#700 Batteries just blown up by itself. Try not to drive them to reduce risks. Simple. w/Aaron Thorpe (preview)
TODAY: Aaron Thorpe of the Trillbillies joins us to talk sci-fi art, alleged acts of anti-Tesla terrorism, and Minion Death Cult being cancelled for liberalism (supporting unions) We start off with a brief review of Mickey 17 and our mutual childhood love of art and how our nostalgia is Good vs the fascistic nostalgia going around right now THEN: We explore the curious nature of a failing, overpriced car brand with thousands of unsold vehicles with manufacturing defects being suddenly "attacked" by anti-Elon protestors and whether anyone might stand to benefit from these liabilities being written-off as insurance claims. FINALLY: We address the accusations of "liberal bullshit ideology" directed at us via an anti-capitalist facebook page after an old MDC post about organizing your workplace goes viral. We also take a look at the afro-pessimism espoused by the page, whether not knowing how to organize in America is "mayo," and how the fetishization of historic black radicalism can lead to modern apathy and inaction. Bonus episodes at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult
I don't want to run in too long because I could talk about this shit all day, but Wayne Barlow, actually, he's known for doing these extraterrestrial, I guess it's called speculative evolution, you know?
Yeah. How, you know, animals and organisms would look like, you know, into the far future on Earth or how alien species would look.
And I just remember as a kid, and he also did a lot of dinosaur illustrations in the 90s.
I have, Ani got me his guide to extraterrestrials.
Yes, that's the one I'm talking about.
Dude, I remember flipping through that as a kid where I was in the 90s where I was sitting in the shaft of a sunbeam on this carpeted floor in the library and just flipping through it until my dad came and picked me up instead of doing homework.
I don't know.
Nostalgia can be very whitewashed and insidious, but I don't know.
I like art, man.
Art's good.
Art is good.
Most of the nostalgic fascism I think comes from Commercial advertisements.
So, I don't think that, you know, I think we're safe, like, looking at actual art.
You know, I think we're fine.
Yeah, so I don't know.
Just, I want to, yeah, start off this episode.
As we know, supposed acts of terrorism and vandalism and just, you know, scary acts of violence against...
Tesla's, Tesla dealerships, people are leaving me notes on Tesla drivers' cars.
I just saw Larry Elder post about a note his friend got on his car that was like a pre-printed Tesla's, like anti-Tesla's fake ticket that was like, you are guilty of increased racism.
You are a Nazi.
Like, just, like, key a swastika into, like, their car door or something like that.
Driving fascist in a Lib Dem zone.
I find it a little suspicious that we have the man, the bureaucrat, the billionaire...
Next to our president, dismantling the government, getting to decide that anyone who doesn't like his cars are terrorists.
And then suddenly we have seemingly real acts of arson and terror happening across the country.
While this administration is, like, renditioning people to El Salvadorian prisons and other detention centers without trial, without even consideration for legal status or evidence or anything like that.
And I just want to say, you know, I don't like to toot my own horn too often, but I was calling this false flag shit back on March 18th.
KWTX on Facebook posted, Tesla vehicles targeted, set on fire at Service Center.
And the comments are all, of course, like, we need to kill Democrats.
But I keenly observed that somebody might have an interest in these cars burning, and I did post, false flag!
Follow the plan!
Study the comments!
And this is the comment that I want...
Us to study was from Thien who says, Batteries just blown up by itself.
Try not to drive them to reduce risks.
Simple. So this is just a car that's going to sit in your driveway, like the same way that I have this Star Trek ship that someone sent me from Twitter, but it's just a model sitting on my chest of drawers.
You want it to just sit in your driveway, just like a material object that you can marvel over, but not actually use for the purpose that it's made for.
Sure, yeah.
Ultimate lawn sign.
Let's spend $10,000 on a car that we will not drive or how much ever they cost.
$100,000.
Yeah, $100,000.
That was wild.
Actually, the Cybertruck, people don't know this, it's only $10,000 and it's totally modular.
It's their answer to the Toyota truck that America won't let us have.
Over here.
No, yeah, absolutely.
I would say that, yeah, the Cybertruck is definitely like...
We were just talking about this last night because there's an author who's like a local author, and maybe I'll ask Ani to see if she wants me to censor this, but there's a local author who writes, I guess, middling fiction that's not that great to begin with.
But she also, or they, I think it's a woman, also drive a cyber truck.
And so, somebody was, like, asking Ani about, like, do you recommend this book or this book?
And Ani was like, well, I didn't really like that author.
Also, she drives a cyber truck.
And the woman was like, thank you, and put it back immediately.
Because it's such a signifier.
Like, even before the political stuff, it's such a signifier for, like, desperation.
Pure, raw desperation for attention or to be cool or something like that.
I know people point this out a lot, but have you ever seen a passenger?
I've seen a couple of Cybertrucks, but I've never seen in my neighborhood, actually, which is always appalling because, I mean, these are jokes that people have made already, but truly, it does look, because it is so angular, because it just looks so much unlike any other car,
which... You know what I mean?
It looks like one of the tanks I controlled on the first generation Mac computer game.
That grid work tank program that came with it.
That's what it looks like.
Getting back to this comment, people forget these fucking cars just blow up.
They just do that.
It's just something they do.
And sometimes they blow up after...
Shutting down in the middle of the freeway at 3 a.m., and your lights don't turn on, and you can't turn your hazards, and you can't get out of the car, and then it blows up.
And it's in the middle of the freeway, and you can't do that.
Did you guys hear about, I think it was, I mean, because there are so many malfunctions with these cars, design flaws, but I think there was one where, like, the rubberized covering over the gas pedal, I think, I think it would slip off or something like that.
And it would catch under the gas pedal.
So you would be trying to hit brake and you wouldn't be able to do that because the gas pedal would still engage.
I mean, we're not even just talking about blowing up.
I'm talking about you look at the shit in the rust.
You know what I mean?
This is a car that is not designed for use, actually.
