I’m gonna leave this up because people are commenting on it, but IMO it’s borderline off-topic. This is an article about political corruption in Federal procurement, and only incidentally mentions cars because they happen to be the item being procured. Try to stick a little closer to “problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all” next time.
Edit: I just noticed that the person who posted this is the other mod, LOL. I guess we should have a chat to make sure we’re on the same page re: rule 4.
I dunno, there isn’t much more “fuck cars” than this particular “fuck these cars”. Thanks for leaving it up either way.
The superior yield for corruption in the procurement of fleets of cars for a State seems like a Fuck Cars issue to me.
I mean, I can see how there could be corruption in the procurement of State Bicycles or State Employee Walking Shoes, but the values involved would be way lower.
And this is without going into the whole point made by somebody else that Governments having and using fleets of cars (especially State officials) incentivises them to have pro-car policies.
You can try to pretend that this has nothing to do with car dependency. But try to imagine this story happening with bicycles. The state completely supports the car con. We wouldn’t be in this situation otherwise. This story is an excellent and important example.
Wow, you’re an asshole. People post fucking images of text all the time, and you do nothing.
Someone posts a link to an actual on topic article from a credible source and you say you almost ban it.
How about actually cleaning up all the low effort crap posted here? That’s where you should be focusing your efforts.
You shouldn’t insult people doing volunteer work, period. You look like someone who’d scream at referees in children’s football games.
Another handout for Musk. Not to mention all the repairs those pieces of trash will need.
This is it. Welcome to all-out, blatant oligarchy. Ready to donate your last food stamps so the State Department goons get to wear brand new swastika shirts?
That screenshot is fantastic. It captures multiple broken promises at once. The unbreakable windows work great and the starting price miraculously doubled.
Who could have possibly foreseen this level of corruption happening?
I mean, other than anyone with 2 or more brain cells to rub together.
We knew this was coming. Hopefully the shitty engineering comes back to bite them.
Weigh down a vehicle who’s performance harshly degrades as weight is added, and put it on the battlefield when those batteries have a habit of catching fire.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!
The State Department handles diplomacy. I would expect that the intention is for US diplomats (however many are left after all this) to drive around in these things. I’m sure that will help convince other countries that the US is not at all stupidly corrupt.
Yup. Guarantee Musk gets Trump to replace The Beast with an armored Tesla.
Which then spontaneously combusts killing Trump, but luckily just before that Trump passes an executive order naming Musk his successor.
If only they heeded your warning, FireRetardant.
I’m just hoping they don’t have to tow anything…
I do!
The sooner it is a shit show the sooner I get to laugh about it.
So we can’t have a consumer protection agency but we can spend half a billion on shitty cars
1 Billion stolen from the department of education.
half a billion in food/aid they refused to deliver that went bad.
half a billion to this fuck’s pocket.
Wait, I think we should add the first two to the total so it’s 2 Billion total to this fuck’s pocket.
… Because seriously where else would it be going?
They’re using the same math to define their wealth, so why the hell not!
Now that’s peak government efficiency. Directly in his pockets.
The state exists to serve capital.
