But it’s clearly red?

The world-wide regime of drug prohibition is a tool the US uses to fund covert operations without needing to go through its Congress.

CIA needs more money? Just sell some drugs or roll some drug dealers over to take their money. The sex trafficking is similar, it’s a way to fund operations. It’s too troublesome to have to go through procedure every time they need to fund color revolution.

People would vote for a government that gave them cheap electric cars. This has nothing to do with needing to win elections, it has to do with pleasing daddy US and daddy doesn’t want the world to stop using oil. Europe is a US neocolony.

There’s other places to get money than the Ohio Democratic Party.

In fact, “the establishment doesn’t want us to win” is a great fundraising pitch.

I think Iran had to prove to its own population that the US is non-agreement capable. There were still millions of Iranians who believed that they could just make a deal and make the suffering stop, Iran had to prove to them that no such deal was possible for them to finally stop demanding negotiations and reforms and concessions.

There’s likely a die-hard contingent that will always believe a deal is just around the corner, but at least they’re quiet now.

It’s a good thing that China subsidizes EVs. We should be doing that too!

This year.

Incumbency is only protective when economic conditions are stable. When times are tough, like they are now for most people who aren’t involved in constructing data centers, incumbents get voted out. These things go in cycles.

There’s basically no way to know what economic conditions will be by 2028, but odds are they’ll be fine. The economy has long periods of stability with only short periods of crisis, after all, so on average incumbents have an advantage.

And that assumes the Party doesn’t force her down voters’ throats anyway. They like doing that shit too.

That doesn’t even seem that valuable tbh

I bet people in the Midwest would love to vote for outsiders that are being rejected by their party establishment.

If she wins, they’re stuck with her in the next election too. They won’t be able to nominate anyone else because she’ll be the incumbent. In the meantime she’ll drag the rest of her party down, depressing voter turnout as people stay home because they don’t want to vote for a party that has leaders like her.

Would you vote for someone using the N-word to appeal to racists?

“Forced” how? If they just said “lolno fuck you” what could the Party even do?

The Eurozone also exists as a tool to centralize European finance and take away currency sovereignty from EU member states.

Legally, there’s an ICC warrant for his arrest.

Oh boy, two cakes!

Except the pawn shop is known for stealing from the community and the person that bought the hammer knew it was stolen.

Kind of complicates things.

No kidding. I work with robots in a factory and these pieces of shit need to be babied all day. “Oh no the part is .01mm outside of tolerances, I don’t know what to do!” meanwhile I can just grab the part, smack it with a hammer, and we’re fine.

These days they might train a chatbot on your photos, texts, and voice recordings to try and scam relatives.

I tried.

Go back to Reddit.

People are going to react to this with a knee-jerk “nuh uh!” because you’re being a smug reddituer about it, but I’m going to take a different approach. China actually invests in its infrastructure so obviously it’s going to have more and newer cameras, simply because it’s actually building and expanding. In China you might be surveilled in one of the more than 1000 high speed rail stations. In the UK it might be in one of four, or more likely a low speed train station. In the US it might be a bus station.

That’s the difference. When countries are growing and building, they’re installing cameras. Every country is going to install more and more cameras forever, the only countries that won’t are the ones that are in decline. China is growing and building faster than anyone, so they’re going to have more cameras. This needs to be taken into account.

5 over absolutely does not save you a couple minutes, more like a little more than a single minute.