He also claimed the purpose of the threat was to strengthen NATO by getting more countries to increase their military budgets. Trump isn’t anti-imperialist.

If you look up the guy’s (now deleted) twitter, the guy was a pro-NATO nutcase who I guess earnestly believed Trump would disband NATO.

I’m not calling all people who are pro-NATO nutcases, I mean the dude was mentally ill and extremely pro NATO, claimed he had thousands of “NATO-trained Afghan troops” ready to defend Taiwan, claimed he was going to go fight in Ukraine, tried to buy a rocket from Elon Musk to assassinate Putin, etc.

Here’s his extremely hinged website: https://taiwanforeignlegion.com/

Damn, you’re getting George Soros bucks?

Would you show me what lead you to believe this? Do you have any evidence of an account whose actions are consistent with those of a bot? Say reposting old comments as a response to a repost to build fake history, or pretending to be one thing in one case and not others, or a sudden shift in content indicating the account was sold?

Or is it just easier to believe as it gives you an excuse not to examine your own beliefs?

This is a tiny place, and unlike reddit, there’s not enough history that you can just make bots repost old threads and comments or buy old accounts to generate fake histories without people catching on, and the admins of the instances would probably call it out if they noticed anything awry.

Do you genuinely believe that?

DocToPdf Disrespect was quietly banned from twitch, and then responded to allegations that he was sexting minors with “age of consent varies between states, what I did wasn’t even illegal and what even is sexting? This is just haters trying to ruin my day”

If you’re not stealing from work, you’re stealing from your family.

Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning.

There’s a few major flaws:

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right with immigration and crime; instead of counter-messaging that republican claims of migrant crime are false and migrants commit less crime than average, and crime as a whole is declining, her campaign promotes how tough she is on crime. This is essentially campaigning for the republicans. The people who are terrified of immigrants and criminals are voting republican.

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right in foreign policy. Harris can promise rivers of Muslim, North Korean, and Russian blood, and the people who want that will still vote republican. Talking about how lethal the US military will be and how hostile the US will be to other countries decreases turnout. War is not popular. Trump’s campaign is already hitting Harris on supporting the genocide in Palestine.

Joe Biden dosent use drones anymore

Huh. Wonder what that US reaper drone was doing over Yemen.

This is likely due to the difference in market segments, electric vehicles in North America occupy the high-end segment

This seems accurate, US car manufacturers are exactly where they want to be with a captive market where the average new car price is up to $50,000

Some have speculated that this is so they can price out the competition as these subsidies are unsustainable

It looks like they have an exemption from the 10% sales tax, plus up to $2600 rebate for trade-ins.

For comparison, the Cash For Clunkers under Obama was up to $4,500.

This is likely due to the difference in market segments, electric vehicles in North America occupy the high-end segment

The statistics I can find suggests EVs make up between 5% and 15% of new cars sales in the US. For comparison, in China the majority of new cars are EVs.

https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/economic-perspectives/2022/5

Laziness on who’s part?

The automakers don’t like EVs because they have much better margins on pickups and SUVs. Dealers don’t like EVs because they require less maintenance, which cuts future revenue. The politicians don’t like EVs because their campaigns are financed by the big auto companies and dealership owners.

Having the group sneak up on a baby Hydra, that’s actually a dragorgon swimming in the water.

“just budget better bro” isn’t a response to a systemic criticism.

it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist

For the purpose of directing new users, who tend to just pick the largest instance, sure. But if you and they are both federated, there’s no difference in the content.

So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?

Correct, because this increases the reliability of the average lemmy user’s experience as one point of failure affects fewer users.

alienating 41% of their active user base

Why would distributing users to smaller instances alienate Lemmy.world users?

If anything, distributing the load results in a better user experience, since the last Reddit exodus was taking down .world every few hours.

sending DNA data to another country

This is a cop-out.

All companies handing US medical data have to comply with HIPA.

suspect standards

This is also a cop-out.

All cars sold in the US have to meet US regulations.

I’m not trying to be a jerk

You’re grasping at straws trying to excuse our representatives representing capital over us. Can’t sell $60,000 SUVs when a $20,000 EV is higher quality.

Diamond rings are basically worth fuckall for resale. Most pawn shops won’t even take them

Can’t have Americans getting cheap EVs or cancer screening tests.

The irritation caused by heartburn increases heartburn. So during your proton-pump inhibitor cycle, you still get heartburn, treat it with baking soda dissolved in warm for instant relief