Cool thanks

So why is “Houthis” a racist term?

Is it possible to have a hoa coup? I think that would be interesting… Tiny revolutions within hoa’s. So small no one cares. Eventually everything is clean, green and healthy before anyone notices. Kind of like when eBay changed its background slowly from yellowish to white.

Lol

Maybe, it sounds familiar. But if past trends are any indication, once enough of the market is dominated by EVs, there will be a lot more money to be made by lowering quality to a bare minimum.

And the infrastructure argument still stands in that case.

They haven’t shied away, it is just more profitable to mine outside your borders using slave labour. The fact of it is, with planned obsolescence being the best way to ensure a steady demand of a product, and the environmental destruction required to support the manufacturing and use of EVs, they still are not a solution. They are a market solution which means it is profitable, and a lateral move at best, and a back step at worst.

If EVs help the environment that is secondary.

https://miningwatch.ca/publications/2023/9/6/contemporary-forms-slavery-and-canadian-mining-industry

The criticisms are also that companies use slavery to acquire the materials to make EVs. And they don’t work well in the cold (see current cold snap in Canada), the lifetime of the batteries aren’t great, and we still need to destroy huge swaths of land to create cars, park/store cars, and drive cars.

EVs are only going to save the car industry. To fix it requires a redesign of cities (see Strongtowns, not justbikes, city beautiful, etc.).

You do what you want, it’s your cabin

I prefer to only read the top line of a meme then post. And no that’s not a Lemmy user, that’s squidward

I don’t think there is any data to back that up.

1st year econ says something supply demand curve something something price. But that’s not true in practice

3. And you may own one cabin but it must be used by you and cannot be rented out

The US has made itself a great candidate for becoming a vassal state, since there is very little material wealth generated domestically. Imagine if/when American businesses in China/Russia (I can’t imagine there are any in NK right?) are nationalized. Especially if China stops exporting to the US. That would devastate the American economy, shortages of everything everywhere, and no productive capacity or expertise to fix it.

Capitalism is abandoning the empire.

This for sure. I’ve worked for a non-profit, and it was an awful experience. Everyone I know who has worked for one shares a similar experience.

We think it has something to do with the toxic way funding is applied for through the government, and the necessarily low wages/over work.

I have been considering opening a co-op with the purpose of providing stable employment and the tools/ space for workers to be politically active. But it would have to be for-profit given the toxicity and restrictions placed on non-profits.

Violence is the only option, even if you don’t like it. Ask Nelson Mandela.

Alternatively, like in Canada, have your people become the majority and give them Independence, and forget about the destruction of the natives.

Liberation will never be given to you by your oppressor.

They didn’t dismantle anything… All they said is Hamas this, Holocaust that, isreal has a right to self determination, look at the babies that Hamas killed.

Not once did they provide evidence that the allegations were false…

Probably important to point this out: private property is not personal property.

E.g. An apartment building rented to tenants is the landlords private property. They have exclusive rights to the decisions, especially economic ones, regarding the building and the profits of the rent.

A car, book, house, pizza, are all your personal property so long as you don’t owe a lender anything for them.

So no private property might look like:

The people who live in an apartment building own the building collectively and have the full right therein, but the individual units are each their own personal property.

In my view this should hopefully signal to US “allies” to further move away from dependence on the US, leading to a further crumbling of the hegemony.

But it will not fall on its own. I believe that there are near infinite ways for capitalism to get worse, and it can always find new ways to profit at the expense of people.

If we were to, maybe coax it off the ledge though…

A neat thing is no one actually needs to even die to meet the definition of a genocide

I hadn’t thought about that, I still have the (liberal) knee jerk reaction to defend what a government could be, when they complain about the government and taxes. I need to move past this I think, and focus more on how they fuck everyone but big business.

Afterall, the small shop owner has more in common with us than they do with Bozos

I try and treat them like students without being too obvious. Praxis is important. If I can ask a couple of pointed questions based on what they are saying at me, they think I’m interested, but with the right questions it instills doubt into their views.

Then walk away lol