Stop bringing up facts and figures, I have wordly experience!
-The average conservative voter
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If Musk fully crosses Trump, I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly starlink and spacex were labeled as threats to national security.
Don't you remember learning about Germany in school? According to history disabled people are going to the camps as well. And RFK has already annonced that they're going on a list. Then it's non-straight people. And then they came for...
Sadly, a bunch of things people buy are American owned but sold under a more local brand name, especially food or snack items, but also many other things.
For example: A scary amount of Europeans don't know that Mondelēz International is an American company. It was started by Kraft, famous for their "processed cheese product". And they own brands like Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Marabou/Freia, etc.
Coca-Cola also own a lot of "local" flavoured drinks.
I wish lemmy was less like reddit, and that commenters actually skimmed the articles or knew anything about the situation beyond the headlines.
But hell, here goes, I'll try to use small words and explain things for you guys:
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If they instantly turned it off without a replacement, a lot of people would have died. And even if a country government tried, their own citizens would riot over the idea that old people would die.
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Coal is already banned.
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Oil imports have dropped from 27% to 3%
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In 2021 the gas accounted for 45% of imports in the EU, now it's 19% and the plan is to have it at zero by 2027.
I know people love to repeat that on social media, but he did technically win the popular vote.
Harris: 75,017,613
Trump: 77,302,580
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024presgeresults.pdf
At the end of the day they're just selfish.
My favorite example is the "Free Town Project", where a bunch of libertarians from all over the country tried to take over a town in New Hampshire. After they managed to force through cuts to everything from firefighting to street lights, they had a single police officer left. And he couldn't respond to any calls, because his cruiser was broken and they refused to pay for repairs so crime rose and sex offenders started moving there.
Then came the bears.
They didn't pay for any sort of forest ranger and the cop couldn't respond. So bears started getting close and some people spent years feeding them, while their neighbors walked around armed at all times and would shoot at bears on-sight. Which led to the first black bear on human attack in the state for over a century, where a woman was attacked inside her own home. And shortly after two other attacks happened in nearby towns. So the people went into the forest one night and allegedly shot and killed a dozen bears, which didn't help. Some people suggested the city put bear protection on the trash cans, but it was not passed and was called "government overreach" by others.
So the freedom loving libertarians who moved to a town without zoning laws to live in improvised housing and roam free without laws, ended up having to put up big fences and walls around their homes to keep the bears out.
Yes...?
It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.
At this point, if a news outlet or politician refuse to call it what it is, I assume they actually approve.
So far it's most of them across the world.
Jason, is that you?