It's kinda weird that we have to specify CATL as being "China's". A product of traditional American tech hegemony and icy relations with the Chinese, I suppose...
There is no info on the CATL system in the article, beyond the claim that it charges 520 km in 5 minutes. With the BYD news, we were told about developments in batteries, and that the charge was 1 freaking Mega Watt at 1000 Volt!! Using 2 charging sockets. Also BYD demonstrated their system actually works.
We will have to see if more info arrives on the CATL system. But unless they can demonstrate it, they haven't surpassed BYD yet.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has been mired in controversy since Donald Trump first nominated him, is now "unlikely to remain in his role," according to his own former department spokesperson on Sunday.
The report includes "remarkable accusations" from a former Hegseth aide and comes the same day as it was reported that the Secretary was involved in a second unsecured Signal chat in which sensitive attack plans were shared. Hegseth was mocked for the reported security misstep.
In a piece entitled, "Former Pentagon official warns department’s dysfunction could topple Hegseth," Politico quotes John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson, as saying, "The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon."
The remarkable accusations by a former official — who left only two days ago and insists he still supports the Trump administration’s national security policies — underscores the infighting and upheaval that has turned increasingly public in recent weeks. ... Ullyot was sidelined after he defended the removal in March of a story discussing the service of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, part of a larger purge of diversity-related military webpages.
So this guy who quit and is now saying that Hegseth is not long for this world is himself a fucking Nazi.
If they are religious properly they want the second coming end of life stuff. If they are from the confederacy they will most likely will want go bring slavery back, or a form of it.
Both will want women and black rights to he diminish. Because loser boys want to get laid and the only option is force marriage or something along these lines.
Also they are following project 2025, but they are so bad that you cant tell for sure..
Good thing the nazis are making unforced errors and attacking each other because god knows the dems cant organize themselves to do the job of fighting them.
This is the kind of inner sabotage that can work in their favor. As in Israel, where incompetent defense leaders allowed Palestinians to overrun Israel is and start their war. ..which allowed him to hold on to power. People he should protect died, and he benefitted.
So when the Republicans fail to defend our country bc they are inept parodies of what leaders should be, they might gain the kind of power they'll never let go
What an irony when the commanders in chief might benefit from their own failure...
We’re kicking people out of the administration of the military in the most over-militarized country in the world due to incompetence now? Sounds like a nice change.
Fascist trap themselves on this all the time. If they're competent, they will either run far away or work to undermine you. If they're loyal, then they won't be very competent.
Fascism is a lot more fragile than it looks on the surface because of issues like this.
WASHINGTON—Staunchly defending his decision to share sensitive military data in messages to his wife, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday, “There are no state secrets in a healthy relationship.
Trump definitely did not intent to do that - but this is a good thing for the environment. If we end up in a global shrinkflation, this might berge worst way to reduce our carbon footprint, but it will probably be the long term consequence.
Yeah, I live in Korea and usually this time of year the air quality is absolutely shit. However, due to the trade war, some factories in eastern China have closed and this apparently led to the great aqi forecast the past week or so.
Kind of like when COVID cleared up the air for weeks. Of course that was also awful for the economy, but it's almost like our normal way of overconsumption is killing the environment...
This economist says there’s a 90% chance of a recession. Here’s the math.
During the 2018 trade war with China, the U.S. average tariff rate increased from 2% to 3%. Studies show that the impact on gross domestic product was between 0.25% and 0.7%.
Using the low end of the estimated impact, and Trump’s plan that at the moment calls for double-digit tariff rates, Slok says the negative impact on GDP in 2025 could be almost 4 percentage points — and that doesn’t even include the negative impact from uncertainty for consumer spending decisions and business planning.
I told friends and relatives in February that we'd be in a recession by the end of the year. I expected 3 quarters for it, not his first 2. 2 consecutive quarters of economic contraction are needed by the modern definition of a recession.
Yeah, one problem here is that global container circulation needs to, well, circulate. People don't ship empty containers, that's stupid expensive. So container hire is going to get way more expensive as global shipping needs to rebalance. Happened under covid, too.
I work in international freight and my department focuses on the U.S. - Canadian border. We've been bracing for a decline but so far our volume has been steadily increasing.
I see the documents for every shipment crossing my assigned gateway and it looks like consumer goods are staying at the same volume, but B2B is increasing. So while Canadian consumers are boycotting American goods, industry is reliant on American parts to continue functioning.
I'm assuming the increased volume is a result of companies buying things that they know they will need in the future before the trade war intensifies and those same parts cost them even more.
So... yeah, just wipe out the last 15 years worth of volume of world trade, and economic activity/growth enabled by that, and oh also you have about 1 billion more mouths to feed than in 2010.
Or... if you look at it in terms of % change.... its hard to find detailed, historical, week by week figures without paying for the data, but the entirety of the GFC hitting the glo
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A nearly 50% drop in booked global TEUs?
TEU means Twenty Foot Equivalent Units, your basic standard shipping container.
Yes, yes, this is astoundingly, apocalyptically bad.
America will be more fucked than others, but this is Great Depression 2.0.
If this persists, and you end up with a the rest of the year of roughly half the TEU... well you'd go from about 900m TEU to about 550m TEU.
The last time global sea trade clocked in at about 550m TEU was 2010.
So... yeah, just wipe out the last 15 years worth of volume of world trade, and economic activity/growth enabled by that, and oh also you have about 1 billion more mouths to feed than in 2010.
Or... if you look at it in terms of % change.... its hard to find detailed, historical, week by week figures without paying for the data, but the entirety of the GFC hitting the global economy in 2009 resulted in an 8.5% decrease in global TEU from 2008.
So... it remains to be seen how long and strong the current downturn in TEU will persist...
But, if you say 2025 TEU drops by 30% in aggregate for the rest of this year... that is a 2025 that has a -22.5% 'growth' in total world trade volume, almost 3x as bad as the 07 08 09 GFC, the impact of which was seen in the -8.5% of 2009.
These are spitball guess numbers, I can't predict the future... but I do have a degree in Econ and I used to work as an executive level data analyst for a large mulinational, US based import export firm... so its moderately informed spitball guess.
