As a Dutch citizen I can't wait until the March election where we can effectively choose between reelecting the guy who's been in charge for the entire duration of this scandal or one of the two fascists who've been using it to enhance their own popularity.
You want people to use less words now? This is such an orwellian take, tankie. Just goes to show that marxist-leninists only care about educating people for propaganda SMH 😤
"Political tensions with neighbors like Brazil may make it harder for Cuban researchers to find trial sites abroad."
Ah yes, Brazil, famously the only neighbour of Cuba that's had "political tensions" with the country.
Smh leftists keep going on and on about an eternal revolution, meanwhile crabs have been doing it since the Mesozoic period
Damn it's happening right under our noses.
The existence of poverty is a left wint conspiracy, change my mind
I'm curious how you use the term "working class" here. Do you think we're all (children of) landlords and company owners here?
The working class is comprised of everyone whose income is dependent on the labour they perform. The idea that some jobs are too prestigious or well paying for the people who perform them to fall into this category is nothing but a reactionary division tactic.
:hexabear: 7
I don't think the Biden campaing could have found a funnier way of admitting they ratfucked the primary then asking everyone to please listen to the guy they actually wanted
If the political spectrum is a circle, how is there still a centre?
Oh wow this really works!
If some people could help me spell out "okay :)" On the better dead than red poster below that would also be helpful
If the shitting pig is our spirit animal, what is the hexagonal bear?
Yeah I got (-9.8,-8.2). Now I'm more of a classical Marxist than a ML, so I might score less authoritarian than most people here but this would suggest I'm almost a complete anarchist.
But none of that is exactly surprising, this quiz was made by some libertarian nerds.
Please just stop talking about the cringe post, if we talk about it any more someone is going to start a struggle session.
I'm actually, genuinely terrified about the fact that several ecosystems around the world are about to, or have already reached their tipping point, while the most frequent discussion regarding climate change portrayed in the media is still about whether it exists or not.
I'm not an expert on climate change but I do have a Bachelor's in mechanical engineering, which gives me some insight into how a lot of industries work. Pretty much the entire materials industry (I.e. production of metals, polymers ceramics for use in other products) is pretty terrible for the environment, and the solution to fix that isn't as clear cut. Recycling helps but the truth is that pretty much every industry pollutes, and the answer to that pollution is rarely as simple as it is when it comes to clean energy production. What's needed is a fundamental shift in how we produce basically everything, and that costs money, and if we want to do it smoothly, that takes time. We do not have that time, so the conclusion to draw here is that a) we should have started decades ago and b) combating climate change cannot be a set policies set to the side, but should rather be the driving force behind our entire economic vision (see also: the Green New Deal).
I'd also like to point out that helping the rest of the world to achieve the same is a rather significant problem to have as an afterthought.
Actually, I'm going to add another comment on to this, because it strikes me that the most disconcerting sentence on that page by far is the very last one:
"And, Biden will establish a new Environmental and Climate Justice Division within the Justice Department, as proposed by Governor Inslee, to complement the work of the Environment and Natural Resources Division and hold polluters accountable."
Mainly, because it's literally the only sentence on the entire page that deals with holding polluters accountable. It seems to me that any serious effort to combat climate change while maintaining a capitalist economy (which unfortunately, is probably going to stay around for a while, so we should also seriously consider this subject) should consist of two very difficult endeavours.
The first spans the entirety of the rest of this page, and concerns the creation of a sustainable, green infrastructure, which I'm using as a pretty all-encompassing concept here.
The second, equally important and challenging endeavour is to create a strict set of rules within which any company can operate sustainably, and to find a way to make sure companies actually follow those rules. So far, governments around the world have been trying to do that by imposing fines and to put it bluntly, the effectiveness of that has been fuck all. Companies will either find ways to make more money from breaking rules than the sum of any fines imposed, or simply move their operations to places where the rules are less strict.
If no serious solutions for this second problem are found, it pretty much doesn't matter how good the first half of your plan is (and Biden's plan is NOT good). To Biden's team, finding a way to do this is literally a one-sentence afterthought.
Dutch politics is a bit more complicated than that. If this scandal causes the current ruling neoliberal party (VVD) to lose too many votes, it is possible that PVV (the anti-islam party) manages to get a plurality of the votes but since several other big parties have often stated that they will not form a coalition with the PVV, they are unlikely to be able to build a government, giving the second-biggest party a cance to form one. Since the Netherlands has about 15 different flavours one of liberal parties, it's probably going to be another one of those.