volodya_ilich

Somewhere that criticism of authoritarianism doesn't get you banned

I got banned from politics @ .world for saying that the Uyghur genocide is made up and not even Radio Free Asia or Adrian Zenz have managed to make up any evidence for the past 3 years, while the instance is full of people denying the explicitly graphic genocide in Gaza. Please explain to me how .ml is more authoritarian than that

some of the worst the site has to offer in terms of pro-authoritarian bias

Pro authoritarian bias is when you're against Israel's genocide in Gaza, and when you criticise the two-party system in the US. Cry me a river, lib

why not just

Why are you against worker organisation and direct action?

Dang, I wish there were a term for that...

God, you're so brainrotten by the narrative of "not voting for Harris is voting for Project 2025" that you can't even get the words of the comment you're responding to into your brain.

your proposal is

My proposal, as stated in the previous comment that you answered to: "enough numbers of progressives conditioning their vote to the end of genocide might make the dem administration sway towards ending the genocide".

What part of that isn't clear, or what part seems like calling for Project 2025?

By giving your unconditional vote to Harris, you're not saying "I'm voting for the progressive candidate because of trans rights". What you're doing is saying "you can being the most republican-minded, Dick-Cheney-endorsed, conservative economically, and gaza-genocider candidate, as long as it's minimally less harmful than Le Drumpf". That's how you enable the constant slide to the right in politics that you've seen for the psst decades. The idea isn't solely "I'm too morally superior to vote for either wing of the American Corporate parties", it's also "enough numbers of progressives conditioning their vote to the end of genocide might make the dem administration sway towards ending the genocide." And if not even that will make democrat leadership even question their commitment to the extermination of Palestinians, then the conclusion is simple: death to America.

If Harris wins, the republicans will nominate "evil candidate Mk.2", and we'll have you libs criticising people for protesting against Kamala's support of the genocide, saying that "protests weaken democrats and we need them to win again in 2028 or else..."

So you must certainly agree with me that the US is consequently a terrorist state

The solution is obviously not exclusively from pricing models, we need other energy sources than renewables for the time being, that doesn't mean we need to have market-based electricity pricing.

Imagine the state installing as many solar panels as society, guided by experts, democratically decides it wants, basically deciding as a society the energy mix instead of hoping that companies will install enough if we bribe them enough with taxes to do so, and if it's profitable. Then, it decides a pricing model based on a mixture of subsidy and incentivising consumption during production hours.

Problem solved, innit?

Do I really need to explain the concepts of taxes, subsidies, or fixed prices regardless of demand, to an adult?

Cheap electricity is great for consumers, but not necessarily for producers. Some people might say, "well, screw producers," but even if you take profit out of the equation, electric utilities need to be able to at least cover their expenses, and you can't do that if the amount of electricity you're generating relative to the demand is so high the price actually goes negative (meaning the utility is actually paying the consumer). Again, that's good for consumers, but I'm sure you can see how that's not a sustainable business model.

Fully agreed: let's eliminate business from the issue, and create national, for-service electric grids, that produce the cheapest renewables at all possible times in the most efficient way possible, disregarding hourly profit and taking into account exclusively the cost in €/kWh produced over the lifetime of each energy source.

Suddenly it's obvious that the problem isn't with renewables, but with organising the electric grid as a market

abundance of electricity when people need it the least

Isn't peak consumption around middle of the day for most countries?

it's not economical

Mfw electricity being cheap to generate is not economical

I'm not advocating for pushing it over the brink (Trump), I'm advocating for conditioning the vote to an end to genocide (seems reasonable to me). If you think that doesn't work, the logical desired consequence for me is the destruction of the state upholding genocide.