While being a political move, the banning and taxing of chinese products is also a safety issue.
We have regulations products need to meet to be sold in the US, that has nothing to do with tariffs.
Want to make America electric? Make em cheap.
The only way to do that is competition. The ideal company under capitalism produces nothing and charges infinity dollars. You can’t just give the companies endless tax breaks and subsidies, you also need to force them to actually sell the product at a cheaper price, and you can’t just expect them to compete without any external force because it’s most profitable if they all keep prices high.
But Melkath never even mentioned jews. He specifically said Israelis throughout his post. And he pretty clearly compared the Israeli people to nazis, not what you said, which was comparing jewish people to nazis.
It feels like you’re doing exactly what the German government is doing, which is equating criticism of Israelis and of Israel to antisemitism.
The partnership between the 55-member African Union and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) of 20 countries will aim to intensify pressure on former slave-owning nations to engage with the reparations movement....
It also doesn’t take into consideration that, as far as I know, US-bound slaves were bought in west Africa, meaning that locals were responsible for capturing and selling their neighbors as slaves, and thus profited from slave trade themselves.
If Africa wanted reparations for colonialism it’d be one thing but the Scramble For Africa was (theoretically) mostly post-slavery, and the vast majority of slaves trafficked to the New World were not kidnapped by white devils, they were sold by their neighbors. There’s plenty of historical accounts of the African coast slave markets if you’re interested.
You remember that movie “The Woman King?” One of the reasons it got such bad reception is that people who knew what the fuck they were talking about saw it as revisionist history glorifying a prolific slaver. The country was wealthy because it was a premier slave market catering to the Triangle Trade. The women-only regiment was a frequent participant in their slave raids.
If anything, the Caribbean nations should be demanding reparations for colonialism from Europe and America, and slavery reparations from Africa, Europe, and the former Ottoman holdings.
What if the media is actually covering the spectacle precisely because the stakes—casual brutality, violence, callousness, lawlessness, and the descent into anarchy—are perfectly visible, legible, and clear? It’s hard to read any other way the current threats by sitting senators who promise to beat up committee witnesses,...
Because I fancy myself identifying and resisting the social programming I've been subjected to as a born and bred American living under The Party (the 2 parties, insisting there absolutely cant be a third, or a sixth, and doing a fucking great job at perpetuating that. Together.).
PLEASE tell me that by not supporting either dystopia I support the one opposite you.
Also, please tell me which one you are supporting.
Back on point. The Party supports the curtailment of human rights, prejudice based on religion, genocide of non-whites for the purpose of enriching military contractors (I'm a blonde haired, blue eyed unrelenting American male, for the record) and the enrichment of the politician and the billionaire.
SHIT. BE. FUCKED.
We can put Bernie or AOC up there. We can stop Trump.
Biden will not and should not be allowed to stop Trump.
In summation, I currently don't intend to cast a vote in the upcoming presidential election. I hope the deepest of hopes that a change in context will let me change that intention.
Republicans gathered late in the evening to hear quick speeches from the congressmen seeking the job, though none has a clear shot at the gavel. Eight candidates are in the running for one speaker after one dropped out. Behind closed doors, they made their elevator pitches to colleagues ahead of internal party voting....
What I find really great is that with the modern election cycle, we have already had debates for president.
This just showcases how much of a worthless cluster fuck one half of The Party has become at producing a leader.
Moscow Mitch the Russian Cock Sucking Bitch is all up in arms about being politely asked about his health, still strangleholds his side of The Party, but still hasn't thrown his hat in the ring to run for President.
On the other side, where are the debates for the other half of The Party?
Poli-Sci majors might want to roll in with their spineless rhetoric right here, but why wouldn't a strong encumbent President relish the opportunity to defend his seat in high spirited and federal level publicized exercises in discourse?
No. At the advanced age of 250, America is just a sesspool of half assed high school model UN asshats who can look just pretty enough to get elected to middle of the road bribe recipient seats with not a single soul who knows how or cares about running a government or leading a nation.
We have Trump neck deep in litigation, Biden funding genocide, and a few hundred Instagram influencers assraping Lady Liberty and telling the American people to suck their tiny stinky chodes.
Memo to Joe: Fight a Climate Election (billmckibben.substack.com)
Israeli protesters block aid convoys bound for Gaza (www.france24.com)
Sadly the truth... (lemmy.world)
African and Caribbean nations agree move to seek reparations for slavery, call for formal apologies from European nations (www.theguardian.com)
The partnership between the 55-member African Union and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) of 20 countries will aim to intensify pressure on former slave-owning nations to engage with the reparations movement....
Suppose They Threw a Cage Match Between Fascism and Democracy and Nobody Cared (slate.com)
What if the media is actually covering the spectacle precisely because the stakes—casual brutality, violence, callousness, lawlessness, and the descent into anarchy—are perfectly visible, legible, and clear? It’s hard to read any other way the current threats by sitting senators who promise to beat up committee witnesses,...
CRISPR cure for HIV now tested in 3 people (www.freethink.com)
UN committee voices concern about rising Israeli hate speech against Palestinians (www.reuters.com)
Biden Expresses Doubts That Enough Palestinians Have Died (www.theonion.com)
Mike Johnson elected House speaker with broad GOP support (apnews.com)
Boing boing (i.postimg.cc)
Mitt Romney unapologetically destroyed thousands of jobs for his own gain for 40 years with Bain Capital. Now he's being framed as some kind of moral warrior, for the act of... retiring? (www.newyorker.com)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/1189194...
It's Day 20 with no House speaker, and lower-level names seek Trump's support and race for the gavel (apnews.com)
Republicans gathered late in the evening to hear quick speeches from the congressmen seeking the job, though none has a clear shot at the gavel. Eight candidates are in the running for one speaker after one dropped out. Behind closed doors, they made their elevator pitches to colleagues ahead of internal party voting....
Bye Felicia (lemmy.ml)
Going All-In for Israel May Make Biden Complicit in Genocide (theintercept.com)
TheIntercept.com
Israeli Arabs arrested over Gaza social media posts (www.bbc.com)
Influencer Dalal Abu Amneh is among those to be held in a crackdown on Gaza-linked content.
Americans' net worth surged by a record 37% from 2019-2022 (www.cnn.com)
They were told to leave their homes. They did. They were still bombed (www.middleeasteye.net)
Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi (www.politico.eu)
Everybody knows that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on....
Piss rule (lemmy.world)
Store policy (slrpnk.net)