Probably, and the EU was talking a big game about that a few years ago. But between Nordstream 2 and the Ukraine war the EU seems to have shown how willing it actually is to decouple...
> What is the US going to offer in return. Nothing, it's a hostage situation.
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Again this is 5% _of deaths_ not 5% of the population. So it's roughly in line with the number of people who die from random accidents in a given year.
How does "valuing human life" help people who would be deaths of despair under a program like this? That just sounds like idealism.
oh my god https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
i dont think people revolt because they feel bad when they compare themselves to the 1%. People revolt because they have nothing to lose. Their material conditions are the most important thing in this equation. I'm sure…
is this a serious comment? Rupert murdoch is a global media baron, he literally owns news outlets that encourage people to vote in one way or another. Do you think those news outlets are free of his ideology? do you…
I'm not going to keep going back and forth with you but since you insist on me addressing the subs thing it's worth pointing out that the ships mentioned in the article were just present in the days ahead of the leaks…
> The PR disaster that would ensue if the US were caught doing this Why would the US care about a PR disaster? It's not like Europe has any choice in the matter at this point. > Whereas: we have Vladmir Putin who is…
If the pipeline was shut off it could presumably be turned back on. If the pipeline was blown up that changes things. At a time when much of the world is looking toward China and Russia instead of the US, Europe has…
> But the lawsuit isn't arguing that "companies need to consider the downstream impacts of the things they do." It seems like it is though? From the text of the article: > These activities pose risks to political…
> now that there actually is a free market ???
I'm just a two-bit software engineer and not a lawyer but I'll go against the general flow of the rest of the posts here and say "this is interesting." Whether or not it will work is another question, but it seems like…
Probably, and the EU was talking a big game about that a few years ago. But between Nordstream 2 and the Ukraine war the EU seems to have shown how willing it actually is to decouple...
> What is the US going to offer in return. Nothing, it's a hostage situation.
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Again this is 5% _of deaths_ not 5% of the population. So it's roughly in line with the number of people who die from random accidents in a given year.
How does "valuing human life" help people who would be deaths of despair under a program like this? That just sounds like idealism.
oh my god https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
i dont think people revolt because they feel bad when they compare themselves to the 1%. People revolt because they have nothing to lose. Their material conditions are the most important thing in this equation. I'm sure…
is this a serious comment? Rupert murdoch is a global media baron, he literally owns news outlets that encourage people to vote in one way or another. Do you think those news outlets are free of his ideology? do you…
I'm not going to keep going back and forth with you but since you insist on me addressing the subs thing it's worth pointing out that the ships mentioned in the article were just present in the days ahead of the leaks…
> The PR disaster that would ensue if the US were caught doing this Why would the US care about a PR disaster? It's not like Europe has any choice in the matter at this point. > Whereas: we have Vladmir Putin who is…
If the pipeline was shut off it could presumably be turned back on. If the pipeline was blown up that changes things. At a time when much of the world is looking toward China and Russia instead of the US, Europe has…
> But the lawsuit isn't arguing that "companies need to consider the downstream impacts of the things they do." It seems like it is though? From the text of the article: > These activities pose risks to political…
> now that there actually is a free market ???
I'm just a two-bit software engineer and not a lawyer but I'll go against the general flow of the rest of the posts here and say "this is interesting." Whether or not it will work is another question, but it seems like…