This is Great Depression 2.0, this will make the GFC look like childs play. This is tens or hundreds of millions of people (globally) going broke, becoming homeless, starving to death levels of bad.
The only way to prevent that at this point is ... well basically step one is America needs to impeach and imprison every Trump administration member... but that is uh... not guaranteed, to say the least.
I think it's highly optimistic to expect that, if anything it's going to be more like the collapse of the Soviet empire, with weird successor state nonsense, some civil war, guns and violent crime everywhere, and those already in power going on a free for all kill each other and loot everything spree.
The problem is that existing power structures will try to transfer their power to the new system, and it isn't that hard for them to do that. A new anarchist communistic structure will have to fight the CIA and the US military's various fragments, if it goes as it did in the Warsaw Pact.
Those holding the Power Of Money will keep on using it as long as it has value to make sure they are alright (and screw the rest) hence they'll keep on propping-up and buying out whomever controls Force and when those lose that control they'll directly prop-up and buy out the yielders of Force.
Sure, they would've preferred it for the many to pay the full costs of formal yielders of Force whose main jobs is protect the holders of the Power Of Money and their assets from the rest - the way the system still works right now - but they can easilly afford to pay the yielders of Force directly if they have to.
Further, even if Money loses its value and hence its power, they'll fall back to using what's produced by the Assets they own (for example, food produced in fertile land) to pay the yielders of Force: in a total societal collapse (which, frankly, is unlikely) you can bet that the moneyed classes will use whatever power their money has left to either flee to places were society is not collapsing or setting themselves up as the Warlords of the subsequent age.
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Those holding the Power Of Money will keep on using it as long as it has value to make sure they are alright (and screw the rest) hence they'll keep on propping-up and buying out whomever controls Force and when those lose that control they'll directly prop-up and buy out the yielders of Force.
Sure, they would've preferred it for the many to pay the full costs of formal yielders of Force whose main jobs is protect the holders of the Power Of Money and their assets from the rest - the way the system still works right now - but they can easilly afford to pay the yielders of Force directly if they have to.
Further, even if Money loses its value and hence its power, they'll fall back to using what's produced by the Assets they own (for example, food produced in fertile land) to pay the yielders of Force: in a total societal collapse (which, frankly, is unlikely) you can bet that the moneyed classes will use whatever power their money has left to either flee to places were society is not collapsing or setting themselves up as the Warlords of the subsequent age.
Anyways, the point anchoring my free thinking about this is that they'll try to keep the very same ownership, dependency and control loops going, just at smaller and smaller sizes (i.e. instead of the society-wide "people have no option that directly or indirectly work for the owners of everything to pay for the place they live in and the food they eat who cost what they cost because just a few own everything" you'll have a smaller sized version of it with a landowner whose land produces food and who uses that food and living areas in that land to pay a couple of armed people to stop the rest from taking the land and the food, so a smaller version of the societal loop we have now were the very people being exploited by money are the ones indirectly giving money the power to exploit them).
White power movments are literally waiting for this moment. The outliers are the accelerationists but there far far more that have been preparing for generations to exploit the power vacuum.
A local anarchist group is no match for an well armed generation based organization.
Yeah, anyone trying to create an anarchist/communist utopian community will be quickly swallowed up be the Proud Boys who raid them for their food and guzzoline.
Lol no they're not. Trump seized power in a legal coup. They support the constitution and the constitution says Trump is POTUS. Short of a military coup, they will continue to do his bidding and be formed by Goebbels's propaganda.
Why wouldn’t the anarchists be well armed too, especially if that’s an obvious necessity for your commune to survive? The only people in the US who refuse to touch a gun, even if their lives depend on it, are the centrist liberals.
One side is a cult that was partially created through a coalition with the gun nuts. The other is a bunch of punks who hate society and are usually impoverished. Which one owns more guns per capita?
I mean to say, for most Americans who are not news aware, the first signs will be that they simply can't get their treats anymore.
Even then, many of the more rural Americans will only ever have that experience. There's not going to be guns and tanks rolling through Westboro, Wisconsin.
I think you are underestimating the level of chaos and violence we are headed for. This is going to be much worse than Rome. We will be the barbarians at our own gates.
As one of those more rural Americans-- we've always lived that life of not being able to get those things the rest of you take for granted. Whether it's tofu, cell phone service, or healthcare. So my life will continue with little disruption.
I live in the most rural congressional district East of the Mississippi. I'm posting from my Wi-Fi that runs off a 5g while I'm laying in bed in my off grid house that's half a mile from the nearest neighbor.
Good for you. Where I live, there is still no cell service, (got to be in a town for that), and the US Postal Service will not deliver mail to my home, (I need to pay $165 a year to get a postal box in town to get my mail and I need to drive to get it). I do have internet most of the time, but that and the electricity can be sketchy in a storm, the hazards of living in a forest. So if I can't access that, Oh well, been there before. And I have lived many years without it. Like I said, we will just do without. Oh, and the nearest Walmart is in another country, Canada. I need an enhanced driver's license or passport to shop there. So I ain't missing much there either. The nearest hospital, (level 3, the "barely a hospital" level) is 50 miles away and the nearest ambulance is 20 miles away-- you have a heart attack, you will probably die before help gets there.
There is wannabe rural like you and then there is rural.
The fact that I'm in a district that is among the most rural in the US and I'm still a "wannabe" tells me that there aren't many places left like where you are in the country. Don't act like you have any significant numbers when you describe people who live like you. You're not representative.
Either that or your exaggerating. Which I've noticed people around me doing a lot. Hell, you might not live that far away based on what you described. You talk about where you live like my neighbors do.
The numbers are still non-zero across the northern US. Needing a passport to shop at Walmart should be at least a hint that I'm over 1000 miles away from you. And I should probably be happy that I'm not as representative as you I suppose. In any case, enjoy your "rural" life.
Me, I'mma waiting for iceout on the lake and for the frost danger to go away, (about another 4 weeks), so I can get my garden in again.
I live less than 75 miles from Canada, and my local lake is mostly melted, but I still have a lot of snow on the ground in the woods around my house, so my seedlings won't be going out until late May either.
Please keep telling me about my life though.
Should I call you a gatekeeping asshole, or my neighbor, bub?
