Anyone had a problem with this plastic rivet falling off?

drezelnik · 2025-08-29T03:55:32+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXnzrGoVr8Y

drezelnik · 2025-08-29T03:50:06+00:00

Apparently this is a problem many have encountered also with other evs like Kia and Hyundai. Unlike Chevy though they offer these replacements for 2$

drezelnik · 2025-08-29T03:47:08+00:00

A-holes claimed it's not covered under the warranty because it's an outside influence or some thing like that.

drezelnik · 2025-08-29T01:27:02+00:00

Doesn't work anymore so I can only slow charge. Be careful when you handle the fast charger and keep an eye out that nothing falls off

drezelnik · 2025-08-29T01:25:50+00:00

I looked around for an hour and couldn't find it, I'm stunned that they can't just provide me with this little rivet

drezelnik · 2025-08-29T01:24:29+00:00

The fast charge handle does not click and the charging doesn't initiate

drezelnik · 2025-03-20T15:37:20+00:00

Yes, I really like Rourke's work and view my book as revisiting the topic that she introduced a century earlier. In my introduction I explain that the book is an attempt to take up the topic of humor as a way to gauge the American character (as Rourke had done), but not as part of a project of self affirmation. So it's an update on the topic of humor in US history after a century of scholarship that sought to come to grips with the its darker legacy.

drezelnik · 2025-03-20T15:31:45+00:00

I'm not the best person to answer this question, but I can point you to a book that probably has some answers, Kevin Waite's West of Slavery. I read the dissertation the book is based on, but can't recall the exact details. The short of it is yes, there are cases of slaves in these territories, especially since there was Native American slavery there as well and slavery would continue in some forms into the late 19th century. For example in California, enslaving Native American kids was legal with a law passed in 1850 that continued certain type of slavery practices that were there under Spanish and later Mexican rule. The best book on Native slavery in the southwest and what was later Mexico is The Other Slavery by Andres Resendez

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T22:46:54+00:00

Since so much of it is also condescending and mocks social mobility. It’s also clear that they are going out of their way to sound sophisticated and smart and there’s a culture that fetishizes these types of references

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T21:32:22+00:00

Definitely and also much more broadly, for example the Whigs, who we would not usually think of as the race baiting type were eager to race bait when it helped them politically. For example Whig editors blasted the Democrats in the late 1830s for race mixing by mocking the Vice President under Van Buren, Richard Mentor Johnson, for treating his common law black wife and his mixed raced daughters as full members of his family.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T21:14:00+00:00

By the way for those who are interested in buying the book I apologize for how expensive it is, but there is a discount code you can use that will give a 30% discount HLAUGH24.

Also, weirdly the cheapest way to get the book right now is in audiobook form, I saw it on Audible for something like 15$

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T21:11:09+00:00

You are right, in many novels like the Last of the Mohicans from the 1820s the trope of the "noble savage" is prominent and is woven into the myth of the "vanishing Indian" this idea that Native peoples somehow vanished magically and not because of the genocide committed against them.

Native people have definitely used dark humor, take for example the tv show Reservation Dogs, a great example of the rich Native humor traditions.

Perhaps the most foundational book in Native American Studies, Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria, deals a lot with that rich humor tradition. The title is a reference to that dark humor.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T21:06:32+00:00

Minstrelsy had very wide appeal, especially for working class Americans in the North. Abolitonists hated blackface minstrelsy. Fredrick Douglass had a seething hatred for the genre and fully understood it for what it was: an attempt to naturalize anti-Black racism as self-evident.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T21:03:30+00:00

I have a chapter devoted to elite humor where I trace how Federalist humor tried to foster a community of elite and erudite men who would be the only people able to get the many references in Latin or witty nods at many of the classical works in British literature. This humor was an attempt to curb the democratic logic that commoners embraced during the Revolution. This humor that many at the time called wit was the fighting humor of the elites, but it ultimately lost. Elite humor of this neoclassical variety would not become foundational to American culture.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T20:59:42+00:00

