Physically smaller cars will not make a meaningful dent in traffic, as they still need following distance, still mostly only carry 1 person, and can only shrink so much before you run into limits of human anatomy. They barely even save parking space. They could reverse some of the worst excesses of traffic deaths maybe because you can actually see over the hood and such though.

Public transit, concepts like 15 minute cities, and more biking/micromobility/walking friendly infrastructure are what will actually work. If government won’t do it then they’ve got to go.

He’s right though

russian propaganda is actually far beyond this, claiming that they are saving the people of the donbas from genocidal ukrainian nazis, which that guy didn’t say. Saying “hey maybe this isn’t as one-sided as western media makes it out to be” is actually closer to a centrist position

quoting my other comment:

in my experience they usually only support russia insofar as it undermines the hegemony of the United States, whose consolidated power over global affairs has been a major blocker of left wing movements worldwide since ww2. But there are some who seem to take it more seriously than that and either are too caught up in the memes or legitimately don’t understand that modern russia is a capitalist hellscape.

Well if you’re going to be so specific as to say “genzedong-style”, maybe pay attention to the “zedong” part? Presumably they believe in socialism-with-chinese-characteristics as a path towards communism.

Putin idk, in my experience they usually only support russia insofar as it undermines the hegemony of the United States, whose consolidated power over global affairs has been a major blocker of left wing movements worldwide since ww2. But there are some who seem to take it more seriously than that and either are too caught up in the memes or legitimately don’t understand that modern russia is a capitalist hellscape.