The students’ demands include Columbia’s financial divestment from Zionist organizations, an academic boycott of complicit institutions, cops and ICE off campus and amnesty for all university members unfairly targeted and disciplined for pro-Palestinian actions.

Not a single one of which wouldn’t be a given in a sane and civilized modern society.

Columbia’s Public Safety officers immediately responded and violently barred protesters from leaving unless they showed identification, which created a prolonged standoff…

Because of COURSE they did!

When it comes to Apartheid regimes (and indeed most big picture stuff), student protesters are always on the right side of history and the people who derive income directly dependent on the atrocities continuing always react with the subtlety and intelligence of trying to remove a splinter with a machete.

Please do not the word.

They are state level convictions. He has no power over that

Yet. Expect that to change some time during his currently illegal third term.

But did she turn a single viral moment into a career? I would argue that publicity itself doesn’t seem to be her career, whereas activism clearly is the main thing. The way I see it, publicity is a tool she uses to enhance her activism

That’s the argument I was trying to make too, sorry if I was unclear 🙂

I have a feeling that she would have ended up being an activist with or without any viral moments

Kind of a “yes and no” kind of thing: she became an activist back when she was just an unknown 15yo who believed in something, and the “viral moments” have all been the results of effective activism (with the exception of some hilarious trolling of some prominent far right idiots), which is part of what effective activism IS: getting as many people as possible to notice and talk about the issues.

rAmen!

Democracy can’t survive if the voting base is too ignorant misinformed to choose its leaders.

People not knowing enough IS bad for democracy, but the fact that they “know” so many objectively false and harmful things is MUCH worse.

Alternate headline: “Demagogue objects to objective reality”

I’m not saying the bias is a problem in general, it’s just a problem for the trustworthiness of the reporting

And I’m saying that you’re wrong. Everyone has biases, and my comment above still applies when you’re writing about it.

I’d trust reporting that’s clearly biased in favor of the truth over the mealy mouthed forced neutrality of main stream sources any day.

very clearly biased against Israel and not ashamed

As is any decent person who’s been paying close enough attention.

Not all biases are bad, and being biased against a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide is an excellent proof of that.

Having a bias against the Israeli government is having a bias in favor of accuracy and against atrocious human rights violations.

Remember, kids: Don’t do genocide, or else after only two 77 years of murdering people wholesale the UN might say something about it and let you keep murdering.

Fixed it for you.

in Europe in particular there’s way less charging infrastructure

That’s the opposite of reality in many cases.

For example, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Benelux countries have better charging networks AND much shorter distances between major population centers than the US in general.

way more people living in apartments without the ability to set up a home charge station

Would have been relevant a decade ago, but now there’s public chargers at more and more parking lots and highway rest stops plus at least one major gas station chain has chargers at every station here in Denmark.

I have no doubt that conditions are even better in places like Norway and Sweden where they started adapting much earlier than we did.

way more anxiety about charging full electric EVs as a consequence, depending on the region

Bolded the only part you’ve been right about so far.

plug-in hybrids seem like a reasonable way to bridge that gap.

They were back when the battery technology and charging infrastructure wasn’t in place to support fully transitioning to EVs, but most of Europe is way ahead of you, so as a rule rather than an exception, hybrids are an unnecessary concession, Democratic Party style.

But I’m already entertaining this conversation way more than I want, because it’s going to lead off on a tangent and I don’t want to go on that tangent and we’re going to end up in how public transport is the real answer and there are millions of threads here to go rehash that conversation

TL;DR: you’re wrong and tired of trying to justify your false assumptions, so you try to preempt the logic conclusion that many have reached by implying that it’s wrong and/or or tedious.

My question is why I’ve seen a grand total of one Tesla on the road across three countries and yet somehow it was seemingly the top EV brand

Could be that those three countries and/or the specific parts of them you traverse aren’t typical for all 44 countries of Europe.

being 100% dependent on an external monopoly is strategically and mid-term problematic.

True, but the fact of the matter is that they already have a natural monopoly on some of the rare minerals that both their and the US industry depends on.

Just slapping a tariff on every part of the process including materials like this is inevitably ruinous to the American producers of solar energy unless they pass the cost down, which they inevitably will.

There’s literally no upside (other than for fossil fuel interests and the politicians in bed with them, of course) and mountains of downside to this moronic sledgehammer approach to financial diplomacy.

The problem at hand is that they are also destroying your industry, which is very bad in long term

That ship sailed DECADES ago when US corporations realized how profitable outsourcing is.

No amount of tariffs are going to make the world champions of profiteering base production in a country that so much as PRETENDS to treat workers humanely.

Trying to put that toothpaste back into the tube is only going to hurt the transition from fossil fuel powered energy when they inevitably pass the expense all the way down to the taxpayers.

The EU

Hard to know for sure since polls and elections conducted by the Russian government are about as reliable as my cats’ reporting on whether or not there’s food in their bowls.

Most likely, the majority consider themselves Ukrainian but are too oppressed by the occupying forces for their voices to be heard.

That’s what they’ve been doing for years already…

Isn’t contempt for human life the number one requirement to become a commissioned officer in the IOF in the first place?