DotSucks

The season isn't about naughty or nice, but how shining a light on naughty gives you a chance to do some good.

Social media sucks! Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said the best way to combat harmful speech is more speech. Hard advice when confronted by a tsunami’s tide, but we are here to help. https://lnkd.in/gJB-E-zg

To say Elon Musk sucks requires a little context. Are we talking about space, EVs, marital compounds or DOGE (the department of government efficiency)? It seems a trial balloon has been floated (not again!) from China where it's clear they are talking about EVs in general and their batteries specifically. Free speech or gauntlet? https://lnkd.in/gST8kdSs

It seems someone who should know is writing off the low-cost electric vehicle market. “That market sucks,” Lucid Chief Executive (& former Tesla exec) Peter Rawlinson tells The Wall Street Journal (by way of business pub Mint here as the Journal's paywall is notorious). Does this make governmental subsidies more important or less supportable? There is more than a market here that sucks. https://lnkd.in/gGSvxGqK

You know what sucks? Too few see the word as the rallying cry it is. It seems this Tony Hinchcliffe fellow hasn’t been very good for awhile but it wasn’t until the first person said he sucks that gave everyone else permission to say so, too. Think something sucks? Say so with a DotSucks domain and draw a crowd. https://lnkd.in/giGeGHk4

Hindsight may well be 20/20, but it sucks, too. Take this Financial Times article. Turns out raising the alarm on democracy's behalf was no match for the price of (fill-in-the-blank) in the recent election. Never has the stock market been a falser prophet. We'll now see if tariffs, monetary policy moves, regulatory changes & corporate tax cuts will lower the cost of eggs. In hindsight, likely. And that sucks. https://lnkd.in/gwyH4MBA

As we approach another U.S. Presidential election, it's a good time to revisit how hard we make it all on ourselves. From a one day of open polls to that one day being a work day and to the votes actually cast not being the final determination. It's no wonder people think the Electoral College sucks. https://lnkd.in/g-_gUXDv

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You know what sucks? Getting it wrong. It happens all the time, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Often it happens because no one stopped to look. Like Bath & Body Works when they wanted to promote a holiday and rekindled a horror. https://lnkd.in/g4DAWBpE

Every quarter we note those companies who have done us all a disservice.