The wait for Iveco spare parts is going to become a whole lot more interesting then, when they’re made in India.

The “journalists” whose job it is to research the background of the story do blame the product and/or the seller.

Instead they could have done a public safety announcement about long hair and loose clothing in combination with rotating power tools. Apparently modern day society is in dire need of some education on the topic.

But they chose not to to jump on the China/Temu bad bandwagon. There are tons of things to criticise about both China and Temu, but a rotating power tool having the inherent dangers of rotating power tools isn’t one of them. The low quality of Items sold on Temu might have even saved that stupid mother’s poor child from a scalping injury, which more powerful tools are perfectly capable of inflicting.

Rotating power tools and long hair have been known as a dangerous combination since the invention of rotating power tools.

The German president is merely a ceremonial figurehead, though. Pretty much akin to what constitutional monarchies have a king or queen for.

The few and little actual powers he has, he rarely exercises. Thanks to the way he is elected, he of course is a loyal card carrying member of one of the big parties, and won’t really go against the general political agenda.

Even with the more sophisticated targeting (we can thank technological progress for that), it’s still using methods pioneered by Göbbels. For example retelling the same lie over and over again, until people start to believe it.

1. It sells
2. When effective, it promotes society becoming increasingly authoritarian, which suits the corporate owners of the media.

People are paranoid lunatics and keep falling for never ending scaremongering propaganda in the media.

When haven’t fascists been traitors?

Usually they do things like internationally isolating their country, leading to economic problems and poverty due to lack of international trade, or even outright picking unwinnable fights with the rest of the world, leading to eventual, inevitable, and total defeat, additionally they will imprison and/or kill a large part of their own population.

What is destroying or severely damaging your own country (all while pretending you love it) and imprisoning and killing its people, if not treason?

The very same people who profit from the former, do also profit from the latter. Even more so, they will be able to profit from increasing poverty much longer, if enough policing powers ensure the impoverished part of the population can be subdued.

Scaremongering propaganda is powerful and ubiquitous. Just ask yourself who profits from a scared populous putting up with ever increasing policing powers.

And once more, the UK’s political caste will learn in a very entertaining way that the EU is neither a giant free-for-all, nor that they hold all the cards.

Bre-entry is going to be just as entertaining a political comedy as Brexit was.

Meanwhile pretty much every manufacturer of “modern” machinery. Enshittification is universal.

Oh yes the stupidity of “cheapest bidder wins the contract” is monumental. And comes with a whole bunch of follow-up costs, both literally and figuratively.

The problem isn’t Chinese back doors as such, but the enshittification of infrastructure with remote access that alows manufacturers to brick shit whenever they like. Remember those trains in Poland that were remotely shut down whenever their manufacturer saw that they were maintained by a third party?

Banks and Nazis, name a more iconic duo.

“Competitiveness” in the race to the bottom, so people can work longer (and for less money) for the ultra rich, so they can become even richer. Fuck those parasites.

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Supporting genocide in the name of “genocide - never again” is an epic level of mental gymnastics worthy of a gold medal.

Long overdue. Congratulations, though. Good riddance.

An iconic, reliable, easily repairable, and affordable car and a mediocre, enshittified piece of overpriced luxury lifestyle crap in one picture.

Pretty much a summary of VW’s history and the reason why their profits are finally going down.

And that’s just the bottom half of the picture.