It's going to be a Rwandan style civil war. Your MAGA neighbor will kick in your door and shoot you and your wife in the face when told to do so by Fox.
Is Trump working on Making America Great Again, by turning it into a European colony again? A massive trade war with China, is obviously going to hurt both countries and Europe is the largest economy left.
Honestly he idolizes Russia, so .... Their economy is barely an international one right now. Also one of the worst internationally for a "major" country.
I guess MAGA people will see this as a win? Since imports are down 2x much as imports. If the value of the goods in these containers are roughly equal, that should mean smaller trade deficits?
Note, that data is from April 8th, which is before the 90 day tariff pause was announced.
From what my friends working in retail have told me, the trend is (temporarily) reversed. Every freight container going to the US is getting booked solid at inflated rates as brands try to bring in merchandise from non-Chinese factories into the US in case the tariffs resume.
This could be the best thing the current administration did for the planet. No more shipping boats. It's going to be really interesting in the next two months.
Efficiency doesn't matter if you're shipping material for production halfway round the world and shipping those products halfway back just because rich people wanted to outsource to cheap labour, and overproduce cheap crap that falls apart way too fast so they can sell us the same cheap crap again a couple years later. It's mostly waste. Some shipping is necessary, but I'd say a vast majority we could do without.
Like I don't believe for a second that these tarrifs will actually fix this problem because they're just a big tantrum with zero strategy involved, but in an ideal world we would make a lot more locally and spend a lot less energy sending things all over the planet to make a handful of shareholders slightly higher margins.
I'm just a poor smart person. As I understand, and probably all of us should....this is the time to go to the stores and buy up shit. Toilet paper, plastic bags and straws, Christmas toys and everything else that usually says made in China. From what I understand we had around 60 days a few weeks ago for the real shit show to begin. So I would expect stuff to get real interesting soon. That's all. It's a worst possible scenario...shit runs out and all heck breaks lose. I sincerely don't know what to do. Should I just buy a good half a year worth of canned food? Should I do nothing? In don't know. Its a cautious wait and see sort of feeling.
I once met a guy who was in sales for a shipping container company. He said it was the easiest, most lucrative sales job in the world. There really wasn't any sales at all, he just processed the orders that flowed in all day long. He got a fat commission on each one, and earned several commissions every single day. He was making BANK. He said it was nearly impossible to get a job doing that, it would require somebody to die to get their position.
I guess he's going to have a bad year, for a change.
US Senator Chris Van Hollen defended the Constitution and fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said that the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “the distraction of the day.”
“Anyone who is not prepared to stand up and fight for the Constitution doesn’t deserve to lead,” Van Hollen said.
He visited El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia, whose deportation the Trump administration called an “administrative error.”
“Right now, we have a lawless president… who is ignoring the order of the Supreme Court of the United States to facilitate [Abrego Garcia’s] return.”
It's literally in every oath of office as the central tenet. I swore to uphold the constitution way back as a 17 year old soldier. It is my fundamental expectation of every single person working for the government.
He's the Next One Up for the Democrats, though. Plus, he has one thing that the last two losing Democrats didn't have: a penis. Please don't discount how much of an advantage penis-havers get with our shitty electorate.
I'm afraid that the nomination is his to lose. (He might lose it, though, if there is meaningful reform at the DNC and a better candidate comes along. It will still be one with a penis, though.)
You realize you are talking about meaningful reform in the DNC in preparation for the 2032 elections, right? I wonder if there will even be a DNC by then.
No. This is all about the 2028 elections, which the non-fascists desperately need to win. But the DNC has been using the same "next one up" philosophy that gave us John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. (The one exception was in 2008, when Barack Obama stole Hillary's crown out from under her).
If things at the DNC go the way they have been going, Newsom has the nomination already, and the primary will just be a formality just like all the other ones (except for 2008) have been .
Oh, I misunderstood you, I took that the "nomination is his to lose" to mean that the nomination is his so he can lose the general, and you expect that might trigger reform after 2028.
To be honest, the DNC can either clean house or die at this point. What I expect to happen is that it will slowly wither away through like 20 more years of being "the only viable opposition party".
I see some hope in the progressive wing taking over and actually starting to fight, and the pendulum to swing back very hard on Trump et al. But those are just hopes at this point.
These fucks discriminate based on both sex and gender identity though, and I was trying to make fun of that. Sorry if it came out wrong, didn't want to offend.
Not only tiresome, which he really is, but he’s also just a stereotypical politician who talks in speeches and doublespeak, even in intimate settings, so you never actually know what he believes. Listen to him give an interview to a friendly reporter from a liberal outlet. He can barely answer the simplest questions without sounding like the most cookie-cutter mainstream Democrat. That’s not what people want anymore.
We need a down to earth candidate like AOC who communicates like a human being. Not a greasy rich white guy who talks like the most generic politician with no genuine values.
But I don’t want him to die, I just want him to go away and stop pushing himself on us.
Senator warns of US getting ‘closer to a constitutional crisis’ as Samuel Alito’s dissent signals deference to Trump
Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar warned on Sunday that the US is “getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis”, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off.
“I believe as long as these courts hold, and the constituents hold, and the congress starts standing up, our democracy will hold,” Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union, adding “but Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.”
Klobuchar said the US supreme court should hold Trump administration officials in contempt if they continue to ignore a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García from El Salvador, the Maryland resident the government admitted in court it had deported by mistake.
The infamous immunity ruling gives the President a lot of immunity from criminal prosecution.
But besides that, there's an older precedent in civil litigation that no judge can write an injunction directly against the President in the performance of his official duties. So all of these TROs and injunctions, including the Friday SC order, either do not apply to the President himself, or they are illegally broad*.
Under this theory of law, the President could theoretically arrest and deport all the people he wants with no judicial intervention -- just as long he does all the arrests by himself, and flies the planes by himself, etc. In reality, the fat man is always going to have underlings doing the stuff for him, and they do not have this immunity from civil injunctions.
*This is one of the points raised in Alito's dissent: the SC order applies to "the Government", without saying whether the President is included or not.
As long as it's a federal court holding them in contempt, Trump can just pardon them.
