Yeah, but the Taliban are at least not so nationalistic that they can recognise the usefulness of the engineering chops of manufacturers like Toyota. Say what you want, 10 years from now those Toyota Tundras in the desert will still be running. It’s a crapshoot with the Ford F-150s.

Calgary?

Anti-War President

Where, where is everyone saying “fuck ALL individual Americans”? They’re not.

Europe, Canada, and Australia have been happy to go along for the ride, as well as causing problems of their own.

Happy to go along with what? Global stability and trade? America develops nuclear weapons, demonstrates it will use them and then it’s all the rest of the world’s non-action that’s the issue?

What problems has the European Union Caused for the world? Go on, I’ll wait.

What policies specifically are you miffed with? That the rest of the white-European descended world went along with?

when there are so many of us that have been fighting this bullshit all while actually being victimized by our own government.

Yeah, you sure did a great job fighting it. I’m sure you were out there tirelessly campaigning against the GOP and spreading awareness of what would happen. I’m also sure you’ve had to deal with endless torrents of mean Europeans harassing you and telling you to KYS because of the last 250 years + Trump. Luckily, because you’re so busy fighting, you probably haven’t seen all those mean comments.

Stop Victimising yourself. Green Day came with American Idiot in 2004. You have had two decades to come to terms with criticism of modern American foreign policy in pop culture, act like it.

Now that they’re experiencing the slightest inconvenience,

Undermining global efforts to stop/reduce the climate catastrophe, the systematic erasure of personal freedoms, illegally tracking and spying on the whole world contrary to every law encompassed by GDPR which every American company agrees to to operate there. Creating the migrant crisis out of the middle and near east and creating the far-right after covid in order to exploit the economic recession, largely caused by the then American president’s denial of science. The next global pandemic you’re currently cooking up, the re-establishment of measles as a serious threat to Human life. The creation of Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley Technofascists through loans lent out by The US government. I can go on, endlessly. It is not “the slightest inconvenience.” It is, emphatically, everything.

they want to cause an uproar and shit on everyone who happens to have been born here. It’s hypocritical and gross.

Well, now because of your countrymen, being born in Americ doesn’t make you American, altgough there are still Americans who weren’t born there. (For now.)

Complaining about American imperialism is not “uproar.” What part of any of that qualifies as hypocrisy? You don’t think people around the world have been criticising America for over a century? Buddy…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_United_States_government

You didn’t care before, so what changed?

Nothing, people have always been critical of the United States. But you never had reason to listen to those criticisms. Now, America is threatening, not just the global order, but our continued existence as a species on Earth. So, yeah, the criticisms are getting louder. That’s what happens when you elect the Nazis. Germany still gets criticised, that was 80 years ago. You better get some thicker skin than that friend, because you’re gonna hear a lot more and rightly fucking so.

The only time I can recall in recent memory when any of these folks actually gave a shit about us was during the Floyd protests, which was certainly appreciated.

Yeah, because the idea of egalitarianism is inherently part of what makes being European a thing. Because we didn’t censor our history in school to create the myth of a monoculture descended from a group of British settlers. We are a collection of individual identities, languages and ethnic groups who form a union based on our similarities as humans seeking peace and prosperity through mutual co-operation. Which is why your media hates us, because you guys have created your own aristocracy and we don’t like that.

Dude, you have to separate America the Federal State, VS America the Geographical location, VS America the idea, VS America the population that inhabit the United States and Territories. They are not the same thing. I get people might be mean to you on an individual level, but contextually you should be able to separate that from criticism of America. You should not feel the need to be personally offended at individuals who criticise the actions of the American State Policies. It’s intellectually disingenuous to do otherwise and it doesn’t make anybody -regardless of nationality- sympathetic to your personal situation to be indignant and act like you don’t understand that. Or, the global consequences of the “slightest inconvenience” your country has gifted to the rest of the world.

America has had the capacity to care for its citizens for forever. It chooses not to, just as it chose to position itself as the world police. It’s not because America has been too busy looking out for the EU militarily that there is no Universal Healthcare there. The story should really be a case of examining what North America vs Europe did after World War 2. America dismantled the protections of the New Deal, America caused the global financial crisis through Reganomics and neoliberalism. America is owned by fossil fuels and has suppressed nuclear power and renewable energy for almost 100 years. Now climate change is accelerating and causing global famine, drought and food shortages. American imperialism is just the same colonialism that Europe has been done with since 1945. Except now they beam propaganda into the heads of children 24hrs a day through the addictive technology and sophisticated profiling algorithms America created. People are not mad because tariffs, they’re angry because America created this idea of a free global order and now we’ve been hamstringed into a plot. Orchestrated by American Corporatism, to collapse that same global order and disrupt our largely egalitarian, human rights focused society by igniting racial tensions around the world fueled by forced migration due to instability in that region caused by wars in the middle east driven by Corporate America’s demand for oil. While America use the military superiority they have touted and expanded since then, on the basis of global peace, to threaten anyone who might question them and force politicians to give them cover for the extermination of brown people they’re so thrilled about. FFS imagine the Nazis standing outside Auschwitz saying “These stupid Americans, they’re so hypocritical. They don’t see how badly we were sanctioned and blamed for world war 1. Why don’t they see the hypocrisy in how they eliminated the native peoples during manifest destiny. They love to point to Germany to take attention off themselves.”

