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A good litmus test is whether they refer to what happened at the Trump hotel in Vegas as a “Cybertruck Explosion”. Obviously, the vehicle itself did not explod
by scarab92 2y ago
A good litmus test is whether they refer to what happened at the Trump hotel in Vegas as a “Cybertruck Explosion”.
Obviously, the vehicle itself did not explode, the explosives packed into the truck bed did.
It’s deliberately misleading language like this was turned me off both WP and NYT. Any other vehicle and they would have just referred to it as a car bomb.
- mmooss 2y ago> A good litmus test is whether they refer to what happened at the Trump hotel in Vegas as a “Cybertruck Explosion”. It's a litmus test for submitting to Musk's power.
- Kye 2y agoWhy would they make a special case for a Cybertruck? They don't say "fertilizer explosion" when a truck full of it blows up, or "[insert type of explosive] explosion" when a car bomb goes off. That he rented a cybertruck and used fireworks instead of the traditional white van full of fertilizer is worth reporting.
- scarab92 2y agoThey are making a special case by mentioning that it was a cyber truck. Normally they don’t mention the make/model other than in passing. This time they not only mentioned it, it became their headline, and they claimed it exploded when it didn’t, which is outright misinformation.