And you're entirely wrong. The USSR had a nuclear power that was twice as large as the United States & Western Europe combined.
The USSR had the largest army in the world. Not just larger than Europe.
Did someone tell you uniting must be against employers only?
This is why smart people form coalitions, so they don't get bullied and swamped by the big guy and his twice as large.
Now, if only Nigerians too learnt to work together instead of being divided against one another and conquered. How much more powerful and effective might we be.
WriteerNg: If you have to join a cult or group to protect yourself from someone on your street, does that not make that person more powerful than all of you combined? Does that not make you weaker?
Like if my work colleagues and I form a union we make our boss more powerful?
Upside down thinking I think that is, because, fact is, we formed the union because our boss was already more powerful, and by uniting can we stand up to him.
USSR had the largest army in Europe, and a stockpile of nuclear weapons that dwarfed that of the entire western Europe combined. It was smart of them to form Nato (and the European Union) to protect themselves against Russia, as they'd easily be conquered standing alone.
IjeBos: I think Dems thought they could reason with crazy.
I think Dems know they are reasoning with Joe Public, as in We The People, and if Joe don't see it now, they will in the future they hope, which some [more] are seeing now.
Can't wait for midterms. If Republicans lose only a handful of seats, I'll call it the midterm dump and assume maga will do well in the next presidential. Otherwise, they are toast, unless Dems really screw up with a bad nominee.
That said, dump for third term please. I want the lesson to really sink in.
IjeBos: It's the energy that we need. But it's going to be a struggle for some Dems who have a genuine fulsome belief in things like political gerrymandering is bad. But you can't play with some self-imposed rules while the refs aren't calling any fouls/cheating on the other side.
Look at the FBI. Bush appoints Republican Comey, Obama keeps him. Trump fires him and appoints Republican Wray. Biden keeps Wray. Trump fires Wray and appoints Republican Kash Patel. Dems keep Republican FBI directors afraid to look political while Republicans appoint Republican FBI directors (Trump even firing the one he hired).
Dems keep Republican FBI directors because of their own democratic values and semi obedience to the law, and that is why some vote Blue and would not vote Blue if Blues start behaving like those deplorable maga republicans.
You don't go lower because they go lower. You go higher when they go lower, and trust We The People.
benalvino3: Haven't you been on the wrong side of everything?
I don't see police against cat calls as the wrong side of everything because such police are more likely to be against rapists, which I hope is your wrong side too.
A female police officer who volunteered to run in plain clothes to catch catcallers has said their behaviour "makes me feel really sort of icky".
PC Abby Hayward, who works for Surrey Police, said she was honked at twice during a 5km (3-mile) undercover run.
The force's Jog On campaign sees female police officers running in targeted locations, with uniformed officers on hand nearby to deal with perpetrators who catcall or shout sexually suggestive comments.
PC Hayward said: "When I'm on my own, I don't have the backup. It just ruins my whole run."
Other officers involved in the scheme said it is an issue that affects them outside of work.
The campaign also comes after a Surrey County Council survey found that while 94% of female residents asked said they had experienced a form of harassment, nearly half said they had never reported it.
feedthenation: ---Wholesale prices surged in July, reigniting inflation worries---July’s PPI jump was the biggest in three years---raising the risk that consumer inflation will follow — and that any rate cuts will stall---
And the bets are Powell will lower interests rates.
In another inflation shocker – services again! – the Producer Price Index Final Demand for Services exploded by 1.08% in July from June (+13.8% annualized!), the worst since March 2022 when inflation was peaking (blue in the chart). It was broad based: Prices for services less trade, transportation, and warehousing spiked by 0.69% (8.6% annualized), while prices for transportation and warehousing services spiked by 1.01% (12.8% annualized).
This explosion in services prices caused the “core” PPI Final Demand, which excludes food and energy, to spike by 0.92% month-to-month (+11.6% annualized), the worst since March 2022. And it caused the overall PPI Final Demand to spike by 0.94% (+11.9% annualized), the worst since March 2022, with food prices and energy prices also surging.
benalvino3: A guy sesually assaulted a girl. He told the judge he had troubled past and they judge says you are the victim not the one you assaulted.
I'm glad you've adjusted from your exaggerated "r pist", to "sesually assaulted". Its progress. Now do same on the fact the judge never said "you are the victim", and stop with the gaslight.
Are you serious? No one voted to feed and house illegal migrants in a luxury hotel. £70 per week, multiple square meals.
As a paid member of the Labour Party that is now in government because the majority of us and I voted for them, I am very serious.
If we woke liberals don't like the maga deporting illegals and changing the environment and helping genociders and tariffs and starving Gaza that the majority voted for, you must tell us to go and drink our tears until the next election please.
benalvino3: This skills are rubbish. Their work are repetitive. They don't need problem solving skills. Interpersonal skills? Lol.
This your thinking is how many Nigerians unreason then claim they are unemployed.
You need most of those skills to flip burgers. The job after all includes customer service, hence interpersonal skills, and cleaning sick off the toilet seat, which does require you solve a problem.
basilico: You can use data to prove anything. For instance your posts here could be used in a court to prove you are mentally unstable and a danger to your children.
So, you mean you can make crap up in your head and lie? Thankfully, courts are not gullible like you, and would require evidence and proof before they accept what you lie about.
Incidentally, Wolf Richter has been leaning maga recently. He loves tariffs and even seems to be deleting antimaga posts sometimes, but the data does not lie nor can he say he is too blind to see it.