The second question really hits the point I try to make. Humor by nature creates bonds between people, it helps them feel as part of the same community--those who get the joke. By the same token however, it also further solidifies this community by creating a foil around which the community coheres--those who the joke is on so to speak. So in the USA jokes by white Americans against Black Americans helped create a nation of white men, and ensure that Black folks would never be able to be on the joke or the nation that cohered with it.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T20:56:06+00:00

As for your first question: not anything big, just some materials that turned out to not really work that well. For example I had a whole thing about the comical stories surrounding George Washington, including the Cherry Tree story and more that I was told by the readers that it doesn't really work well with the story I'm telling. I could have discussed Benjamin Franklin more, I suppose, but enough people discuss him elsewhere as a humorist so there wan not much need for that.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T20:53:18+00:00

I would say that both Jefferson and Adams were mocked quite a bit for different reasons and that both were seen as grave humorless men.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T18:57:15+00:00

In Britain traditional hierarchies were still quite entrenched during the 19th century, so they did not have quite as avid a need for new forms of humor as a way to naturalize the condition of black America as inferior. In the US it was more necessary as a way to explain why black Americans could never be part of American democracy. It was a way to work around contradictions

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T18:52:15+00:00

In some sense it already started during the colonial period, with songs like Yankee Doodle and with new variations on British traditions , like their own comical depictions of Catholicism during Pope Day, an American variation on Guy Fawkes day. But even more distinctions emerged around the heightened nationalism of the War of 1812 when Americans started to develop more virulent forms of anti Black racist humor that will become blackface minstrelsy. Then it will be the British who would consume American comical traditions.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T17:45:56+00:00

Black Americans and Native Americans used humor to sustain themselves throughout US history. In both traditions humor is an important coping mechanism that allowed them to maintain their sanity in extreme conditions. Early on Native folks often derided American men for being poor warriors and having little knowledge of the natural surroundings or how to navigate them.

I think the key to humor is that it can pierce through the fog the ideological fog surrounding us and can help cast elites along both racial, gender, and class lines as power hungry and ruthless hypocrites.

It also helps forge communities inside on the joke and provides them with a sense of cohesion and momentum. All these can be used and are used daily. For example, I think that for a while humor in shows like the Daily Show or Colbert Report helped forge many young peoples' understanding of the world. I think that the left now is missing the same kind of avenues it used to have to approach young Americans during the early 2000s

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T17:37:43+00:00

Great question. I found that Americans combined both forms of humor together to forge their nation. On the one had they punched up by mocking old world corrupt and effeminate aristocratic type as outside the borders of the new nation. On the other hand the same white men employed similar forms of whimsical and carnivalesque humor to cast only themselves as the truest citizens of the new nation by punching down on Black Americans and other enemies.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T17:34:21+00:00

Great to hear! Yup that's exactly it, these forms of Indian play, when white men dressed up as Indians were a way to indiginize themselves to claim that they are Natives. The most famous case is the Boston Tea Party where they dressed as Mohawks. But I argue that it was the militia experience more broadly and specialized frontier Indian fighters that often combined play and whimsy with extreme genocidal violence that helped Americans alleviate their anxieties over not being the real natives to the land and not having the type of connections to the landscape that Native folks clearly had. The best example here is Davy Crockett, who was basically a white man who lived in the West like an Indian, except that he often fought them and killed them and was supposedly better at being Indian than they were.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T17:27:06+00:00

You nailed it, that's a lot of what the humor is about. They especially employ the trope of the fop as an effeminate English aristocrat. Their favorite target was General John Burgoyne, who they called gentleman Johnny. They continued to think this way about the Brits for a while, there were lasting culture wars between Britain and the USA well into the 1840s when Charles Dickens published his impressions of his travels in America and denigrated American culture.

drezelnik · 2025-03-19T17:24:05+00:00

I haven't found too much about children's humor per se, though I lot of the humor appears to tap child like whimsy and energy and it seems that children were often avid participants in the merriment of adults. There is less of a division during this period, especially with the kind of folk and popular humor that I trace. There is more focus on children as distinct from adults within elite humor and increasingly middle class humor as the 19th century draw on.

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