I think that's all BS. However, what is not BS is that ballots have just "vanished", due to being challenged by the Vigilante stuff. According to Greg Pallast, investigative journalist with the BBC, there have been over 800k provisional ballots that have not been counted because they have been thrown out. He even has the exact names of people, who's ballots have been thrown out.
If it wasn't so dire, I'd find it extremely fascinating...
It's not only a political struggle. Working conditions are tremendously better in Europe, Environmental Protection as well. Manufacturing photovoltaics takes a huge pile of chemicals that need to be handled properly to not cause any harm to the environment - China neither cares nor has any other incentives to actually do this properly, which is exactly why they are so cheap. Theres also the issue of poor quality, that if you're manufacturing something that can have a significant impact on the environment, it should "count" and not be waste 10 years later.
Not only that, China's subsidies are utterly unfair.
Destroying the environment in one part of the world to "save" a different one due to climate change is just ridiculously stupid and simple minded.
Do not forget, the Germans didn't have Weapons at that time AND there was way less to actually organize - you can fight this! And do not let people tell you, Germans just did go with it.
The thing is...what if they are going down the Putin route and start throwing nuclear threats around? Anyone remember Trump trying to nuke a hurricane? Fascism and having a very rough 4 years is one thing...but as a European, that actually scares me a lot more. Because if they decide, well, Europe is unfriendly...we'll just nuke them...whose going to stop them this time around?
Silver lining could be, they'll just do a lot of infighting and bickering and do not get stuff done properly. There's a very slim chance that the U.S. Democracy can withstand that again.
Vaccines and medications help in stopping the spread of diseases. If the rest of the world can't make sure the US plays after international rules, they can't let anyone or anything from the US in
Not only are a lot of people going to die, the EU is going to be on some "bad" list very soon, because free travel and any kind of "free" shipping won't be possible anymore - and I'd say even some Asian, African and maybe even Australia are going to follow that, heck, maybe even Canada. Although I'm not sure if Canada is able to actually do that...
Berlusconi let others do the job of governing...people that lined their pockets as well, but at least we're somewhat decent at actual governing compared to what Trump's second cabinet's probably going to be.
I honestly don’t know where we go from here as a nation, and I fear folks like that will be the first casualties if the worst comes to pass.
I mean, as deeply saddening as this sounds, the reality of it is...that issue will resolve it self. Ignorance is bliss...you won't even know what hit you. And i'm beginning to think i should take that stance and just ignore everything and just carry on. Told a friend that, he immediately said, nope, you're way too decent of a human being for that...so we're going to suffer together.
Sitting here in Germany, looking at the shambles of our political landscape, looking over at you, reading this and remembering Trump saying to/about Musk that he's "a genius" and America doesn't have many of them left...i can only laugh at the utterly infuriating powerlessness against such kind of disregard for basically anything that has changed since the dark ages and the utter ignorance. My anger is slowly shifting to sorrow...
From my (probably) ignorant European/German viewpoint, don't many Democrats also own Guns?
I still believe the average American has very different viewpoints than the average russian (they had to deal with that kind of shit for over 60 years now) and are a lot less apathetic...i'm not entirely sure if trump goes on a "people falling out of windows" spree you guys are just going to accept it and fall over.
Granted, i've been moping the last few days probably the same (many of you probably don't realize how influential the U.S. still is), but i don't think it's "Game Over" per se....
So...yeah...there's still a little glimmer of hope, that glimmer being at least 40% of american people...
That however only works in a sort of sane, trusting and honest environment - basically something to undermine to begin with. If everyone is just utterly hellbend on lying and twisting reality, it becomes just noise and has no impact.
Capaldi and Matt Smith are my personal Favorites. I like Tennant, but the utter "sassyness" of Smith and Capaldis versions where sublime to me...
Because it works and provides a use case. Most "simpletons" do not want to invest any more time in than putting some Account Data and start watching netflix or whatever.
"We" (e.g. the people that care about data privacy and stuff) never have been okay with that shit...
Basically trickery with alleged lossless, but it is not even close to lossless and you need very special players that can unfold MQA. Tidal got a lot of criticism for it and eventually switched away to FLAC...but the way they handled it was pretty bad and it still brushes me the wrong way.
I rather pay for the enshitification of Qobuz, than pay those crooks at Tidal any money. That MQA shit is still very deep and practically enshrined in my soul...
I already did... There's some subscription stuff where you can read pretty much all available magazines and papers, it's been a long time since I've been reading that much "news" and reports
Nah. The issue is way more complex than that and begins in proper training for drivers and ends in some proper road worthy inspections of vehicles so that they at least have their lights correctly aligned and aimed.
There are no such issues in Europe. Sure, you get the occasional double blink from matrix led system, but I'd take those systems any day of the week over some who just forgot to turn off their high beams or has their lights aimed incorrectly
That would need proper training - meaning a drivers license that's worth the plastic it occupies. Which it isn't. Compared to the EU, a north American driver's license is like letting a paper plane flyer in an A380 and saying "There's the light switch, there's the Autopilot, go fly".
I think that's all BS. However, what is not BS is that ballots have just "vanished", due to being challenged by the Vigilante stuff. According to Greg Pallast, investigative journalist with the BBC, there have been over 800k provisional ballots that have not been counted because they have been thrown out. He even has the exact names of people, who's ballots have been thrown out.
If it wasn't so dire, I'd find it extremely fascinating...
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