You guys have your heads so far up your asses, billions of subsidies for renewables were “sabotage”.
If only even more billions would have been thrown against it, surely then it would have worked.
German anti-nuclear religion is so persistent and dogmatic, I’d rather debate the Taliban on Islam.
Luckily the smart Germans are changing course, as polls continue to show.
Germany is the obvious evidence for that claim. Their once great industry is doing really bad due to high energy prices. Which is why even they are second guessing the Energiewende.
Despite insane levels of investment in renewables, they are still stuck on gas en lignite and have very high energy prices.
Merkel’s bet that Russian gas could always be depended on didn’t work out.
The “expensive” argument is bollocks.
It’s not too expensive for China, South Korea, Japan, the USA, France, the UAE, Iran, India, Russia.
The countries without nuclear will deindustrialize and the countries with nuclear will outcompete them.
People really don’t understand that climate change is worse for life on this planet than a million Fukushima accidents.
Even Japan is restarting their reactors
Solar and wind are great, but major industrialized nations will need some nuclear capacity.
It’s going to happen sooner or later.
The question is just about how long we delay it, with extra emissions and economic depression in the mean time.
It’s mostly the other way around: Americans want products from the rest of the world.
But to answer your question directly: there are products which only the US makes, but more importantly, if American products become cheaper due to a weaker dollar, then people will buy them. That’s what Trump is hoping for.
That’s a bit optimistic.
Trump is deliberately choosing chaos as a strategy, but his goal is quite clear.
Biden didn’t roll back a lot of Trump’s tariffs, so I am assuming these tariffs could easily extend beyond Trump.
Since the US economy will be paying the price on the short term, the situation next year and beyond will be that the US best interest would be to not rollback anything without trade partners offering concessions.
The countries with the lowest tariffs will become connector economies. Whether governments want it or not, there is just too much profit to be made.
This is why Trump is specifically targeting those countries, but then other countries will take their place.
And the end game is, Trump can succeed, but not without a global recession and much higher prices for Americans.
Correct. Wero is basically iDeal and the main Dutch banks are part of the consortium pushing it.
The Wero consortium prioritized expanding towards the broader European market first.
Transitioning from iDeal to Wero in the Netherlands is a lesser priority.
And how will they know if you’re a fundie or not?
What they’re doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they’ll get you.
So don’t do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.
But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won’t be able to tell the difference.
Thanks for the effort post with great tips!
I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.
I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It’s not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.
This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn’t killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting “godless heathens” in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.
And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.
Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them
Looking like them provides a survival advantage.
There is nobody more entitled on this planet than the Orange man and his followers.
People really don’t understand how much wealth is being siphoned off the middle class.
Our technology is advanced enough that we can provide everyone on the planet a very comfortable life. Basically a European middle class lifestyle, but with less meat and air travel than the average European has today.
The fact that we don’t is because of greed.
Yeah, I was wondering how they are going to expel an EU citizen.
Germany, like really WTH is wrong with you.
I will say that Israel is many times more evil than Hamas.
But Hamas definitely is evil, too.
They torture and kill Palestinians to maintain power. They had even smuggled a Yezidi slave girl into Gaza.
Of course, I do understand that they are resisting oppression. And that is justified. And I also know that a lot of the propaganda against them is false, such as the beheaded babies thing.
But there are enough credible reports of them doing really shady stuff.
Officially, yes.
Orban is just being Orban.
But Poland said they wouldn’t arrest him either and the new German chancellor also said the same.
It’s only genocide if you starve white kids.
I agree. Almost no one is pro-Hamas. They are definitely evil.
Still, doesn’t justify starving kids, bombing kids and withholding medicine which forces doctors to amputate kids without anaesthesia.
You don’t ‘need’ Russia, but it’s mutually beneficial to have them on your side.
Why would Russia risk alienating China?
In realpolitik, China is the more desirable partner than the USA.
The answer is European and Japanese bonds.
Also in part due to a weakening dollar.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but since Trump took office, the Euro has appreciated nearly 10% against the dollar. Which in turn makes it very likely that the ECB will drop rates.
This will definitely make it less painful to increase borrowing and spending.