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Comment Re:electric cars are gay (Score 2) 189

Yeah, great. So I just have to rent a proper car for that other 7%.

My younger daughter lives in Manchester, we live in the Highlands of Scotland. The distance between the two is 300 miles. There are service stations all along the route and all have EV charging points. If and when we change our car, it will almost certainly to be to an EV, given that there is no problem with find a charging point.

Comment Re:Don't gloat. (Score 1) 716

You have a chance to start the process of internal and external repair.

I think I may be dead before the US recovers it's standing in the world.

The one success that Trump has had is to have made other countries look at things like trade policy and digital sovereignty in order to protect themselves in the future.

Comment Tump is a Democratic Asset (Score 1) 716

Personally, if I was the Democrats, I would leave Trump alone. Every time he throws a tantrum, vetoes a bill or makes a particularly ludicrous executive order the Democrats can use it in their favour.

His supporters are another matter. Trump Jr. and Kushner must be vulnerable to corruption investigations, and the link between the MAGA cultists and power could surely be cut.

Comment Re:From what I can see... (Score 5, Informative) 79

"Gee gosh golly wiz. None of us can explain how the guy losing handily suddenly magically won the election during the historically unprecedented two hour extension that his own personal defense attorney gave him. Isn't democracy just so inexplicable sometimes?"

You know, if you had looked at media outlets such as ABC News you would have found that both candidates teams asked for extensions.

Comment Re:Lula won despite US interference (Score 1, Insightful) 79

Whatever it is, it is not the Guardian. I fail to see how Slashdot can quote the Guardian for anything. It is like quoting the National Enquirer.or the Onion

So you can't (or won't) give your opinion on which newspapers we should trust, not do you present any evidence as to why we should not trust the Guardian.

Given this, is there any reason that we should take your opinion seriously?

Comment Re:Following the Trump playbook (Score 3, Informative) 79

You don't find it a bit odd that Bolsonaro defeated Lula in the election, but didn't get 50% of the vote, and then loses in the runoff? That is unprecedented in Brasil.

As David Hume showed long ago, the fact that something happened regularly in the past is not a guarantee that it will happen in the future.

Perhaps it does warrant some scrutiny.

Lula secured 51.79% of the votes compared with Bolsonaro’s 48.21%, according to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court – about 4.4m more votes. If, according to you, this warrants scrutiny then presumably if Lula had won 48.21% and Bolsanaro 51.79% then this too would warrant scruting...

Comment Re:Good, nothing of value to the public is lost. (Score 2) 34

The UK is already overcrowded and property punitively expensive.

Really? Got evidence?

I am baffled that they were going to build this centre in Essex, which is more crowded and expensive than other parts of the UK. We need to convince foreign businesses that other parts of the UK, apart from London and the SE of England exist. There are lots of places in the north of England, Scotland and Wales where connection to the National Grid is easier, and where other costs are substantially lower.

Comment Re:Who Benefits from a Belligerent Iran ??? (Score 0) 49

Former President Obama said that the Biden/Harris Administration was "continuing and building on" the Obama Administration

There was a deal between the US and Iran that was negotiated during Obama's presidency. You might argue that it wasn't the best of deals, but it did lower tensions, and constrained what Iran could do.

Trump didn't attempt to improve the deal, he just withdrew from it in 2018, which removed the constraints on Iran enriching uranium. He has done nothing to fix this in either of his terms in office.

But this war began with the war in Gaza, which started October 7, 2023 - during the Biden/Harris Administration.

Ah, so it took place during Biden's presidecy, therefore it was purely down to Biden, no other factors whatsoever.

Iran is a vile, authoritarian theocracy. So what success has Trump had reducing or eliminating the authoritarianism of the regime? How goes the negotiations to end the war and reopen shipping in the Middle East?

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