[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Don't take it so personally. sure EVs have a role to play but if we're to be serious about tackling climate change and environmental sustainability it's going to require massive infrastructure redevelopment projects, not asking everyone to please swap to rechargeable batteries. It's not about being "right enough" it's about recognizing a non-solution and also on a policy level a blatant scam. All these EV subsides the liberal Biden administration is throwing out are an obvious hand out to the failing American auto industry to try to keep them competitive and desperate ploy to their quickly dwindling supporters for them to look like they're doing anything worthwhile on climate change at all.

Having every American buy a new electric car is just going to make a few auto executives rich as hell and not even reduce overall global emissions because those cheaper ICE cars that can't be sold in America are just going to go to other parts of the world that don't have EV infrastructure but have plenty of already existing gas stations. And there's all the emissions of actually building the damn things. No, they need to put their money where their mouth is and build some fucking trains.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Demetrious Polychron

holy shit what an incredible name, don't even care what's this about, I'm with him. President Polychron 2024.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

I hope he still had enough marbles rolling around up there by the end to recognize that the empire he helped build on a tower of blood and skulls couldn't even keep their hard-won hegemony together for 25 years before falling off the rails. This was supposed to be the American Century, that was what it was all for- all the wars and barbarity our young nation eagerly embraced- so we could crack open the final peoples who still resisted Liberal Capitalism. The end of history some said!

Instead we immediately fell for all the same classic blunders of other empires we supposedly learned so much from: decades long land war in Asia ending in humiliating failure, getting entangled with another fucking Zionist war in the middle east, neglecting our domestic population in favor of more imperialism so much that it creates lasting and rapidly deteriorating social and political instability. We created so much resentment there is now a worldwide, self-conscious, anti-hegemonic collation aligning against us. It's going to be a rough, hard fall for America in the future. If he's such a smart statesman like his friends say, than Kissinger must have realized this, though I doubt he had any regrets regardless.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Spineless, pathetic cowardice. I mean we already knew that about Democrats but this just indicts the entire administration as such. Israel makes no apologies for their slaughter, they just don't give a shit, but this means that Genocide Joe and Co. KNOW this is wrong and they'll still bend over backwards just to kill a foreigner.

Zero attempts at "harm reduction" pfff, they're actively taking steps to make the harm (literal bombing of children) worse. I live in a swing state, so when I throw my vote away I'll get to feel proud knowing it was worth even more. Glory to the martyrs and may "Israel" and her American dog be annihilated.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

steadfast and unequivocal support

hey, he said it himself: Canada supports Nazis, they're just going to feel embarrassed about it

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Cuba being based as usual.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

blood clotting disorders

you could not get me to go to WAR with a blood clotting disorder. Might as well just shoot me at the draft office and let me bleed out right there

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The 21st century indo-pacific is not a comparable issue to 20th century Central Europe. Also appeasement wasn't even the complete disaster casual observers like to make it out to be (who still won the war after all?) but that's beside the point here. Taiwan is not some defenseless independent country being threatened by the reincarnation of Hitler calling for world domination. It's a part of China that broke away in an ideological civil war that China wants back. Even the US state department acknowledges this fact, yet they still believe it is very important that they protect one part of China from another part of China and extend their civil war which should have ended for good decades ago. This is not an act of peace or charity, this is creating a conflict situation, with Taiwan right in the center of any potential explosion.

See, the US doesn't care about these concerns is because the real reason America is in Taiwan is so they can use it as a strategic base for operations to oppose and weaken the PRC, a "West Berlin of Asia" so to say. And somehow, liberals and social democratic opportunists have deluded themselves into believing that stationing the most powerful naval fleet in history (US 7th Fleet) to permanently do 'freedom of navigation exercises' (armed provocations) in Chinese coastal waters is the "moderate" solution to this conflict. And I suppose we'll just have to keep the navy there forever right? Or until the PRC finally collapses? (I'm still waiting lol)

I say we should cut a deal with the PRC, let them have Loser Island in exchange for mediating other border disputes with their neighbors. A majority of Taiwanese citizens want more integration with China, and they're still their largest trading partner. While immediate annexation wouldn't be popular, a gradual process of integration would be best for the entire region. It would allow the two biggest military powers to step down their aggressive actions against each other, end the period of Taiwanese citizens being used as a geopolitical pawn, and provide a solid diplomatic framework to settle future disputes in the region (as this would be a massive rapprochement in Sino-American relations) This wouldn't even weaken American national security (which is what everyone hates about 'appeasement') since it's, you know, an occupied imperialist outpost on the other side of the world's largest ocean, not even in America's hemisphere.

Of course this option would be totally unacceptable for the American imperialist apparatus, they would never be willing to lose such an important base in the Pacific (just ignore that they would still have Japan, Guam, Philippines, etc). So what's going to happen instead is that the US is eventually going to get distracted and entangled in some other imperialist mess, because they can't recognize their empire is hopelessly overextended, and China will just take Taiwan when they think the balance of power is in their favor. This would be the worse thing to happen: a chaotic breakdown of the region instead of a negotiated reordering. There will be decades of bitterness and calls for mass violence. Maybe it will also escalate and some ships get sunk and the nukes fly and oh well its World War 3. Beware those who call diplomacy 'appeasement' in the post-atomic age, they seek your death.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

chronic social democratic brain syndrome. This one appears terminal. They'll support imperialism and anti-communism until they're executed by fascists anyway for being a tankie brainworms

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He can "expect less" when all his assets are seized and he's sent to a Alaskan gulag

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guy actually thought he was going to skate.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's some stupid historical revisionism Ukrainian nationalists are trying to do. The medieval Rus was centered around Kiev, and both Ukraine and Russia share that tradition, but Ukrainian nationalist hate the thought of sharing history with Russians. So they have created this new history where Russian Empire was actually just a creation of "violent Muscovite conquest," often alongside the racist implication that "the Moscovites" (including modern day citizens of the Russian Federation) were unable to shake off their "asiatic/Mongolian" influence and that's what makes them uniquely savage and evil etc etc... While the wholesome Ukrainians are of course enlightened and western

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