The only purpose in normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is to continue the divide and conquer strategy while destroying each country that opposes Israel. It’s the same reason why the US showers Egypt with money, to keep it docile. As each potential enemy of Israel falls, they focus their attention on the next target. Saudi Arabia will have its turn later and when it does, the US will bring out things like involvement in 9/11 from its back pocket to justify crippling sanctions and either regime change or potentially direct military action.

Countries useful to the US get carrots until they’ve outlived their usefulness, then they get impaled on the stick. Just ask Saddam after the US used him to carry out the Iran-Iraq war. Israel supported Iran in that war, by the way, because playing your enemies against each other is part of the divide and conquer strategy.

and you cannot use social media if they deem your chest too flat.

They’re not going along with it, they’ve been pushing for the opposition since before the election.

Calm down.

Spy agencies calling adversary countries bad is a given. They didn’t even bother to list examples, it’s just a “Russia bad and also China bad btw” article, so they’re not even reporting on active FSB/GRU operations, just that they exist, which again, is a given and is also a given for western agencies. How does this qualify as news?

Spiderman pointing at spiderman

Who is the OAuth provider in this case? The instance you sign up on? That’s already the case.

Pointing out a more blatant and damaging form of election influence is not whataboutism.

Except they do work for their paycheck, unlike musk with the number he has amassed.

but his hands are tied, he just has to keep supporting genocide :(((((

They learned that they can get away with anything.

The US had to make the change to only vehicles built in the US because up until recently, it’s mostly only been the US and allied nations making the vast majority of EVs that could be sold in the US. Tesla has been sucking at the teat of the government through various subsidies, including the tax credit on purchases, carbon credits, cheap loans, and other programs.

I don’t have a problem with the US subsidizing the EV industry, it’s something that should absolutely be done. I take issue with people claiming it’s only a problem because China has been doing it too. The fight against climate change should be a global one, we shouldn’t be sabotaging it just for the sake of keeping local industry fat and happy when they’ve been dragging their feet this whole time.

Note the timing of these two events:

Apr 8, 2024 - Tesla Is Reportedly Canceling Plans to Build a Sub-$30K Compact SUV

May 22, 2024 - US says tariff increases on Chinese EVs, batteries and chips to start Aug. 1

Clearly Tesla knew the US was going to jack up tariffs on China and thought it safe to cancel the sub-$30k vehicle they had planned since the anti-competitive tariff kept his profits safe.

If China gets its way every place in North America and Europe that used to have auto manufacturing will look like Detroit.

How did Detroit end up looking like Detroit, was that China too? A big portion of auto manufacturing for American vehicles is already outsourced to places like Mexico anyway.

Americans will point at China subsidizing EV production as unfair while giving a $7500 tax credit per American EV sold for a decade or so now.

I would not buy a used Leaf. The batteries on those are short on life, especially on models that don’t have an active thermal management system.

The little dog following in the footsteps of the big dog. How cute.

Yeah, that’s what the west is using Ukraine for.

This “solution” makes about as much sense as shipping all black Americans to Africa.

White supremacists want a “homeland” too. Do you think they would be justified in carrying out a genocide to get one? Israel was created through colonialism and terrorism, and is maintained through apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and outright genocide. Is this “homeland” worth the bloodshed?

That’s really rough. Looking for a job while you don’t have one is miserable enough, but when the job market is that bad then it’s utterly hopeless and filled with despair. The economic outlook in China is looking bad in general and it makes me wonder how much of it will reverberate across the world.