Not an Author.

Don’t negotiate with traitors. Meeting in the middle with an unreasonable man just means they draw the line further back next time.

They could change to a dumpster production line by just skipping a few steps.

But the local politicians will somehow get a home renovation, a new truck, and a vacay they feel they deserve if they approve it.

Exactly. They’re made on behalf of the nations, not the leadership of today.

Historically, that generally persisted with the USA since alliances are made by Congress, not the Executive. Since no laws bind the Executive Branch anymore (at the moment), you can’t trust anything about how the treaties will be acted upon.

The current regime in the US is a corrupt group of traitors who don’t have allies. They only understand transactional relations, even in their own homes.

The US is only on your side now due to money, power, and what you can do for the people at the top. It’s no longer about shared history, democratic ideology, or shared safety on the global stage. Act accordingly.

30% of people are authoritarians. They want to have someone order them around. They’re weak and have essentially joined a cult of personality. You can’t just get people to leave a cult. Reason and personal harm don’t phase them like it should. It’ll take removing the personality and then generations of dealing with the fallout as MAGA falls into small localized cults. It’s a historically long mess to deal with.

Great work Student List supporters! Legitimate complaints became protest. Protest became action, and action became votes.

Now, keep that focus and require your representatives to turn power into change, both short and long term.

So to sum up: US capitalists are out to destroy Germany too.

Putin can’t beat the Ukranians, but he can sure beat the weak in France (Le Pen), Germany (AfD), UK (Reform), Canada (Alberta), and US (Republican/Pedophile party).

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I subscribed to the RadioShack battery of the month program. Just call me John Hancock of Pennsylvania Ave.

Mark me shocked. Well, not too shocked.

Of course they’re a bunch of lying fucktards. They want power over other people because they’re failures in life (either by their own efforts and/or society failing us all). They don’t care what lies they tell to get it.

That kid’s got wheels! I thought he was ninja running at first, but it was just the handcuffs.

I have a an automatic $2/mo donation to Wikipedia set up. Of all of the sites I’m more than willing to support with hard currency, it’s the one.

$2 isn’t much, but if we all do it, it’ll keep the best online resource for general information we have on the planet operating. Very worth it.

Meet the new boss, just like the old boss.

Some 25 years ago when the RIAA was going apeshit over online sharing of music they were happily suing people left and right.

At some point they argued that no computer should ever make a copy of music without a license. The opposition proceeded to demonstrate how computers work. They make many copies of data files while processing them in the CPU, RAM, cache, omin temp files, etc. The judge did temporarily order that only one canopy could be made, but after the education, said fine: if the RIAA wants to let it stand, then they can’t distribute via any computer systems anywhere by their own rules.

In the end, the case was dropped and computers got to keep processing data as per normal.

Not yet. It’s often discussed, though. Once you’ve got free movement for work, businesses quickly begin expanding internationally, which boosts all kinds of economic activity.

Finally! Barcelona is leading the way to a modern city. This is what a developed nation looks like.

The rail upgrades in Germany are ongoing and extensive. The problem is the sheer scale of the work. Germany has a massive rail network, and they’re about 70 years behind on rail maintenance.

It’ll just take time, and fixing sections doesn’t make those sections all fixed if other sections still have breakdowns that cascade over.

The stations are also undersized for the scale of passengers and trains. Those take even longer to fix, often because they decide to go for awesome architecture and non-disruptive tunneling instead of quick and disruptive options.

Germany will sort it out someday, but it’s a 20 year fix, not a two year one.