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If the Republicans win this one, you won't have to worry about voting ever again.
gestures broadly at the world that has been increasingly crumbling
You sure about that?
Took us out of the Paris Climate agreement
Opened up the national parks for drilling
Removed protections for more than half of our wetlands
Withdrew legal justification for factories to limit mercury emissions
Removed carbon caps on power plants
One hell of a symptom
Climate change has already created draughts and food shortages. It has already pushed animals into ecosystems where they don't belong leading to destruction of those ecosystems. Ocean acidification has been killing fish populations.
These have created instability in countries across the world as people grapple with worsening conditions. This has lead to conflicts that have created massive amounts of refugees, which in turn has been creating populist and authoritarian attitudes in the west as we deal with refugees knocking on our door. This has created massive rifts in our societies and ultimately is the connecting factor for the issues we face.
As my old history professor would say about global conflicts- it's the bottom of the 9th, the bases are loaded, and it's always mother nature up to bat.
Have you noticed that people claim the earth is round, but your eyes tell you a different story?
What the fuck are you on about, dude?
Your patience and calmness are infinite, and I wish I could follow you on this instance. I too have been conditioned toward alarmism but have been getting over it, and I see your point.
Like they kept telling us inflation was supply chain issues since COVID, but when you do the digging, it's corporate price-gouging, from corporate farm to corporate processors, to corporate distributors, to the corporate chain stores. The only ones ~not~ making huge profits are independent retailers, who may or not have a higher or lower price than a corporation, on any given good on any given day (that doesn't inherently make them good or evil). You're making me think and the conclusions are certainly not ThE oBvIoUs ones. Thank you.
Bear with me, I'm trying to learn how to think again. Firstly, where can I find quality information, and I don't have money, so if it's not freely accessible, I'm not getting it, and if it is, I've no idea where to find it.
Secondly, I'm willing to hear you out while also noting Democrats (big D) are major benefactors of corporate greed (eg Pelosi not wanting insider trading laws, and the stock market probably ought to be illegal, in my limited perspective).
Thanks.
Ron who named his kid after ayn rand Paul? It's been a long time since I heard anything he said, and since Nevuary since I heard him say anything that wasn't wholly selfish. Can you please share some things he said that made sense to you? I may check him out but I'm not promising anything. I've never heard of the others, but I hope they're not just more "I've got mine, fu," types.
I may be misremembering. His son was most recently in the news and I haven't read anything about him in quite some time. I'll give it a listen. Thanks again so much.
Undisputed here.
Then we shouldn't have declared war on, and declared mother nature our enemie. We could have respected her and accepted reasonable limits, rather than growth, expansion and profit at all costs, especially to ourselves. And we can stop doing that.
Oh yeah, we really screwed up the season by not picking Mother Nature in round one of the draft.
"Hi I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from such films as 'Man vs. Wild; the Road to Victory"
I would broadly agree with that, except for the documented attempts to subvert the election. I think that ones pretty uniquely bad
You think that January 6 was the kind of "legal thing" that all candidates do?
Common .ml brain failure.
That's the silver lining I guess. Elections are such stressful events that people living under totalitarian regimes just don't have to deal with.
Considering I stressed about Trump every day when he was President, stressing about an Election every couple of years for a few months is much preferred.
Unless the democrats have an actual plan, they can actually get through congress, to unwind the legal framework for fascism that the republicans have built it won't matter in the long run anyway...
Like seriously we're in the end game now, without an actual plan to stop it the next republican president will be our last.