Even if bans like this pass it will take several decades after those bans for ICE vehicles to actually disappear. The vast majority of cars sold here are used and buying one that’s 2 decades old is not uncommon. Until battery replacements become affordable the people who are buying used aren’t going to use EVs because those replacements cost more than a used ICE car.

It hasn’t made headlines though. Juststopoil goes after oil terminals, car manufacturers etc pretty often but it’s never reported on. The only protest that gets attention is souping painting or spraying cornflour on rocks.

I actually got permabanned from both without ever commenting on either. I think I argued with a few users from both under a post at .ml and that did it.

I already have the bear so I’d go with the blanket. I’m always just a bit too cold.

I just made a new account and deleted the old one when I needed to change the name. It’s stupid but it worked.

Libertarian still means anarchist pretty much everywhere, the US is the only place I know where it doesn’t. Ancaps don’t really exist outside of the US too at least not in any numbers to be relevant.

All tankies seem to want is a strongman dictator and to hate the US. I don’t care about the US but I’m definitely opposed to having a strongman dictator. Like if there was a group that wanted 90% of what I did but also wants to form an ethnostate, I would not work with that group.

The dissolution of the soviet union caused quite a lot of economic issues in countries more integrated into it’s economy so a poll that says a country was harmed by the dissolution isn’t saying much. I’m pretty sure quite a few German citizens would say they were harmed by the fall of the Nazi regime when it fell, that has no bearing on which was better or even which people prefer. Also in the poll for that source it seems the most anti USSR countries were skipped for some reason.

Also the living standards of 2011 Lithuania and Ukraine must have been pretty bad, I’m assuming that would also be the case for countries like Moldova too but that study only covers the 3. Lithuania is a bit of a surprise though but I doubt the numbers are anything close to that now as quality of life in the baltics has improved massively since the USSR.

The baltics are probably the best example of states harmed by USSR imperialism.

The USSR was unbelievably oppressive, especially to the annexed satellite states, the US being the same seems rather irrelevant, also as I pointed out it mostly benefitted the Russian people, not the annexed states they controlled.

Also I definitely need a source for the majority of people currently in ex soviet satellite states saying life was better under the USSR. Saying stuff like that here will most likely get you punched because pretty much anyone older than 40 either lost someone personally to the USSR occupation or knows someone who did.

The USSR was better for Russia than what came before, for all the satellite states they annexed and stole resources from they were worse.

If the US is disappearing people into forced labor camps and working them either close to death or to death now doesn’t make it a good thing when the USSR did it.

All the ethnic cleansing stand out pretty well.

“Because they turned themselves from a shithole nation into a world superpower practically overnight.”

The secret ingredient was a metric fuckton of imperialism.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

I use Pop OS right now but I’m goung back manjaro soon. I’m avoiding Arch because of how annoying it is to install it. After doing the whole install for like the 4th time I just can’t anymore. It should really have an option to just use a proper installer as well.