More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
This is always the problem: extremists want to end something but have no idea what will replace what they want to eradicate. It won’t become better by itself. People take the good things we have for granted, focus their attention on the bad things without trying to solve them, and think that it’ll somehow become better if we destroy everything. It won’t. It’s not hard to do worse than we’re doing right now; it’s incredibly easy. What is truly hard is doing better. That’s why extremists are focused on destruction and not improvement.
Yeah, America is undermining it’s own hegemony since 2016 and what do you know? The threat of violence is rising.
Russia invaded Ukraine, China is threatening Taiwan, Ethiopia is threatening Eritrea, Venezuela is threatening Guyana. A world where large nations can bully, invade, and occupy small nations unopposed is not really better than the Pax Americana.
Exactly. People jump into discussions about how bad our world is, but they don’t seem to know how bad it was 100, 200, or 300 years ago. And then they offer communism as the solution - the same communism that resulted in bloodshed everywhere it has been applied. It’s sad to see people turn to solutions that are proven to be bad due to a lack of education and ignorance, instead of working on something that could really help. Such a waste of effort.
God forbid we criticise the system for its failures.
Yeah, mate, it’s so hard not murdering millions of people in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Iraq. They just die by themselves when the bombs happen to drop on them, so unfortunate.
Saying that things are difficult is actually an excuse for inaction and lukewarm reformism, as has been shown over the past decades with the Palestine occupation by Israel for example. The whole “it’s so difficult” framework exposed in western media led to public opinion not being swayed one way or the other. Now, with the advent of social media and the access to international media of all ideologies, people clearly see there’s a settler genocidal state bombing another. It’s easy: stop the fucking bombings, and stop the settling, and stop the blockade on Gaza. It’s not hard not bombing people, it actually costs a lot of money.
If you want constructive solutions I’ll give you constructive solutions. Abolish unemployment by creating public employment. Abolish exploitation of the working classes by expropriating the means of production. Abolish homelessness and solve the housing crisis by building prefab housing on a nationwide scale. Stop bombing developing countries. All things I’m saying have been achieved by poorer nations 50+ years ago, it can be done and it’s absolutely realistic.
Now, what do you propose?