Yeah, probably.

They’re not Nazis, but they ARE fascists.

Nazis were big into public works and pretending to be socialist, both of which are anathema to the American Fascist Party.

All Nazis are fascists, but not all fascists are Nazis.

The SMELL, bra, NO he will not let it go!

It’s Wilhoit’s Law in action:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

But did she turn a single viral moment into a career? I would argue that publicity itself doesn’t seem to be her career, whereas activism clearly is the main thing. The way I see it, publicity is a tool she uses to enhance her activism

That’s the argument I was trying to make too, sorry if I was unclear 🙂

I have a feeling that she would have ended up being an activist with or without any viral moments

Kind of a “yes and no” kind of thing: she became an activist back when she was just an unknown 15yo who believed in something, and the “viral moments” have all been the results of effective activism (with the exception of some hilarious trolling of some prominent far right idiots), which is part of what effective activism IS: getting as many people as possible to notice and talk about the issues.

rAmen!

You’re right about them wanting to go back to the 50s, but I’m not sure it isn’t the 1850s or even the 1750s…

Democracy can’t survive if the voting base is too ignorant misinformed to choose its leaders.

People not knowing enough IS bad for democracy, but the fact that they “know” so many objectively false and harmful things is MUCH worse.

Alternate headline: “Demagogue objects to objective reality”

Hmm, good point. US consumers it is, then.

But in the case of China I’m not sure who will suffer more in the long run.

Consumers in both countries, as it always is with tariffs.

So far…

the DMCA was vaguely reasonable

No it wasn’t. It too was MEANT to be weaponized from day one. The difference is that almost all of the people in control of both parties and all mainstream media were in favor, so it got a false veneer of reasonability in coverage.

The DMCA is just as bad as SOPA and PIPA, which was always the intent from the powerful industry groups lobbying for all three bills and the politicians they own.

in Europe in particular there’s way less charging infrastructure

That’s the opposite of reality in many cases.

For example, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Benelux countries have better charging networks AND much shorter distances between major population centers than the US in general.

way more people living in apartments without the ability to set up a home charge station

Would have been relevant a decade ago, but now there’s public chargers at more and more parking lots and highway rest stops plus at least one major gas station chain has chargers at every station here in Denmark.

I have no doubt that conditions are even better in places like Norway and Sweden where they started adapting much earlier than we did.

way more anxiety about charging full electric EVs as a consequence, depending on the region

Bolded the only part you’ve been right about so far.

plug-in hybrids seem like a reasonable way to bridge that gap.

They were back when the battery technology and charging infrastructure wasn’t in place to support fully transitioning to EVs, but most of Europe is way ahead of you, so as a rule rather than an exception, hybrids are an unnecessary concession, Democratic Party style.

But I’m already entertaining this conversation way more than I want, because it’s going to lead off on a tangent and I don’t want to go on that tangent and we’re going to end up in how public transport is the real answer and there are millions of threads here to go rehash that conversation

TL;DR: you’re wrong and tired of trying to justify your false assumptions, so you try to preempt the logic conclusion that many have reached by implying that it’s wrong and/or or tedious.

My question is why I’ve seen a grand total of one Tesla on the road across three countries and yet somehow it was seemingly the top EV brand

Could be that those three countries and/or the specific parts of them you traverse aren’t typical for all 44 countries of Europe.

being 100% dependent on an external monopoly is strategically and mid-term problematic.

True, but the fact of the matter is that they already have a natural monopoly on some of the rare minerals that both their and the US industry depends on.

Just slapping a tariff on every part of the process including materials like this is inevitably ruinous to the American producers of solar energy unless they pass the cost down, which they inevitably will.

There’s literally no upside (other than for fossil fuel interests and the politicians in bed with them, of course) and mountains of downside to this moronic sledgehammer approach to financial diplomacy.

The problem at hand is that they are also destroying your industry, which is very bad in long term

That ship sailed DECADES ago when US corporations realized how profitable outsourcing is.

No amount of tariffs are going to make the world champions of profiteering base production in a country that so much as PRETENDS to treat workers humanely.

Trying to put that toothpaste back into the tube is only going to hurt the transition from fossil fuel powered energy when they inevitably pass the expense all the way down to the taxpayers.

Every scientist in relevant fields: the number one thing humanity needs to do is phrase out fossil fuels as much as possible

Every Republican and “Centrist” (actually right wing) Democrat: la la, I can’t hear you! It’s laundry day today!

Democratic party leaders Thursday morning said its officers should not take sides in primaries

Guess they’re trying to compete with the GOP on hypocrisy.