NASA isn’t part of the DoD, so this has nothing to do with them.

I thought the main problem this bill was meant to address was that it was found there were tons of DoD funds being diverted into classified “UFO projects” which were then classified forever. The complete lack of accountability and obfuscation really means they could be channelling that money into literally anything. Someone in the department could be giving it all to their grandma and there would be zero paper trail or oversight.

So it’s not exactly far removed from keeping the government in check. Downplaying it as “just silly UFO stuff” is exactly what they want here.

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EDIT: I’m not 100% sure that it’s not a real Trump quote and am second guessing myself

If nothing you do matters, then the only thing that matters is what you do.

I do agree with this. However, voter apathy is literally doing nothing. If you are paying taxes, you are still contributing to and arguably passively supporting it.

Actions I would think might matter are things like protest, campaigning for a third party against the thing you are against, running yourself, or retreating from this government’s rule.

It could be argued that just by living in the country and not actively opposing the issue, then you are supporting it. Saying “I don’t support this thing so I didn’t vote for anyone”, then pay taxes to the government that does the thing and enjoy the rich society of the country that does the thing, you’re more actively participating in the thing than opposing it.

Someone is playing Ticket To Ride and going for that longest continuous route.

If a vote either way supports genocide and no vote does nothing to stop genocide, what’s the tangible difference?

Well you live in a facist leaning and fascist sympathising country. Now what? Apathy doesn’t seem like the best course of action.

That’s fair enough and all good points. Before this thread I didn’t know about Volvo’s parent company being Chinese and thought Polestar was simply a Swedish company owned by another Swedish company. Very disappoint to learn.

I feel like you’d be hard pressed to find a major corporation these days either not being owned by a foreign parent company/investor, or manufacturing their products in another country, or both. It’s kind of understandable when the raw materials are abundant in the country of manufacture, but it becomes a problem when there are questionable labour practices there, as you say.

Yeah, seems to be all white collar. I was going off another source I saw saying around 1900, but yours is suspiciously specific!

Anyway its definitely more than the 120 or so blue collar Tesla workers that started this whole thing.

Urgh. Sam Butt-Fish.

But where did he get the fish?

What about a small company? What if it’s your own business and it only employs family? What if you are the only employee? It’s okay to have an emotional stake in a business, just probably not when it’s a megacorp you’re on the lowest rung of.

It is true that there’s no Polestar manufacturing in Sweden and Tesla’s dispute seems to centre on those workers in Sweden. However there are still a couple of thousand Polestar employees in Sweden, whereas the Tesla action is against only ~120.

It is not just factory workers that are striking and getting involved. Every field in Sweden is unionised and it is not even just Tesla employees taking action against the company. As the link above states, dockworkers who are not affiliated with Tesla are refusing to unload their cars.

Sort of. The parent company is Chinese, but you don’t see the Swedish unions having massive strikes with Volvo or Polestar workers and they are headquartered there.

Something on the PS1