This is the purpose of Trump’s tariffs. He makes life difficult for firms so that firms give him favours for special treatment.

Are there good signs these guys would make such reforms instead of holding onto the power given by changes made by Orban?

Always has been. It’s why non-material policies are rarely effective. People primarily respond to changes in their material conditions. It’s like we collectively forgot abt that after WWII.

It’s also probably possible to teach an agent this opinion to help review.

They’re already enforcing it. PRs are reviewed and bad ones are rejected all the time.

Likely yes because that would be akin to a small general strike. And if it’s a real general strike, they woud def concede as the ruling class is gonna lose serious money, and they would push politicians whose campaigns they fund to concede. Working people have one real leverage to use against their ruling class - labour power - the ability to stop creating wealth for the ruling class. I think pretty much all other leverage we have derive from that. Protest, even the right to vote.

I knew it. As soon as rumors started circling that China is leaning on Iran to cease fire, I reasoned that China must have offered something in return, due to Iran’s extremely strong leverage. I thought expanded trade but weapons make sense too.

Excellent news either way.

Hopefully they’re effective enough against Israeli jets. If they are, this could serve as wiping Trump’s ass from being unable to force Iarael to obey the ceasefire. If Iran can defend itself against Israeli bombings, Trump can the off-ramp knowing Israel won’t drag him in again.

Same. If you have some money for fun or time - give him some. Only if you have it.

You’re not wrong but some render their opposition to capitalism by reducing the scope of the capitalist system. Something liberals tend not to do. Are all reformists committed to bringing it down to zero? Maybe, maybe not. I probably wouldn’t call a self-proclaimed socislist who spends their life reducing the capitalist part of their state a lib if they are okay with say 10% of the economy remaining capitalist.

Being a socialist doesn’t mean you have to ban capitalism the moment you get power. Or at all. There are many ways to be socialist and do socialist policy. The overarching ideology is the belief we can do better than capitalism by distributing the resources we create according to amount of work and need, instead of profit maximization. How and how quickly we achieve that differs between different kinds of socialists. Sometimes dramatically.

A hostile US and Russia would give us the increased defense spending we already have, at least we wouldn’t have to buy US equipment.

That’s part of what I was referring to. We’d spend this locally or among partners. Right now a lot of NATO spending goes to the US military industrial complex.

Then the other economic impact is that the US loses one more leverage tool to coerce us on various trade disputes. Which means we’d be able to negotiate better deals for us.

As predicted by literally anyone paying attention to how the US operates for the benefit of its ruling class.

Jagmeet simply did not have the support to remotely have a chance to win instead of PP or Carney. That’s the context in which Carney “was the best choice at the time.” Not much else. I agree we’d been better off with Jagmeet.

I think things would shake out differently in a couple of years with Avi’s NDP on the docket. Perhaps not an NDP gov’t but I think we’d get significantly more seats than the last election.

Goddamn, I thought it was cheaper! I donate already to my instance and dev but I’ll throw what I can your way too.

Too bad Iran is already deeply sanctioned. It’s what happens when you overuse your leverage. I suppose they could try the opposite - offer lifting of sanctions.

The PC party has never gone off the rails like the Republican party. Even the Reformacons (CPC) weren’t crazy during Harper’s leadership. Things only really sharpened with PP. So it’s no wonder federal governments have mostly oscillated between the libs and the cons for over a century.

I was looking at some vote data today and I think this one is also our friend: https://mander.xyz/u/Anyone

Possibly also: https://feddit.org/u/Quittenbrot

Here’s some of the list of matches between

• Anyone@mander.xyz
• Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org
• Quittenbrot@feddit.org
• randomname@scribe.disroot.org
• Scotty@scribe.disroot.org
• Sepia@mander.xyz
• tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org

where 5 of them appear on a vote tally.

# Num vote matches: vote tally link
5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/sh.itjust.works/comment/21402656
5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.sdf.org/comment/22962978
5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/scribe.disroot.org/comment/6964264
5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/scribe.disroot.org/comment/6690122
5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.sdf.org/comment/21999080
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/mander.xyz/post/42018522
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/5662899
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/45104150
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/45104825
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/45115500
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/44795915
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/5320580
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43639018
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43649678
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43656968
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4925578
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4839560
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/mander.xyz/post/39067396
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/piefed.world/post/513359
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/43276509
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/36625693
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4753629
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42973822
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42974263
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4735256
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42881979
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4717810
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42786144
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4680903
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4681271
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4620709
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42534372
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4595270
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42433145
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42409798
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42385155
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/35971816
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42356948
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42077068
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/mander.xyz/post/37757039
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/35706302
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/35708740
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4480693
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/42022975
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/41994363
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/41995095
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4444940
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4370265
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4226066
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/41107945
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.nz/post/27121125
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/40615493
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/4079950
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/34272105
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/40233079
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/34236339
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/40061722
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/3905505
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/feddit.org/post/17010899
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/3907142
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/39942527
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/39966582
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.sdf.org/post/39966726
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/3886842
5: https://lemvotes.org/post/scribe.disroot.org/post/6077659
5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.ca/comment/20534858
5: https://lemvotes.org/comment/feddit.org/comment/10420416

Good? I don’t have super high regard for Coyne’s opinions but he’s not an idiot either.

A NATO without the US would have many benefits for its members, especially the downstream economic effects it would have.

I imagine vastly lower cost would be one reason. 450km range chargeable in 11 minutes would be enough for a significant proportion of people and likely desirable if the cost is low enough. I don’t think it’s likely that lithium would match the price/perf ratio of sodium so I think we’re likely to see a lot more sodium in applications that don’t require the absolute best energy density. So in a way, sodium might be the front runner, ahead of advanced lithium, in terms of what’s going to be adopted. 😅

E: Also we’re talking sodium batteries in production. If and when double-triple density lithium or another shows up, it might change the calculus depending on price, safety, etc.