Same reason you are singling out a string of bad Nissan CVT's as indicative of the entirety of automatic transmissions. Every Toyota hybrid is a CVT and while CVTs are in use elsewhere they havent come close to supplanting tradtional automatics.

I single out Mitsubishi because using them as an example to decry the idea that automatics are less reliable today when they are the #25 in sales is also just as much a cherry pick as me.

I can agree lifetime fluids is about the dumbest thing car companies have done in the past 40 years but fact is even most new cars can make it that 100-150k with the basic maintenence today which is better than in the past. That doesn't feel right but it's actually mostly true. You can also do this by anecdote by looking around, what are the cars that are 20+ years old still on the roads today? It's the ones you expect, your Toyotas, Hondas and 90s-2000's era pickups. Everything else has hit the scrapyard long ago.

The cars that 80% of people buy for the past 50 years have been disposable, that's why 95% of cars for the past 50 years are in scrapyards, the ones that remain are the ones people felt are worth saving. I used to drive an 88 Plymouth Reliant. That was a disposable car that nobody would consider saving. .

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You're just a larper, you don't believe anything you say, you're just playing some dumb character. You deserve no respect or actual responses.

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I reset your mom's puss. Doesn't matter what country you're from I have an international passport to tap her ass.

One brand, Nissan was, and I don't even think that's the case anymore. Also pretty niche example, Mitsubishi is #25 of selling car brands in the USA and their non-CVT cars don't exactly have a sterling reputation. Why not compare to Dodge too while we're at it if we want to lump all the shitty brands in there too.

Technology marches forward, the gas mileage advantage faded years and years ago as automatics got more gears and overall just better. The reliability advantage might still be there slightly but its arguable that something like the Toyota hybrid transmission is even simpler and more reliable than even a manual gearbox.

For people who enjoy driving as recreation and as sport manuals will always have a place but there are not really any reasons for it aside from personal preferences and really consumer choice has spoken here in America and I think even in UK and Japan they have won out in preference.

Yes. I'm not even gonna dig into the minefield of bad faith that the word of "imported" is I am saying there's no evidence for "tens of millions" (unless you are just saying ALL immigration) as well as "put in positions of power". Give me your #1 example of a "low trust person put into position of power"

Yes, welcome to the glory that is America!

Whatever you think is boomer of whatever doesn't change the fact that the people actually doing what you describe, the graft and low trust behavior, are not "imported low trust people" at all so I think your entire premise here is deeply flawed and rooted in pseudo-white-nationalism talking points.

No, not when one side the cheating and trying to destroy institutions and basically entrench themselves into single party rule. I mean I know 5 years ago seems like ancient history but this man and his party tried to steal an election.

I dunno if you are a Republican or not but unlike Republicans most of the Democrats understand actually governing is a responsibility but a necessary function to be treated with some degree of respect.

Treating all politics as simply a game to be won at all costs is how we end up with stories like this one we're commenting on right now. If this happened under Obama it'd be gigantic news, careers would be terminated. In 2026 under Trump 2? Nobodies surprised, it's Friday and we're on our 4th or 5th war with Iran in the past 6 months.

And yet Republicans will expect the Democrats to play by civility rules and procedures that they have had no intention of following themselves.

Whatever nominee for 2028 has a platform of assigning an AG like Jack Smith who promises to investigate and prosecute every one of these fuckers who has broken a law gets my vote.

And for those that haven't broken a law but if you're a judge or any other official who has played the game of refusing to answer "who won the 2020 election" get's removed from their post and barred from public service for their entire lives.

I don't think there's evidence of either of these statements.

They say on yet another story about the current admin of homegrown Americans getting into politics to make their family and tribe rich. Not immigrants but an entire group of people who want you to focus on immigrants while they pick your pockets clean.

Good job totally not falling for bottom of the barrel identity politics and jingoism though :/

Putin? I expect him to respect the agreement he signed with everyone where borders were defined. Just because a neighboring country has an election you dont like doesn't mean you can invade them. Would Trump be justified in invading Canada because he doesn't like that Mark Carney was elected? Of course not.

Also "NATO expansion" is just a Russian talking point. If that was the concern why didn't Russia invade Latvia or Estonia who share a border? Why not invade Finland now? Russia does not fear an invasion from NATO, this is just an excuse for expansionist aggression.

Again, this only affects the shareholders in this case. The employees suffer pretty much the same fate regardless and the consumers, despite what the companies say, tend to lose value when the company is acquired. Think about the mega mergers of the last 20 years, which ended up with better outcomes for consumers and/or employees long term? The shareholders are holding shares of a failing business right? So why should they be entitled to retain their full value?

401k's follow the broader market, WB going to auction is not going to move the entire S&P a significant amount, unless someone had their 401k in WB stock it might dip a couple points but 401k's are not day traders, these are years and decades long investment. We see daily 5-point shifts just on political news of the day. I'm sorry but the "think of the 401k" is a canard to justify any market move no matter how bad. This also at least for my opinion, is part of why the entire 401k experiment has been an intentional failed system to do away with traditional pensions.

The studio count still drops to 4 in a buyout. Now if you told be a new ownership group wants to buy up WB to keep it open as an independent entity I might consider that buyout, but one of the 5 buying eachother? No, sorry, go bankrupt.

Also Netflix was ready to pay like $80B for WB's assets without CNN and TBS and such, you don't think they and Disney and anyone isn't going to buy a piece of the assets? We can also simply regulate that none of the existing entities can purchase more than a certain percent.

I remain unconvinced that Paramount being allowed to fully absorb WB this way is less pain for customers or employees or the economy as a whole, much less much less American society as a whole. You can accuse me of spite all you want but I don't think the advantages promised have ever been seen in the vast majority of the mergers of the last 20 years. Spite backed up with facts isn't really spite is it?

Because the constant mergers and consolidation of industry has also caused thousands of job losses and suffering. The investors are really the only winners. Most of the time it's a PE form that buys up the company, runs it into the ground for short term gains and then the employees and customers are left holding the bag.

I also think it's toxic for our economy that so many businesses start up with the explicit goal of getting bought up by a larger company.

If the company is nearly worthless then you failed at business. Don't over 50% of small business and restaurants die in the first 3 years? Do they get a buyout and make money off the failure?

Let's give capitalism and markets a chance again.

Thank you, see wasn't that easy, next time just take the 10 seconds.

And now I can say, that's a great example of some recent US bad shit. Like this is bad no doubt about it.

It worked for Twitter and CBS so why not here as well I guess.