Add it to the myriad other things Trump doesn’t know.

It will only serve to make AfD supporters even more convinced they are right.

Caring what the fascists think is a recipe for failure. All they respect is power. You don’t persuade them, the best you can do is behavior modification.

Ineffectual regulation doesn’t work. There needs to be more resolve.

Propaganda feeds the anxiety. We have to understand that propaganda is not free speech, and shut it down.

The other big source of anxiety is the capitalist tendency to drive working people into a situation of precariousness so that they remain compliant. Mitigating that requires a social safety net similar to that provided in northern-tier social democracies.

All of the 1st world rely on immigration to keep population growth

No they don’t. They rely on them to meet skills shortages and sometimes use them to lower the going wage.

Good thing nothing is permanent in politics.

New bright shiny object incoming!

On other words, he’ll buy off whoever he thinks will give him what he wants.

I’ve gotten Multiplas as rentals on a couple occasions. They’re ugly as sin, but are actually kind of practical, don’t have the same crap quality as a Tesla, and cost a lot less.

The investors are betting Musk will be able to latch onto the subsidy titty even more than he’s done already.

It’ll be nice when that fad passes, it’s absolutely shit from a human-factors engineering point of view and I’m sure a properly-conducted study would show that it costs lives.

The list of things Trump does know would be vanishingly short.

Putin thinks (no, he knows) that all of his American puppets are easily-manipulated fools.

Using anything as shoddy as Starlink in a critical use case is definitely a threat.

Well, that entirely depends on your method of explaining.

The world doesn’t need power to rule it, but power needs something to rule.

It’s malice. No doubt about it.

A common trend behind all these cases is Russian propaganda and troll farms. They’re trying to subvert democracy everywhere in order to weaken states that might otherwise resist their imperiallist ambitions.

And that in no way implies that they’re all good for us. In fact, we know many that aren’t.

My concern is another Reefer Madness type of propaganda campaign.

That’s a political, not a scientific concern, and with the present maladministration, a possibly legitimate one.

We need legit, replicable and replicated studies.

I completely agree. More fact-based decision making is sorely need on this and many other questions.