Criminal contempt has this problem, but civil contempt is not pardonable, because there is no crime to pardon.
Judge Boasberg is trying to proceed with criminal contempt on the "turn the planes around" order. Whatever happens there, it is unlikely to end in convictions that stick.
Judge Xinis is proceeding towards civil contempt. If she finds someone in willful contempt, she can imprison them until they choose to comply. And the evidence standard in civil contempt is "clear and convincing," not "beyond a reasonable doubt."
The only thing I can think of that SCOTUS to do right now to try and head this off would be to make a ruling defining what is or isn't an official act
Couldn’t they reverse the ruling on his immunity? They reversed Roe v Wade with the flimsiest of justification. They could do the same here. I realize I’m being hopeful.
Was it not this so-called Supreme Court that has already granted the president more rights than a king? How is that supposed to be constitutional in a democratic country?
It seems to me that the constitutional crisis has long since occurred.
I don't really understand why anyone should appeal to the corrupt judges who are responsible for this. It's a waste of time, because the outcome of all such attempts is already known in advance.
Or is the plan to buy Thomas & Co. another nice house - or maybe a new boat, or yet another luxurious vacation?
China has warned it will retaliate against countries that cooperate with the U.S. in ways that compromise Beijing’s interests, according to a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
The threat comes as Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly planning to use tariff negotiations to pressure U.S. partners to limit their dealings with China.
“China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests. If this happens, China will not accept it and will resolutely take reciprocal countermeasures,” the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said, according to a CNBC translation.
Obviously China is tired of being bullied by USA. And from that aspect, it seems kind of unavoidable the same goes for countries that help USA bully China.
Personally I hope the situation between USA and China doesn't spread to other countries. And it seems that both EU and China is trying to prevent that.
My guess is that since USA has alienated all allies too, USA will stand alone on this one. Which is idiotic by Trump, because there are things that we would all like to improve regarding trade with China, and if USA had treated that situation rationally, USA could have worked with EU and other allies to influence China in more constructive ways.
We're pleased to announce the release of BotKit 0.2.0! For those new to our project, BotKit is a TypeScript framework for creating standalone ActivityPub bots that can interact with Mastodon, Missk...
Maybe you mean "bots using the ad-hoc APIs from the servers"? AFAIK, there is no server implementing C2S ActivityPub, so it would be hard to have bots making use of them?
C2S has a very specific usage, and if you meant "regular clients", you'd do better by qualifying the API you were talking about by specifying the application - i.e, Mastodon, Lemmy - than by throwing a meaningless term.
Häromdagen utsattes Bluesky för en DDOS-attack som gjorde att det i praktiken helt slutade fungera under en timme. Problem kvarstod dock under längre tid.. Om Bluesky hade varit ett decentraliserat socialt nätverk hade det inte blivit så.
Häromdagen utsattes Bluesky för en DDOS-attack som gjorde att det i praktiken helt slutade fungera under en timme. Problem kvarstod dock under längre tid.. Om Bluesky hade varit ett decentraliserat socialt nätverk hade det inte blivit så.
Pope Francis has died at age 88. The first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor. But he alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
I can’t believe the church’s PR pope actually fooled an atheist. None of his talk was real. Homophobia continues rampant through the church, he himself continued to shield and hide pedo priests from authorities, refused to meet with victims. He was a right wing, homophonic bigot before becoming pope, you think he changed at age 80?
He was all smoke and mirrors, nothing actually changed, all he did was put the golden throne in storage, not donate it to charity
The Vatican has declared that gender-affirming surgeries and surrogacy are grave violations of human dignity. A new document from the doctrine office puts them on a par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God’s plan for human life.
He gave the fucker 3 kinder eggs! I'd personally be offended if the pope himself, as an easter present , gave me a fucking kinder egg! I mean, you find those in any supermarket for around 6-7€ each. And that's the present you give to the VP of "the most important country in the world"? That's not a diss, that's THE diss.
The 88-year-old pope offered the Catholic vice president three big chocolate Easter eggs for Vance’s three young children, who did not attend, as well as a Vatican tie and rosaries.
I saw the images. Kinder eggs. They are by no means unique or even good. They are just cheap chocolate with cheap licensed figures. I mean, there are way better eggs if you want to make a meaningful present. He just went with what the fucker deserved. A cheap option for a cheap asshole.
A 1938 law, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, prohibits confectionery products that contain a "non-nutritive object", unless the non-nutritive object has functional value.[34] Essentially, the Act bans "the sale of any candy that has embedded in it a toy or trinket".[35]
If Pope Francis actually gave Vance's children Kinder Surprise eggs --- as opposed to some other type of chocolate egg --- we can reasonably assume that the pope was trying to murder Vance's kids, and that Vance probably felt that he had to strike before the pope made any subsequent attempts.
I didn't mean to dispute that. I just checked what you stated and posted what I found for anyone else who, like me, wasn't up to date on this meeting. I share your assessment.
Pope Francis has died at age 88. The first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor. But he alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
I don't know, but of course it could be. I had only heard that vance had visited him, which was just as shitty an action as the unwanted visit to Greenland.
Sucks that he died, but got me thinking. How is the Pope any different from a Dictator? He’s literally one person at the top who has the authority to decide how an entire group of people should think and act and believes he has divine authority to do so?
He has some. He has direct control over church matters, and a lot of people willingly follow the church. So if the church says "no red meat on Fridays", the people will do that.
He is elected though? It is not as easy to depose a pope as a president, but there is no military coup, secret police or other things associated with dictatorships.
In his position as pope he has no state power, only spiritual, and in his position as monarch of the Vatican, well there's only church employees living there and Italy has an eye on things. Generally speaking unless otherwise stated Italian law applies within the Vatican.
Also he's elected. Not that that means much it means that he's a mouthpiece of the oligarchs (cardinals) electing him. But while we're at elected monarchs, there's one rather curious case: The French president is co-prince of Andorra, that is, their head of state, he shares that position with the local Bishop. Nearly 800 years ago the Andorrans said "yeah let's not get invaded" and gave the title to the French head of state, then revolution happened, now the French are electing the Andorran head of state.
I was taughy any sentence fragment between commas is added, yet not vital, information to a sentence, capable of being removed without taking away any crucial information conveied.
