One could argue that capitalism only did that because it needed to compete with communism, and that the more that capitalism eliminates its communist competition, the less it seems inclined to care about the working class.
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I must say, this Mamdani fellow seems to be having a lot of success very quickly. One has to wonder why nobody ever tried any of this before. Can it really be that the switch to using Ranked Choice Voting in NY primaries made THAT much of a difference in the type of candidate that made it through?
Bold of you to assume I'm gonna be able to afford a back yard.
That reeks of sophistry. The German law which started this comment thread is meant to criminalize rhetoric against Israel, and the rhetoric it takes aim at is not merely abstract rhetoric about seeking to get Israelis to elect a nicer government. Not all criticism of Israel is anti-semitism, but it's disingenuous to pretend that anti-semitism doesn't exist at all. And if you ARE willing to admit the extent to which anti-semitism still pervades our world, then you have to see that the overly simplistic rhetoric that "Israel has no right to exist" has more sinister implications than you're willing to admit.
Justify Statement A.
Israel does in fact have a right to exist. But so does Palestine. Along the 1949 borders.
Is that Peter Serafinowicz? AKA the original, pre-Witwer voice of Darth Maul? AKA the live action The Tick? AKA the inventor of the Butterfield Diet Plan? It's hard to recognize him sometimes.
Ultimately we're just gonna have to switch to EVs whether it's convenient or not. Life is life and sometimes you just gotta suck it up and adapt to changing conditions. We'll figure out all the little tricks for keeping batteries working the same way we figured out all the little tricks to keep diesel engines working: through trial and error and lots of cursing, followed by revelatory "ohhhhhhhhs" and word of mouth - sometimes even intergenerational word of mouth.
And we can talk and talk about which type of engine performs better but at the end of the day, humanity's gonna keep starting wars over fossil fuels for as long as they're valuable, driving the prices up higher and higher, so sustainable energy is the only path forward with any future, not just environmentally speaking but financially speaking. If you're a self-employed haulier and you're approaching retirement age, I could see why you'd wanna try and make your combustion engines last you to retirement. But anyone who's buying, needs to buy electric or they're sabotaging themselves. Because the big companies are gonna kick and scream against EVs and solar for as long as they think they can squeeze a little more profit out of fossil, but as soon as they make the switch to electric they're suddenly gonna start lobbying government to tax the fuck out of anyone still running fossil. If you haven't made the switch by then, you're gonna be fucked.
It happened with the banking crisis: the entire system was geared towards keeping that game of musical chairs going as long as possible. But once one or two big names started to offload their CDO and CDO ^2s, things all changed very quickly and suddenly the players that already had chairs were eager to get the music to stop as quickly as possible. It'll be the same way with fossil fuels: it'll look like it's gonna last forever until suddenly it's dead.
TBH I never thought that it would be Iran that would be the last nation on Earth to figure this out.