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Also, I fail to be that optimistic given how wealth imbalance is greater then ever, and the looming climate change we do jackshit about. The people being connected to information suck up bullshit conspiracy theories like they were nothing (and those kind little FAANG companies help them in that). And this anti-intellectualism is even scarier than climate change, might I say.
> 100k+ people lifting themselves out of extreme poverty, daily, for the last 25 years.
This film really made me feel apathetic to US cultural direction. Not because of the portrayal of political incompetence. But for the eagerness and shamelessness of pretending that the only good smart folks are the little people on the left and that everyone else is comic book evil in a mostly serious film, or at least, a film that felt like it was trying to have a serious point.
Anti science and intellectualism in the US is a problem but Christ this movie was just as bad in the opposite direction.
They were more of a blend of left and right than you might appreciate. The president's smoking habit was a clear reference to Barack Obama, and all of the photographs of her with celebrities was a reference to Hillary Clinton. Unqualified children working as advisors was a reference to Donald Trump.
I would argue that what you see in the characters is more of a reflection of your political leanings.
It’s anti political elite. Anti business elite. Anti American right.
It’s not pro Democrat. Much as the Kingsmen wasn’t pro Republican.
The Fox News equivalent, idiot military man shooting at the moon, and conspiracy theory culture were all “liberal” pandering though.
Listen, 2 years ago I would have said Elon is a clown and Tesla is going to zero.
And I was 100% wrong.
Dude has massive balls and the kind of personality (warts and all) that pushes humanity forward.
We need to nurture people like him, not condemn them.
Also, did you calculate the production of batteries and their limited reusability into the picture as well? Or the not even close to renewable-only sources of electricity used to recharge the cars?
In the meantime, Tesla is making real progress on decarbonizing transport. And it's not just "stupid luxury cars," the whole idea was to start with that and work their way down to the mass-market as they scaled up mass production and batteries got cheaper, and that plan seems to be progressing nicely.
Batteries can be recycled and Tesla's 4680 cells are designed to make recycling easy. And a recent Yale study found that, even taking all indirect emissions into account, electric cars are far better than gasoline cars: https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/yse-study-finds-el...
And he would do that how? Pulbic infrastrucutre is a political problem and I tell you a secret, rich people don't actually control the world.
And living in a country with good public transport, there are still many cars. Juts FYI.
And you need to start EV of in more expensive cars to get the needed margins to make massive investment of batteries and battery supply chain. Like literally anything else, things start expensive and get cheaper over time, I can't believe how people still complain about this with every single new technology.
> Also, did you calculate the production of batteries and their limited reusability into the picture as well?
Yes. People keep making that point as if its a good point. Because it really isn't.
> Or the not even close to renewable-only sources of electricity used to recharge the cars?
Another terrible point. You have to move both renewables and electric transport at the same time. The idea that EV don't matter and they should only be done when the Grid is 100% electric is literally one of the dumbest possible arguments. They clearly have to be done at the same time for any chance of getting there by 2050 (or hopefully before).