Cowbee_Admirer
They are famously not waiting for any provocation, people are already getting disappeared and murdered in public. I'm not advocating for lone wolf type attacks, but people absolutely must assemble in groups and arm themselves, black panther style as is happening in Philadelphia
It's already happening actually, there are news of more and more people joining the Black Panthers in Philadelphia.
The standard for NATO has always been to only accept democracies
As defined by whom exactly? Chinese citizens will tell you that they're in a democracy and very satisfied with it, much more so than Spaniards for example (my homeland)
I'd even go so far as to make respect of human rights a demand too like we have in EU
EU is literally funding the genocide of Palestinians with 0 economic or political sanctions to Israel coming from governments. By that logic, all of EU deserves out of NATO immediately. NATO also triggered the Libyan civil war through bombing, bombed Yugoslavia, and many NATO countries directly participated in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
By Azura by Azura by Azura!!
Likely, but damage to roads increases with the square power of vehicle weight per wheel, meaning that just by virtue of being half the weight per wheel than cars their impact on road degradation is negligible.
No serious political scientist claims democracy is a matter of ideology or “who feels represented.”
This simply isn't true, ask Cuban political scientists or Chinese ones or Vietnamese ones.
There is broad cross-national agreement
Argument from the majority. By that logic, Taylor Swift objectively makes the best music in the planet, and Jazz isn't real music.
There’s no need for a supranational authority to decide this any more than there is one for physics
Ridiculous comparison. Political sciences are not a hard science, and different political systems give rise to different interpretations. The fact is that this "broad cross-national agreement" is rejected by many, many scholars, particularly Marxist ones, with Marxist political scientists describing the western system as "bourgeois democracy", meaning that despite suffrage once every four years, the outcomes are functionally the same as if only the 10% wealthiest voted. This is serious criticism based on empirical studies (such as likelihood of laws to pass based on what percentage of the population agree with them by income), and you cannot simply disregard it as "it's not the consensus".
The decisive distinction is whether these actions can be challenged, exposed, reversed, and punished
Macron is president and won't go to jail, the ECB is still operative and no bureaucrat will go to jail for destroying the Greek economy, nobody has gone to jail in Spain for tampering with democracy and fabricating false evidence from within the police, and the judges in the highest court of Germany won't go to jail.
they lose their freedom, their lives, or very famously, fall out of windows
The fact that you aren't aware of these things happening in Europe or the USA doesn't mean they don't happen. You could look up the cases of Rita Barberá or Miguel Blesa, both higher ups of the conservative party in Spain (PP) who died in mysterious circumstances shortly before going to trial, or Fabra winning the lottery 3 or 4 times. Ask the Catalonian pro-independence politicians if there is democracy and political freedom in Spain, with many of them enjailed or fleeing the country as political refugees. Ask Julian Assange or Edward Snowden about freedom in western "democracies".
In Romania, they declared a candidate illegal
In Estonia they also recently determined a decade in jail for a few pro-Russian politicians. Not saying that necessarily that's a bad thing, those are just right wing ghouls, my problem is more why those same mechanisms aren't used against our autoctonous far-right
Not to defend the horrifying Spanish Empire, but it didn't contain genocide of natives as a tenet. It enslaved people, spread diseases and wars, and murdered millions upon millions, but go to Peru and you'll see that at least it didn't reach the goal of extermination to the degree that happened in North America.
I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago
Ten years ago Swanson's law for solar photovoltaics was well established, not comparable.
iCharlie? More like no hay Charlie
Famously the industrial revolution in Europe didn't kickstart with 40 hour workweeks and high salaries. England and France both were colonial empires at the time benefitting for centuries from slave ownership in half of the world, and domestic working conditions weren't much better either.
I actually agree with that, but with neoliberalism baked into EU policy, it's impossible to make industry competitive. Without protectionism and a boost of productive forces, the EU simply cannot compete internationally.