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2 hours agoSame. If you have some money for fun or time - give him some. Only if you have it.
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5·11 hours agoYou’re not wrong but some render their opposition to capitalism by reducing the scope of the capitalist system. Something liberals tend not to do. Are all reformists committed to bringing it down to zero? Maybe, maybe not. I probably wouldn’t call a self-proclaimed socislist who spends their life reducing the capitalist part of their state a lib if they are okay with say 10% of the economy remaining capitalist.
Being a socialist doesn’t mean you have to ban capitalism the moment you get power. Or at all. There are many ways to be socialist and do socialist policy. The overarching ideology is the belief we can do better than capitalism by distributing the resources we create according to amount of work and need, instead of profit maximization. How and how quickly we achieve that differs between different kinds of socialists. Sometimes dramatically.
A hostile US and Russia would give us the increased defense spending we already have, at least we wouldn’t have to buy US equipment.
That’s part of what I was referring to. We’d spend this locally or among partners. Right now a lot of NATO spending goes to the US military industrial complex.
Then the other economic impact is that the US loses one more leverage tool to coerce us on various trade disputes. Which means we’d be able to negotiate better deals for us.
As predicted by literally anyone paying attention to how the US operates for the benefit of its ruling class.
Jagmeet simply did not have the support to remotely have a chance to win instead of PP or Carney. That’s the context in which Carney “was the best choice at the time.” Not much else. I agree we’d been better off with Jagmeet.
I think things would shake out differently in a couple of years with Avi’s NDP on the docket. Perhaps not an NDP gov’t but I think we’d get significantly more seats than the last election.
48·21 hours agoGoddamn, I thought it was cheaper! I donate already to my instance and dev but I’ll throw what I can your way too.
Too bad Iran is already deeply sanctioned. It’s what happens when you overuse your leverage. I suppose they could try the opposite - offer lifting of sanctions.
The PC party has never gone off the rails like the Republican party. Even the Reformacons (CPC) weren’t crazy during Harper’s leadership. Things only really sharpened with PP. So it’s no wonder federal governments have mostly oscillated between the libs and the cons for over a century.
I was looking at some vote data today and I think this one is also our friend: https://mander.xyz/u/Anyone
Possibly also: https://feddit.org/u/Quittenbrot
Here’s some of the list of matches between
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where 5 of them appear on a vote tally.
# Num vote matches: vote tally link 5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/sh.itjust.works/comment/21402656 5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.sdf.org/comment/22962978 5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/scribe.disroot.org/comment/6964264 5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/scribe.disroot.org/comment/6690122 5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.sdf.org/comment/21999080 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/mander.xyz/post/42018522 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/5662899 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/45104150 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/45104825 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/45115500 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/44795915 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/5320580 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43639018 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43649678 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43656968 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4925578 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4839560 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/mander.xyz/post/39067396 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/piefed.world/post/513359 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43276509 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/36625693 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4753629 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42973822 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42974263 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4735256 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42881979 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4717810 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42786144 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4680903 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4681271 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4620709 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42534372 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4595270 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42433145 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42409798 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42385155 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/35971816 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42356948 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42077068 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/mander.xyz/post/37757039 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/35706302 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/35708740 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4480693 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42022975 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/41994363 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/41995095 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4444940 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4370265 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4226066 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/41107945 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.nz/post/27121125 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/40615493 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4079950 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/34272105 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/40233079 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/34236339 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/40061722 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/3905505 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/feddit.org/post/17010899 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/3907142 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/39942527 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/39966582 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/39966726 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/3886842 5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/6077659 5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/20534858 5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/feddit.org/comment/10420416
Good? I don’t have super high regard for Coyne’s opinions but he’s not an idiot either.
A NATO without the US would have many benefits for its members, especially the downstream economic effects it would have.
I imagine vastly lower cost would be one reason. 450km range chargeable in 11 minutes would be enough for a significant proportion of people and likely desirable if the cost is low enough. I don’t think it’s likely that lithium would match the price/perf ratio of sodium so I think we’re likely to see a lot more sodium in applications that don’t require the absolute best energy density. So in a way, sodium might be the front runner, ahead of advanced lithium, in terms of what’s going to be adopted. 😅
E: Also we’re talking sodium batteries in production. If and when double-triple density lithium or another shows up, it might change the calculus depending on price, safety, etc.
The packs CATL makes now are 175Whr/kg which is very close to LFP. They’re already EV-worthy.
While at it, consider mopping up these as well:
They often come together to up/down vote, which is especially obvious deeper into threads where others aren’t engaging much like this:
- https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/19643090
- https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/19453597
Or when the majority opinion opposes:
Or to upvote their post:
There’s a lot more vote matches between these users. Here’s a few more samples from other instances:
- https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/18333166
- https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/18334464
- https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/18428833
- https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/20533722
- https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/20534858
On occasion multiple would show up and engage a user in the same thread:
This has happened in the past more frequently but I think they wisened up to how obvious that is. There was a thread about EVs from last year where I think I got 3 of them show up on me but it seems search history has been trimmed to about 6 months so I can’t find it. I used to engage in good faith before I figured out what’s going on.
These two (Hotznplotzn and randomname) were created on two different instances, 6 minutes from each other:
Hotznplotzn and Sepia recently got caught at lemmy.world:
- https://lemmy.world/modlog/2840?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=18600642
- https://lemmy.world/modlog/2840?page=1&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=12728860
Actually now that I’m looking at this data, there’s probably more, but these are the most active ones from the set. There are some inactive ones too.
Given how he responded to the first journalist who asked him about “antisemitism” at his first presser, I am eager to have more of them do this on TV. He’s gonna wipe the floor with them and teach Canadians a bit of history on Jewish bundism and why Jewish anti-Zionism tends to come not from “self-hatred” but extraordinary moral clarity.
US-Israeli impunity has shredded the international order: Canada should lead in rebuilding it.
True words and wise.
13·2 days agoNow that he’s shown the game to everyone it’s probably time to replace this mfker with someone representing Europe’s interest. An EU defence alliance might also be a good idea.
So how long do we think this ceasefire will last?
Less than the time it took to reply to your comment.
I knew it. As soon as rumors started circling that China is leaning on Iran to cease fire, I reasoned that China must have offered something in return, due to Iran’s extremely strong leverage. I thought expanded trade but weapons make sense too.
Excellent news either way.
Hopefully they’re effective enough against Israeli jets. If they are, this could serve as wiping Trump’s ass from being unable to force Iarael to obey the ceasefire. If Iran can defend itself against Israeli bombings, Trump can the off-ramp knowing Israel won’t drag him in again.