Tesla - Being Environmentally Friendly is Sexy
To me, this tesla is a sexy car. Maybe not supercar sexy, but more like “yeah I've got $$$ bill ya'll but I've no need to show off;” sexy 😂
When I saw @derangedvisions latest photography competition theme (cars) I thought... 'Oh well, that is me out of the running' as I haven't owned a car for over 6 years now. But, in the comment conversation with derangedvisions I remembered that the hope street hotel, where LFC (Liverpool Football Club) players stay on the regular if they have an important match and Jurgen Klopp wants to keep them focused and away from the temptations of Liverpool's many bars, is just around the corner from my apartment 😂
So I thought maybe I might happen upon a Ferrari or Maserati if I took a daily wander past the hope street hotel... but no luck. Then I remembered that the football season hasn't started yet, so my chances of seeing anything special weren't very good.
But then I thought again when I realised that my next-door neighbour actually owns the hope street hotel and owns a pretty nice Tesla. My car photography prayers were answered. I'm not sure about in the States, but here in the UK seeing a high-end Tesla is still a pretty rare sight, and I have one sitting in front of my house outside of working hours.
The Georgian Quarter
I am extremely lucky to live in an apartment in the sought-out Georgian Quarter area of Liverpool. The pillared houses you can see in the background of the first picture is the block I live in. Now I'm a broke-ass writer, but we have something called social housing here in the UK - something set up by our former long-term socialist government who held power for a long time after the 2nd world war - I just thought I'd mention this as I hear so many morons deriding socialism here on hive when what they're really talking about is communism. There is a big difference between the two systems.
Anyway, social housing (housing associations & co-operatives) allow people like me to get lucky and end up being offered a good-sized one bedroom flat on one of of the most beautiful Georgian terraces in the city centre, living next door to the millionaire owner of a local boutique hotel. Housing associations provide a much-needed balance against the constant drive towards gentrification, which ultimately creates ghetto areas just so that property developers can get rich.
😂 But I'm getting away from the point of this post, and waxing political. Let's get back to the main event, the Tesla. Until I moved into this apartment 4 months ago I had never even seen a Tesla, and as I lugged my stuff up the 6 flights of stairs while moving in the guy nearly ran me and the removal men over as he came round the corner in this silently purring electric car.
To be fair, he apologised and introduced himself, proving that not all rich people are assholes.
So as my wandering during the week turned up no supercars I thought I'd enter these Tesla photos to Deranged Photography Contest in the amateur category. It fitted in with my philosophy as well, as I think that the quicker we can all reduce pollution to near zero, the better chance that our grandchildren will have a chance of living in a world that isn't toxic on so many levels. If I won the lottery tomorrow, there would be two Teslas parked up on my road.
The other aspect that I felt made these pictures stand out is the way the beautiful foliage of the terrace trees reflect in the windscreen of the jet black tesla, and with the pictures that face toward my amazing street the background of Georgian architecture which really sets off the sleek lines of this modern electric car.
How to convince my Neighbour to Let me Drive his Tesla?
But so far the lottery hasn't been kind to me, and my bitcoin stack doesn't stretch to buying a Tesla so I figure all I have to do is make friends with my millionaire neighbour so that I can give that bad boy Tesla a 'Top Gear' style street race to see how it performs against the multitude of souped-up tinted windowed Vauxhall Astras that every drug dealer in Liverpool seems to own. Plus they're always up for a 'rev the engine at the lights' type of drag race.
Believe me, when I did own a car (a rather old ford Mondeo turbo) I used to give it a try now and again and always got left in their dust. I always wondered why the hell a car full of drug dealers would risk getting pulled by the Bizzies (Liverpool slang for police) just to beat a shoddy Mondeo in a street race. 😂
But if I can get 'mister hope street hotel' to lend me his Tesla I might just have a chance at getting my revenge Tokyo Drift style.
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I have blurred out the Registration number out of respect for my neighbour
Competition tier entry: Amateur
Camera used: Samsung S7 Edge Smart Phone
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That looks like a nice area to live. I am by no means against socialism and most people benefit from it in some way. I don't really want to have to buy another car, but the next will probably be electric as that is the best option now. I'm seeing a lot of Teslas around these days, but notice a lot of EVs by other brands too. I think they can be cheaper to run than oil burners, especially with recent price rises. I want to get some solar panels to get even more benefit.