It fits the rules.
And, commas also act as a way to convey the rithym you intend your sentences to be read.
I have a really hard time reading english and not feel rushed to do it.
If it were an ordinary sentence used in casual conversation, sure. But for a news headline, it makes sense to put the most important information at the beginning.
Change takes time and they've been anti-gay for a very, very long time. No sane person thinks a single pope solved all the centuries of repression in 10 years.
What I do know is that the conservative Catholics I personally know thought Pope Francis was "too liberal" and "just saying woke things because that's what young people like nowadays" and those are both endorsements to my ears.
Especially his attitude on climate change and income inequality and tax avoidance by the wealthy - there is a lot of that in conservative church groups and if their God's PR representative is telling them to cut that shit out and look after the environment better then great.
lol it’s funny if you use the change takes time in politics, people flip out. The democrats got crucified for not changing enough, but the church gets infinite chances and endless forgiveness for their crimes
What are the chances that the Cardinals protest vote two elections in a row and they accidentally elect a decent man again? Can you imagine back to back decent Popes? Not sure if it's happened in my lifetime.
Most of the current Cardinals who are eligible to vote were chosen by Pope Francis, so I think it is likely that the next Pope will be one willing to continue the path taken by Francis. But I don't want to be too optimistic.
There are no coincidences in politicas, and the fact that he died immediately after meeting with Vance is highly suspicious. Vance killed him, or someone in his entourage did.
HitlerPig will now demand the Vatican choose his hand-picked candidate, some conservative troll from Wisconsin. Mark my words, soon HitlerPig will be threatening the Catholic Church with removing their tax-exemot status if they don't install his choice.
Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was admitted to Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14, 2025, for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia. He spent 38 days there, the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Pope Francis accused victims of Chile's most notorious pedophile of slander Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that has cost the Catholic Church its credibility in the c…
My sincere hope is that the Catholic Church looks at how they were perceived under Benedict—a staunchly conservative Pope that led to massive losses in respect, attendance, and relevance; and how they were perceived under Francis—an actually compassionate and humble servant of the Church and its people. And based on that, they choose another Pope who's in the same vein as Francis to continue bringing the Church into this century. There is still decades of work to be done, but we absolutely can't go backwards right now.
I did consider when making my comment that it could likely be work of an artist, but if the artist chose AI slop as their aesthetic, it was a conscious choice. Thanks for the source, though.
They once made a monk Pope I know, I'm not sure if he was also a priest. Certainly wasn't a cardinal though I think that was one of the arguments in favor of him.
This, in the Catholic Church, transwomen actually do count as women. Recent ruling, they're against "Gender Ideology", whatever the fuck that means, but make exceptions for transpeople due to Francis ruling gender dysphoria a geniune medical issue that is exempt from rules against whatever "Gender Ideology" is
In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.
Would be funny to make a quote collection titled "Who said this? Pope Francis or a socialist?"
But they do have a pr department. The holy see is a political organization. They are an internationally recognized government with diplomatic relationships. While not a member state of the UN they are permanent observers and influence decision making on a worldwide scale, and it's not a secret that the church, which is run by the same person as the holy see (the Pope) has had its fair share of controversy.
I don't think it's a stretch to think the holy see spends time and effort in order to make their appearance, and the appearance of the church, look better.
It was quite big in Latin America and perhaps the Philippines. The biggest left wing groups and anti-dictatorship movements in the 20th century was influenced by the Catholic church. I am no longer religious, but I would not be the person I am today had I not been brought up in a Catholic environment.
Uhm, pretty sure being a baptized Catholic is pretty much the only requirement...
From Wikipedia:
The pope does not need to be a cardinal elector or indeed a cardinal; since the pope is the bishop of Rome, only those who can be ordained a bishop can be elected, which means that any male baptized Catholic is eligible.
For the time he had, the distance he brought the Church is pretty impressive. I will go to my grave believing that organized religion does more harm than good, nothing they ever do will change my mind. That said, he really was an agent for positive change, especially compared to Darth Benedict, who preceded him.
I am surpringly annoyed about Americans somehow finding a way to make this about themselves
Me too, bud. Me. Too. Alas, there is no escaping them for me. I do wish more Americans could travel abroad and see the world beyond our borders. I would wager fewer than 20% of Americans have been 50 miles from our borders and it can lead to a pretty insular world view.
Your candidacy would put the Church in quite a predicament, for sure. They could either embrace a trans woman as a leader (confirming that there's nothing wrong with trans people) or reject her for being a woman (therefore admitting that one can, in fact, change their gender).
Of course, this is a false dichotomy, but a good PR team could spin it as a human rights win either way.
You will hardly find any theists in Lemmy, let alone staunch Catholics.
You have to give credit to where it's due, Pope Francis did his best as the leader of one the biggest religious organisations. And I am not defending where the gap of his leadership had been, but leaders never have absolute authority because this is an often false notion they always do. Keep that mind, as he still have to contend with his subordinates. I mean, a leader is still just one person versus the aristocrats and elites who lend support and authority. The subordinates actually have the power if you think about it (like, who elects the pope after all?) That being said, I am no longer religious but I have read over the years of court intrigues of friction between conservative and progressive Catholic clergies. Many conservative clergies complain about Francis and said they miss Pope Benedict XVI. Francis had to play a delicate balance of court politics.
They're the ones that invented hell in the first place. That's being the gatekeeper of your own imaginative fuck-you land, you can do whatever you want since it doesn't even exist in the first place.
Oh hey if you beat your children and don't support people that support trans people you're going to urusjsttisstiidtiyd after you die and it sucks and people punch you in the face and it smells like shit and jd vance sticks his fingers in your mouth randomly and it's all the worst stuff you can imagine and it curses your family forever and if you do support trans people with everything and don't worry i can read your thoughts i mean the super powerful all powerful everywhere all the time in everything force person called odyysiid5tditkxhck can read your thoughts and knows if you're being bad or even considering it or thinking about anything bad.
^ religion, my new one that you should follow, also you go to the good place where all your dreams come true and you can be with all your loved ones forever and there's all the things you want trust me bro you want this and not the
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They're the ones that invented hell in the first place. That's being the gatekeeper of your own imaginative fuck-you land, you can do whatever you want since it doesn't even exist in the first place.
