No-one is saying “stop building solar and wind”. Nuclear is for transitioning and should’ve been built 10-20 years ago, but now is also a good time.

Better blame an immigrant!

It’s better than coal and oil. People shit the bed because of 2 big events that happened to old reactor types which were susceptible to such errors.

Honestly, would you rather live in a world where nuclear and gas are used to transition or coal and oil? Wind and solar still can’t power all of Europe 24/7. Solutions are being worked on, tested, and built, but in the meantime, I’ll sleep better with coal and oil centrals being replaced by nuclear. They will use less space, provide more stable power, and serve as a fine transition until the storage issue has been solved.

Of course subsidies for coal and oil should be phased out ASAP, but let’s not paint a pure coal and oil transitional period as better.

Germany is a already a nazi state. The elections are just lagging. If the majority were really against Nazis, these fucks wouldn’t even be in parliament, but the majority is just silently OK with it because they either don’t vote or vote for AfD-lite.

Not only the average voter is OK with the narrative, the editor of newpapers like DW are too:

After the AfD, which is classified as partly right-wing extremist, became the strongest force in the city of 265,000 inhabitants with 24.7% of votes in the federal elections in February, it is now hoping for more success deep in western Germany.

They have been classified right-wing, not “partly”.

Will somebody shoot this guy to make him a martyr?

My dreams have certainly changed, but they aren’t smaller. My dreams now involve space travel to other galaxies and particle physics, which is different from what I dreamt of as a kid which was building a space elevator, drilling to the middle of the earth, and solving world poverty. Well, the last one was naively assuming that poverty was a natural result in a world of benevolent humans.

The universe is still infinite. Take a look at this “Timelapse of the future of the universe” and tell me it doesn’t make you dream of how different our existence could be. Or this one about Egoistic Altruism.

Zelensky… why are you doing this?

Everybody’s a racist, it’s just to what degree. Just like everybody’s a hypocrite.

I can only hope that you are right.

The same vibes can lead to feeling on board with mass deportation.

Only a minority would be totally on board.

If by minority you mean <50%, then yes. But given how many people voted for Trump, the percentage could be substantially higher than 20%.

The rest of the world will be watching, so there will be sufficient documentation.

Good question. Would South Africa accept the refugees?

It’s going to be fun seeing the administration trying to come up with a legal definition of white and hearing the outcry of MAGAists who suddenly discover they aren’t “white”.

If it’s collapse, I hope it will be well documented, so that the world learns from it. It could quell all the right-wing rhetoric world-wide if the US collapsed from such a stunt.

The EU is already doing its best to attract scientists from the US, so if you’re educated, you might have good chances, especially if you’re willing to learn a new language. Probably you could get your family into the EU too.

I honesly don’t know where the Black American population is gonna go. I mean, the continent of Africa has been divided so much by European colonialization, that its very hard to track back to an ancestry origin.

This is one thing I’m kinda hopeful about actually. The continent is really large and spreading out 100 million people across it could work out quite well. Black culture is already pretty popular in parts of Africa, and Black women in the US are the biggest group of people getting degrees, if I’m not mistaken. It could be massive brain drain from the US to the advantage of African countries.

Also the world could be at risk, since the US would end up as a war zone… Imagine the KKK or other neo-nazi groups gaining access to a nuclear silo…

Indeed. I do wonder how quickly they’d go from “we’re the best, we don’t need y’all” to “alright, give us everything you got!”.

I’m at the point where I am leaning more and more into the “just burn it all down and start over” side of things.

FPTP is probably the biggest problem, IMO. If there were proportional representation in the senate and house of representatives with ranked choice voting, some instant run-off for single-winner elections, the US would probably look very different. Of course things like restricting presidential powers, and disconnecting the judiciary from political influence would do something too, but the aforementioned things would probably do more.

Wouldn’t surprise me if the MAGA crowd considered itself as “native” and conveniently ignored the indigenous population completely, just like bible thumpers believe “dinosaurs were put here to test us” and that the world is 9000-15000 years old. My guess: they’ll say “American Indians --> Indians --> India”. It’s the most simplistic thing I could think of.

It doesn’t seem like ICE has problems with that at the moment.

If the current US administration had to do it, my bet is the family guy meme