Some of this stuff is dated. Chinese healthcare used to be less available and more expensive until the government put efforts in changing that fact. China’s a nation that seems to believe that they can use their government to make things better.

He wasn’t a doddering old man. He was almost half Trump’s age.

Isn’t choosing 2017 a bit disingenuous as the average American isn’t doing as well financially as we were before we elected Trump the first time?

He’s really old and in bad shape. He probably can’t handle a temperature of 12f for very long.

It doesn’t in the actual square though as all the lights and people make it warmer.

He’s old. He probably can’t handle 12F for very long without looking and sounding really bad. Fascism can’t work if people see the leader as a doddering old man

Yes he did write bad code. I don’t believe the degree was even offered at that time as economics and physics are different departments

And Denmark and Greenland have no interest in the sake which is why pursuing this any further is an act of war by the USA on a NATO country.

That’s why the plural is in parenthesis.

He bought Twitter because he had to. He made a legally binding offer to purchase it at a soecific price per share as a joke and then was forced to follow through because Jack Dorsey et al did not take it as a joke.

Elon’s forced purchase of Twitter is proof how dumb he can be.

We did not purchase Puerto Rico. We took that in war.

Trump can’t claimland that is already owned by another nation.

Most of Alaska is empty and uninhabited does that mean China, Mongolia or Canada could claim it?

Regardless he’s doing this to benefit Russia amd not the USA as Trump does not work for the American people.

Musk has no teal programming credentials to speak of I thought. His degree(s) are physics and economics.

Acts of war are different than the crimes he has been accused of.

America cannot claim a NATO base. Do you need that explained to you?

Greenland houses an important NATO base that would be needed in a fight against Russia. This os why Trump wants Greenland

That’s a smokescreen. Greenland houses an incredibly important NATO base that would he critical should Russia try to project force westward into Central Europe.

Just like the Panama Canal, whose sanctions are negatively impacting Russia, this is Trump doing his master’s dirty work.

This is lemmy, not reddit. There’s a better than average chance the person you are talking to is a leftist and not a fascist.

Perhaps it us my American education in geography, but isn’t France still part of Europe?

The Gelph-Ghibelline conflict was about secular monarchism vs religious authority. Im not sure I see the point you’re making.

Because free and fair elections are determined internally as they always have? Whether elections are free and fair is determined by the state.

America cannot make Cuban elections less free or fair and you would have to fundamentally not understand what “free and fair” elections are to assert otherwise. If Cuban elections are neither free nor fair the culprit would be the Cuban government/Cuban Communist Party.

Cuba seems to only prmit the Cuban Communist Party to exist as a party. Robbing the citizenry the choice of what political path to follow is not the actions of free elections but is oppressive. Why would someone back the oppression of the will of the people?

And Europe was mired in mercantilist systems. The government gave business permission to exist in many cases.

America was the first to institute capitalism, Europeans cane up with the philosophy but America put it into practice.