ceartasApr 12

Republicans: the reason we can’t have nice things.

Volkswagen kills US EVs.

From Transport Evolved:

https://www.transportevolved.com/2026/04/11/ten-577-volkswagen-kills-us-evs-bmw-rimac-work-together-on-i7-r2-epa-figures-leak/

TEN 577 | Volkswagen Kills US EVs, BMW + Rimac Work Together On i7, R2 EPA Figures Leak - Transport Evolved

Volkswagen updates the ID.4 and ID.5 family of EVs in Europe while simultaneously announcing the end of ID.4 production in the U.S (in order to make a gas-guzzling SUV instead), BMW and Rimac working together on the soon-to-launch i7, and Rivian R2 EPA estimates leak ahead of launch.

Transport Evolved
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@ceartas
That might be true, if the Democrats weren't completely complicit and working in lockstep with the Republicans for the last four decades.

Or hadn't you noticed?

Both parties are owned by the same oligarchs. Pretending that one is Good and the other is Evil just hands our future to the oligarchs again.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #ShellGame #Uniparty

Apr 12 at 3:17pmWeb
Show threadceartasApr 12

@Quasit

I just want a cheap electric car.

I had NOT notice “lockstep”, but I have lived contemporaneously during those decades, perhaps you have not. My mother was a labor activist (30s to mid 50s, both my parents served in WWII. My upbringing was atheist, antifascist, and politically, left wing Democrat. It was probably 10+ years ago that I began to realize that as a US voter, I was being given a choice between Fascist and Fascist-lite, and had been for quite some time.

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@ceartas
Personally I want an end to capitalism and the oligarchy.

Sounds as if we might be of an age. You might be a little older than me. I'm the Last of the Boomers.

Atheist and anti-fascist all the way. We've just been seeing an influx of DNC shills here lately. I guess the DNC's check to David Brock must have cleared!

Show threadceartasApr 12

@Quasit

I guess I’m an anarcho-syndicalist at heart, but I don’t actually know what that reality looks like. That’s OK, I’ll be dead. I’m really just an old hippie, more of a commune-ist than a communist. I spent a lifetime voting for the “least objectionable candidate”. So yeah, I loathe the DNC, and the fash-complicit Dems, the oligarch-compromised Dems, the genocide-complicit Dems, and the entrenched Democratic gerontocracy that they support. And fuck the patriarchy.

Show threadQuasitApr 12
@ceartas Sounds like we're on the same page!
Show threadceartasApr 12

@Quasit

Looking at your homepage, I thought so, too. Solidarity! #GeneralStrike

Show threadDon Hawkins - W7DAHApr 12
@Quasit @ceartas I’m a 74 y/o Atheist & Antifa as well, but I have zero fooking patience for misguided & misinformed peeps trying to attribute “equal” blame for our messes to Democrats. I simply block that level of ignorance, and move on without them. They are typically Jill Stein, Green Party supporters or worst of all, non-voters waiting for Christ to run for office while they whine, & piss, and moan from the cheap seats like the peanut gallery. Nope. Ain’t havin’ it.
Show threadceartasApr 12

@donhawkins @Quasit

Both parties suck, but in different ways. There are distinct differences. I’m not sure which is more contemptible: Republicans who cater to their base of Evangelical Christofascist racist gun worshippers? Or Democrats, who promise wonders and cucumbers, seldom follow through, and completely ignore their base. Still, I’m a persistent voter, unwilling to surrender the little power I have, and more often than not, voting for the person who will do us the least harm.