dessalines

dessalines, 11 days ago

Really important for world emissions for the US specifically to transition to EVs too, considering it has the highest per capita road emissions in the world.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8231ee48-2ba8-4a05-bed2-263fc706108e.jpeg

dessalines, 11 days ago

We can thank the US oil and auto industries (the same ones dictating these green energy tariffs to their political puppets), for that too.

dessalines, 11 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Also no US auto-manufacturer is going all in on EVs, they’re all mostly building gas-guzzling oversized trucks and SUVs. US automakers intentionally killed EVs in the 90s, and hoped no other country would start building them.

dessalines, 11 days ago

What exactly is wrong with a country subsidizing green energy products? Not only that, but making them available cheaply to other countries?

dessalines, 17 days ago

I’d like to add that the nordic countries are not socialist by any metric.

Also, we shouldn’t be so quick to trust western media on the DPRK, who have gotten to the point that they can literally say anything about their enemies, and have it be believed.

• Is north korea a totalitarian dictatorship? Are they all really required to get the same haircut? A short documentary.
• Are north korean defectors really paid to lie by the south? A short documentary.
• What is everyday life like? A conversation with a North Korean Citizen.
• South Korea boosts reward for defectors to $860k USD.

dessalines, 17 days ago

From Losurdo - A critique of the category of totalitarianism:

Nowadays we constantly hear denunciations, directed toward Islam, of ‘religious totalitarianism’ or of the ‘new totalitarian enemy that is terrorism’. The language of the Cold War has reappeared with renewed vitality, as confirmed by the warning that American Senator Joseph Lieberman has issued to Saudi Arabia: beware the seduction of Islamic totalitarianism, and do not let a ‘theological iron curtain’ separate you from the Western world.

Even though the target has changed, the denunciation of totalitarianism continues to function with perfect efficiency as an ideology of war against the enemies of the Western world. And this ideology justifies the violation of the Geneva Convention, the inhuman treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, the embargo and collective punishment inflicted upon the Iraqis and other peoples, and the further torment perpetrated against the Palestinians. The struggle against totalitarianism serves to legitimate and transfigure the total war against the ‘barbarians’ who are alien to the Western world.

dessalines, 17 days ago

To add, there is only one country on earth with > 800 external military bases, and through an incredibly effective propanda campaign, they’ve managed to convince the world that its not them, but their enemies that are “totalitarian” and “authoritarian”.

• A giant list of US atrocities.

dessalines, 17 days ago

I don’t care about dorsey or whatever, but a lot of privacy advocates don’t consider signal secure, drew devault for example. I’m def among them, you should not trust any centralized US-hosted service.

dessalines, 19 days ago

Haha no, but we do have some things inside lemmy to make it better suited for question / answer communities, like the forum / new comments sort. But ya I’d be down to hear ideas on how to make lemmy better for that purpose.

dessalines, 23 days ago

Every single one of the US’s amendments came not through voting, or within the political system itself. Every single one was accompanied by violent and disruptive protest and the threat from the masses below.