No politic here!

🫨 Something must have shifted for the worse if the US admin is taking a step back.

Yeah, I don’t understand why they spent such effort to reply to the toaster. This was more shocking to me than the toaster’s behaviour.

I guess there’s something for everyone! :D

Can’t vaccinate my ZFS pool against it…

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Yup. The only notable things for me are that it isn’t presented as such by the media when the US does it, and what the intended effect of the interference is. In this case bolstering Reform, AfD, etc.

This is called foreign interference, hybrid warfare.

“But it would be very happy to see Europe tied up spending a lot of its GDP on defence against something that looks like a frozen conflict around Ukraine and Belarus,” he added.

That contradicts China’s economic interests in Europe. They make a ton of money from exports to Europe. More money towards defence means less money for buying Chinese exports. Also given the current state of affairs in defence production, it means significant spend going to the US, which doesn’t sound like something Xi would want.

Marx was right.

"No one should be forced to pay for disinformation,” Siegmund thunders. He is the floor leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and he launches into a diatribe against a familiar target: Germany’s giant publicly funded broadcasters ARD and ZDF

This is the same shit Canada’s conservative party pushes. From their recent party convention:

The CBC/SRC, once intended to promote Canadian content, now receives over $1.2 billion annually while promoting increasingly politicized agendas. In an era of digital platforms and independent journalism, taxpayer-funded broadcasting is no longer justified

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Isn’t he supposed to not say the quiet part of his agenda out loud?

“If anyone thinks here . . . that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming,” he said in remarks to the European parliament. “You can’t.”

Ah yes, a continent with 450 million people can’t possibly organize its productive forces to defend itself! I hope people are paying attention to the bullshit these people are spinning.

If it’s this useful, we’re (and them) fucked too because the economy would collapse under falling aggregate demand due to falling wages and layoffs. The “people will find new jobs” won’t save us from a shift this large without a depression. And all sorts of things happen during depressions.

Beyond EVs, the much cheaper sodium-ion battery is entering mass production in China. We can already buy B-grade cells on AliExpress. This will have implications for all sorts of use cases that could use batteries but don’t due to cost.

He lost his shit when Trudeau did that.

Yes. Yes it can.

Ever wonder how it is that the ratio of pensioners to workers has already increased dramatically compared to 50 years ago and yet there’s about enough food, housing and care produced today? It’s through dramatically increased producrivity of labour. Much fewer people can produce what the economy needs. So much so that we can even afford to sustain very large, mostly useless economic sectors like finance. We can even afford an ever growing oligarch class with private jets, yachts with smaller yachts for those yachts!

I saw another article that said a third country could be any country. I know SAFE aims to decouple in principle but I’m infinitely suspicious of these fuckers (EU, Canadian, etc. politicians) because too often they serve moneyed interests and the US MIC is highly moneyed and connected.

Yes. Does this sound like it doesn’t allow for buying US weapons?

Under SAFE, third countries can account for a maximum of 35 percent of the value of a weapons system paid for by the scheme;

Please let’s not buy American weapons with this fund… please…