She’s attempting to ban Geoengineering. From Wikipedia:

Geoengineering (also known as climate engineering or climate intervention) is the deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system intended to counteract human-caused climate change.[1] The term commonly encompasses two broad categories: large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation modification (SRM). CDR involves techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and is generally considered a form of climate change mitigation. SRM aims to reduce global warming by reflecting a small portion of sunlight (solar radiation) away from Earth and back into space. Although historically grouped together, these approaches differ substantially in mechanisms, timelines, and risk profiles, and are now typically discussed separately.[2]: 168 [3] Some other large-scale engineering proposals—such as interventions to slow the melting of polar and alpine ice—are also sometimes classified as forms of geoengineering.

Some types of geoengineering present political, social and ethical issues. One common objection is that focusing on these technologies could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Effective governance and international oversight are widely regarded as essential.

Major scientific organizations have examined the potential, risks, and governance needs of geoengineering, including the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,[4][5][6] the Royal Society,[7] the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),[8] and the World Climate Research Programme.[1]

Because ICE is going to be the paramilitary the feds control until they can seize control of the actual military.

Alaska got an exemption from Medicaid Cuts. I imagine her rationale was that she was protecting her constituents. Fucked everyone else though.

10% of 88ft is not 8ft. 8ft would be 10% of 80ft. Sorry to be pedantic, it just bugs me.

MAGA are not Trump’s opposition. Corporate Dems would happily take Musk’s money though.

Indian Reserve Banks

The vanity of these headline princesses revolts me.

Yeah except the Visa program they use is tied to their employment. Big Ag has been holding people basically as indentured slaves, forcing them to live on the farm. Any disagreement, or refusal to perform as the owner wants and their status is void and they get sent back. The government has known for YEARS about this happening. Always turned a blind eye, and now they have removed any avenue to permanent legal status in the US from that very visa program. So, want to live, or flee from oppression to the US? Well, now they’ll oppress you.

Source

Invidious: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=1COm0C73CKw Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1COm0C73CKw

No, he was just gathering it to hand over to Palantir. Once again, Peter Thiel, the real CEO of paypal is the shadowy puppeteer.

Consider this, JD Vance is Peter Thiel’s Acolyte, who desperately wants to bring about a global technocracy. What if all of this hasn’t been a genuine attempt yet. What if it’s merely theatre that has been setting the stage for Vance to take over. Trump gets to enrich his family beyond their wildest imagination, then he peaces out and the real horror begins.

Russia, the authoritarian petro state. Saudi Arabia, The authoritarian petro state and now America and the UK Authoritarian petro states. Shell Oil, British Petroleum all of them. Oil, we are on the cusp of a nuclear revolution. Which is so efficient it would effectively end for profit energy. Nuclear power plus electric cars means no more fossil fuels. Means the end to the power and influence of the Koch family, founders of the CATO institute. The libertarian think tank that Peter Thiel wrote his essay for where he says “… I no longer believe democracy and freedom to be compatible.” War is how they continue to justify their existence and continue to pollute the world. Creating more opportunities for the insurance companies and banks that invest in fossil fuels to profiteer from the misery and suffering they cause. Copenhagen atomics is close to creating a working prototype thorium salt reactor, which can fit in a 40 foot shipping container and solve the energy crisis and climate change. Copenhagen, capital city of Denmark, now does threatening the Danish Territory of Greenland make more sense? War with Denmark and they can bomb the fuck out them. They want perpetual war, War in Ukraine and Gaza are not going to end, they’re just the beginning.

He’s a patsy, I’m grateful that at least it isn’t Vance. Could you imagine a tyrant funded by Billionaires that wasn’t in cognitive decline?

Musk doesn’t have an engineering degree. He’s a clown with an economics degree that wrote spaghetti code for Paypal so bad, they gave him forked code to play with. When he found out, he demanded the real code and they would undo all his commits after he was done. He was ousted by Peter (delusional sociopath) Thiel when he went on his honeymoon and given a hefty number of shares to compensate. Dude has been failing upwards his whole life, a millionaire from birth, white South African Apartheidist. In the reveal for the Cybercuck he says regenerative breaking “Means you’ll never have to buy brake pads again.” This guy doesn’t understand how friction works. He is literally just a rich kid from birth, with no background, or understanding of physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, or government. He’s Peter Thiel’s pet retard who just lies about his accomplishments and surrounds himself with yes men, who agree with him and blow smoke up his ass:

1. Because He is desperately insecure

2. Because he has money

He does not have an engineering degree, that’s why his shit rockets blow up all the time.

Actually, unlike every other auto manufacturer in the world Tesla dealerships aren’t franchised businesses. They’re all privately owned by Musk. So, hurting the dealership directly effects his personal assets. Tesla own everyone of the buildings and the businesses themselves. Unlike, say Honda, Toyota and everyone else who just license their company name to the dealerships that are independently owned/operated.

You’ll notice it wasn’t me though, so why am I being asked what somebody I’m actively disagreeing with means by “regular homeowners”?