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Got to love this one too:

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/san🦊🎲go-bound-cargo-ship-hauling-lithium-batteries-reports-fire

Headline should be renamed more accurately IMO:
"New Vehicle Regulations To Curb Climate Change Create Spontaneous Fires Causing More Climate Change, Inb4 Repeat."

Anti-glow spam bump.

 >>/49274/
It seems like the EV craze has peaked already. Growth in gas cars is now far higher than electrics, flipping a trend from 12 months ago. Finally, consumers are figuring it out. [The EV] is a good second car, provided you’re driving in your own town, you have a hook-up at home and can charge it overnight, and you don’t suddenly have to go out of town. It’s a toy, sometimes a fun one, but not a real car. For that, you need gas.

The idea that this car is going to transition the United States to “clean energy” is absurd. If every car were electric, the grid would crash and rationing would be the norm. And maybe that’s the whole point. You drive only with permission. Nothing about your transportation is within your control. Authorities will decide everything for you. It’s a perfect strategy for creating a society of dependents.

Fortunately, consumers aren’t playing along. We still live with the remnants of a capitalist system whereby manufacturers have to make profits. So that’s a serious problem for the whole EV industry. It could very well collapse in 2024. That is, if not bailed out by corrupt governments once again.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/consumers-are-rejecting-great-reset

we can
but the new model is subscription based
you can't use it unless you stay as a customer and renew your right to use our product

 >>/49298/
Which is exactly why so many Americans are refusing and will continue to buy this JUNK.

It's this simple: if I buy a product from you, it should be owned by ME - not you. Because I paid you for it. Once you pay for that product, ownership is therefore transferred. Unless you are renting it, that is. If I want to rent a vehicle, I'll go to a car rental, not a car dealership!

So it's this simple: if I buy something, it will be something I will own and be able to access anytime, anywhere I please. If that is not possible, fuck your scam merchant racket I won't be a customer! Got it? This is the way it's always been in economics and people know all this modern JUNK is a big fat scam!

 >>/49301/
Which is exactly why so many Americans are refusing and will continue [refusing] to buy this JUNK. Fixed.

I am absolutely stunned today how ignorant some people are about these scams. It's not a very good product if you don't have the right to use it when you want to! That is a scam and it ain't worth shit to me.

 >>/49301/
> people know all this modern JUNK is a big fat scam!
wouldn't count on it

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 >>/49273/
> Using electric cars

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It's all becoming junk. Spyware-infested garbage. I'm going to be buying some backup older appliances at thrift shops, keeping anything old I still have until it stops working and can no longer be repaired. I'm not buying or supporting any appliance that needs to be connected to the internet to work, fuck that!

 >>/49308/
Consumers will catch on once they realize their appliances won't work because 'X, Y, Z' and it's all internet related. I mean, fuck, you'd have to have an IQ around 60 not to realize it by then!

THIS is why they want "updates", all these new car models are BOTNETS. Govt-approved mobile prison surveillance cells:

‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen.

A new study from the Mozilla Foundation found that all 25 of the car brands it reviewed had glaring privacy concerns, even compared to the makers of sex toys and mental health apps.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861047/car-user-privacy-report-mozilla-foundation-data-collection

 >>/49438/
I'm going to be buying a couple extra older flat screen plasma TVs very soon as my family can still use those without any internet or any remote intervention. We still use DVDs and external USB drives with digital media because we enjoy owning the content physically and it's nice having backups that cannot be easily taken away from us. Newer TVs are now mandating online registration and subscription just like the modern vehicles *puke*!!! Welcome to the death of free market capitalism where governments run the economy and dictate what can or cannot be manufactured and destroy consumer choice. Only way out will be to flee to the older tech and have a couple backups for redundancy.

 >>/49361/
It's not just EVs anymore, they are actually putting tons of bloatware (corporate spyware) in ALL modern vehicles. Even worse. All that corporate spyware; and we should call it for what it is: spyware; mandates you "update" it routinely (what it's really doing is stealing tons of info from driver's mobile devices, and hidden car cams/mic!) and if you refuse, you cannot drive anymore.

So fuck no, I won't be spending any money on any modern spyware-ridden update-to-drive vehicle in the future. I rather drive old clunkers, at least they work and drivers actually own them.  Fucking country is going the way of communist Cuba.  Black market will likely be fixing up old clunkers in the future.

Biden Caught In Huge Rigging Of EV Carbon Credits At Taxpayer Expense
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-caught-huge-rigging-ev-carbon-credits-taxpayer-expense

Government-run 'economy' go figure.

A State-regulated market ruins everything, it's official.

Next comes mandatory alcohol breathalyzers installed in the vehicles which will determine whether or not you can drive.

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 >>/49581/
More than half of American "GDP" is debt the government spends to regulate the market and that's part of the entire economic fraud right there. During the 1980s and earlier the US did not count debt as GDP but today we do to hoax plebs into believing we still have a free market and real economy. We actually don't. The days of free market capitalism are far gone.

