Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse | Seven Democrats voted to confirm this man. Seven!
Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse | Seven Democrats voted to confirm this man. Seven!
Seven Democrats voted to confirm this man. Seven!
democrats get pissed when we say both sides are the same and then just bend over backwards to anything the trump regime asks of them.
That's not really a fair characterization of the situation.
All but seven Democrats did the right thing here by voting against the nominee. The vote also took place at the beginning of February, before the scale and scope of public anger over Trump's seizure of power became apparent.
There's also upsides to Luigi
There are upsides.... humanity kills themselves and earth will recover eventually.
humanity kills themselves
Pockets of humanity will endure this at least as well as they endured the Ice Age or the Toba Explosion. But there's around 8 billion of us bouncing around today. The transition down to something like even just 1 billion would be nightmarish to live through.
This isn't a question of humanity hitting the "off" switch nearly so much as it is asking ourselves how we want our grandchildren to live a century from now.
Or to our wealthy overlords ... it will kill off the "surplus population" and leave more room and resources for them.
The wealthy overlords require a multitude of cheap labor to retain their wealth. That's why they are so concerned about falling birth rates - listen to any of them talk about it, it has nothing to do with concern for the planet like any of the rest of us (less demand on resources that we are already depleting, etc), they are concerned about maintaining the current rates of production and labor if the next generations are smaller and smaller. Sure, Vance is talking about it from a "family values" perspective, because that's a cloak he thinks his base will listen to, but listen to Musk talk about it, or any of the "pro-natalist" movement.
Democrats are cowards
In a very important way: they're afraid of constituent anger. Unlike a couple weeks back, they're now consistent about voting against Trump nominees.
Every US citizen needs to grab the free app 5 Calls. It will remind you weekly to call your representatives and senators. It provides you with a short script that you can use to express your displeasure, about an absolute myriad of issues. It also hands you the appropriate senators and representatives that are going to listen to you, because you are one of their constituents, and they can actually do something about it.
I've been doing it for three weeks now, and clearly it's barely working. If they wanted an engaged and enraged constituency, they may just get it.
Seven of how many?
Seven of 45 Democrats - and at the beginning of February before the strength of constituent anger had really sunk in for elected officials.
Oh I'm sure the rich will be just fine. The rest of us are replaceable ☺️
The richest man in Rome lived miserably compared to the average retired Wisconsin suburbanite.
How long that lasts remains to be seen. What makes living in this country luxurious is the enormous development of industrial infrastructure and professional services. Gut Medicare, knock out air traffick control, and allow bird flu to decimate the agricultural sector. In time, the nicest thing a dollar will buy you is a ticket abroad.
The richest man in Rome lived miserably compared to the average retired Wisconsin suburbanite.
Based on what exactly? The richest man in Rome would have had an abundance of slave labour available.
Before your replacement a quick question, how well do you think you would blend down into SoylentX?
Asking for the regional Dark MAGA officer.
The rich will be dead. Their security teams will be just fine.
Its the big reset. All those who voted Republican just waiting to be able to afford a house...meanwhile getting layer off. They don't realize that if there are 5 people an 4 houses then 1 goes without a house no matter what. The solution is not to burn down the other 4 houses or to layoff the other 4 people so they call all fight to stay in their home. The solution is to build more homes! Plain and simple. And migrants can help!
There are currently more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. There are roughly 30 empty units for each homeless person.
There are currently more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. There are roughly 30 empty units for each homeless person.
There are plenty of entire ghost towns they can move into for free right now, but nobody will because the housing needs to be near the jobs.
Some of those units are being renovated, some are in the process of being sold or leased, some are being lived in but the owners are on vacation. The latter is especially true for summer homes, which are empty most of the year but wouldn't be useful to homeless people because they're nowhere near the jobs - that's the point of a holiday home!
Seriously, if it were just homes then you can get something really basic for $20k. The real problem is the land and the permission to build.
Let's see this alternative knowledge be handled by chief turd and his Nazi committee.
Upsides like what? Like after the Anthropocene there will be fewer dumbasses in the world?
At this rate the Antropocene is gonna be so short that it shouldn't even be a 'cene.
You will have cheap power to stay inside your AC controlled home, but won't be able to go outside.
Air conditioning our crops to allow them to have a chance to survive will definitely lower grocery prices.
“cheap”