Tell me you live in a flat unpopulate ddesert without telling me you live in a flat unpopulated desert. If you’re the 85% of humanity that lives along a coast you are not getting away with replacing your rotors any less than once every couple of years.
Brake rotors are $500-$1500/set, pads are $50-$200/set, Friction and rust welds are common enough to damage other parts of the knuckle over the expected life time meaning that bill can easily turn into a $2k-$5k repair, totaling the car depending on the age.
Eliminating regular maintenance costs and production costs for a system that works essentially just as well (and can work better in an emergency if you don’t care about saving the associated motors) means cheaper cars, both upfront and over time, with the only downside being luddites afraid that two decades of EV data from a few dozen million cars isn’t enough to prove safety versus hydraulic.
Welcome to the world of mostly solid state systems. Turns out when friction is a solved problem there’s no need for cottage industries like brake pad and rotor production.
The diseases the US has been experimenting with since the 1950s, many times on its own population e.g. the Tuguskee experiments?
…The results have been terrible for the entire world besides the US.
Actually I was exclusively talking about China and SEA, not Europe. While there are a couple of European countries that are aiming towards socialism most of Europe is pretty far right.
I’m correcting your point. Yes, a lot of the US is conservative. Most of the world isn’t. Only a US-Centric viewpoint would define liberalism as anything other than a conservative old-fashioned ideology only held by people that worship nazis.
How is the US propaganda source that statistically only handles a partial clean up of US military and intelligence community actions ‘far right bullshit?’
If I come into your home, kill your pets, piss in your fridge, and mutilate your children, but then I pay someone to come in and give you some new food so I can print in the news paper that I am kindly and benevolently feeding a victim of a tragedy… am I the good guy?
No. I am attempting to generate positive propaganda to help people ignore the fact I caused the entire fucking situation to begin with.
There are no USAID projects that cannot directly be linked to a US military or intelligence operation. None. Not a single one.
‘Conservative’ is conserving the old world. Conservatives in the 1800s wanted a return to feudalism as a reactionary backlash to liberalism.
Liberalism and liberal ideology has been the only ‘valid’ ideology for states for 2 centuries.
It is conservative to defend liberalism. It’s conservative to defend neoliberalism.
In order to be ‘progressive’ you have to at least be a ‘radical’ socialist that wants the abolition of capitalism.
Americans have no such self-awareness. The ones that do do everything in their power to leave the country or isolate themselves in communes and imply don’t participate.
Lets all be honest, PieFed was created solely in opposition to the political beliefs of Lemmy developers. Anyone closely related to those ‘people,’ is going to have some pretty far-right beliefs and behaviors. They just made a hugbox capable of doing what they need to to ensure complete ideological isolation.
This just in, when you divide the world between 'The US and its allies" and “The entire rest of the fucking world,” the second party might make decisions that are not based in morality but survival.
The US has decided those are the two powers that exist on the planet. This is the problem with a unipolar hegemony, especially one that is fascist from every viewpoint except internally.
Russia is an awful right-wing imperialist capitalist country. No country should deal with it. Except, you know, all of the ones that could be victims of the US and thus don’t have the luxury to pick their friends.
Conservatives do exist here, there are plenty of people that actually believe Harris would have been a good president or that the US is capable of good actions.
I’ve even see people unironically support USAID and the NED. That kind of far-right bullshit is why some of us left reddit.
No, quite the opposite. I would encourage you to learn how to read one day.
Authortiarianism is a made up concept to separate the American public, who during the 1940s very much wanted to side with Nazi Germany and did not want to enter the war, and the ‘Axis of Evil;’ so that the American Military Industrial complex, against the wishes of its people and despite having the exact same ideology as the average fascist, could enter the war and make one of the largest transfers of wealth from poor to rich in world history happen.
It has no actual definition that excludes any government. Meaning it’s a meaningless distinction when you cut through the propaganda Nothing an ‘authoritarian government’ has ever been accused of doing is exclusive to them; and by a prima facie reading of the term gives you the difference between lower case a anarchism and actual society – i.e. nothing useful when discussing the merits of ways to run a society, just the fact a society exists.
Cuba is a democracy. China is a democracy. There’s plenty of propaganda that says otherwise because they do not do their government in English and Americans are the least linguistically capable peoples in the history of the world so it’s difficult for you people to check anything. Because learning spanish is just too difficult. There’s plenty of differences in how those democracies function compared to ‘liberal western democracy’ or US democracy. None of them are more ‘authoritarian’ than the others.
Then leave, nazi.
Still not seeing any meaningful difference posted besides your tautological reasoning. All government is inherently authoritarian. That is how government inherently works and is defined. It can’t not be.
Saying some governments are magically different because they are isn’t anything logical. It’s repeating 1940s era propaganda made exclusively to make Americans feel like they weren’t so bad.
So you failed given every European country and the US also has that. (as much as China or Cuba at least.)
They absolutely are. When a building collapses due to the safety inspectors being bribed, it’s not the rich people that die – they live in the nice buildings. When an investigation into fair wages gets bribed away who suffers? The workers.
When a politician spends his career working against the workers who suffers? The Workers.
China at a local level is incredibly directly democratic, with workers voting on most things. Directly going against the will of the people is harming those people’s essential right to self determination, compromising their safety, and denying them all other rights afforded by China’s constitution.
While this isn’t actually how money works in any country, the workers pay the wages of the politicians, they demand honest service, and the whole system is based on the idea that can be done.
Some political ideologies and opinions are objectively not okay to exist in modern society, and those who hold those opinions should be eliminated. This isn’t a controversial opinion outside a tiny bubble in the US who think deep down every nazi is just a misunderstood cash cow waiting to be secreted away by the CIA.
The called me crazy for insisting on ensuring all of our companies files compress to 10,000 separate 64KiB xz compressed files. Well who’s laughing now?!