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 >>/50376/ 
> The days of free market capitalism are far gone.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

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 >>/50387/
USSA imports third world slave labor from the open borders today. One of the reasons labor wages are low today. The other major reason is because, back in 1971, Nixon got the US Dollar off the gold standard. This was the beginning of the fiat dollar, by 1974 known as the "US petrodollar" after OPEC initiated US Dollar for oil trade. It wasn't long until the US government started to abuse the global reserve currency status and overspend into fiscal insolvency. The same fate as many other past fallen empires.

 >>/50439/
True, that and price inflation which makes your currency worth less and less.

 >>/50447/
Price inflation is only the symptom, not the cause. When your currency is devalued (via reckless spending and debt insolvency) this devalues the purchasing power of the fiat currency. As the purchasing power devalues the cost for commodities, goods and services go up, making everything more expensive. The only way to keep inflation under control is to cut spending and stop going into too much debt. However good luck convincing politicians and our government to ever do such a thing. They'd rather keep their empire even if it means bankrupting the nation and ruling over our ashes. That's always the price people pay for building an empire. That's why our Founding Fathers were dead against empires and central banking.

Fuck America can't do anything right these days.

garbage society makes garbage products

We are not allowed to make anything new that works properly because
> how dare average plebs have anything functionally convenient without being ripped off and price gouged into financial oblivion!?
This is the literally the primitive mindset of bureaucrats and oligarchs in the US today.

Worthless shit. If I'm going to buy something it's going to be something I own and only I can modify.

t nip sup

 >>/51330/
shut the fuck up spammer

 >>/51993/
stop bumping your spam nigger

ok spammers, here we go again

No one wants this crap, if we had a real free market they'd still be making cars and trucks that simply work as intended.

The purpose of free market capitalism was to free the economy from total government control over it. We no longer have free market capitalism today.

 >>/49273/
It gets far worse, now days due to nanny police state commie big government policy, they are putting cameras inside and outside vehicles that will alert nearby police cars if you are driving too fast, and they have wifi that will deliver all the data and coordinates of your 'personal' vehicle.

I'm sticking to the older model vehicles from now on, anything before 2015 will do. I don't care if I buy them used or have to pay for maintenance at this point.

still garbage

wake me up when we have free market capitalism once again

faggotry mitigated again

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 >>/53558/
Perpetual decline is reality it seems. Good for the folks who realized this 20-some years ago and have gotten prepared for it.

do tell

sliding garbage nigger spam too

Free Market DEAD: Modern Vehicles Spy On Drivers, Send Data To Insurance Companies & Police

In the brief video below, you will see that newer cars are equipped with sophisticated data collection systems that track your driving, speed, facial expressions, aggressiveness, even "sexual activity" in the car.  It's all forwarded to data brokers!

In one case, a guy was driving his 1 year old Toyota when it went on fire.   Toyota refused Warranty work, telling him that "at some point in your ownership, you drove over 85 MPH."    That had nothing at all to do with the car fire, but they refused to honor the warranty nonetheless.

A guy who owns a Corvette, took it to a closed race track to see what the car could do, and do so legally on a closed track.   The computer logged all the speed and sharp turns, and his Insurance skyrocketed.

The video is self explanatory: https://htrs-special.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/New-Cars-Collect-Data-Send-to-Ins-co-and-police.mp4

The "rub" is that YOU CONSENT to this when you install their "App" on your phone.  Continuous spying, and relaying of data to third parties, which includes Insurance companies and even Law Enforcement.

Car companies are doing this because they make millions selling driver data to data brokers and government regulations MANDATE this spyware shit in all modern vehicles.

HT REMARK: I declined to activate the GMC App in my Diesel pick-up truck in 2021 when I got it, because I read the "Terms of Service" and didn't want this being done to me.   I also declined to install the KIA App for my new K-5 when I got it a few months ago in August.   Both GM and KIA are among the most notorious for data collection.

MY COMMENT: I refuse to buy anything past the year 2016!!! I am most definitely holding on to my older trucks too! Looks like this country is headed towards disaster! New Unstable vehicles now becoming a FISCAL LIABILITY for users to drive! New vehicles illegally spying on drives, total violation of the US Constitution! The free market and consumer choice is clearly DEAD in the USSA. This is exactly what a failed totalitarian state looks like!!!

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/newer-cars-collect-driving-data-sent-to-insurance-companies-and-police

This makes me so pissed I thought of another solution to Hal's opt-out! I would recommend you put any "smartphone" in a Faraday bag when using these modern shitware spymobiles as well! Don't even allow the WiFi chips to detect any smartphone network in the first place!! You can legally buy Faraday cage bags for laptops and numerous other devices online, there are companies that even sell them for credit cards and wallets! Looks like this is a MUST INVESTMENT as we devolve into an unfriendly anti-consumer nanny police state!!

MAKE Mechanical Vehicles With Combustible Engines GREAT AGAIN!

still garbage, bring back free market reliability

Buy a 1969 Chevy Nova with points, a condenser, a 350-V8 engine, a 4-barrel carb, no black box of any kind, easy to work on, hella fun to drive, chick magnet, looks way fucking better than anything else on the road, and don't worry about all this stupid planned-obselence surveillance monitoring bullshit. Buy it from a grandma in Kansas for cheap and drive it home and it'll cost a fraction of the ankle monitor garbage on the market too. Or go total badass and become a year-round motorcycle rider.