The head of the security service isn’t just a meathead bit of heavy muscle there to jump in front of a bullet.
Martial law also isn’t some obscure policy, it’s an internationally understood term that replaces the democratic civilian parliament with military rule.
This is definitely something someone in his position should be very aware of and should be willing to do something about.
Less safe? What features do you need that, say, a 2015 model can’t have?
An ICE that is still on the go is more environmentally friendly than manufacturing an EV from new… A new EV versus a new ICE, yeah fair enough. But replacing a perfectly functional ICE vehicle with a new EV for environmental reasons is just marketing, consumerism, and trend following.
To stop bullshit spying of every part of a vehicle, to stop bullshit waste of perfectly functional vehicles, buy used.
Obviously, fuck cars, use public transport if you can, but that’s unfeasible for most, so buy used!
Especially if you can get your hands on something like a 1.0l with a giant turbo strapped to the side. They’re pretty common in Europe, I don’t know about America.
Then don’t buy anything.
If you want to stop shit behaviour you need to provide consequences.
Buy a used car instead, there’s plenty of them.
When the new car market falls apart these manufacturers will change their ways.
But because people are unwilling to part with even the tiniest bit of convenience, prestige, whatever the fuck it is, I wish I knew, then the bad behaviour is encouraged and then you’re left in a situation where the market sees there’s no consequences for adding this shit to their products and they all do it.
Then everybody suffers.
Good. Fuck the industrialisation of all of our land. Leave some to be wild!
They made deserts where trees once stood
Squeezing from the land every penny that they could
Ethnic cleansing of the glens for farming sheep
'Cause that way there’s more profit for the rich scum to reap (rape)
“Beautiful bleak moorland?” I don’t think so!
This is a place where great forests used to grow
Laid waste by a rich man’s greed
Reclaim the land and plant the seed
It’s only crazy effective if it’s not expected. If it becomes the norm then everyone just starts wearing foam ear plugs, maybe ear defenders if they’re fancy.
It’s easily defeated and incites the wrath of the populace. It’s dumb to use, especially during a moment of silence for the dead.
To those downvoting blakenong, have a read of this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests
The day was described by social movement researchers as “the largest protest event in human history”.[1]
I don’t want to burst the feeling of optimism, but unless there’s consequences, a general strike, riots, whatever, I don’t know, something, nothing will happen.
If everyone goes back to their day job after standing out in the cold for a day or two and then pats themselves on the back saying “yeah, we showed them”, then nothing changes.
Protest is dead. The powers that be don’t care if there’s a million people shouting and screaming. Unless they suffer consequences, nothing will change.
A giant death ray? A military application?
If you want an understanding of the cuckoo clock and how it came to be, I highly recommend you watch the BBC documentary HyperNormalisation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.
The lyrics for this song, particularly the finale quote, are pretty apt to your point. NSFW if your boss doesn’t like the word fuck.
America is racist.
Not every American, obviously.
But as a nation, institutionally, America is racist.
Some times it’s more so than others, but it always is, to varying degrees throughout its history.
Why is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Second Lord of the Treasury having to build corporate relationships by accepting bribes in the first place?
I understand it’s a very mild bribe in the grand scheme of things, but it’s still free goods and services in the hope of getting something in return that they wouldn’t normally. A bribe.
Until you’ve been doing it for a few years, and it’s winter, and you only have 6 hours of daylight per day, and you see 0 of them.
I won’t. You can’t kill rock and roll!
As Tywin Lannister said “Any man who must say, “I am the King”, is no true king.”
Any man who goes around telling everyone they’re brave, probably isn’t brave. In fact it’s incredibly cringe.
A cringe country full of cringe people who say one thing but do another. Claim to stand for freedom, democracy, and liberty whilst oppressing all of those things both at home and abroad.
Land of the cowards.
I think it’s moved on to “Fuck the U.S.A.” by The Exploited by now.
Fuiam Catha by Oi Polloi from 1999.
Despite the Gaelic name, only one song is in Gaelic. The rest is in English.
Pro-environmentalism, anti-fascist, Scottish anarcho-punk.
Fuiam Catha means Sound of Battle.
Aye that’s fair. We’ve a weird history with being both oppressed and oppressor simultaneously.
Oh wow, sealbh math dhuit! Tha mi ag ionnsachadh cuideachd ach tha Duolingo ceac. Is dòcha gun cuidich seo: https://www.davebanks.com/Gaelic/pdf/The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic.pdf
Source for the curious:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/63644/pg63644-images.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63644