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Cake day: September 2nd, 2025
  • Oh totally, Nader is the piece of shit here…

    In response to Nader’s criticisms, GM attempted to sabotage Nader’s reputation. It “(1) conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, ‘questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon [his] political, social, racial and religious views; his integrity; his sexual proclivities and inclinations; and his personal habits’; (2) kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time; (3) caused him to be accosted by girls for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships; (4) made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls to him; (5) tapped his telephone and eavesdropped, by means of mechanical and electronic equipment, on his private conversations with others; and (6) conducted a ‘continuing’ and harassing investigation of him.”

    He went on to lobby for consumer rights, helping drive the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air Act, among others

    You’re fucking delusional.

  • This is actually really funny, because Ralph Nader literally started his activist career pointing out that they didn’t in 1965.

    The book, critical of the automotive industry, argued that many American automobiles were generally unsafe to operate.

    Auto manufacturers were eventually forced to add seatbelts and protection for roll-overs.

    Nader’s book was cited as the reason to create what became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

    When the original bill was passed,

    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John William McCormack said the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was brought about by the "crusading spirit of one individual who believed he could do something: Ralph Nader.”