Compared to the way that Thump is running the United States of America and projecting his impotence on the world stage, there are dozens of countries better than it, including that notorious warzone that is Sweden.
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Compared to the way that Thump is running the United States of America and projecting his impotence on the world stage, there are dozens of countries better than it, including that notorious warzone that is Sweden.
Yeah the US does look pretty lame when you read those stats. But never let the facts get in the way of a good lie.....
Weak response. Low energy. Sad.
Nope, sorry, I'm not going to tolerate that shit. You can respond with your usual nonsense counterpoints, or you can preferably not respond at all if you have nothing constructive to add, but I'll be damned if you're gonna pull some dismissive and insulting "last word" drive-by crap again after GabyBee took the time and effort to refute what barely passed for an argument from you with facts from reputable sources. You talk about respectful dialogue all the time as if namecalling is the only way to be disrespectful, but here you have a poster who is willing to engage with you in a respectful tone with evidence and you are completely rude to her in return because you are incapable of refuting her argument. Stop that. You aren't "winning" anything by obnoxiously continuing the argument for no reason.
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Whilst the USA is one of the largest producers of renewable eneregy generation in terms of percentage this is not refelected as a percentage of power generated from renewable sources.
In terms of the G7
Canada - 64.5%
Italy 45.9%
Germany 32.7%
UK - 22.3%
France - 17.4%
Japan 15.5%
USA - 14.3%
as for other European Countries
Portugal - 44.5%
Finland - 41.8%
Sweden - 60.2%
Denmark 56.6%
Spain - 31%
Austria 78.4%
I could list more.
What about China and India
China - 24.4%
India - 19.1%
In case you are intereseted Russia comes in at 16.6%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_production_from_renewable_sources
It makes me wonder why the US has been downgraded to a flawed democracy, though.
This link says that the downgrade doesn't have to do with Trump's election (but rather, that they ascribe that to the same underlying causes) and that
But that in itself sounds like something a lot of Europeans complain about, too (you should hear the whining about the EU here). Is that really worse in the US?
This link says that the downgrade doesn't have to do with Trump's election (but rather, that they ascribe that to the same underlying causes) and that
But that in itself sounds like something a lot of Europeans complain about, too (you should hear the whining about the EU here). Is that really worse in the US?
I'm not even American but from all I can tell it's indeed much worse in the US. And then you add stuff like strategic voter suppression in primarily minority areas, the abundance of conspiracy theories, the level of honesty in political discourse and probably lots more.
But wouldn't the index look at individual countries within the EU, rather than the EU as a whole?
Is part of it down that the USA is more polarised when it comes to politics and parties in particular? Or perhaps it's a case the two main parties in the US are two far apart on the left-right spectrum whilst in other countries they are closer together so instead of being on the right and left they are centre-right and centre-left.
True. And I suppose the index would ignore the EU (and all the attitudes its inhabitants have to it) as it is not a political entity in the sense the U.S. is and only measure the degree of trust (or distrust) people have towards their own national government. Yet the EU has a great deal of influence on how nations conduct their affairs, and EU members have handed over part of their sovereignty. I wonder if that would be reflected in such national figures, or that EU attitudes should be weighted in a separate index to gain a complete picture.
A good example would be North Carolina's Republican controlled state legislature promptly stripping the powers of the state Governor immediately after the Democratic candidate won the gubernatorial race there.
Or that despite near universal approval in opinion polling, policies such as background checks for gun purchases, regulating Wall Street speculation, reforming the role of money in politics, etc. are nearly universally stonewalled in Congress. By Republicans in most cases.
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