{"id":9744,"date":"2025-03-16T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2025-03-16T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:51:36","slug":"elon-musk-wanted-the-cybertruck-to-look-like-the-future-but-it-reminds-us-of-one-particular-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2025\/03\/16\/elon-musk-wanted-the-cybertruck-to-look-like-the-future-but-it-reminds-us-of-one-particular-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like \u201cthe Future.\u201d But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a lot of discussion about where Musk got the design idea for his Wankpanzer. <br><br>But sometimes the simplest answer is best. It is meant to be the modern version of an <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2025\/03\/tesla-cybertruck-protests-vandalism-elon-musk.html\">Apartheid era terror vehicle<\/a>. Simply put, he wants it to be used to put minorities &#8220;in their rightful place&#8221; as does just about anything Republicans do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png?resize=625%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of discussion about where Musk got the design idea for his Wankpanzer. But sometimes the simplest answer is best. It is meant to be the modern version of an Apartheid era terror vehicle. Simply put, he wants it to be used to put minorities &#8220;in their rightful place&#8221; as does just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,91,22,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agents-of-evi","category-domestic-terrorists-seditious-behavior","category-gasoline-guns","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9746,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions\/9746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}