For Vance, this is just “otherism”. It’s an old trick — your problems are not something you actually need to take responsibility for — it’s all the fault of the “others” in your country. While migration may be a hot mess, the republicans play the card of “all crime is due to these others”. Pay no attention to the grifters elected in the US currently stealing all your money and data.
“In Germany, a firewall has long existed preventing mainstream parties from engaging with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland owing to its Nazi origins. But Vance said there was no room for such barriers.”
Is this the ‘populism’ you’re so concerned about?
While Vance is whining about European censorship, his boss in the US is throwing legitimate press organizations out of the White House briefing room and removing any mention of people of color or LGBT people from education and government documentation.
Nuclear apologists love defending this expensive, hazardous industry. In Texas, mining the uranium for these plants is ruining the water table just like fracking does.
Meanwhile solar, wind, and geothermal are cheaper and cleaner.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-uranium-mining-boom-is-sweeping-through-texas-nuclear-energy/
When are the investors and employees going to wake up and kick Elon out of Tesla?
Zelenskyy needs to get ahold of the “pee pee tape”.
It surprised me that the royals kept their mouths shut through the whole thing. For once they could have taken a stand about something. If the Queen had gone on tv and said “we’re not doing this” it probably would have made an impact and prevented this mess. Fucking useless.
No, we yanks are familiar with this policy. We just think capitulating to this performative nonsense is ridiculous.
It’s a shame they haven’t been broken up. If they had been, many of the Google Graveyard products would probably still be around.
It’s a good point you make.