I think most rational people would like an opposition party who brings good ideas with solid justification to the table. A group of professional politicians who argue in good faith, working for the betterment of their electorate. People who can at least be respected by the international community, willing to tackle the real problems facing the world as a whole.

If we’re talking about dictatorship perhaps it’s worth scrutinising the people arguing for total immunity for the president. It’s especially worth an in-depth look at the relationships they form with leaders of other nations and the principles they share.

As a non-US person, I want to point out that US politics has shifted so far to the right that centrists in any other country would look like far left to you.

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And you sound like someone who puts their political stooges on a pedestal.

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As they say in Thailand, same same but different.

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Dude. The UK broke its trade deals and left. Now it pays increased taxes on all goods and services from the EU.

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Replace ‘Trump’ with ‘Russia’.

They are both entangled in a fight for survival. Both of them need the support of the US people if they have any hope of making it. It’s imperative for either party that they win this and nothing is off the table when it comes to politics or influence.

There is an existential war at hand and none of the embattled parties give two shits about the aftermath.

I can’t speak to the other countries on this list but South Africa had ample access to vaccines. The take-up was low. Reasons offered were doubts around the efficacy and conservative attitudes to modern medicine.

You know there’s a crapload more reactors than Fukukishima, right? Like over 70% of France’s energy demands are met with nuclear power.

The issue here is that you are parroting the devisive argument that investors in oil have been putting out for decades. You are also ignoring the harm that outputting millions of tonnes of carbon-based effluent has on the world’s population as a whole.

Gram for gram nuclear is safer and your horror stories should be discounted. Retort:

2023 Marco Pol…Sweden, Karlsh…22 October 2023Lennard en z’n …United Kingdo…26 March 20232023 Princess …Philippines, Pol…28 February 20232022 Keystone …United States, …7 December 2022

Cool, keep on with your ‘nuclear bad’ narrative. It does objectively less harm than carbon-based energy.

We can bury it in the ground and it will literally turn into lead. How are you doing with carbon emissions? Got a fix?

Don’t even start on the wage-inflation-spiral idea. It’s the workers’ fault for wanting higher wages as it allows service-oriented business to charge higher prices, driving inflation.

While the theory probably has roots in real-world pricing algorithms (eg how much can we charge people in X region for Netflix) that rise in cost contributes to inflation figures. The fact that wages have been stagnant for decades undermines the whole argument.

“Well the poors can afford it and the shareholders will love it!” FFS

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Labour laws don’t apply to labour that isn’t on the books. And the US is absolutely taking advantage of that.