One of the ways US fossil fuel use is down but production is record breaking is it’s US coal being burnt in India.

This particulate pollution from small scale coal use is obviously horrible locally, but it doesn’t just stay there

I remember an article a while ago that said a lot of the particulate is landing on icebergs all the way at the poles. Because soot is dark, it warms up even faster than the iceberg and increases the speed it melts. So even when it’s out of the atmosphere, it’s still causing damage.

I wish we could do something about it, but regardless of party, every incoming admin keeps breaking the prior admin’s fossil fuel production limits.

Yep.

It’s been a busy couple years, but the Panama Papers never really led to anything.

We know “they” are doing this, it’s not even an ambiguous “they” because of that story, we have names and evidence of the wealthy breaking laws to dodge taxes. But we just didn’t do anything because those people also tend to give a shit ton of money to both parties.

A single unimportant person got four years in the US and two lawyers got four months in Brazil.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/panama-papers.asp

But none of the wealthy dodging taxes was held accountable. Hell, the leaks named dozens of former and current world leaders… Why would they hold themselves accountable?

As much as I care about politics, we need to start coming to the hard realization that it’s just a distraction so the wealthy can stall till they can just buy robots instead of paying people.

That’s the clock for taxing the wealthy. The need for human soldiers and manufacturing.

If we don’t beat that clock, then humanity as we know it is fucked.

Everytime we talk about taxing them, we hear “they’ll leave if we tax them!”

But they fucking won’t, and even if they do, it’s as simple as a “tax dodger law” when the wealthy enter the country.

There’s not many billionaires. If first world countries said if you have a billion in net worth, it now costs 100k/day in taxes to be in their country…

It’s not like the billionaires will really live in isolation. Hell, they won’t even really go thru with moving legal residence out of the country that made them a billionaire.

Either they move the permanent residence where they’ll actually spend their time, or they can pay the 100k/day to be there and not pay the taxes they should be.

Edit:

For America specifically, we have the “exit tax” already…

https://1040abroad.com/blog/exit-tax-explained-a-us-expats-guide-to-expatriation-tax/

It’s not the best, and it doesn’t stop millionaires from leaving, but it’s a big reason US Billionaires never renounce US citizenship, even tho we’re like the only country who taxes income from foreign countries.

There’s no better time to communicate to the DNC that 2016 and 2024 is a fault of their strategy and not voters, and that despite how much they want to pretend 2020 was different, Biden won in spite of himself.

Don’t let them go back into hiding and re-emerge again in 3 years with another go-go 80s Reaganite just for Boneitis to show up a month before the election.

We need to actually plan ahead, trump’s been campaigning for a fucking decade straight. And in 3 years the DNC will say there’s no good picks so we all have to rally around what we dont want.

“I was told Elon is going to be very involved in this,” Jones said during a live broadcast on X. After Infowars was seized and the site shut down, Jones promptly began operating under the name and branding of a new venture, dubbed the Alex Jones Network, which streams on X.

That’s the reason, they’re using the media and courts as advertising to get it out there.

The sale will go thru and they’ll both make a big show about “the only place for the truth is X!”

Because everyone literally does forget about Truth Social till someone mentions it

What do you expect the leaders of the DNC to do?

If they don’t rig the primary so a neoliberal will win, then they risk a progressive running, flipping a bunch of red states like Obama in 08, and then they get to set the DNC leadership and party direction.

Which means the current neoliberals with a stranglehold on the party would lose their positions.

They won’t get as lucky again as 08 when Obama just ignored them.

DNC leadership care more about themselves then voters or the country.

The only other explanation is because they current just go with whoever can bundle the most money to determine leadership…

Corporations and billionaires are donating to the Dem party along with the Republican party thru the absolute stupidest fundraisers they can find to make voters hate the DNC…

And I just don’t think they’re that smart.

But the only way the people who pick the next round of DNC leaders isn’t the current round of DNC leaders, is when a Dem wins the general.

Which is why even when we do get an ineffectual moderate in, nothing fucking changes because to thank the DNC for getting them to the general, they maintain leadership.

Literally the only way shit gets better is a progressive president

Fuck DWS, she’s a big reason we’re in this fucking mess…

They make universal flappers now that are actually universal.

And most arms are extendable and can have angle adjusted multiple ways, so basically universal.

If you replace anything else, you might as well change all the internals at once with a set

You forget why trump is even a thing in national politics…

In 2015 when the primaries happened Hillary’s campaign controlled the DNC and pushed for trump because he was the worst possible opponent and they thought it would scare people into voting for Hillary despite her being wildly unpopular.

They’re 1 out of 3, but the DNC leadership loves trump because he lets them run even less popular moderates and take bribes from even worse industries/billionaires while still having a 33% chance of winning.

To them, it’s a smart bet.

Which is why we shouldn’t let them anywhere near the DNC.

