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the_crotch, to politics in Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war

Nobody spends memorial day reflecting on people who died in wars. They spend it swimming, grilling hot dogs, and watching Shriners drive around in their tiny cars. What would make this one any different?

Fedizen, to politics in The Supreme Court's new voting rights decision is a love letter to gerrymandering

Rewriting the 14th amendment because they have the power not because its good law.

Imo we’d all be better off with proportional voting, its nearly impossible to gerrymander

billwashere, to politics in Why Florida banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist

Because it’s easy to take a pointless stand as a political “statement”.

Oh and because Rhonda Sandtits is a douchebag.

DevopsPalmer, to politics in The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states | It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

I sure do love living here where I can’t save up money to leave because it’s too damn expensive to just exist. Guess we just have to bend over for our “democratic” Doms

CharlesDarwin, to politics in Arizona’s ban spotlights the fraudulence of Trump’s "moderation" on abortion
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

It’s curious that donnie expects people to buy that “leaving it up to the states” is the least bit moderate. The “states rights” thing is just a way to erase YOUR rights.

Leaving it up to the states is wildly radical. Rights should not rely on what state someone happens to reside in, FFS.

blindsight, to politics in 🍄The right-wing scammers who paved the way for Trump🍄

This sounds like it might be a really interesting book, for anytime interested in politics, American or otherwise. I wonder how closely this parallels to Brexit, the Freedumb Convoy, and QAnon.

I usually don’t read books about politics, but this one might be an exception.

some_guy, to politics in You can’t afford to buy a house. Biden knows that.

Just like that student debt he promised to cancel and then… he cancelled it?

jeffw,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

What about that?

dtrain,

He canceled $132 billion for 3.9 million people.

So, by any metric, it was delivered.

Mirshe,

And is working to try and pardon more, according to his own cabinet. The issue is that he has to find backchannels and other legal routes because the SCOTUS said he couldn’t just order the Department of Education to just forgive federal loans.

gnate, to politics in Should we care about RFK Jr. and his new running mate?

Picking a rich tech lawyer from California with no political experience is kinda like pulling out of the race, yeah?

xkillx, to politics in The Supreme Court will weigh in on the January 6 insurrection. What could possibly go wrong?

I think it is funny that this image keeps getting used. The dude in blue being Jon Schaffer from the band Iced Earth.

themeatbridge,

So he’s a nobody?

neoman4426,

Used to love that band, their concept album about the early years of superhero Spawn was dope. Can't stand to listen to them now knowing that terrorist was a major part of it.

RavenFellBlade,
@RavenFellBlade@startrek.website avatar

Isn’t that the band Richard Christy played with for a while before he did Charred Walls of the Damned?

capital, to politics in Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?

Do we know these weren’t made with slavery?

Buffalox, to politics in Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?

Probably because Chinese cars are state subsidized.

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

Full of spyware and built cheap

hitmyspot,

The built cheap is the important bit. I think Firefox showed that all car.conpanoes are loaded with spyware. So, if the car is cool cheap and the spyware is no worse…,

ryathal,

The Spyware is controlled by China though which could be more concerning than a country that will play ball with the US government.

hitmyspot,

What do you think China will do with the data, that the USA isn’t?

Look from the perspective of a us citizen and non us citizen, both not in China.

I don’t trust the Chinese government, but I also don’t trust the US government. I know many foreigners who no longer see America as somewhere safe to travel and whose interests are aligned with business interests, not people.

ryathal,

The US definitely monitors and stores everything, but it’s largely benign in adverse action against average people. China is less known about that.

hitmyspot,

I’m happy for China to pay for my car.

I know long term they want to kill off other car manufacturers. But so does Tesla, and gm, and every other manufacturer. If they ever get to that size, we could consider import taxes that equakise the market. At the moment, we need competition and scale.

Buffalox,

We need FAIR competition. Subsidized products are not fair competition.

sparky, to fuck_cars in Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts
@sparky@lemmy.federate.cc avatar

Clickbait headline, and stupid article. At no point are they making the claim that EVs are worse than combustion engines. The author posits that bicycles and walking are even more climate friendly than driving a car of any kind (duh). This entire article could be replaced by the sentence, “We should keep building trams and bike lanes in the EV era”.

LennethAegis, to fuck_cars in Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts
@LennethAegis@kbin.social avatar

“Most Norwegian cities now have more of a car-centric, American approach toward transportation than a multi-modal, European one,”

That's a sad sentence to read, I always assumed Norway was like Sweden with amazing public transportation as well.

sparky,
@sparky@lemmy.federate.cc avatar

I think this is a failure of imagination on the part of the author. Norway is, on a whole, much more rural; a large portion of the population lives in small towns and villages in areas with difficult terrain (think fjords), where public transport beyond a bus is impractical due to population densities.

The public transport in Oslo and Bergen are fantastic - Norway’s only two large cities. Keeping in mind that over a quarter of the population of the entire country lives in these two, it’s not as bad as it sounds.

DAT, to fuck_cars in Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

so it’s not the “electric” part that’s the problem in norway

it’s still better than combustion engines

stupid headline!

toaster, to fuck_cars in Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

E-bikes and infrastructure would have been a cheap and effective alternative for those subsidies as well.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

or like, electric mopeds

at least here in sweden like 90% of the population is within easy moped range of their daily business

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