A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say “WHAT’S ELON’S CUM TASTE LIKE?,” and “NAZI CAR,” and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc.

    • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Remember that to these people the law exists to oppress.

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    • @SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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      Just wanted to say that the hate on American cheese is unjustified. American cheese is just cheddar that has been heated to 170f (iirc) for long enough to kill bacteria and make it shelf-stable. They add an emulsifier (again, iirc) to help it bind better and have a more pleasant texture.

      All other criticisms of America are valid, but the cheese doesn’t deserve the hate it gets.

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        pleasant texture

        I’d go with “rubbery”.

        • @SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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          “Pleasant” in the context of what it would be otherwise. My understanding is that, without the emulsifier, it would be crumbly and kinda chalky, and not hold a form very well.

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        You forgot to mention that it’s watered down. That’s what the emulsifier is for, to make the oils in the cheese mix well with the added water. The concept is fine - for some applications - if it were only that, but this is hyper-processed American food we’re talking about here. Gotta pad out that ingredient list:

        CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), SKIM MILK, MILKFAT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEY, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, LACTIC ACID, MILK, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (COLOR), ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE, ANNATTO (COLOR).

        The above is the standard Kraft singles ingredient list, and at a glance is the shortest one I saw on their website.

      • @ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
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        Literally this is why it gets hate. It’s not remotely Cheddar. Real Cheddar is deliberately none of these things. I love a crunchy cheese crystal and a crumbly organic texture. To each their own, but it’s not Cheddar, barely cheese. I’d have it in a burger, but only because so few places will melt real cheese properly. Brie is pretty good in a burger. Is Somerset Brie really Brie? Time for a Frenchman to tell me to gtfo…

      • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        IMHO, it has three purposes:

        1. a grilled cheese on cheap white bread with enough butter to guarantee an acid reflux episode
        2. melted on Chef Boyardee ravioli
        3. on a slice of apple pie

        If your Kraft singles are too precious, I think the Dollar Tree brands stray even further from gods light.

        • @smort@lemmy.world
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          Wait wtf you put American cheese on your apple pie?!?

          Are you from the US? I’ve never heard of that, and honestly I’m horrified and intrigued

          • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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            I think it might be an “older people in the south” thing. (Like all boomers and older I’ve talked to about it know about it, usually not younger) I worked at a diner for a bit, and it would be Silent Generation types that would order it.

            It’s pretty good, but real cheddar would be better. It’s that similar salty/sweet combo that makes French fries and a McFlurry better than sex.

            • @jdeath@lemm.ee
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              i heard of it as kid on some cooking show on PBS in the 90s. I thought it was super weird, but my mom had heard of it. Except it was cheddar cheese, not american. I tried it and thought it was pretty good, so i bring it up when people talk about apple pie. it never fails to weird them out if they’ve never tried it!

          • @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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            There’s a joke/urban myth that it’s the law in Wisconsin that restaurants have to serve a slice of cheese with apple pie.

            We did used to have a law that oleo (margarine) had to be sold undyed, which made it a sickly-looking blue-ish white. This was to protect the state’s dairy industry. Only butter could be yellow. People near the borders used to bootleg yellow margarine back across the border from other states. The law was dealt a mortal blow when one of our state representatives publicly took a blind taste test in order to prove that butter was better…

            …and failed. His family had been worried about his health, and was surreptitiously substituting yellow margarine for butter in their meals. (In an amusing historical twist, now that we know about the danger of transfats, we know that butter is indeed better.)

      • @scholar@lemmy.world
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        If by ‘more pleasant texture’ you mean ‘no texture whatsoever’ then yes, I suppose so.

      • @endeavor@sopuli.xyz
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        I agree, the american cheese is an Interesting and useful invention. At the end of the day it’s just emulsified cheese. Similiar to emusified sausages and meat products, which are popular all around the world.

        I much rather hate american insistace on substituting technique and culinary education with cream, corn syrup, sugar and butter, for example cacio e pepe or carbonara.

      • @Botunda@lemmy.world
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        American Cheese is not actually cheese. It is cheese food product. Even deli American cheese is not cheese.

          • @shortrounddev@lemmy.world
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            Because it’s made out of cheese. Legally if you take something that is cheese and use it as an ingredient in another food, then it is no longer “cheese”, it is “cheese food”. The first ingredient is cheddar

      • @JacksonLamb@lemmy.world
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        All other criticisms of America

        Processed cheese is only called “American cheese” by Americans.

        The rest of the world doesn’t call it that, and it’s strange to see that some of you take it on as part of your national identity.

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              They said that in the broader context of saying they don’t think American cheese deserves the hate it gets. It was qualifying their defense of American cheese by saying they aren’t just blindly defending any criticism of America but honestly like the cheese.