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Ha ha, well through our conversations, both on chain, and when we met up in real life I kinda got the impression that you were a socialist. What makes me lol and shake my head at a lot of people who become incensed about socialism is that (especially in the USA where I have family) all the things they hate about their society, like paying huge amounts of money for health care, a prison system that is run like a business and extremely high student loans that leave people in debt for most of their professional life... are things that were abolished under a socialist system in the UK 😂
Similarly, I had someone from Venezuela screaming at me about how I didn't know what I was talking about with my opinions about socialism. He went completely spastic when I pointed out that numerous Scandinavian countries have the highest standard of living, yet are run by socialist governments. I pointed out to him why things went to shit in Venezuela (and have in other countries) is to do with corruption, which has nothing to do with which political leaning the particular government at the time has... it is to do with poverty, bad regulation, or non-existent regulation, which creates an environment where unscrupulous people can take advantage.
Lol, but anyway... he had no answer to my points. He just screamed at me ALL IN CAPS that I didn't know because I hadn't lived under a socialist regime. At which point I gave him the same treatment and was like 'IT WASN'T A SOCIALIST REGIME, IT WAS A DICTATORSHIP VEILED AS A SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT.
Anyway, is it small wonder I remain an anarchist to this day? Often people lose the power of deductive thinking, and research-based decision-making when it comes to politics. And our rags of newspapers don't help with encouraging reasonable debate 🤣
Anyway, back to cars 😉
That's cool. This is the first Tesla I've seen in Liverpool, but I have seen other EV's around my area charging overnight. One great thing is that there are charging points all over our area, I guess because it is a gentrified area (apart from us social landlord tenants bringing the neighbourhood ambience down 🤣).
I would also love some solar panels, and I think that the truth of how we can possibly just about bring our planet back from the brink of disaster is to make all vehicles run from electricity, and invest (on a global scale i.e. all governments chipping in) to create massive renewable energy power plants from water, wind and sun.
It ain't rocket science, but there are shareholders to consider and all that jazz.
Fckn people will destroy our planet to maintain their opulent lifestyle. But they don't need to, like my neighbour whose hand I shook yesterday when he noticed me taking pics of his car (I think he thought I was on a steal-to-order mission at first 🤣), anyway I told him I was entering an amateur photography contest and showed him that I lived next door and he was like "Ok m8, snap away."
Nice guy, and very environmentally conscious as the hope st hotel has solar panels on top of the penthouse suit.
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All types of politics tend to get corrupted. I'm sure the Soviet Union did not turn out how its architects intended. People are imperfect and tend to get greedy. This is why we need to learn from history and watch out for signs of it happening again. Definite signs in the UK of that.
Socialism is a dirty word for some, but it's the best chance of real 'levelling up'. The fact that the UK and other rich countries have so many people struggling to get by and even living on the street shows their policies are not working. It makes me angry, but people will vote for their own interests.
As for transport, we need less dependence on cars as there are far too many of them. Out here in the sticks it can be hard to get around without one, but I hardly ever drive to work thanks to a nearby station.
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I completely agree with all you're saying here, and despite my anarchist leanings, when the UK had a real socialist option (with JC) I broke my habit of defacing the voting card and voted for him in the election.
Yup, and I don't own one and haven't for years now. The only thing I miss is driving to the mountains in Wales or the leafy green countryside in Cheshire. But I'm on my mum's insurance ever since I became her taxi service when she has cancer and I had to take her to treatments. We went on a really nice walk in Cheshire the other day for my birthday (which I'm gonna write a travel post about it at some point in the next few days). But I think car sharing like this is the way to go, along with a worldwide ban on petroleum products as fuel for land-based vehicles at the very least.
It is rather interesting for me to read your discussion about Socialism. I doubt how I should describe the so-called China-style Socialism. Just as a classical saying goes: on the political level, it belongs to socialism since its only governing party is the Communist Party; in the economical system, it is a kind of capitalism in nature. A weird maze-like duel-system society with a huge gap between the rich and the poor! And most of extremely wealthy Chinese enjoy their political privilege of being global citizens to the fullest by holding the developed countries' Visas or Green Cards, buying their houses in different countries.
However, here I am curious if there are really quite a few drug-dealers who can rake in the money illegally, driving the luxury cars in Liverpool. Or it may be just a kind of humor writing style of yours.
Thanks for your wonderful writing which helps me learn the outside/western world better.