They could have easily beat trump, but the want the awful “compromises” they say they have to do to win elections. It’s why they keep saying it despite it never helping

But compare this post to when they’re mad about Anti-Jewish picks:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-ag-pick-called-adl-racist-invited-holocaust-denier-to-state-of-the-union/?utm_campaign=most_popular&utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_end&utm_content=1

No shade at any Jewish voters who voted for trump strangely…

They’re surrounded by nations who are calling for their extermination

They’re surrounded by countries they constantly attack and stir shit with…

And by “stir shit” I mean commit war crimes, human rights abuses, and outright genocide.

Yet you’re surprised the neighbors don’t like them?

The word has lost its meaning now for a lot of people.

Decades of genocides can make genocide feel normal

Your comment is a perfect example.

How does that make any sense compared to moderates going to the Republican party?

Like, the current Dems are “progressives” who want what every other 1st world country got decades ago, and “moderates” who want what Republicans wanted decades ago…

Why are the “moderates” trying to moderate the Dem party instead of the one that’s so far from center they’re openly fascist?

If they had stayed where they were in the 80s, then the furthest right we’d have been in 2024 was Kamala

Do you understand how ridiculous it is to say everyone to the left of them should go R?

Absolutely best case scenario we end up with two modern Dem parties and that fixes nothing.

But if the moderates go to the Republican party?

They’d get what they want, they can be pro-fracking. They can be for genocide, they can be for politicians using insider knowledge to make millions off the stock market, they can be for the end of political donations regulations.

And have total party unity on all those topics, while moderating the Republicans so they run McCains instead of trumps.

But that’s hard.

And moderates have never been fighters.

The only way they’ll go moderate Republicans, is if Dems kick them the fuck out of running the party.

They did it in 08, they’ll do it again if we get a progressive to the general. It’s not a problem either because we’ll gain waaaaay more votes than we lose.

Nah, if they didn’t have nukes and US backing (which is likely how they have nukes)…

Then they wouldn’t act like they’re untouchable and wouldn’t commit so many genocides against neighboring countries…

Like, what you’re doing is saying the schoolyard bully has to be a bully because no one likes them. Ignoring the fact that the reason no one likes them is they keep beating up smaller kids.

They can stop being a bully anytime and the situation would improve. Getting mad at the bullied kids because they don’t like the bully makes no logical sense.

Like, you expect people to just ignore when a different country attacks yours and kills your children?

That’s just water under the bridge and they should get over it?

It’s their fault for responding to violence with violence instead of meekly allowing themselves to be exterminated?

Do you even read what you type?

Or do you legitimately just not understand what’s happening?

The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to vote on a censure resolution against Iran for its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Correct me if I’m wrong…

But aren’t Israel’s nukes “open secrets” because they’re not legally allowed to have nuclear weapons either?

Everyone knows they have them, we just pretend they don’t

Yeah, kind of went on a rant there…

I think I took your comment as rationale for Dems who resign from the federal workforce in “protest”.

But now I’m thinking you meant that’s why Republicans don’t.

If that was the case, then yeah I misunderstood and my comment would seem like it came out of nowhere.

If you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?" Stephanopoulos asked Biden.

“I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about,” the president responded.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-at-peace-if-he-loses-to-trump-as-long-as-i-gave-it-my-all/ar-BB1puJEx

People give Republicans shit for not knowing about things trump said he would do…

Yet moderates continue to not know how Biden said he would things…

He was never built to fight fascism, we wasted four years of what could be (but probably isn’t) our last chance.

And people still want to claim we need to move further right in 2028?

I’m struggling so much to understand what kind of logic those people are using. Even when it “works” it doesn’t actually work, it’s a brief reprieve at best.

Oh ok…

You’re right, historically it has been best to bow to far right extremists making terroristic threats so the only members of the government are ones that agree with them.

/s

Did you know we’ve literally tried that before?

It’s what ended reconstruction and was the original mission of the KKK.

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-reconstruction-era/

People did what you’re supporting back then, it worked out fucking horribly. Seriously, people taking your current advice back then is one of the forks in the road that led to the current fucking shit show. But first it led to Jim Crow laws and massive civil rights setbacks. Because people cowed to just not threats but actual murders.

I swear, the vast majority of the reasons we can’t fix the same problems, is people refuse to remember how many times something has happened, what failed last time, and why we shouldn’t keep fucking doing it over and over.

And I’m not coming down on you personally, it’s just no one knows this shit anymore.

Fighting isn’t easy, we don’t just get to sit on the couch and make social media comments and call it a day.

You want to actually do something to help the government resist?

www.usajobs.gov

You might not want trump to be your boss, but again:

Fighting isn’t easy

If only trump sycophants work in the US government, he’ll break a lot more shit

Scuttlebutt is already record breaking retirements across most federal agencies for January, and there’s going to be lots more that try it but dip out after a few months. And I’m not talking people discussing the possibility, I mean the process has already started.

Which is a really bad thing…

A lot of the goverment is perpetually understaffed, and all these ultra conservative department heads are just going to do hiring freezes, keeping it even smaller.

Republicans don’t have to cut government staffing when everyone always runs away rather than stay and do what they can.

Republicans sure as shit don’t resign when a Dem shows up. They stick around and obstruct what they disagree with and try to maintain any ground they can.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but I’m not expecting you clarifying to help