments and insecurities that get expressed in bizarre ways,” Jack Z. Bratich, a communications expert and professor at Rutgers University, tells me. “It’s possible Trump’s campaign is trying to extend their reach with these types, or else they are just seeking to increase the voting numbers of young men and happen to have stumbled upon this new mutation of online youth.”

Around 49 percent of young white men voted in the 2020 election, according to data from the Center for American Women and Politics. That’s a nine point increase from 2016.

[cleoselene]

Happy new year, tumblr friends. 2024 was a piece of shit, wasn't it? Just a festering pile. Kendrick Lamar ruining Drake, that was like, the only good thing I could think of that happened this year??? "Not Like Us" totally should win the Song of the Year Grammy. It won't, but it should, because that was a fucking commercial moment. It'll probably be something braindead like "Espresso" (no offense to Sabrina Carpenter fans but her music is not my thing x100). But man that was THEE song.

Music wise I was obsessed with Beyoncé most of the year and welp... that news about her husband being an alleged child rapist kind of took the wind out of those sails. Like, I fully believe Bey was groomed by Jay at a very young age and she's like Celine Dion in that the grooming was VERY effective and she will love that man forever and ever until death. It's depressing as hell. Lemonade is a masterpiece, but it was marketing. She was never going to leave that awful man. My mom is trying to tell me to keep loving her music, and I gotta admit, Beyoncé Bowl was phenomenal as like... everything she does is phenomenal. But the joy has been somewhat sucked out of it for me.

Rediscovered Vienna Teng and Phoebe Bridgers after the election, been more tuned out of the news than I have been in like, decades. I passively consume information, but I try to avoid it. Y'all, for me to avoid politics is bizarre. I remember my first election I followed, 1988, when I was 9, and I was SO for Dukakis. My family is politics/news junkies. But if 2016 fracture my spirit for this stuff, 2024 shattered it. Women will always be second class citizens in this country. It breaks me on a level that makes me question my identity -- why did I go to school for seven years getting a BA in Econ/Sociology and an MA in Sociology? Because I care about how the world works but no one else fucking seems to notice except fellow academic politics people like me, and they sure as hell aren't on the news (except Rachel Maddow, and she's just... kind of lost her plot for me too).

My soulmate dog died a week after the election exactly, and ever since the hits have just kept coming. My mom was so hesitant when I decided to adopt a young puppy, but I need her. I need her intense energy and many needs to distract myself from how shitty I think the world is.

I feel like a failure at even being a decent citizen because these MAGA monsters have just drained me. Another four years of this??? What the fuck, America. I went out to run two brief errands today and saw: -a pickup truck with "We The People" in the constitutional font on the back of the truck bed, but the window was covered in a massive Confederate battle flag. hey duder, you are giving your truck cognitive dissonance -a fucking cybertruck -a jeep crudely painted with the front as the American flag and hand-painted the words on one window: "GOD TRUMP LAW" and the other side said "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE" and I was awed at the even greater cognitive dissonance going on there. The font for these painted words I'd name "Scary Free Candy Van Sans" -a truck with a decal of Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes peeing on the words JOE BIDEN. There have been idk thousands and thousands of Calvin & Hobbes comics and Calvin has never ever peed on anything. Also the guy who designed the Punisher logo hates you fascist fucks too -a pickup truck with a decal of the silhouette of a women on her knees from above, and two hands wrapped around each of her braided pigtails as if using them for purchase, and the "drawing" fades out at the hip, but it's clear what's going on. I am saying "woman" because I hope that's what it was supposed to represent, the hair being in braided pigtails? Sus. But right next to that decal was one of praying hands holding a rosary and the word "Jesus" in some reverent font.

and that's a drive around Fort Myers, in Robert E. Lee County, Florida. I hate it here so fucking much.

anyway, here's hoping 2025 is at least gentler. The last two months of 2024 have had me feeling like I'm hanging on by a thread. I think it's my yearly winter MS flare too. Not a full on relapse, but every winter I just start to feel like garbage. And no, it's not S.A.D., I don't get that because Florida and I take vitamin D supplements anyway. it's just the time of year when everything starts to feel more and more inflamed

I'm enjoying World of Warcraft a lot still, but super bummed I can't seem to find an RP guild. Boo-urns

[cars2-renaissance]

New Cars Villain Just Dropped!