Yeah, I think you are right completely, the only thing I would change would be the use of the word socialism as I always saw the Chinese system (especially in the 1980s before they joined the world markets and basically became a capitalist country pretending communism) as a communist system.
I see so much confusion among a lot of people (and I'm not meaning you here @kaixin as from your words I see you see exactly the crux of what happened in China) between communism and socialism as very different systems. Socialism can and has operated within the capitalist system (as in England for many decades where basically all that socialist government did was nationalise water, power and rail and also give the unions more power to defend the worker's rights), whereas communism sets itself completely apart from capitalism taking all wealth, regardless of profession and then dolling out resources, food, water, power etc to people from government-run distribution centres. I did study politics & philosophy in University for 2 semesters before I decided to ditch it and do creative writing instead... something my grandfather disapproved about massively 😂
What I was referring to in my comments to @steevc is how many - to put it bluntly - morons I've come across, especially on Hive who become very angry about socialism because they are confused between what communism and socialism are at their core. They're two completely different systems, yes both socialism and communism emerged from the philosophy of Carl Marx but they changed massively in their application as ideologies do when new people interpreted Marx's philosophy. The angry people who scream and shout and generally get their panties in a bunch are either so stupid (or brainwashed) that they don't think there is a difference between socialism and communism.
As you so rightly point out, China is a communist country in name only now, the wealth gap widens and industry in China works completely on a capitalist model in regard to how it interacts with the global economy. As you say the uber-rich in China can just buy a visa from somewhere like Portugal where they have 'golden visa' schemes and then they can act exactly as they please, enjoy certain freedoms of trade by setting up shell companies in places like the cayman islands, and make vast amounts of wealth. While the Chinese government really does treat the lower classes terribly if what I've heard is to be believed.
By the way, I never truly trust the western media about these things. The newspapers over here and the TV stations are as prone to propaganda as anywhere in times of crisis, and with Russia throwing a hissy fit at the moment our media has become even more prone to exaggeration and propaganda.
But I trust you a lot more as a friend I have made who lives in China.
Also, one of my best friends married a Chinese woman and she (along with my friend) has told me a lot about the realities of living in China. They emigrated back to England to live when their second child hit the age of 5 for various reasons.
Anyway, it is always nice to hear from you @kaixin and to get your perspective about a country that has always fascinated me. I honestly hope that the world, in general, opens up a lot more in the next 10 years as I would like to visit China one day, perhaps with my friend and his family as his wife has duel citizenship I think :)
Thank you for your trusting me so much! And I agree with you completely. Yeah, China is a closed system, only a few wealthy elites can go out and see the world. Just as you said, they can earn a lot of money by taking advantage of their global citizenship. However, Common Chinese are just brainwashed by government, living within the Great Firewall(although it seems the internet is ubiquitous in China, it is equal to domestic network unless using VPN). They have even never realized that they are treated by government terribly. On the contrary, they believe in the so-called Communism(so did I before, and we have no idea of voting, too).
Oh, thank you for your explaining the difference between Socialism and Communism. In China we are taught that Socialism is just the primary stage of Communism.
Now I can well understand the morons you came across on Hive. After all, commnon people are the same, no matter which country they are from. They are limited to their own circle/system/government, so it is not easy to think out of the box(except the elites). Unluckily, the modern technology--internet breaks down barriers of time and space, then people from different countries get the unprecedented chance to meet and conflict without going abroad in reality. Through your real-time update daily blog and our comment conversation, it seems that I am travelling in UK, and getting the first hand information...
I am so glad that you are interested in China. And I sincerely hope you can visit China in the near future, as well as Mongolia which is in your dream-places list. If you don't mind, since I once lived in the place--WuSu,Xinjiang, I would like to be a guide on the border of Mongolia and China. (Xinjiang is rather different from the inland region of China.)
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An electric car version of Knightrider! That would be awesome!
Yes, just imagine the possibilities... I'm going to sleep now Kitt, wake me up when we pass Oxford 😂
It would certainly make going to and from the pub easier!
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It is a beautiful car. I would love to have one too. Good luck convincing the owner to let you drive it. Thanks for sharing.
He'll never let me drive it. I don't know him well enough yet... plus he caught me flirting with his daughter yesterday. She is over 30 and perfectly capable of making up her own mind about my daft flirtations, but he gave me a dirty look 😂
Maybe it is because I don't own a Tesla... or any car for that matter.