The question would more likely be, why is it too late to have a different candidate run against Trump?

The socialist left of Europe wants a UBI, forced dismantlement of megacorps in favour of cooperatives, harsh wealth taxes on net worth, separation of investment and commercial banking and so on. In comparison, Bernie wants a functional public healthcare system, and US oligarchs to pay at least some taxes.

The problem is that it kneecaps the experience for people who newly join, because they get faced with an unopposed blender of fascist propaganda, and may be immediately turned off the whole platform.

It is complicated, because the largest green energy manufacturer on the planet also has the largest CO2 emissions on the planet by far, three times that of the US - one could bring up the fact that they also have a lot of people, but how much of China’s emissions are driven by export vs domestic consumption?

Also, the shenanigans Russia pulled with Germany has the collective West wary of becoming dependent on a hostile authoritarian country for any staple import.

I’m not saying Biden’s perfect, far from it, but a strategy of “let’s go chummy with this big authoritarian country, they can’t attack us if our economies become codependent” has been tried here in the EU, and the results so far are hundreds of thousands dead and a nearly crashed economy.

So if I understand correctly, the reason it’s outdated is not because we don’t need those pesky banking regulations any more, but that it has been found that banks will just take out their own loans to cover the reserves they need from the central bank, so they can just lend as much as they want, no seatbelts. And the central bank will never run out of loans to give, since they have insane reserves, in their own currency it is technically unlimited.

So money is not really the thing we think it is. If banks overextend themselves and fuck up, the only thing we’ll see instead of failing banks is runaway inflation in the consumer and asset (housing) markets. Wonder where I’ve seen that.

It’s kinda fucked up that each major political camp denies some genocide. Like we could replace who you vote for with which genocide was a shamocide?

Do US juries need a reason to kick people off? Isn’t it like both sides in a case get to throw off a set amount of people?

To me, the whole article seems like the US justice system coming apart at the seams because of it having two publics with two sets of norms.

It actually makes total sense. Since the real constituency of most politicians who they actually are responsible to are big corporate interests, there is no point polling people, just poll Google, Meta and the like.

I mean the reason she lost last time is apparently because she wasn’t 80 yet.

From the original source:

Board members Jacqueline Rosario and Gene Posca, who voted in the majority, were backed by Moms for Liberty during their campaigns, according to Treasure Coast Newspapers. The third “yes” vote came from Kevin McDonald, who was recently appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“We are elected — I was appointed, vote of one — we are here to represent the parent’s decisions, and the school board is the final authority for our citizens,” McDonald said at last month’s meeting, explaining some of his disagreement with the book.

“The title itself and the theme challenges our authority. And it even goes so far as to not only to mention books that are deemed inappropriate by school boards, including ours, it not only mentions them but it lists them.”

These people are just caricatures of themselves.

It’s a weirdly racist take on manifest destiny, with a lot of rambling.

I’m not a US voter, I am not saying people should not vot for Biden because of this. That said, the Israeli genocide is a wedge issue for Dems. I don’t think them expending political capital to help Bibi is good for the world and tgeir chances to get elected.

Blech. Will they invite Hamas leaders as well? Are dems just throwing the election now?

Then they get a judge like Cannon.

The problem is that the system also is of two minds on whether he’s above the law. Shit’s broken, and not because they can’t fix it. If this happened in e.g. Germany, Trump would already be behind bars (long before he’d have run for pres in the first place), and GSG9 would be looking for people terrorizing juries.

This seems reasonable, what’s the catch?

On one side, what the fuck, that’s not how it’s supposed to work. On the other side, at least precedent doesn’t mean much in the EU.

I feel that’s just most political groups nowadays. Not implying both sides are the same, just that everyone likes their lies.

Well technically GDPR applies, but who knows if any cars are actually compliant.

The ability for a car to call emergency services in the event of a crash, and thus the mobile / data connection required to do that, has been mandatory since 2018 in all new cars sold in the EU.

So there is no cost incentive not to have the internet connection in there, as it is a basic safety feature now, like seatbelts.

Yes, most cars have had their own data connection for a while now. If I know correctly, it’s a requirement for Europe since you have to put that button to call emergency services in the car, so it has to have a GSM module, so effectively it has to have mobile data.