It’s been well reported on that Russia doesn’t work like that, with junior officers unable to use initiative and the whole system being very slow to respond to changing events. The reason it operates like this was shown when they did try having a more independent unit, which resulted in the Wagner Group mutinying.
That’s standard in Western militaries. It means units aren’t paralyzed by unexpected circumstances while they wait for communication to go up and down the chain of command, and it improves resilience if communications or senior officers are incapacitated.
The electoral college exists to give slave states more votes.
More often dictators take control of the church and use it for propaganda.
People talk a lot about the genericisation of brand names, but the branding of generic terms like this really annoys me.
I’ll use the example I first noticed. A few years ago, the Conservative government was under criticism for the minimum wage being well under a living wage. In response, they brought in the National Living Wage, which was an increase to the minimum wage, but still under the actual living wage. However, because of the branding, it makes criticising it for not meeting the actual living wage more difficult, as you have to explain the difference between the two, and as the saying goes, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing”.
R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of “fraud prevention”.
They say, while their supporters are the ones committing all of the fraud.
For anyone thinking of refusing to vote for Harris over Gaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_peace_plan
Heard an interview a while ago with a founder of Just Stop Oil who clearly said he doesn’t care whether they even stop climate change (around 40:00-43:00).
What does Vincent van Gogh have to do with the current state of the petrol industry?
It’s famous, so attacking it gets attention.
“Trump, I think that dictator is an imperialist! His Siberia is colonised, his Chechnya is colonised, and I’m pretty sure that Belarus is colonised!”
“A dictator who has lots of colonies is less likely to invade countries than a dictator whose colony supplies are low”
States are fairly arbitrary divisions of land and I don’t think they need representation separate from the representation their people have.
They’re both problems.
Ranked choice for presidency, proportional for congress (and the senate if that’s worth having exist at all).
How do you stop a majority of the electoral college from completely trouncing the concerns of the other states?
I bet no one remembers even a quarter of this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
The heedless shitposting for those who don’t remember: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-image-from-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
They give scraps and empty promises until you’re no longer useful to them.
The left: We don’t stand a chance with all our petty infighting
The right:
The problem Trump has with the two party system is he wants it to be a one party system.
Musk has objected to legal orders to remove some posts and accounts in Brazil and Australia, claiming he was a champion of free speech, although he has been less vocal about removing content in countries such as Turkey and India.
What a coincidence he doesn’t have a problem following countries with leaders infamous for oppressing minorities.
Total coincidence they picked someone Jewish for their conspiracies about bankers secretly controlling the world.