Oh hey if you beat your children and don't support people that support trans people you're going to urusjsttisstiidtiyd after you die and it sucks and people punch you in the face and it smells like shit and jd vance sticks his fingers in your mouth randomly and it's all the worst stuff you can imagine and it curses your family forever and if you do support trans people with everything and don't worry i can read your thoughts i mean the super powerful all powerful everywhere all the time in everything force person called odyysiid5tditkxhck can read your thoughts and knows if you're being bad or even considering it or thinking about anything bad.
^ religion, my new one that you should follow, also you go to the good place where all your dreams come true and you can be with all your loved ones forever and there's all the things you want trust me bro you want this and not the bad forever ending. It's called RaulingSucksDurt-ism and it's real and all the other religions aren't real and they're all actually going to urusjsttisstiidtiyd for not even believing. The best thing you can do actually is to show them the light and save them from urusjsttisstiidtiyd because that's bad and you want to be good right? The other religions just lie to you and it's actually the leader of urusjsttisstiidtiyd whispering in their ear and they're all victims bro, help them bro before it's too late, they're all bad bro help them with your love
Oh yeah, the death of an 88-year-old man who has been suffering from serious medical issues for months is so odd and unexpected that it is more reasonable to propose that the vice-president of the US personally killed him.
China disappeared the Panchen Lama, the second-most important religious figure in Tibetan Buddhism, and replaced him with a China-selected puppet.
But the Panchen Lama is not the successor to the Dalai Lama. The whole point is that the Dalai Lama will be reincarnated when he dies, so his successor isn't born yet.
The Dalai Lama recently proclaimed that his successor will be born in the free nations outside China - allowing him to be born, say, among the substantial Tibetan refugee populations in Nepal or India.
However, it's a near-certainty that China will select its own successor from a family loyal to the CCP, and from within China-controlled Tibet, while Tibetans outside the country will likely recognize another.
According to wikipedia, there is rougly 2.5 Billions of Christians with half of them being catholic, moreover the Catholic church is a relatively centralised religion giving a lot of power to the Pope compared to other religious leaders. So I can't think about many religious leader having that much global authority.
I Wouldn't be surprised that the death of Ayattolah Khamanei will also quite a big news. However, while pretending to be "a religious leader" he is also the de facto political leader of Iran
As new Pope, I promise to repeat the Cadaver Synod. I promise to dig up the corpse of Pope Benedict XVI and put him on trial for his homophobia and transphobia! And I may not stop at him...I may have to set up a whole special court just for putting former popes on trial.
Don't worry. If I'm elected pope, you'll get to see the return of the Cadaver Synod, bigger and better than ever! In fact, I'll set up a whole special court just to try former popes I have a theological beef with! They'll have several cases going on simultaneously. I'll put dozens of former popes on trial!
They are really unlikely to support a non cleric. All the decision makers sacrificed a lot of typical life time activities to be clerics, they aren't going to lift up sometime who hasn't also made these sacrifices.
I didn't say they would. I said they could. Jokes aside, I would be VERY surprised if old Joe got picked for this, both for the reasons you mentioned and because of the decline he's been going through recently.
For the past 600 years, the pope has always been a cardinal.
The last time someone other than a cardinal was elected was 1296, they elected some monk who was something of a holy figure. It was a clusterf*"#, lasted 5 months and every decision he made was reversed by it's successor except for one (the right for pope's to abdicate). Which kinda sounds like Bidens term in office, but let's not give him another chance at being useless, ok?
(There were some other non-cardinals after, but all of them clergy, and mostly during or shortly after the Avignon papacy)
Ah, I didn't knew there was a president in America that made the mistake of paraphrasing it like that. Shame on americans that keep bein' fooled in that fake democracy :P
"Before Francis took ill in February, he criticized President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy. 'What is built on the basis of force,' Francis warned in a letter to American bishops, 'and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.'"
For months, Mr. Trump has privately fretted about the prospect of a Great Depression-scale event’s happening on his watch — a scenario he shorthands in conversations as “1929.”
President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisers say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could stoke extreme financial volatility again.
Chris Van Hollen condemns ‘unjust situation’ and says vice-president blocked access to wrongly deported man***
Maryland’s Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen says the government of El Salvador has denied his request to visit Kilmar Ábrego García, his constituent who was wrongly deported to the Central American country last month.
Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday with the intention of meeting Ábrego García at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), where US authorities have said that the Maryland resident is being held along with others deported at Donald Trump’s orders.
The senator’s visit came days after Trump and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, refused to take steps to return Ábrego García to the United States, even though the US supreme court last week said the administration must “facilitate” his return.
US Senators generally get what they want with these types of things, especially when they visit in person. They're direct representatives of the Legislative Branch of the US government, and have as much, if not more control than the Executive Branch (when they are actually doing their job).
Telling a Senator no, in person, generally isn't something you do unless you don't have another choice. Like if the person they want to talk to is actually dead but you have been saying they're alive.
It should be fairly normal to decline a random politician from another country a request no one else gets.
It reeks a bit of American exceptionalism that US senators should get special rights. If a random politician from, say, the Netherlands asked to see someone held in Guantanamo Bay the US will do fuck all to accommodate this request.
My comment is not a justification for the deportation of that guy by the way. I just don't think it should be notable, as random politicians usually enjoy much, much fewer rights than head of states.
I can't reason why you would make this comment, I have to assume no logic was used. How about the fact that ICE admitted that the man was deported in error, is that enough justification? Your comparison makes no sense because it assumes the man is being imprisoned for just cause. The Maryland man was a constituent of the Maryland senator.
It assumes the man is being imprisoned for just cause
Guantanamo Bay doesn't rely on any cause though? It's literally a US torture camp where nothing matters. No due process, no just cause, no nothing. It's worse than CECOT in everything but scale.
Have you ever seen any country's opposition figure successfully demand something from another country? I personally haven't. Usually the government alone controls any and all foreign relations.
Hell, Israel has literally detained and deported two British MPs on a parliamentary delegation - not just a visit. And they're part of the governing party, no less!
