Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".

I guess in this case not "nepo babies"... just plain old discrimination.
The poor don't get the opportunities that richer folks do.

Go ahead blame China for having the technical knowledge and market savvy to out compete US automakers who still think that ICE cars have a future.

This just illustrates the way the rich get richer.
Going to a "good" school means that you make connections to get a good job and then it just keeps going from there on out.

Blankly blocking immigration is indeed a bad idea. But an population limit is not.
I'm from The Netherlands myself and this country is massive overcrowded (one of the most densely populated countries on the planet).
It would seriously help if our population would drop down to like 12 million instead of the current 17,5

Generally if they want more babies, make it more affordable for people to have children.
So lower costs of living, paid time off for the mother/parents, stuff like that.

Indeed, there is no reason why people from other parts of the globe naturally would have a lower IQ.
That the environment makes that it does not reach its biological limit, well that is a given.

With one exception though: the regions where they have a tendency to marry to their nephews/nieces.
We know that incest is bad for general health and IQ.

I don't know where you got your knowledge about EV's but it is plain wrong.
Yes EV's are a little heavier so they have some more tire wear, especially if you use bad tires on them.

BUT, EV's rarely use their physical brakes (they regen brake) and no emissions from a tailpipe.
They massive reduce the tiny particle emissions compared to an ICE, let alone compared to a diesel car.
And that is not even taking in account that an EV takes about 1/3 of the energy required to move compared to an ICE car.

I agree though that you yanks have a serious car addiction and really need to make better public transport and walk-able cities.

Believe me, maintaining the Docker-containers is way less of a hassle to try to keep VM's up to date across all dev-machines and test-servers.

MAGAs are convinced by repeated lies that Biden did everything that Trump did. Their reflex on everything is that Biden did it. When you ask what evidence there is, they say the mainstream media didn't report it. So, that is a thread in authoritarian doublespeak, just say that someone else did it, make it up, lie about it, then do it.

There is a possibility, that the lifelong Politicians may finally grow a conscience, and look at evidence, and convict Trump. They were ready to do that with Nixon before he resigned.

More racist, and anti-democratic.... I talked to a MAGA the other day, and I was truly surprised at how much he bought into the propaganda. The point of it all does seem to be racism and power, but he is clueless about that because MAGAs repeat talking points that kind of seem reasonable. The whole point of the policies, boiled down, is to make America white, and absolute power. I am white and I already feel some fear at voting next year, I just know there will be masked MAGA police answerable only to Trump asking for my papers before I am allowed to vote.

I was thinking today... that after next November, and the Democrats take back the House, that there will be a non-stop series of impeachments over all sorts of things, but I suspect Bribery will be prominent. Of course the Senate will acquit, but it will be a popcorn period of time watching a great soap opera.

USAID was horrifically corrupt

The cuts to USAID are projected to cause 14 million extra deaths - a large minority of those children - by 2030. And USAID engendered massive goodwill among its recipients

But no, by all means kill a couple million people per year and worsen living conditions (creating more migration) in order to save $23 per person, that's clearly Very Smart(TM).

And I don't know how to inform you of this, but the year is now 2025 and the Cold War and the politics therein ended nearly four decades ago. And USAID was not created "to smuggle CIA officers" (though CIA offers used every means available to them to do their work, certainly), it was created as a counterbalance to the USSR's use of similar soft power to turn the Third World to *its* side.