That’s perfect, I’m stealing it!

I’m more partial to their early 90s lineup (E38/39/36) but yes, they used to be understated and elegant. Now they’re loud and brash and gauche, the automotive equivalent of a purse with a repeating logo pattern.

No, that’s only the particular type of “luxury” slop that multinationals sell. There are lots of “luxury” items that don’t fit that definition: traditionally-made bespoke suits and shoes, for example. There’s a guy in the town next to mine who handmakes leather boots. They cost about $500 and he sells only double digits per year. Luxury? Yes. Made as cheaply as possible and sold through brute-force marketing? No. The Gucci crowd will never notice what you’re wearing, but it’s luxury nonetheless.

Gucci is “luxury” for people with no taste, so their use of AI is rather on point. Their cutomers are the same kind of people who think new BMWs’ light-up kidney grille makes them look good.

This is really not Hetzner’s fault, it’s AI companies gobbling up all the hardware and driving up prices for everybody else.

Progressive conservatives are not, and that’s the source of the tension within the CPC. PCs are basically “marry who you want, just don’t raise my taxes”

Of course, but income tax is progressive (rates get higher with income) whereas tariffs result in a flat increase which disproportionately affects the poor because it represents a higher percentage of their income.

Let’s take cars, for example. If steel tariffs mean that a car costs $500 more than it did before tariffs, that $500 has a far bigger impact on someone who makes $40k a year versus someone who makes $200k. That $500 is borne in full by residents of the country that imposed tariffs, which is why tariffs really only penalize your own people in addition to whatever industry of your trade partners you’re targeting.

Tariffs are a tax on residents of the tariffing country, essentially the same as a flat income tax increase on the whole population (i.e. a regressive tax curve, which is deeply un-leftist)

JFC this is what we’re destroying the environment for?

Look, you can’t have a superior climate AND a convenient time zone. Leave some for the rest of us.

Exactly. CPC leadership seems unwilling to understand that there’s a difference between a big tent and a Nazi bar. Since the Reform merger the party used to be the former, but now it’s the latter. It’s no wonder we’re seeing so many floor crossings, and it’s bound to get worse and probably accelerate. This will also badly hurt their candidate recruitment efforts - who would want to put their name on the ballot for this party other than people who buy into this ideology?