[pechaberriesandsoju]

Do you ever think that Transformers on either side start to lose their shit and start laughing their asses off if they see someone with a cybertrunk as their alt form?

Cause I would lose my shit in the middle of a fucking battle if I see a goddamn cybertruck come barreling into battle and expect me to take your ass seriously??? Hell no I'm gonna laugh my ass off at your ridiculous looking as. You're also getting your ass beat immediately before getting laughed at again.

[skdjrhaejdhst-cat]

Modern vehicles scare me. What is a cybertruck. Why are we only using one type of tank. What is a main battle tank. Bring back the weird tanks. Where's my boy M3 Grant.

[brookstonalmanac]

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Anna and the Apocalypse (Film; 2018)

Blast Off Speedier with Encyclopedia or Off to Heaven with Volume (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 324; 1964)

Blondie (Film; 1938)

Boogie Woogie Sioux (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1942)

Breakaway, by Kelly Clarkson (Album; 2004)

Brian’s Song (TV Movie; 1971)

The Citadel, by A.J. Cronin (Novel; 1937)

Cock o’ the Walk (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Concerto for Trumpet, recorded by Harry James (Concerto; 1939)

The Conductor and Other Tales, by Jean Ferry (Short Stories; 1950)

Gandhi (Film; 1982)

Gonzales’ Tamales (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)

Gopher Trouble (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Novel; 1973)

The Hare Mail (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

The In-Laws, by Paul Hindemith (Opera; 1915)

Into the Unknown, by Bad Religion (Album; 1983)

In Your Face, by Fishbone (Album; 1986)

Jack’s Shack (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

The Joy of Cooking (Cookbook; 1924)

Little Boy Blue (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Live at the BBC, by The Beatles (Live Album; 1994)

Misery (Film; 1990)

Moosylvania, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 323; 1964)

The Odessa File, by Frederick Forsyth (Novel; 1972)

Red’s Dream (Pixar Cartoon; 1987)

Remembrance of Things Past, Book II: Within a Budding Grove, by Marcel Proust (Novel; 1918)

Salt Water Taffy (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

16 Candles, by The Crests (Song; 1958)

Straighten Up and Fly Right, recorded by The Nat King Cole Trio (Song; 1943)

Superstore (TV Series; 2015)

Sympathy for the Devil (a.k.a. 1+1; Documentary Music Film; 1968)

The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith (Novel; 1955)

Thriller, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1982)

Transylvania 6-5000 (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

The Wall, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1979)

Willow (TV Series; 2022)

The Women's Room, by Marilyn French (Novel; 1977)

Wool: Proper Gauge, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2011)

Today’s Name Days

Andrea, Andreas, Volkert (Austria)

Andrei (Bulgaria)

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Ondřej (Czech Republic)

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Andor, András (Hungary)

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Andrejs, Andris (Latvia)

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Anders, Andreas (Norway)

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Andrej, Ondrej (Slovakia)

Andrés (Spain)

Anders, Andreas (Sweden)

Andrew, Andriy, Vladyslava (Ukraine)

Anderson, Andra, Andre, Andrea, Andreas, Andres, Andrew, Andria, Andy, Dandre, Deandre (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 335 of 2024; 31 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 48 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 30 (Wu-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 29 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 28 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 5 Black; Fryday [5 of 30]

Julian: 17 November 2024

Moon: 0%: New Moon

Positivist: 27 Frederic (12th Month) [Francia]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 69 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 9 of 30)

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

If Tesla sticks to its latest production timeline for the Cybertruck, we are just weeks away from the start of production and the first deliveries to employees(..)

With those vehicles, the at least five Cybertrucks in New Zealand and the ones on the roads testing in California, Tesla seems to have produced a decent number of Cybertrucks. It’s a good sign that Tesla is progressing toward an official start of production(..)

P.S. Very good news! Legacy automakers are running out of time. With their pathetic, low-volume and overpriced EVs, they are absolutely incapable of competing against Tesla...

It is quite possible that "big oil" and legacy automakers, who are losing the battle for the car market, will try to use "out-of-market" fighting methods, organizing anti-EV misinformation campaigns and false accusations...

In any case, the entry of the Tesla Cybertruck into the car market will change the situation there quite dramatically, depriving legacy automakers of one of the most important segments of the ICE car market, where they make a large share of profits...