People who say “This is just a distraction” are missing the point of Steve Bannon’s flood the zone tactic. The point is to overwhelm you with too much shit at the same time, regardless of what they get away with it’s something that they want. It’s not causing chaos to hide a nefarious plan, the chaos is the plan.
Can also mention that the far-right party in Sweden is currently not in the government, they have an agreement with the government on what they should enact in order to receive their support but they hold no offices.
The one who called it a genocide and called for stopping weapon deliveries to Israel? Are we just making shit up now?
Not to mention that Trump, Xi, and Putin aren’t the only three authoritarians in the world. You have Orban, Erdogan, Berdimuhamedow, Tokayev, Un, etc.
That’s without mentioning most of the countries outside the west or in close contact with the west, or the growing political movement towards authoritarianism in other western countries. For example Meloni in Italy, Le Pen in France, Fico in Slovakia, Simion in Romania, and so on.
If you look at the timeline in the article, post-2030 the act states that it would be indexed.
It doesn’t quite feel right for other countries have to send their citizens to fight and die against a former ally just because American citizens can’t hold their government accountable.
If I’m not mistaken, the US spends more on military than the rest of NATO combined. How do you imagine a military engagement against the US would end for us?
You’re either an apologist for totalitarian dictatorships who falls for propaganda as easily as MAGA cultists or you’re just straight-up trolling. The racism accusation was really the cherry on top.
I have never even visited the US, nor do I have any intention to.
First: No I cannot, the people of China do not enjoy freedom of press or freedom of expression, so finding out the actual statistics can be very difficult.
Second: What is your point? Two governments can be bad simultaneously, and even more than just two. Just because I oppose Israel’s genocide doesn’t mean I suddenly support Iran’s totalitarian leadership.
Considering that the driver managed to stop without colliding with a sudden obstacle, I’m not quite as sure that they were going too fast. Other driver caused a major danger by not respecting right of way.
The enemies have never been the Chinese proletariat who toil and slave for scraps to feed the demands of a capitalist, consumerist society and always the greedy, totalitarian faux-socialists with a love for concentration camps that form the ruling party.
This was literally my second sentence.
Voter turnout was roughly 64.1% and out of those, 49.8% voted for Trump, bringing the total to about 32% of eligible voters. While one can absolutely make the argument that abstaining from voting implicitly supported Trump as Republicans typically fare better in low-turnout elections, it’s not exactly factual to say that the majority of citizens voted for him
Non-joke answer: Indian Pale Ale, a style of beer popular with a lot of homebrewers and beer enthusiasts.
Sweden, long known for being neutral (up until joining NATO last year) and peaceful, can by law compel every single swedish citizen between the ages of 16 and 70 to serve during wartime.
Exactly as you state, almost every sovereign country on the planet likely has some version of this.
Here is some data supporting that Canada is second in per-capita CO2 emissions after the US.
When looking at consumption-based emissions the picture is not quite as dire but it’s still not great.
Per capita means it’s adjusted for the population. Both China and India are large polluters but they are the two most populated countries in the world.
I think the idea is that if the infrastructure for hydrogen fuel exists and using fossil fuels is penalized, there’s an incentive to start producing more of it via electricity by, as an example, using excess power produced by renewable energy sources when demand is low, balancing the grid and leveling out electricity price fluctuations at the same time.
This relies on a lot of technical, economical, and political ifs though. The end goal is desirable but it’s not clear if there’s a feasible path there, considering the physical properties of hydrogen alone.