There are swaths of people out there praising the “Nordic model”, even claiming that it’s the best socialist mode ever. Not to mention Europeans in places like reddit, who pretend racism is what Yankees do
I don’t. I just suffer through it until either something (like work) distracts me well enough to stop paying attention, or I go to sleep and stop being conscious
Well I’ve never seen a gas stove that couldn’t be more or less safely lit with a match. My own technically has an electric igniter, but it’s broken, so I use a lighter
Problem is, if the grid goes down - you suddenly lose everything. And the grid can occasionally go down, whether due to malfunction or malicious intent (as was the case in North Carolina recently)
As my friend jokes: “Oil will be pumped through Baltics, where they’ll remove the molecule of totalitarianism, add a molecule of European Values and Freedom, then pumped to Germany”
On a serious note: this means that the oil capitalists (and frankly other capitalists) will just continue with their stealing and moving their wealth offshore, while the commoners will be blocked out. Making it only easier for capitalists to hide their stolen wealth.
“Privately admitted” got about as much credibility as “anonymous sources”