I mean, not for lack of trying, they did stage a coup and plant the Shah of Iran as the leader for a while

The horizontal position of the solid colored circle is the percentage (further to the right means higher) and the opaque color band is the margin for error.

I think most western governments aren't totalitarian dictatorships that are willing to burn through public funds in order to gain geopolitical advantages over their adversaries.

Do note that if China gains a market advantage, the price will likely go up to reflect the real cost of production.

I think the tariffs are because the Chinese government seems to be pumping money into the electric car industry so they can keep prices artificially low and corner the market, then use their market position to extort other countries into giving in to their totalitarian politics. The more dependence we have on China, the more power the CCP wields internationally.

What was the joke?

I'm not sure that fawn feel much fear since they're supposed to lie in one spot and wait for their mother, a quick search turned up "Very young fawns do not appear to have any natural fear of predators, and may even walk up to humans" although I haven't been able to conclusively verify the claim.

Oh my god, that picture of your dog carefully smelling it might just make my heart explode.

"And I had to do all this just to say that the environment is fucked."

AOC? An ambitious woman who just barely will have squeezed past the minimum age requirement by the time of the election and half the country has decided is a communist? Don't get me wrong, I think she'd be a fantastic candidate, maybe even the best, but I sincerely doubt that she'd poll better than Biden, even considering his horrendous performance in yesterday's debate.

When it comes to progress being made for unions, I think it might have something to do with the fact that the owners of the newspapers are billionaires.

Driver does however always have the right to veto the music.

The person who proposed it to begin with, Ylva Johansson is (to my great shame) a Swedish social democrat. Social democrats in Sweden unfortunately have their heads up their own asses a lot of the time.

The noise cats make before they throw up.

Are you implying that helping and saving people is not worthwhile if it doesn't immediately put an end to the war?

This is how I know you're a troll:

My point is that Russia has been and is entirely capable of waging that same kind of brutal, truly monstrous Western military campaign. They have chosen not to for a variety of reasons

The Russians have been conducting absolutely horrifying crimes against humanity since the start of the war and, in fact, at least since World War 2. There is so much rape and torture embedded in the way that the Russian military operates that killing civilians, which is unconscionable and horrifying, is the least of their crimes.

The Russians could leave Ukraine today and the war would be over. Full stop. There is no justification for anything else.

Even Andor?

That's obviously Reagan in a wig.

Who dug him up this time?

Are you always this angry? Doesn't it get exhausting?

I have a horrible feeling that this is the beginning of a terrible slide. The racists will use this opportunity to be as obstructionist as they can and then scream in their home countries about how inefficient the EU is, and because the EU is so far away from home for most people, they'll believe them. And then we'll slide further.

They were in the Eurovision this year (and unfortunately came last) but the Norwegian band Gåte. Their songs Skarvene and Hamløypar are two of my favorites, and Bannlyst is also fantastic.