Yeah I'm looking for the insult and I'm not finding it boss

You are correct, technically Prohibition worked, but its one of those "at what cost" scenarios. The absolute explosion in organized crime that came with it along with the associated cost of enforcement for fighting alcohol consumption makes the argument for a different approach.

I won't downvote you because what you said is true, its just that the negative association of the explosion of crime and government overreach into peoples' lives gives people a kneejerk reaction to the statement.

People often don't think of WHY the prohibition movement was so popular that it could get an amendment passed, but alcoholism at that time was so much more severe than we can even fathom today. Their approach was wrong, but they had legitimate grievance.

"For all the hardest projects"

The funny part of all of this is that EVs don't exist to save the environment, they exist to save car companies. Between the falling birth rates and the necessity to fix the car based infrastructure of cities, this "EV revolution" is a flash in the pan.

The amount of money and infrastructure that China dedicated to POVs will soon be an anchor around their neck as they come to reckon with the fallout of the "One Child" policy. They saw the US model as the method to reach global dominance, and went all in on a model that had alreasy reached the end of its relevance.

Oh make no mistake , France is still enforcing Neocolonialism in its "former" colonies. Its just that I see to many people (eee lemmy.ml) handwaive Chinas awful actions away because bad stuff happened before, and that logic only ever leads to things never getting better.

Hope they kept that water for when the town burns that data center to the ground.

They will be let out once they think nobody is watching.

What I don't get about the CCP shills is why they think I would trust the Chinese government when I don't even trust my own government.

Who are you to decide what languages are useful?

So its OK then that France did that? You can't excuse one instance of imperialism and complain about another. All Imperialism is bad, regardless of who is doing it to whom.

When the justice system refuses to function, other methods of maintaining order inevitability fill its gap.

The neat part about fractional banking is that the bank is allowed to just "create" money out of thin air and issue the debt to you. They don't have to have the money to issue the mortgage. They don't care that your debt is "risky" because investment banking is really just run off of vibes at this point.

Historically and today, discrimination has been a big factor in who gets approved for mortgages.