Oh no…the Leopards ate my face thread

Chicago76 · Nov 19, 2024 at 7:20 AM

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The U.S. is lagging far behind the EU zone in terms of the EV transition as a whole and in terms of some individual member countries, they are trailing some by a factor of 4-10.
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A big reason for the disparity are the VMT people place on cars here. As EV range has improved over time and charging infrastructure has improved, we are starting to see better adoption in the States. But the lag was always going to be there. Compare the US to Australia and Canada. They’re all at about 10%.

And Australia and Canada’s development tends to be more compact and urban compared to the US. It the common thread is that people in all 3 countries tend to think that a 400-600km drive is relatively “common”.

The Jitty Slitter · Nov 19, 2024 at 7:28 AM

In case anyone doubted it, the regime is awarding itself the power to decide who is a citizen and who isn't. IMO Brexit was the first warning of how quickly this can happen. Sure you've been living in a country happily for 20-30 years and your kids were all born there but that can be upended in a moment. Especially by implementing Kafka-esque bureaucracy where you require 1000s of pages of documents to prove you are allowed to live in a country you always lived in. And even if you have them, they just reject your case Even being an actual citizen won't be enough, if the Supreme Court decides LOL YOLO

In The New York Times, yesterday was another one of those stomach-churning articles you grow accustomed to in our benighted era: “Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations.” This was once the stuff of nightmares, the worst-case scenario fantasizing of hysterical liberals back in 2016. Now, it’s just the news: “President-elect Donald J. Trump confirmed on Monday that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military in some form to assist in his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.” The plan involves the construction of “vast holding facilities,” in other words, camps. But for me the most disturbing part is buried deep in the article, “And the team plans to stop issuing citizenship-affirming documents, like passports and Social Security cards, to infants born on domestic soil to undocumented migrant parents in a bid to end birthright citizenship.”

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-plot-against-citizenship

The Jitty Slitter · Nov 19, 2024 at 7:30 AM

it's fairly obvious where this goes, though maybe for now actual citizen latinos will be in trumps good books for voting for him

Jews and others who overwhelmingly didn't vote for him? LOL

bigredfutbol · Nov 19, 2024 at 7:37 AM

The Jitty Slitter said: ↑

In case anyone doubted it, the regime is awarding itself the power to decide who is a citizen and who isn't. IMO Brexit was the first warning of how quickly this can happen. Sure you've been living in a country happily for 20-30 years and your kids were all born there but that can be upended in a moment. Especially by implementing Kafka-esque bureaucracy where you require 1000s of pages of documents to prove you are allowed to live in a country you always lived in. And even if you have them, they just reject your case Even being an actual citizen won't be enough, if the Supreme Court decides LOL YOLO

In The New York Times, yesterday was another one of those stomach-churning articles you grow accustomed to in our benighted era: “Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations.” This was once the stuff of nightmares, the worst-case scenario fantasizing of hysterical liberals back in 2016. Now, it’s just the news: “President-elect Donald J. Trump confirmed on Monday that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military in some form to assist in his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.” The plan involves the construction of “vast holding facilities,” in other words, camps. But for me the most disturbing part is buried deep in the article, “And the team plans to stop issuing citizenship-affirming documents, like passports and Social Security cards, to infants born on domestic soil to undocumented migrant parents in a bid to end birthright citizenship.”

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-plot-against-citizenship
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Prediction: this will get normalized by the media and will be generally popular with voters.

The Jitty Slitter · Nov 19, 2024 at 7:39 AM

bigredfutbol said: ↑

Prediction: this will get normalized by the media and will be generally popular with voters.
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That was Ganz's conclusion

They want to decide who gets to be an American. This will also include expanded attempts to denaturalize American citizens. Of course, all of this will be presented in terms of an emergency expedient, and that’s how they will count on getting mass consent. People will shrug and go, “Well, those migrants really are a problem…” Even some former resist libs on MSNBC might furrow their brows and wonder aloud if this might not be the responsible move of a decisive statesman who has committed himself to deal with a national emergency. And so an exception is made. And then another. Then another. Then, either by dramatic coup or slow degradation, the state of exception becomes the rule. Make no mistake, this is the core of their entire worldview: There are a lot of people out there they just don’t consider to be real Americans. Are you one of them?

The Jitty Slitter · Nov 19, 2024 at 7:42 AM

What irritates me the most is the Biden admin was all like ohhhh we can't do anything because the corrupt supreme court of clerics said no, but then Trump just announces plans to deport citizens using the military

So it kind of raises the question of whether the Constitution was a suicide pact for Dems

Jeremy Goodwin · Nov 19, 2024 at 9:22 AM

Kazuma said: ↑

Part of me thinks the perils of people being online is that they don't know how to do rhetoric. Left and right. And there's a lot of left wing rhetoric that's just a tad preachy as James Carville put it.

The other thing is, I think a lot of younger men could do with working and having hobbies that get them out of the house. But that's just my experience.
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The problem is the same one as before, but writ large. The young men are living in their mother's basements. Meanwhile they see young women who've successfully escaped their father's attics.

JamesA · Nov 19, 2024 at 9:33 AM

Chicago76 said: ↑

A big reason for the disparity are the VMT people place on cars here. As EV range has improved over time and charging infrastructure has improved, we are starting to see better adoption in the States. But the lag was always going to be there. Compare the US to Australia and Canada. They’re all at about 10%.

And Australia and Canada’s development tends to be more compact and urban compared to the US. It the common thread is that people in all 3 countries tend to think that a 400-600km drive is relatively “common”.
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I'm a Canadian EV owner and I'm quite familiar with our market trends.

Our adoption rates are highly regionalized, which I believe is still economic based at this stage.

We have a federal subsidy of 5k on all new purchases across the country. We then have some provincial programs stacked on top, with two of the most generous being in Quebec and BC. As you'd expect, both those provinces have adoption rates far, far ahead of the other provinces. BC is around 20% last time I looked.

Another example is Ontario. They took had a provincial subsidy program a few years ago and their adoption rate was on par with BC and Quebec. It was then canceled by a new Provincial government and the adoption rate crashed almost overnight. I don't believe this was coincidence.

Most middle class buyers here still struggle with the price delta between ICE and EV.

MattR · Nov 19, 2024 at 9:39 AM

I'll be honest, my son was raised in a liberal enclave and had lots of classes about bullying, and acceptance, and diversity his entire school career, from preschool to his current year. I can't imagine that happens in most of the south or rural schools in, say, upstate NY. There is a whole school of thought that sit down, learn, be curious, be accepting has ended up with a lot more young women in college with prospects than young men.

With the accelerated loss of manufacturing jobs to both overseas markets and automation, the last bastion of not-very-bright-but-hardworking male middle class jobs are the military industrial complex, the fire/police/law and order, and mineral extraction. Moving to solar and wind and even nuclear means you can't make 6 figures as a roughneck on a oil rig somewhere, or at least that's the impression. BLM and people now holding police accountable has also cast a shadow on those occupations. It's no wonder that young men see no opportunities for them to contribute to society, and want things to "go back" to the way they were. Looks like they'll get to see.