The opposition to his leadership is coming from all over the place.

Even before that was a possibility, Tesla was worth way more than the fundamentals suggested it should be.

True that, I’d forgotten. Embarrassing considering how often I bring it up to my clueless fellow Americans. The regime in Tehran are shitheads but Iran is genuinely the aggrieved party in any conflict with the US.

Tesla has always been more hype that substance. Use Toyota as an example. Toyota has significantly higher income, profits, assets, equity, cars sold etc (it’s not even close) but even right now Tesla has a market cap that is over 5 times higher.

As some other people have pointed out, Poland was briefly at war with the USSR during WW2 because the USSR made a deal with the Nazis to divide the country. Finland was allied with the Nazis for a time out of desperation; it’s debated if they were considered an axis power. And groups from the Baltic countries, seized by the USSR in the chaos of the early war, fought guerilla campaigns against the Red Army well into the 50s (see the Forest Brothers) as well as insurgent groups from a few other eastern European countries like Poland.

The most likely scenario though is that the Poster is an American, is fundamentally ignorant of WW2 history (or any history) and has no clue what they’re talking about.

The Leopards are eating face good tonight

The problem is how much power is put into the hands of one person, not how that one person is selected. Sure, it would be a slightly better if we had a slightly more fair way of selecting the president but it would be much better to break up the position into multiple positions. It would be much better to eliminate some of those powers altogether. It would be much better if it were more practical to hold those individuals responsible for the crimes they commit while in office. I’m not holding out hope that a popular vote will be a panacea cause occasionally awful people are the popular candidate and what then?

I wasn’t aware there were any citizens in the US who got more than one vote unless you’re referring to the people who get zero votes.

Russia has had diesel shortages for months, that fuel will probably head straight back to Russia.

I got banned from reddit for disagreeing with someone who wished Trump dead. I said I hopped he had a stroke and lived a long miserable life. “Inciting violence”. The guy who wished him dead was not banned.

Ditto El Sayed.

Voting matters but convincing people that it’s less than the bare minimum they need to be doing is like pulling teeth.

Does your existence entail alot of self-loathing then?

Are you a shitbag IRL or just online?

I never denied that Russia trolls online; it’s a huge part of their intelligence doctrine. Also, humans direct networks of bots.

The problem with Blue No Matter Who is that the corpo dems and AIPAC Dems who coined that phrase didn’t mean the no-matter-who part if it’s progressives or anti-zionists.

Feels like bait but also it’s not surprising to me that a sex worker might feel uncomfortable doing sex work with someone known to them personally on some level.

Feels like bait but also it’s not surprising to me that a sex worker might feel uncomfortable doing sex work with someone known to them personally on some level.

If voting didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try so hard to stop folks from doing it. There are different forms of corruption. Traditionally in the US for example, the actual counting of votes (prior to e-voting) is very accurate and voter fraud is very low but alot of effort is spent on preventing people from voting: laws that bar felons from voting coupled with law enforcement efforts that disproportionately target black people for felony arrests and prosecution is a good example. Other tactics are to limit the options people actually have when voting for and to sideline politicians who slip past gatekeepers either by sabotaging their campaigns in the news cycle or minimizing their effectiveness in congress if actually elected: committee appointments have incredible outsized power within the US congress.

You may disagree with all the positions offered but assuming they’re bots is incredibly naive.