In this episode of "You Can't Make It Up—The Left Already Did"...
As we continue to watch apoplectic leftist meltdowns rage across the country, from congressional Democrats to left-wing media "journalists" to lunatics throwing Molotov cocktails at Tesla Cybertrucks, it reinforces the notion that in the minds of the bitter left, if you don't agree with them, you're Hitler.
Only in this case, if you're a Cybertruck, you're reminiscent of the menacing Casspir, which patrolled black townships in then-Apartheid South Africa when Elon Musk — born to a wealthy family in Pretoria, South Africa — was growing up. No, really. See what I mean about "you can't make it up"?
A rather rare PA Casspir MRAP seen here outfitted with 2 x roof mounted AC units during a deployment in KPK. pic.twitter.com/NwphNL0r9I
— Farooq Bhai (@FarooqB90714421) July 28, 2024
Writing for Slate (where else?), a pair of Rice University professors say Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is reminiscent of the menacing vehicles that “patrolled and terrorized” black townships in apartheid South Africa.
Yup, as professors Vivian Chenxue Lu and Nana Osei-Opare see it:
[T]he Cybertruck’s harsh, sharp edges remind us … of something from the past: the larger armored personnel vehicles that patrolled streets throughout Musk’s youth in apartheid South Africa.
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Its marketing, for example, explicitly taps into the current apocalyptic visions pervading both right- and left-wing political imaginaries—from climate disaster to nuclear, civil, and class warfare. Heralded as being “built for any planet,” it showcases a Bioweapon Defense Mode and a “built-in hospital grade HEPA filter” that “helps provide protection from 99.97% of airborne particles.”
One third-party Tesla modification company, aimed at civilian and government clients, sells Cybertruck upgrades so it can run on jet fuel, diesel, biodiesel, and electricity.
The idea that a Cybertruck could become an artillery vehicle is not just hypothetical. Unsanctioned by Tesla, various users, ranging from a YouTuber to Chechen forces fighting for Russia in Ukraine, have modified a Cybertruck by mounting machine guns to its bed, turning it into a lightly armored weaponized machine.
Whether the above is madness, intentional delusion, or just run-of-the-mill, left-wing crazy-train stuff, it's clear that these two nutty professors actually believe it — as opposed to congressional Democrats and their pals on CNN and MSNBC who intentionally lie about Trump, his policies, and his supporters, as they play solely to low-information rank-and-file Democrat voters who believe virtually everything they're told to believe by leftist elitists.
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The end of the professors' screed was comedy gold (emphasis, mine):
Whether or not Musk or the Cybertruck’s designers made a conscious decision to draw inspiration from the Casspir, the Cybertruck can be understood as part of this darker history of science-fictional, militarized vehicles, used in civilian life, that make a show of their own impenetrability.
More broadly, these historical linkages force us to rethink and seriously question the militarization of our public spaces and culture and the attempts to normalize and monetize them. Whether through Casspirs or the Cybertruck, apartheid’s militarized, cultural, and psychological legacy roams our streets.
Sadly, and perhaps ominously, untold numbers of hallucinatory leftists live in a dystopian world where even a pretty-cool-looking passenger vehicle reminds them of dark times — in places they don't like to visit in the dark crannies of their delusional brains in the dead of night.
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