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Most likely some shit about investing in the stock market, because both parties are so infauted with 'line must go up' that they will burn the entire planet and our society to ground to make it happen.

Besides that, the Democrats have lukewarm beliefs about tolerance and fair treatment, while the Republicans want a strictly hierarchal theocracy, so they'd probably agree to see other people.

Gotion High-Tech’s “Articles of Association” required the firm to establish a “Party organization and carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.”

Yah, because they're based in China. They have to follow the Chinese constitution. The same way American companies can't violate the American constitution. 'Party activities' just means 'doing business' because that is how communism works. Smh my head.

If your definition of a 'sane, competent' government is one that continues to rabidly support an ongoing genocide, I want none of it.

Not wrong. But I will point out that this will funnel a lot more money to China, which has been investing much more heavily in greentech than the US has. So overall it could actually be a plus - for climate change at least.

Huh, sounds like the state of Missouri plans to invade St Louis.

St Louisians, you know what to do with foreign invaders?

I mean, that is one glaring point of fridge logic. If you've seen how many people can cram onto a bus in developing countries, Immortan Joe's guys should have been like 15 to a car. Also, if gas is precious, why not use a train? They're substantially more efficient.

Yah. The fact that we're turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It's not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it's about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.

Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there's some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I'm guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.

These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.

Wouldn't even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it's an ethanol blend.

After that, you're down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.

Whole lotta minerals that will get a lot easier to exploite as the planet warms.

Copy-pasting the article since archive.is makes you do a captcha if you have a VPN:

President Trump said in a middle-of-the-night social media post early Thursday that he would come after the European Union and Canada if they banded together to “do economic harm” to America, opening a new front in the unfolding trade war.

“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!” Mr. Trump wrote.

Mr. Trump’s post creates a new problem for the European Union, which is already trying to respond to his tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and potentially a broader array of goods and services.

The United States is by far Europe’s most important trading partner, and the prospect of worse trading conditions has left the European Union scrambling to negotiate. But the Trump administration has showed little appetite to strike a deal so far.

“In the end, as it is said, one hand cannot clap,” Maros Sefcovic, the trade commissioner for the European Union, has said.

That has left Europeans seeking to strike new alliances and deepen existing trading relationships. And concerns about President Trump’s shifting stance on military support have driven partners like the European Union and Canada closer together. Canada is already working toward providing industrial support for Europe’s rearmament push.

European Commission officials did not immediately comment on Mr. Trump’s post.

“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!” Mr. Trump wrote.

'Be my friend or I'll hurt you' is literal crazy child shit.