Same reason Truth Social does. A bunch of idiots praying to their master.

Although I love the positivity, this is more a story about Tesla than VW.

There’s a huge pet trade for ants. Really big hobby.

The argument is symbolic. He’s still a foreigner and will always look and sound like a foreigner. His Thai friends will consider him part of the community, but he’s just some expat to everyone else.

It seems like every 10 years or so a story like this comes up.

I remember in the 90s there was a case of a teenager who vandalized or put graffiti on a building in some place like Singapore and was sentenced to caning. There was this huge outcry about how cruel it was and such, and I remember (I was in high school) thinking that the guy was an idiot who made how own bed.

Then you get Otto Warmbier who somehow was allowed into North Korea and then decided it was a good idea to rip a post of the country’s founder off the wall.

The lesson? Know where you are. When you’re not in Kansas, then don’t do Kansas things. Consequences are different in different parts of the world. It’s really easy to be a respectful traveler.

He was getting on or off a plane as I recall. In something like 2017 or 2018.

This will impact the stock price. Tesla will lose more than the fine in total.

Money. Someone was making money off of it somehow, and was willing to do terrible things to get more.

I agree with you. The cultural export is fine. If you were rich, being there would be fine. If you are a worker in an office, it sounds awful.

Keep repeating to yourself: they have an “external locus of identity”. This is why they are angry, because an attack on Trump is an attack at their personal identities.

Shame on the AP for not using the proper spelling.