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1.   Rapa Nui Motors - Death by Car

   November 15th, 2010 at 9:48 am

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   [...] In the United States of America and the rest of the “advanced” corporate capitalist nation-states, as the ornate and allegedly magical “self-movers” they bought to achieve mobility while slaking the demands of their own overclass started to burn away the second half of the planet’s petroleum supply, the great entrepreneurs insisted that the path to survival and renewal was building more and better and still-more-intricate-and-expensive implementations of these 3,000-plus-pound machines that each micro-pod of commoners used to fetch food, get to workplaces, and attend what remained of live social occasions (all, of course, while further glorifying and enriching the entrepreneurial class that pushed and provided the “freedom machines”). [...]

2.   Just Desserts - Death by Car

   June 13th, 2011 at 9:26 am

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   [...] those atrocious ads for the inexcusable muscle car, the Dodge [...]

3.   Speaking of Tools… - Death by Car

   January 10th, 2012 at 4:56 pm

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   [...] down on lunkheadedness is the key to selling their wares. We’ve already seen their efforts to paint muscle cars as patriotic. Now, they have the chutzpah to suggest that buying a minivan is “using the right tool for [...]