Alcoholicorn

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

If even half of them showed up for the dems, and the dems had +10 in the senate, they'd do nothing to help the people who elected them, give the Republicans half the discretionary budget in the name of bipartisanship, give the banks billions of dollars, and bomb a dozen middle eastern countries to prove they're just as strong on foreign policy as Republicans. We know this because that is what happened. We need to focus on purging the party if we want our votes to matter in the general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

China, doesn’t particularly care about American industry lobbists

They do have some reach, Tesla is popular here because of tons of lobbying by Musk, though thats changing.

Most of the worlds hemp production, including for paper, is located in China, I dont know anything about the history or economics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You're just describing vampires/peter theil, except flesh now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Weirdly enough, the washing machines I've seen here in China aren't that cheap, like 800-1500 USD price range, and they tend to be much smaller than the US ones.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

Reminder that Hitler lost the election. The liberals endorsed a conservative candidate in the name of unity, who won, and proceeded to staff the government with Nazis and made Hitler chancellor, in the name of unity.

The left, cursed with Casandra Syndrome, campaigned on "A vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler is a vote for war."

Because there is nothing new under the sun, you even had the liberals who announced their endorsement of Hindenburg immediately start attacking the left for not supporting their best shot at defeating Hitler..

In the end, many of them did end up supporting Hindenburg. But liberals will always see the left as a greater threat than fascists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

"electability" was always a sham. It is exclusively used by millionaire news pundits and NYT writers to tell primary voters not to vote for the candidate with the policy that immediately improves the material conditions of the most people because of an imaginary cohort of "centrists" and "moderate republicans" who are terrified of anything good like free healthcare, child care, college, rent-control, and taxes on billionaires, but will totally vote for the version of those policies that will help nobody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

State-run media with a conservative bias (despite the conservatives being their greatest threat). They're fine for this type of reporting, but they immediately roll over whenever a conservative accuses them of reporting reality, and any reporting on a perceived enemy is hilariously distorted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I mean the lack of reliability in modern refrigerators isn't because the better refrigerants and insulators and electronics are less reliable than electro-mechanical systems, it's because they use the absolute cheapest shit in the control boards, position them where they are exposed to humidity, and then duplicate that 4+ times to have different cooling zones.

There's a reason chest freezers last forever and are much cheaper than the refrigerator you put in your kitchen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

While Egypt did practice slavery, evidence suggests the pyramids were built by well-fed craftsmen.

I know BBC isn't the best source, but it's fine for this purpose: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, and a lot of the 56% college grad rate is boomers who were educated before the fall and are now dying off. We will see it drop precipitously in the next 20 years or so, and the quality of the education of the newly graduated decline.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

China currently churns out more college graduates than any other country, and the rate is increasing.

And they had a hell of a way to go given that it was less than 1% when they took over.

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