          • @JacksonLamb@lemmy.world
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            Thank you. I did not realize their processed cheese was even worse than Kraft.

            I’m partial to the odd Laughing Cow on toast.

      • @trueheresy@lemm.ee
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        I wonder if one of the problems is your comparison of American cheese to what I’m guessing might be American cheddar. I say this because most (and I know there are some niche outliers) American cheddars are pretty awful. It tastes processed, rubbery and bland.

        When I, a Brit, lived in the USA for 4 yrs I quickly learned the only good cheddar was the NZ or UK stuff. I say this as someone who has gone through at least 1-3 blocks of various British cheddars a week for almost 40 yrs.

        I wonder if you have had imported (not just branded as “English cheddar” before for example? It might blow your mind… but also if American cheddar is all you have know it might not taste all that good - we all have our tastes shaped by our upbringing.

      • @Andonyx@lemmy.world
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        Check out Nile Red on Nebula, (or YT if that’s your bag). He makes American Cheese from the ground cheddar up and you can watch. Having done so, I agree with you.

      • Yerbouti
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        Honestly if you ever tasted anything else than cheddar and mozzarella, you know that americans cheese is something else. I’m willing to bet you could leave some slices in a forest and no animal would touch it.

    • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      In a video taken from a Cybertruck of a man throwing American cheese slices at the windshield of a Cybertruck

      They better be throwing 64 slices of American cheese.

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      I’m sure the synthetic oilly shit has a wonderful reaction with that unprotected stainless steel.

      Not to mention that depending on force of the throw, and precise angle of the impact of cheese slice, the thing could start falling apart.

      … which now I think about it, also explains the:

      “hey police, someone threw cheese at my car, I’m in fear for my life.”

      • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        Police : Buddy, you are lucky it wasn’t something much worse, this one time, a friggin acorn hit my car and I…

        • @Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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          🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

          Fuck! I’d completely forgotten about that! What a fucking mongrel…

    • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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      Post his picture everywhere so everyone knows who he is… and he never has to pay for his own drinks again, I suppose?

    • @RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      The latter is so they can kill them with a written record to aid their defense in court.

      I’d call it premeditated, first degree murder, but I’m not on their jury so my opinion is irrelevant.

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      Oh projection…

      I don’t think you really understand the words you use.

      You’re saying shaming nazis is shameful?

      edit jesus lemmy, you’re this stupid? there’s no-one blaming anyone of being anything. there’s nothing being “projected” here. I guess the downvoters feel rage for me pointing out that only pretentious morons use terms they dont’ actually understand to seem smarter than they are

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    Cybertrucks are ugly, poorly-built, and poorly-designed vehicles. These protesters are doing any potential owners who get deterred from wasting their money on them a favor.

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      I test drove one because I had to know. It was awful. I’ve driven dozens of different vehicles and it by far is the worst I’ve ever driven. It’s just stupid. Everything about it is stupid.

      It also felt satisfying to cost Tesla like $10 in electricity and wear and tear.

      • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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        It also felt satisfying to cost Tesla like $10 in electricity and wear and tear.

        Should we all sign up to test drive Teslas with zero intentions to buy, just to cost them time & money?

      • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        I have a feeling that one of Elon’s kids were the inspiration. One told him while watching Blade Runner or something with them “Why does the future not look like the future?”, then he decided to cook, and people around him let him.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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        Oh, the Pinto, with it’s missing gas tank design, and later rebranding as the Ford Mustang after killing so many in a firey death. Gotta love the Pinto…

        Edit: to be clear, I’d rather drive it than the boxy Prius wannabe.

  • The Pantser
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    American cheese used to cost more than eggs. Now cheese is 10x cheaper than eggs. New throwables just dropped.

  • @shorap@lemm.ee
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    They’re all masochists. I’ve never seen a group that wants to be oppressed more than conservatives. Their lives revolve around bullshit perceived aggrievement.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Christian conservatives are the worst of them all. Their entire society is steeped in their religion; it’s literally unavoidable, despite the first amendment being very clear. If the US has a culture, it would heavily overlap with Christianity.

      And yet they have convinced themselves that they are being oppressed. Because someone dared to challenge their obviously unconstitutional bullshit. It’s so pathetic.

      • tmyakal
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        My Catholic in-laws voted for Trump in 2020 because Biden, a Catholic, was going to outlaw catholicism.

        There’s no hope for these people.

        • @Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          …he voted for the people who dont recognise the head of his religion?! As a former catholic myself, wow, he is a stupid one, hope the one person threw which they are your inlaws isnt as bright as them

          • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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            You mean the woke pope? Apologies for inflicting an ai summary upon you but it does sum it up quite well. A lot of catholics really don’t like Francis.

        • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Like imagine hearing or reading something so patently absurd, and taking it at face value without bothering to check if there is any truth to it. Brain rot.

          It’s just their projection taking another form: they know that they want to “outlaw” (or oppress or whatever) the other religions and minorities, so in their mind, the Democrats must be planning to do the exact same thing to them.

          That is as deep as it ever gets with these people.

      • @Jtotheb@lemmy.world
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        A lot of core concepts in Christianity are incompatible with being white in America. It’s a religion for the oppressed being practiced by the oppressors. They’re the Pharisees. It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to figure out how to see themselves as the lepers and the Jews.

      • Rob T Firefly
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        The modern Christian Establishment has a great deal in common with the United States itself. There’s tons of writing and chatter about being based on principles of personal freedom and responsibility, taking care of one another, etc. while in real life the ones steering those ships will laugh you out of the room if you suggest they actually try to live and treat folks anything like their texts say they should.

        There are, of course, genuinely good Christian and American individuals out there, but they are clearly not the ones in control of their institutions; the collective human organizations which serve to represent them are all about keeping up sparkly appearances and telling nice stories while standing firmly on the necks of anyone they deem too different from themselves.

        • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Those people are good in spite of their religion.

          Christianity takes all of the best aspects of humanity, and convinces people that they require some sort of supernatural force to be or do those things.

  • Kokesh
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    Dicks buying cybershits deserve some mockery.

  • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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    I see a Reichertruck sometimes on my commute and wonder if the driver gets shit for it. It just gets an angry glare from me.

  • dream_weasel
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    Flipping off*. You can flick off boogers, but you flip the bird.

  • @AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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    Destroying people’s property is not a joke. Kicking, spray painting, throwing food at, and other forms of harassment are wrong. The last administration told everyone to “go electric” so people tried to do what they thought was right. Cars are a huge expense, people can’t " just go get another one".

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      While I agree “sell your car” is kind of ridiculous when nobody is buying and everyone is saying “don’t own it OR ELSE”. On the other hand most teslas are owned by the bank and people larping being rich as tesla is a premium car (nevermind that it’s built like to the standard of russian cars and falls apart constantly). Thirdly this is about the cybertruck. Cybertruck was a man squatting with his trousers down and making a face of great effort. Unless you are a complete moron or otherwise obnoxious, you knew exactly what was coming out of that anus. With a cybertruck It’s either in hidden away as an investment since it will be the next delorean once us civil war is over, or you are a bona fide complete moron for owning it and honestly deserve the financial hole. Selling theirs at a massive loss might even save their lives considering the safety record of that turd.

    • @ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world
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      No one bought a six figure truck with no reasonable application because they thought it was right thing to do, they did it to show how they had more disposable income than you and that they aligned with hatred. They deserve much worse than anything I see here.

      • @AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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        The biden\harris administration told people to buy electric, offered tax breaks, and tax rebates for 4 years. Every car manufacturer started producing electric cars at their request. Where have you been?

        • @YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
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          You’re being disingenuous, for example by equating the cybertrucks and some other Teslas being “damaged” (sure in some cases but not by slices of cheese or notes) with any and all electric cars, or by equating the negative sentiment against Tesla with negative sentiment against any EV.

          • @AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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            No you’re being disingenuous by attempting to change the topic we are actually discussing which was people being harassed for driving the “wrong type of electric car” by terrible people who feel justified in victimizing them. While these victimizers congratulate themselves for being “good people” which they are not.

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              attempting to change the topic we are actually discussing

              How exactly am I doing that by pointing out that you’re not actually arguing in good faith?

              You are projecting in your accusation that I am attempting to change the topic, as you are the one who initially posted a top level comment attempting to shift the blame to politicians for convincing people to buy a car from a known Nazi’s company, which by the way is a bullshit premise in the first place for many reasons including that there are plenty of other EV manufacturers and no one forced anyone to buy a Nazi car.

    • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      If it was a 5 year old Tesla you might have a point. There is no excuse for the memetruck.

    • Drusas
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      Nazis are well known for having thrown slices of cheese at things.

    • Leraje
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      Leaving notes…committing genocide, yeah they’re interchangeable really.

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        See, Nazis were objectively bad, and deploramobile owners FEEL these people are bad, so they must be the same.

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      Your right I’m gonna hold up a small sign somewhere out of the way to fight Nazism. I have a feeling that reading the sign will hurt the Nazis feelings and that will really deter them. Plus people will appreciate that I didn’t disturb anyone at all. /s

      Dude this is a pretty mild form of protest.

      I sympathize with the people who bought the car not realizing he’s a Nazi asshole. But considering his treatment of workers and general anti-repair attitudes have been well known for a while. I’m not gonna sympathize too hard.