loathsome dongeater

That is not too dissimilar from a person detoxing from food, water and oxygen

Owning the libs by giving a fascist transphobe all my money

Inshallah

Here’s the thing though. I, the village idiot, knew since the beginning that Ukraine would never inducted into NATO. This became even clearer to me when after the first few months the tried and true combination of nazis and wunderwaffens did not work the way they had hoped it would and publicly claimed it did. I can’t bring myself to believe that Zelenskyy at any point thought being in NATO was on the table. He was probably caught between his American masters and the rabid Nazi dogs. If he had earnestly tried to sign a peace agreement he would have likely been assassinated.

This is not to say that he is blameless but coming at this from the angle of Zelenskyy being tricked is not coherent because it disregards why the war happened and who dragged it on for so long.

Tariffs. Tariffs everywhere.

What about the provinces within Canada? Are they gonna all merge to become one US megastate?

This could be useful to me. A while ago I was trying to make something that take all unread posts from my feed reader, make an epub out of them and then put it behind an OPDS server.

I found converting HTML from RSS to first markdown and then compiling them to an epub the most reliable way to take out the unnecessary markup from the source HTML. I used pandoc for this.

Good

What EU wants is irrelevant though

It said something else before the edit but it’s all good now.

How does one be a populist while not pandering to the public.

I would say that is largely irrelevant. Chinese EVs are so much cheaper there is no way Western producers can compete with them barring tariffs. In a level playing field Chinese companies will completely push out the Western ones in low- and mid-range market. For luxury vehicles maybe the brand recognition can save them but in a tight economy cheaper cars will attract a lot of attention.

as well as their own operations in China

This is the reason. It is not because of their interest in fairness or free market (there is none), but because China is both critical to their production process and a massive market that cannot be ignored. If China retaliates their execs won’t be able to buy their tenth yacht.

Yeah. Progressive bracketing of income tax is only one aspect of the whole thing. It gets a lot of attention but once you take into account taxes on everything else, which also includes the most basic groceries for some reason, the non-wealthy end up getting taxed more proportionally to their income.

That is the policy around taxation for everything. The “middle class” always froths with rage everytime the budget is announced over this. Ever since GST has been introduced it has gotten worse as well, with more of the taxes going to the central government. The economic policies here are pretty preposterous.

Why is there so much hype around this?

It’s difficult to find information on Google because vague terms like “pro-democracy” are used leaving the readers to imagine what it means.

I got what I told you from this Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/national-security-trial-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-postponed-next-sept-2022-12-13/

The case against him is for collusion with foreign forces to undermine national security.