MrMakabar

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

You only need those soldiers, when you want to control, which targets Ukraine can strike. Otherwise it would be possible to train up Ukranians to do it

However given that Ukraine is on record to have blown up Nord Stream, which has obvious value to Germany as well, this is highly unlikely to happen. Taurus could also be used to strike Germany from Ukranian aerospace after all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So what you are saying is that men who ride bikes are more fertile?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Are you seriously suggesting that Gaza is the only problem the Democrats have?

This is what you do, when you want to take votes from the Democrats. If you wanted to built up real power, to challenge the Democrats from the left, you have to win local smaller elections first. That means city council, house of representatives, state level politicians, school boards and so forth. You focus on the most left leaning regions, so you can actually go first past the post. The Greens do not do that. They run in FOUR elections in California this year. That is the largest blue state, with some very left leaning areas.

Also once you sit in congress, councils or whatever, you need allies, unless they win a majority. So in most cases that would mean winning the furthest left seats and having to work with a more centrist party, to change things. In the US that would be the Democrats. In some countries there are deals made to not run candidates in certain districts, to make sure left parties win. That just happened in France for example. No reason those deals could not be made between the Democrats and the Greens.

Also Gaza can only be solved by becoming president. Jill Stein is not going to win the election and everybody with half a brain should no that. So the goal of running, should be to show what the Green Party stands for in local elections. Nobody can solve Gaza when sitting on a city council in the US, however they can built bikelanes, promote renewables, improve public transit, cheap dense green housing and so forth. Jill Stein does not mention those at all. She should, to help out the local candidates, which they are not running. It also means less issues the Democrats might copy. After all who cares, if the Greens or the Democrats pass good laws, as long as they are passed.

Attacking the Democrats from the left is just going to hurt the Democrats, which helps the Republicans. Instead the Green Party should either try to built an alternative or push them towards the left. Right now it is obvious that they just want to help the Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Correct, but Germany would be able to send them and give permissions for them being used to strike into Russia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Global emissions are still growing. That is due to global energy consumption growing faster then global renewable production increases. To avoid climate change, we have to not only increase renewable production, but also reduce energy consumption. We have to replace 139PWh of fossil fuel energy as quickly as possible. Last year we added 2PWh of new fossil fuels to the mix, but only 1.48PWh of wind, nuclear and solar. So just stopping the growth of fossil fuel energy production, would help more then all the clean energy we add.

However a fully clean energy system is possible. It is just a matter of getting to it quickly enough.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never stop an enemy, when they make a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is really why we need to have changes in the way we live our lifes personally as well. By working 40h/week for a capitalist company, you are supporting capitalism 40h/week. Obviously it is not pure support, as part of the work might be needed or is wasted, but it certainly requires a lot of work to fight against that system to make up for it. Working for the public sector, a cooperative, a non profit or some other none capitalist workplace would help a lot with that.

Oh and in our world it is impossible to live without any sort of harm. It should be avoided, when the effort is reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just look at Jill Steins Twitter. She is basically Gaza and attacks on the Democrats. She exclusivly attacks the Democrats. No attacks at all on Trump or the Republicans in general. She also has no problem with climate change or enviromental problems. That is very intressting for a supposed Green Party.

Other countries with similar electoral systems have Green parties with seats in national parliaments. Compare that with the UK Green Party. They are perfectly able to not just talk about Gaza, but also about UBI, more renewables, public transit, 4 day workweek and so many more left issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

They also can take power out of the system quickly, which is extremely usefull for balancing a grid.

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

What is going on in Sudan is insanely under reported. The Siege of El Fasher is horrible. Over a million people without running water and the food supply having been cut off for months. Seriously the situation could very likely be worse then Gaza right now and this is not trying to make that one look good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The Moscow region is a net importer of electricity and both of those power plants are massive. However they also have a lot of power plants. After all the population of Moscow and Moscow Oblast combined is 21million.

 

Looks like something blew up in a 420MW block.

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We asked everyone outside a car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous

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