We’ve known how to meaningfully address this for ages - with the side benefit of actually improving lives - and neither party is willing to pursue it as it lies outside partisan wedge-driving around various bans.
We've known how to meaningfully address this for ages - with the side benefit of actually improving lives - and neither party is willing to pursue it as it lies outside partisan wedge-driving around various bans.
It does me good to see the Republicans tearing themselves apart over their own version of a Manchin-esque refusal to compromise.
That said, "it would undoubtedly irritate colleagues who have said that passing any bill with Democratic votes would immediately trigger a motion to remove McCarthy from the speakership" is... as sad as it is hilarious.
an EV charged from fossil electricity saves only 33% on emissions compared to a fossil car
Or, stated more honestly, an EV deriving electricity from even fossil-based grid-scale generation uses roughly half the raw combustables as an ICE with the added benefit of emission scrubbing.
if i am paying 40k$ for an EV i am expecting my purchase to act as a contribution to safeguard the environement
We are fortunate, then, that this is already the case.
EVs are a pass for me for now but thats my opinion.
I'm not sure how you've determined they should be a pass - if you're comparing like to like and comparing to new ICE vehicles of similar capability, there's no reason not to go EV for most people.
The various @politics communities are currently chock full of a weird deflection of all jokes and criticisms of Biden and a focus on jokes and criticisms about Trump. It's pretty hard to see how the blue team part to this pans out at all.
“Democrats are struggling in Iowa because they’ve totally lost touch with Iowa values and our voters,” said Addie Lavis, Hinson’s campaign manager. “ … Ashley’s record of conservative accomplishments speaks for itself, and she and our team are working every single day to keep Iowa red and fire Joe Biden in 2024 so we can take our country back."
Ironically, Red Team isn't wrong here.
By party registration, Iowa is roughly a three-way split between Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. During the last major election cycle, the IDP ran multiple anti-firearm candidates. That same cycle, Iowa passed a ballot initiative to codify strict scrutiny on restrictions in the state constitution. It passed with an unprecedented ~66% support. Red team wins here by simply not shooting itself in the foot. This should have been what one would call a sign, yet... they seem to have learned nothing.
During the 2022 cycle, voters were polled for priorities. Most voters considered reproductive health important but not as important as economy / wages, inflation, and education. The IDP campaigned almost exclusively on reproductive health. Red team won here by speaking to the issues voters actually prioritized, even where it was misinformation or lies. It was such a shit show the Libertarian Party managed to regain major party status. Specific to my district, we lost Axne (D) to Nunn (R) - and with Axne's throwing in with anti-firearm efforts while also throwing in with police-friendly efforts, it was entirely predictable.
Twitter has been full of prospective candidates happy to criticize red team but fuck-all for those same prospective candidates and plans to actually, say, tangibly address Iowan concerns or make lives better for those Iowans.
Locally, the running commentary is that these are all such obvious shortcomings and failings it's as if the IDP is trying to lose - even incompetence should eke out a win here and there; consistent universal loss can't be accidental.
No one cares that you think you’re being somehow superior to everyone else for defending Trump.
It's incredible you can't fathom a world where a criticism of the newsworthiness of an article isn't also somehow a stretched defense of the subject of the article.
This is your brain on partisanship, folks.
Go away, magat (I don’t give a fuck if you somehow aren’t a trump supporter, you strapped on their uniform
"I DON'T CARE IF I'M WRONG, I'M THROWING A TANTRUM". Nice look.
I was banned in that sub more than once, but sure.
It's not hard to see why - they tend not to like blatant trolls, even blue-friendly ones.
That and the fact that I’m forever boycotting reddit…totally, I’m clamoring to use a shitty sub there.
It's unfortunate you decided to migrate Reddit idiocy as well.
No one really gives a flying fuck about shitty wrong opinions
And yet, you keep posting this nonsense.
Except in r/conservative, perhaps where I should have told you to go back to instead
Ahh, I see - to you, the mere criticism of this being not newsworthy is somehow a defense of Trump therefore I'm conservative. Brilliant partisan thinking there.
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We’ve known how to meaningfully address this for ages - with the side benefit of actually improving lives - and neither party is willing to pursue it as it lies outside partisan wedge-driving around various bans.