Nazi sidekicks, but also Linux and Nokia, so I don’t know.

I think Ireland at least should be excluded; they were colonised by the British.

Okay, but hear me out:

Alligator-mounted velociraptors

If a developing country invests in public education, free healthcare, transport infrastructure, housing, etc., is that not social democracy? Why wouldn’t that work?

The label shift was a survival tactic

Fair, but why can’t social democracy function in a peripheral (=developing?) country?

Social democracy needs superprofits from the periphery to fund the core.

But there are social democratic parties in developing countries.

even if we were only using half the oil we presently are when the strait was shut down, the same portion would likely be coming from there, so the “shock” would still be the same

The same fraction of oil production, yes, but a much smaller fraction of total energy production.

You would still have shortages of specific fractions that have non-energy uses (like Helium or plastics), but at least fuel would be less affected.

But in 10-15 years nobody will let the Strait of Hormuz get blocked like this again.

How??? You have giant, slow, unarmed ships filled with flammable liquid that are forced to go through a small channel. Forget missiles and drones; you could set them on fire with artillery.

More likely, in 10-15 years we will have moved away from fossil fuels to the point that a closure will no longer crash the world economy.

The point is, it’s not an apples to oranges comparison when you talk about the energy efficiency of an EV vs. a ICE car.

Energy efficiency does matter because even if you are burning diesel to generate electricity, you can make power stations a lot more efficient than car engines. So shifting from ICE cars to EVs would reduce fuel use even in the absence of green electricity.

ICE cars are inefficient, but carry around a very energy dense fuel source and can go hundreds, sometimes thousands of km without needing to stop. EVs have much more efficient engines, but have to drag around really heavy batteries that aren’t very energy dense.

This is true, but like I said, the difference isn’t huge. An ICE car’s fuel + engine would be in the 100 - 400kg range, while an EV’s batteries + motor would be in the 200 - 500kg range. An additional 10% or so of weight is bad, but is outweighed by the at least fourfold increase in efficiency.

60 kg of fuel, which can supply 2.74 GJ of energy

‘Contain’, not ‘can supply’ 2.74 GJ of energy. At 20% efficiency, you’d need a 800kg battery to match.

https://m.xkcd.com/2501/

The only thing that stood out to me was the high heels and skirt instead of proper trousers.

Fascists are not constrained by having to respect reality.

The weight of the fuel tank is dwarfed by the weight of the engine, which can go from 100 (petrol kei car) to 300 (diesel) kg. The battery packs on modern EVs are still heavier, usually in the 200 - 400 kg range, but the difference isn’t as stark as fuel density alone might suggest.

I kinda wonder why Iran isn’t pushing a lot harder to manipulate public opinion.

They do. I have seen public statements by Iranian officials, and even memes (mostly AI), here on lemmy.

But they’re mostly in Parsi and Arabic, since that’s the audience they care about. Iran is trying to end the US threat against them, which probably means removing US bases in the Middle East and getting the Gulf powers on their side. So they don’t talk about rising fuel prices, they talk about Palestine, the massacre of the schoolgirls, and freedom in general.

A text editor shouldn’t be having security breaches.

Iran is absolutely not shown as a terrorist state in India. India has economic ties to Iran, and everyone understands that the US started this war.

what do you think would have happened if they wound down their involvement with the u.s., and actually tried to come to their own arrangement with Iran?

Then the US would have bombed them too. The petrodollar is the core of US economic power; it won’t give it up without a fight.

There was this guy called Ayatollah Khamenei who was the religious leader of Iran and opposed the development of nuclear weapons. Wonder what happened to him.

Good. Air defence systems are cheap and effective, as seen in the Middle East and Ukraine. We should stop wasting money on white elephants like Rafale fighters and aircraft carriers, and buy the stuff that works and actually keeps us safe.

I too live in a country with 1.4 billion people. The party that leads our govt claims to have 100 million members, but that’s because you can become a ‘member’ by giving them a missed call.

Am I misunderstanding the graph, or does the Communist Party have 92 million members?