The reason why Audi is having low demand is because of the Audi options.
the e-Tron is shit. The interior is worse than you'd expect, and the cameras for mirrors system is the worst implementation I've ever seen. I don't actually think the idea is inherently bad, it's implemented well on the Honda e, but everybody who's tried Audi's says it's dreadful. The whole car just feels amateurish.
the e-Tron GT is a genuinely good car, and the design is lovely too. But it has a major problem - it shares the same platform as the Porsche Taycan, and only costs £1-2k less. When people are given the choice between an Audi and a Porsche for basically the same price, they'll choose the Porsche almost every single time.
And why they haven't made anything more affordable based on the MEB platform is beyond me. It's not like they don't have ICE cars that share the platforms that the likes of the Skoda Fabia and VW Golf use. It must've been a conscious choice to have their EVs be more upmarket. That's failed.
EVs are not the problem. The problem is that Belgian workers are more expensive then Chinese workers. Especially the workers forced to work for Volkswagen in Chinese concentration camps.
Maybe that's the time when it is time to contemplate
why we're getting so much love
from all these people
who are famous
for their ability
to incinerate
and say
Companies ought to stop thirsting for world domination, and focus regionally. If they don't want our cars- it's fair. We can also prohibit the sale of their cars here too.
His voters won't know about this. Government propaganda is in a different world. He just met with Zelinsky, Putin and the Chinese dictator, and couldn't achieve anything, obviously. In government media he is praised for trying to bring peace everywhere but the evil EU and US don't let him succeed, and we have to vote him otherwise Hungary will get pulled into the war.
Oh, there is Euro football match today, so everyone will hear about this. During the half time break there are not just ads, but also a little news segment where you can hear about his latest achievement. So those who are not interested in politics but football can hear about the adventures of our glorious leader.
Yeah, for sure. I just take comfort in knowing it bruised his ego a little.
As for getting rid of him it's going to take a lot more. Poland gives hope, but the situation there was not as bad as in Hungary.
I just hope that him trying to play an increasingly bigger role globally will lead to his downfall somehow. He clearly has a distorted image of himself and his abilities, which is not a great starting point of aspiring dictators.
I don't generally see videos of politicians, as I get my news primarily from written sources and I don't have much of an interest in rhetorics. It's fascinating to see his words are as idiotic as his actions.
I guess he manages to come across as more convincing in Hungarian.
The risk is having a high frequency of partners and anal sex (passive or active) without condoms. That can very well be the case of an heterosexual male. A lucky one, by the way.
Because Hungary had been strongly social democratic basically since WW2 (though much of that was behind the iron curtain), and they'd been hugely improving up to their entrance to the union, with only a little mistake of electing Orban once, before going back to a sane Premier.
And then 2010 arrived, and the entire country took a swing Hard Right and down shit street, but by that time they were already in.
The EU countries in general just cannot get over the right wing tendancies and xenophobia of which they are a deep cause. By exploiting developing countries and shitting toxins into the environment we make their countries worth fleeing from, and where else to flee than prosperous countries. They are only following the wealth that was extracted from their countries.
Our reaction is to act surprised and say "no room here, we're struggling too", after having voted for parties that will take the wealth and move it upwards away from the common people. So instead of using our "superior" education to vote for parties that want to redistribute wealth, we vote populist - people who find scapegoats in the poor. "Immigrants are the problem!", "Leftists are the problem".
I'll just add that Fidesz (the right wing governing party) started out centrist in 1990. In 2010 they'd moved towards the right, but in a lot people's minds they were one of the big, reasonable parties since the end of Soviet control. And also just in general "the opposition".
The social democratic governing party also was inept and admitted as such (see Őszöd sleech).
So what happened was the left side of the spectrum lost all support, and what in many people's minds was the centrist or centre-right opposition picked it all up. Just over half the votes gave them a supermajority and from that point they gradually attained complete control over all institutions as a result.
We in Europe have a similar problem in Slovakia at the moment with PM Fico with a similar autocratic (and pro-Russian) approach. Europe will have to adapt to the rise of the extremists from the right (and soon from the left too?) and other global development.
As a slowpoke still in russia I'm confused by these lists. The first thing, sure, is to check if I know anyone from here, and for a long time I've never seen anyone somehow related to me. But what if I do recognize someone? And not dead, but taking a vacation leave in my city. What if I'd meet them in person, knowing what they've done? I'm afraid of that moment but it would eventually come. I can't conpute what I should do in that context and am happy I'm yet to be forced to.
Good job on them OSINT guys. Страна должна знать своих героев, блять. It's good to see them tracked and not cowardly covering themselves with their masks.
In addition, some observers say that NATO's involvement in the Indo-Pacific would not be welcomed by everyone. "This is a very volatile region. But there are no hot wars at the moment," Shada Islam, an independent EU advisor in Brussels, told DW.
"Most of the countries that I speak to, whether it's Indonesia or Malaysia or even India, don't want this foreign power to come to the region and perhaps make things worse," Islam said.
So, getting tougher on China and establishing closer bonds with partners in the Indo-Pacific will remain a difficult balancing act for NATO.
"It's a balancing act because there is a risk of escalation," Liselotte Odgaard at Hudson Institute told DW.
If NATO countries push too hard, she said, China could decide to cooperate even more with Russia, North Korea and Iran. That certainly would not be in the interest of NATO.
Holy shit that is a lot of info. Lots of links to images on google drive, screen shots of vehicle details, email addresses for family members, just. Wow.
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