That seems rather typical of a middle income economy.

Israel had a part in the Benghazi attack and provided intelligence on the attack to Republicans so they could use the attack as a political weapon.

That’s basic economic theory to prices. For prices to down in an elastic market, either supply needs to increase or demand needs to decrease.

Answering the can everyone do this question, the dip usually implies that everyone cannot do this.

The dip implies a drop in demand that is causing prices to dip.

A Senate impeachment trial is effectively a vote of the Senate. It doesn’t require bipartisanship.

I wouldn’t describe them as fake lucid dreams, but I’ve had them from time to time. I usually find them unsettling as I’m used to having more control in my dreams even if I am performing the actions that my dream wants me to do.

[The USA doesn’t] have a legal mechanism for it.

The South Korean impeachment only involved South Korea’s National Assembly and Constitutional Court. It is a similar procedure to the USA’s system, except that the impeachment trial would occur with the Supreme Court instead of the Senate.

Trump’s party has a majority in both Congressional houses. Also, for impeachment to become a conviction, you need 2/3 of the vote in the Senate to get Trump pushed out of office. That will require several of Trump’s party’s senators to vote for impeachment. During the last Trump impeachment, only one of Trump’s party voted for impeachment and he is no longer a senator.

It wasn’t like the military had that much better OPSEC. The code to launch American nuclear weapons for over, 15 years was 00000000.

The issue for China is that it needs people to purchase the goods that it makes to pay off the country’s sky high debt. Consumption form the USA is going to drop for various reasons, so domestic consumption was likely seen as a way to replace dropping international consumption.

I’m shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.

I haven’t been home for several days.

I’d also look into leaving the house, even if it is to just walk around the neighborhood.

Pax Americana has led to the dismantling of empires and the bimodal economic distribution disappearing. It was an improvement over the older world order.

It was a dumb mistake, but it was a dumb mistake that had broader political support than the narrative that “car companies destroyed mass transit” suggests. It is important to recognize how a broad base of support was created in order to fight it in its current interations.

And I completely agree that Musk tunnels are a shit technology and that actual trains need to be built. I just think it requires understanding how politics functions rather than just accepting a corporate bogeyman.

It is a lot more complicated than that.

Most early 20th century mass transit networks were private businesses subject to government regulation. Most of the government regulation focused on controlling fares, so there was a lot of deferred maintenance. This was made worse as some mass transit systems were built to be a loss leader to support selling real estate.

Several mass transit networks went bankrupt due to the combination of fares not covering expenses and reduced demand due to completion with cars. Most American cities weren’t equipped to take on subsiding or taking over mass transit, so they let the existing networks die.

Japan was forced to be demilitarized, but the US could have easily let Japan militarize as a US vassal state under the control of an American alliance, but it didn’t.

In regards to South Korea, it could choose to open negotiations to merge with North Korea. We even saw a conservative South Korean President impeached; the political implication bring a more pro-North Korean president taking power.

As someone who has ridden Mexico City’s and Istanbul’s metros, Americans should be fucking embarrassed of mass transit back home.

Japan’s politics are very different from American politics. While the USA has a two party system with one party who is generally dominant, Japan has had effectively a one party state since World War II. The NDP is so entrenched that factions within the party have greater power than other political parties.

Yeah, you can make the argument that Japan is a vassal state of the USA. However, the demilitarization of Japan was relatively popular amongst Japan’s neighbors.

Tankie isn’t a political ideology, it is a commentary on the practice of policy in comparison to stated beliefs.

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