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The distinction with a difference is that anyone can flatter Trump’s ego the exact same way. Mamdani seems to have done it. There’s nothing particular about Russia that makes it work.

What kind of third world shit hole makes its dictators face consequences?

EV batteries are often still good to use as they are for other purposes. Like home power storage. Their storage amount gets low enough that they aren’t giving sufficient range anymore, but they still have plenty of life left in different applications.

There’s a million reasons to prefer bikes and public transit over cars in general. The reasons specific to EVs are usually bullshit.

The advantage lead acid has for ICE is that it can dump a lot of current all at once. The C output rate on sodium ion isn’t that high, IIRC.

There have been lithium batteries used for the purpose. The original Miata used one because standard lead acid cells caused corrosion issues in the chassis. But lithium has its own supply chain issues.

Ultimately, this goes away because ICE cars go away.

This is what gives away the answer (emphasis added):

Russian ultranationalist milbloggers, a key pro-war constituency for Russian President Vladimir Putin, continued to reject the modified peace proposal, criticize the United States for moving away from Russian demands, and claim that Europe only wants to continue the war in Ukraine.[16] The milbloggers called for Russia to achieve its war aims by force instead.[17] The Kremlin has refused to meaningfully negotiate in response to all US-led peace initiatives thus far in 2025, and has shown no willingness to make the significant compromises required of a negotiation process.[18] The Kremlin very likely aims to prolong negotiations to end the war to allow Russian forces to continue advancing on the battlefield. The Kremlin likely plans to use Russian advances to further intensify information operations aimed at convincing the West and Ukraine that a Russian military victory is inevitable and that Ukraine should capitulate to Russia’s demands. The Kremlin continues to show no willingness to compromise for good-faith peace negotiations and has not set conditions for Russians to accept anything less than a full Russian victory in Ukraine.

If they aren’t setting up conditions for the civilian population of Russia to accept less than full victory–propaganda like “we have accomplished what we need to in Ukraine, and now is the time for the Russian people to have peace”–then don’t expect them to negotiate in good faith. Even the full 28-point peace proposal, which was clearly written by Russia and has been whittled down to 19 points, was never meant to be taken seriously. It was meant to say “see, we made an offer, and they rejected it”.

They should try finding an inexperienced lawyer who is willing to do anything for Trump, and then promptly embarrass themselves in front of the judge and news media. It’s going so well with Comey.

Edit: lol, I posted this just before reading that the indictments against Comey and James have been dismissed due to the prosecutor being improperly appointed.

The world can, but Canada can’t ignore the psychopath who lives in the flat downstairs.

China is the only major country still building new coal power. The UK, meanwhile, closed its last coal plant in 2024.

The US needs to give up on drill-baby-drill. Germany needs to stop closing perfectly functional nuclear plants. The US especially needs to get out of car-based infrastructure, though even Europe isn’t ideal.

Not very. Ultimately, that’s an argument for anarchism.

But Germany is hardly unique in that regard. Both now and then.

Millionaires are not going to move away from NYC when the stock exchange is right there, the big buildings are right there, and the port is right there. NYC is important because of where it is and what it has. A 2% tax on high incomes is not going to change that.

Germany the nation isn’t the problem. Fascism is the problem. There is nothing special about Germany that makes it any more or less susceptible to fascism than anyone else. 1930s Germany happened to have especially fertile ground, but it could have been a lot of other places.

Although AfD does need to be told to go the fuck away.

It’s fine, Musk can find a new batch of kinda smart but not really college dropouts with delusions of impressing a narcissistic rich guy and a history of starting arguments with “well, actually, white men are the most oppressed social group”. They seem to be cloning them at industrial scale these days.

Mamdani walked in and cast Charm Person. Trump’s WIS mod was never particularly high even in his best years.

Georgia’s 14th district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index is R+19. That means that if the Republican candidate for President gets 45% nationwide, then the vote is expected to be 64% in that district.

Normally, an R+19 district would be untouchable for Democrats. Probably wouldn’t even run a candidate, and if they do, it’d be a strategic move to force the GOP to spend money on what should be a gimme. I met a woman once who ran in a race like that, and it ain’t a fun job.

That said, Democrats overperformed in the recent elections to close to that number, so it’s not out of reach.

There’s apparently some people joining ICE like that. They’re offering some huge bonuses with pretty decent salaries, especially if you have military service. Then they do nothing.

Jam up the system.

Try searching Google with “f-35 sales before:2024-11-01”. Countries were lining up to buy them. Boeing had a years long manufacturing backlog.

No matter how you, personally, feel about the F-35 and the US military-industrial complex, Trump wants to both increase exports in general and tout US military strength. Most of NATO running with the F-35 would have been great for both of those. He could have succeeded at it by doing nothing. Complete failure of his own goals.

Do you have any clue whatsoever how much education it takes to become an officer?

Stop digging. Stop ascribing abilities to Trump that he doesn’t have. He is not infinitely powerful, but he would like you to think that.

And then it would all far apart. You’re making the same mistake they do, which is thinking they can steamroll reality.

Listen to the people with actual military experience. It does not work that way.

That’s not how martial law works what so ever.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UJ1P_8OU3d4