This might be complex, but bear with me.
If someone steals 100 euros from Alex, and someone steals 2 euros from Bob, both are victims, even though Alex lost much more.
And it just so happens that the solution for both is exactly the same.
The only way to fend off far-right parties is to elect governments that will actually take action to make people’s lives better.
Unfortunately, a LOT of people are just too stupid to realize what “better” is.
If you tax a millionaire 10 bucks, and give it to the poor, a large number of them will resent you for taxing “them” and paying “those lazy bastards”, despite you literally give them 10 bucks.
The Tankies are pretty conservative, even if they’ll never admit it.
Using your logic, I could drive to the next town over commit some crimes and have the same effect.
Correct. It’s pretty well known that this skew per capita statics in small-scale analyses. It’s also why you shouldn’t do per-capita analysis on very local scales
In the US our census counts residents, not citizens.
No. It counts residents who cooperate with the census. Guess what undocumented immigrants won’t be doing?
Going door to door to count people is a terrible method of kering track of people, which is why most places stopped doing that, using running registries instead. It’s pretty stunning that the US only has the vaguest concept of who lives there.
Apparently not, since the us “blockade” just lets everyone pass
The US would already have been in recession if it wasn’t pumping hundreds of billions into the hugely unprofitable AI bubble.
This recent blockade at Hormuz is another move to pump the US economy, since the US produces a lot of oil, and is also selling at the very high market rate.
That regular people are paying for it is just annoying details.
Partly. But he also just realized that all his buddies sell oil at market rates, and market rates just skyrocketed. Every company producing oil in the US is making an absolute killing right now.
Rumours? The US is already reneging on deliveries because it’s stockpiles are depleted. Launching billions upon billions of dollars of hightech missiles at Iran punched a huge hole in the US stockpiles, to relatively little effect.
The Iran war had the same problem as Vietnam. You can’t use a million dollar weapon to take out a ten thousand dollar weapon and expect long-term success. So the Trump government did what they do best, and tried to solve the problem by making the same mistake more rapidly and at greater scale.
Roman style torso armor for 99 dollars? That’s a bargain! I’ll take a half a dozen!
Both of your examples fared incredibly poorly under external pressure and collapsed. Which is pretty much what happens with every poorly aligned group of people.
But dulce de leche is brown… Both of these are white.
Wow congrats. The straight was never closed to heavily armed military vessels. It’s closed to unarmed transports hauling petroleum products and crude. Iran doesn’t give two shits how many destroyers you sail through.
But… Islam is monotheistic?
I can handle being dead, and I won’t even complain about it, but dying sounds like it sucks.
I have had a concussion as an 11 year old, and have absolutely zero memory of what happened or how. It probably involved my bike, since that was outside when I somehow stumbled back home (which I also don’t remember).
My brain goes from two or three days pre-concussion, to having the absolute worst time with my parents waking me every hour at night for no clear reason and my arm being broken. I think I have some vague delirious memories from that, but none of them make sense, and maybe I inveted them afterwards.
It was not a fun time, and a helmet would have probably prevented that. There’s no permanent damage, i think, but that was extremely lucky.
Funfact: not all windows laptops let you choose what happens when you close the lid.
My previous laptop had options for shut down, sleep and hibernate. And if you wanted none of those, you could go fuck yourself (or install not-windows, which didn’t work for the shitty niche software I need)
NATO is a specifically a defensive alliance, unless Trump says otherwise. Or at least, that’s what I’ve read on Facebook and Twitter.
Damn biscuit on one hand… Radioactive shitheap on the other.
Idiots: “meh, I’m fine with either”
I’m sure they’ll hand over “all” the enriched uranium for 20b. Yeah, no need to inspect anything.