It's genuinely not surprising that El Salvador reacts this way. It's the literal default reaction to a nongovernmental politician demanding something.
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It assumes the man is being imprisoned for just cause
Guantanamo Bay doesn't rely on any cause though? It's literally a US torture camp where nothing matters. No due process, no just cause, no nothing. It's worse than CECOT in everything but scale.
Have you ever seen any country's opposition figure successfully demand something from another country? I personally haven't. Usually the government alone controls any and all foreign relations.
Hell, Israel has literally detained and deported two British MPs on a parliamentary delegation - not just a visit. And they're part of the governing party, no less!
It's genuinely not surprising that El Salvador reacts this way. It's the literal default reaction to a nongovernmental politician demanding something.
And yes, I think it's appalling that the I US deports anyone and everyone, legally or otherwise. This doesn't affect El Salvador though since they detain whoever the US sends there. The US argues this man is a terrorist, therefore this is sufficient justification for them.
Had Britain started deporting migrants to Rwanda and a MP from the Green Party requested to visit someone "mistakenly" deported, they would've been denied access as well.
I just really don't think there's anything noteworthy in the rejection alone.
I don't know what the point is that you're making. No one is saying this is something that's new, but the example you used, Guantanamo Bay has like 15 prisoners now? Are you saying this should be regarded as commonplace?
President Nayib Bukele said he would free the Venezuelans that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador if Venezuela released the same number of prisoners, including members of the opposition.
Bukele says he’ll free the ~250 kidnapped/wrongfully imprisoned Venezuelans, if Maduro releases the same number of Venezuelans from Venezuelan prisons - primarily imprisoned political dissidents.
Bukele’s administration also is pushing for wrongfully imprisoned passport holders from other nations to be freed from Venezuelan prisons, though it’s less clear if that’s a stipulation of the same agreement.
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Overall it’s not the most heinous thing I’ve seen, but my understanding of South American politics is limited as someone from North America.
Like I said, my understanding of South American politics is limited.
While Wikipedia can be prone to bias of course, it seems Maduro has been described as an autocrat and the UN has put Venezuela on human rights watchlists, and Venezuelans have fled the country for reasons similar to what the US seems to be aiming to achieve in the past three months.
Arguably it can be considered evil to force those kidnapped back into the same country they tried to flee instead of freeing them and offering them asylum, but here we are.
Israel cancelled visas for 27 French left-wing lawmakers and officials days before their planned Sunday visit to Israel and Palestinian territories, the group said.
Makes sense. This is like when the nazis invited the media from other countries to visit Theresienstadt to show the world how well they were treating the Jews in camps. How far we have come.
They said in a statement that they had been invited on a five-day trip by the French consulate in Jerusalem. They had intended to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of their mission to "strengthen international cooperation and the culture of peace", they added.
At the moment? Their whole thing is us vs them, from their perspective. Israelite jews are the first to lock people out of heaven for the simple act of their birth. Why? Someone else did it to them first.
It's why Jesus got popular, he basically spread these philosophies beyond his people and allowed all to drink from it.
Netanyahu and the Israeli government work really hard at “bipartisan” support. They try to lobby (and bribe) members of both parties in the US and spread their influence around broadly. Trump tipped the scales by not only being hyper pro-Israel (and thus inviting Democrats to go the opposite direction) but he also publicly tweeted that Ilhan Omar and other Democrats should be banned from Israel and that Netanyahu is weak for not banning them. Netanyahu had planned to allow her and others in to keep the bipartisan lobbying going, but after Trump embarrassed him he cancelled their visas. It caused immediate blowback by Congress and damaged the bipartisan balance Netanyahu worked hard for decades on.
So of course this emboldened Netanyahu to ban others.
That would be wonderful if it were true, getting aipac out of the dem party would be one of the best things to have ever happened in US politics, that's simply not the case.
Netanyahu's favourite in France, Marine Le pen, is now permanently barred from government. The far right in France, in general, is failing. This is simply fascist consolidation of liberals. The same thing always happens as fascism approaches being accepted widely. Liberals are exclusively the ones with the will and power to hand over the keys of power to fascists.
Don’t Take Your Eyes Off the Puppet Master: Peter Thiel and the Elite Blueprint for the Apocalypse
While the world is busy staring at its own reflection—arguing about social media, elections, and celebrity meltdowns—a silent blueprint is unfolding in the background, authored not by politicians or generals, but by a handful of billionaires who are not only predicting collapse, but preparing to inherit what’s left. And no one stands more quietly and ominously at the center of that convergence than Peter Thiel.
He’s not the loudest.
He’s not the flashiest.
But when the lights go out, he’s the one who already knows where the switch is.
Thiel is often painted as a contrarian tech investor, a PayPal co-founder turned philosopher-king. But look closer, and you’ll see someone who has spent the past two decades strategically embedding himself into the digital, biological, and geopolitical infrastructure of the post-collapse world. He’s not reacting to history—he’s scripting its next chapter.
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Don’t Take Your Eyes Off the Puppet Master: Peter Thiel and the Elite Blueprint for the Apocalypse
While the world is busy staring at its own reflection—arguing about social media, elections, and celebrity meltdowns—a silent blueprint is unfolding in the background, authored not by politicians or generals, but by a handful of billionaires who are not only predicting collapse, but preparing to inherit what’s left. And no one stands more quietly and ominously at the center of that convergence than Peter Thiel.
He’s not the loudest.
He’s not the flashiest.
But when the lights go out, he’s the one who already knows where the switch is.
Thiel is often painted as a contrarian tech investor, a PayPal co-founder turned philosopher-king. But look closer, and you’ll see someone who has spent the past two decades strategically embedding himself into the digital, biological, and geopolitical infrastructure of the post-collapse world. He’s not reacting to history—he’s scripting its next chapter.
The Tools of Control
Start with Palantir, his surveillance and predictive analytics firm. Used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), military operations, and global governments, it’s marketed as data intelligence. But beneath that lies a cold truth: it tracks, predicts, and classifies human behavior at scale. It’s the backbone of any future authoritarian system—ready-made and already installed.
While you debate privacy on your phone, Palantir has mapped your digital shadow.
