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Says the obvious bridgestone sales rep

There’s no repairing anything that’s not a puncture. A puncture will not lead to a blowout, it will lead to a flat. Have you ever seen how tires are patched?

They don’t sell retreads, but it doesn’t matter if a tire is retreaded. In the early 2000’s, the feds went Karen and took down a study from the nhtsa that said retreads and new tires had comparable failure rates, coincidentally around when the Bush family friends, the Firestones, had drama with a scandal. I’m sure it’s completely unrelated

Why do you hate the environment and money so much?
Why are you bringing up retreads? Retreads are legal in America, but you’re not even buying retreads. You’re buying used tyres with ‘70% of tread’ left. You have no idea where they came from, if they are matching, if they were rotated properly if they were even from the same vehicle, if they were ever damaged, etc. That’s a stupid risk to make for something that doesn’t even cost much compared to other major components of the car. The tyres are the single most important performance and safety component of a vehicle. And someone also pointed out that the tyres may have been stolen. The shop may lack insurance, skirting labor laws, taxes, and other issues to maintain a lower price, and you’re feeding into that industry while hurting the local businesses that actually care about safety and quality.
 
I think you're incorrect. Like, you botched this. George Lucas implemented real historical aspects to the mythology of Star Wars and combed through the jedi and sith with monk beliefs to make it authentic and unique. It is a mythos as much as The Lord Of The Rings is. Star Wars isn't Star Wars without the archetypes and mythos it draws heavily from. This is when you can use the sequels and The Clone Wars (anything after Disney and in disney canon) as a trait of "just meaningless corporate branding". Even the prequels had a lot of things it added to the mythos for better or worse. You can easily use the contrast of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as an archetype stand-in for roles from other mythologies (and even Religions). The entire world of Star Wars, the "Force" is essentially a taoist backdrop. The yin and yang constantly tugging at each other. All of this is inherently why and how anyone can get emotional about Star Wars or care so much about it.
You're talking about George Lucas' six Star Wars stories which are in fact a mythology, and people try to lump Andor into it as if it's the great modern mythology when it's actually not, it's propaganda meant to sway viewers to a certain political movement. This was not what Lucas intended for Star Wars. Superheroes were conceived as WW2 propaganda as well, not a mythology and you would see that superheroes are still to this day political propaganda if you actually dare to read the shit they publish. Superheroes specifically are propaganda skinwalking as "modern mythology" which is partly why everyone is such a maniac these days.

I say it again, I think you people are confusing mythology and propaganda as the same thing and this topic honestly belongs in it's own thread to discuss.
 
Sometimes I wish everyone affected by these idiots would pull a vulgar display of power to these wiggers and just point a big ol shotgun at protestors blocking important roads and highways to make them move. "If you don't get the fuck out of the way you will become vehicular manburger helper or a martyr to a dying cause, your choice."
I gurantee they'll move. Or be retarded and try to use herd mentality then suffer mass fatalities as a result. We need anti-protest squads made up of average workers. People who can legally tell them to fuck right off or suffer consequences. The laws should be updated where you're actively arrested for obstructing traffic, like a warrant gets filed for your arrest for being a cunt. My mom and dad lost 3 weeks worth of paychecks over this shit in 2020.
 
You had to know my pop. Deeply religious and generally contemptuous of pop culture as we called it then (although he loved his spy novels).

I like to think I'm carrying on his legacy, but without the spy novels.
Lucky for you, my parents are willing consumers of a lot of the latest pop culture slop. Worse yet, they still trust in the cable news.
 
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on the ICE raids: "This is the US if the South won the Civil War"

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Damn the Confederacy won the Civil War? Aight boys, rebuild those statues of Confederate generals, raise the Stars and Bars, and uh how'd we elect a Black President if the South won?
 
You think if the south won the civil war and thus uniting America under their banner, wonder how that would affect the world wars?
Outside of entertaining the sheer absurdity of what the mayor of Chicago said that never would've happened. The Confederacy didn't want to take the rest of America, it wanted to leave.
 
You're talking about George Lucas' six Star Wars stories which are in fact a mythology, and people try to lump Andor into it as if it's the great modern mythology when it's actually not, it's propaganda meant to sway viewers to a certain political movement. This was not what Lucas intended for Star Wars. Superheroes were conceived as WW2 propaganda as well, not a mythology and you would see that superheroes are still to this day political propaganda if you actually dare to read the shit they publish. Superheroes specifically are propaganda skinwalking as "modern mythology" which is partly why everyone is such a maniac these days.

I say it again, I think you people are confusing mythology and propaganda as the same thing and this topic honestly belongs in it's own thread to discuss.
You are sperging out about modern star wars and going off on a tangent entirely unrelated to the points I set up against this prior notion that it's just soulless pop culture. I just interjected about star wars itself and its meanings, and how it is mythology. Also mythology has numerous overlaps with propaganda just look at the Nazis and honestly any existing nation, they aren't the same but you're making a larger deal of it than it is, taking this shit personally. What a fucking retard.
 
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President of Iran seems to be outright begging at this point

The entire country is held hostage by Shia Islam clerics and Ayatollah Khamenei. He controls the IRGC and even the president.
I have no doubt Pezeshkian would love to make a deal, but he is prohibited from doing so. Guys been trying to do what he can to expand his country's international trade during his term but at the end of the day, Khamenei has final say.
 
Remember when Justin Trudeau used the Emergencies Act and all the liberal say it was okay to used it on the Trucker protestor. Now Trump is doing a similar thing on there protest and they are saying it is not okay. As the saying goes, "you made your bed, now lie in it."
Big difference too. The Emergencies Act was used on truckers honking and none of them were trying to cause an insurrection. In this case it's literal foreign actors attacking America assisted by traitors.
 
Marx's most compelling idea in my opinion was exploitation. You can very easily convert a young person (or even an older one) into a Marxoid without them needing to read a single page of drivel by just explaining to them that corporate profit equals the value they create minus what they actually get paid. In other words you are being exploited if you work. This idea is fucking catnip to people.

I'd disagree as this falls apart as soon as you reframe it from the other perspective. At some point a person will contract another to complete so work for them. They do this freely as they find they exchange profitable in that they gain more benefit from it than they lose in compensation. As such they must have exploited the person who they hired. The who concept falls flat on its face under any critical examination, hence the old saying "Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite." I suppose you could argue it's alluring in the sense that anything can be if you don't think about it too hard, but you can just as easily talk any fool into supporting a $200 minimum wage.

Marx was a pompous shithead with an inflated sense of self-worth. The only reason he's remembered at all is because the Soviets decided to use his ideas as the basis for Soviet communism. There were plenty of other socialist philosophers they could have picked from, but I will grant you that Marx is enticing to a certain kind of idiot. Most of his theories have either been disproven or have failed so spectacularly in practice that they cannot be taken seriously. I think only in his conception of alienation did he even approach something that may have some truth to it, though I would say in a broader sense that has little to do with economic systems.
 
For my wife's minivan which shuttles the kids around, i buy brand new tires every 2 or 3 years for about 1200$ out the door, last time it did that was 2023. For my malibu I call the two local tire places ive done business with and just ask them if they have a set of two and have them mount and balance them. They aren't mexicans but they are guys with teeth like tiger kings boyfriend.
$400 per year for a device that is used by your wife and kids every day, designed to ensure their safety, and comes with a warranty, is to much for you? Seriously?

I’m certain there’s far more than $400 worth of bullshit you’re spending on that you could be using to buy good tyres.
 
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