Then consider Thiel’s venture capital empire, Founders Fund, which has invested in:
Blackrock Neurotech: pushing brain-machine interfaces that promise healing but open doors to neural control.
Unity Biotechnology: researching ways to slow or reverse aging—not for the masses, but for the elite caste of thinkers and planners who believe they deserve more time.
Defense AI and biotech startups: designing warfighting and population monitoring tools with no clear ethical oversight.
These aren’t speculative side bets. These are cornerstones of a world rebuilt after yours is gone.
The New Ark
While cities crumble under debt, division, and automation, Thiel and his circle are preparing escape hatches. He secured citizenship in New Zealand, a country long viewed by elites as the ultimate doomsday refuge. He bought land—remote, fortified, stocked—and he’s not alone.
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) said, “The rich are buying bunkers.”
Sam Altman (OpenAI) has detailed his survival plans—guns, gold, gas.
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page—all have real estate in isolated, self-sustaining regions.
Thiel’s compound in New Zealand isn’t paranoia. It’s insurance. He believes what you suspect but are too afraid to say out loud: the system isn’t going to hold. The world you live in is already in its death spiral.
But while you’re told to vote, protest, and believe, they’re building the ark—and you’re not on the manifest.
The Political Puppet Strings
Thiel doesn’t just build tech—he funds ideological carriers. He quietly injected tens of millions into hard-right political campaigns:
J.D. Vance (Ohio Senate): a populist with nationalist rhetoric tailored to rising unrest.
Blake Masters (Arizona Senate): a disciple of Thiel’s own vision, blending libertarianism, authoritarianism, and technological dominance.
And when those figures no longer serve him? He discards them. Thiel doesn’t worship movements. He uses them as test chambers—stress-testing how much collapse the system can take before it begs for order.
He even walked through Jeffrey Epstein’s network, meeting in 2016 with Epstein and a Russian UN ambassador on that infamous patio. He called it “unmemorable,” despite the geopolitical density of the guest list. That’s not forgetfulness. That’s deliberate detachment. He moves in and out of power circles like a ghost, never taking credit, never taking blame.
Narrating Collapse Before Orchestrating It
Thiel’s writings offer the clearest insight into the architecture he envisions. In The Straussian Moment, he claims that humanity cannot unify without an external threat—a war, an alien encounter, something so immense it forces obedience. Not peace through virtue—order through fear.
And if that threat doesn’t exist?
Manufacture it.
A fake alien landing.
An AI “accident.”
An economic implosion timed with digital ID infrastructure.
A regional war used to justify global biometric surveillance.
The point is not the cause.
The point is the collapse.
Because collapse creates consent.
He speaks of freedom while building systems of total knowledge.
He criticizes elites while investing in a society that replaces them with machines.
He warns of apocalypse while stockpiling escape and installing backdoor access to the rebuilt world.
The Master Behind the Curtain
People like Thiel don’t want attention. They want control. He rarely speaks publicly. When questioned about Luigi Mangione—who murdered a healthcare CEO after reposting Thiel’s video—he stammered, faltered, glitched. Not out of guilt, but because the narrative was triggered too early. The match was lit before the kindling was dry.
The system wasn’t ready yet.
Because Thiel isn’t interested in revolution.
He’s interested in reconstruction—on his terms.
And when the lights go out and the chaos unfolds, he will not rise from the ashes.
He’ll step forward calmly—with a plan. With data. With an army of proxies.
And the world, terrified and desperate, will crown the architect of its salvation.
But make no mistake:
You weren’t saved.
You were replaced.
So laugh at conspiracies if you must.
But don’t forget this:
While you scroll, scream, and sleep,
Peter Thiel is not watching the world burn.
He’s building the world that replaces it.
And by the time you notice, the door will already be shut.
The point Mr yawn is we don't have them. If you already know this then that's great. Youre ahead of the curve.
Tell us how it's nonsense. Something not right? Do you think the elites are not planning a collapse? Look around. If you don't see or or don't want to then you're a perfect citizen.
Point is to share your knowledge. Teach us what you know about this stuff if it's wrong I'd love to hear it. I've only recently learned about this having my head in the sand. I would truly love to be corrected and go back to happy days and not be concerned at what I'm seeing.
The Answer is to shine a light on all of this. Do exactly as Big Tech Have done to us. Flood The Zone. All of us making all the content all the time focusing on what exactly is happening, we have to band together.
The two progressive lawmakers have addressed massive crowds in solidly red states including Idaho and Utah in recent days, as party of the national Fighting Oligarchy Tour.
A survey taken by Harvard's Center for American Political Studies and Harris between April 9-10 found that 72% of Democratic voters supported politicians like Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), "who are calling on Democrats to adopt a more aggressive stance towards Trump and his administration and 'fight harder'," rather than leaders who are willing to "compromise" with President Donald Trump.
If only we had leaders in the democratic party who could stand up and demand such a watered down milquetoast outcome, but I doubt they can even do that.
The centrists will come out strongly against progressives demanding the camps all be closed.
They won't. Democrats have always said one thing, but not followed through; because real change would lose them money and status, and free Healthcare. Any change that would effect the lobby bottom line, effects their bottom line. We need to Abandon the Democratic Party (the organization part)
No, we need the Democratic party... Or their corpse at least
We don't have time to build the infrastructure and entrench a third party. That shit is extremely complicated and takes a lot of time and money.
There's a perfectly good one already, with name recognition and the right branding. It's just dickless and full of shit
So let's tea party it and take it over for the left. We just need a large enough progressive faction to force them to cooperate and actually do what the people have been screaming for
Hang up a big "under new management" sign and actually do things, and there you go... We get a party on the left again. It can be done next election
"Guillotine party" was snappy sounding but I think you're onto something ,maybe we should be the "Weekend at Bernies party" instead, where the corpse is the old Dem party.
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in reply to return2ozma • • •There is no info on the CATL system in the article, beyond the claim that it charges 520 km in 5 minutes.
With the BYD news, we were told about developments in batteries, and that the charge was 1 freaking Mega Watt at 1000 Volt!!
Using 2 charging sockets. Also BYD demonstrated their system actually works.
We will have to see if more info arrives on the CATL system. But unless they can demonstrate it, they haven't surpassed BYD yet.