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Originally posted by second:Quote:There are NOT too many people; there is too much stupidity -- too many dimwits who think they can dump whatever they please into the air because the air is free. The very same dimwits, and I've known these guys for decades, were angry about the Federal government telling them to stop dumping their industrial liquid wastes into the Houston Ship Channel. They lost that argument, but only after decades of court battles, and the sewage treatment plants were built to take care of the waste that had previously been going into Galveston Bay. Those whiny little dimwits claimed that the factories would have to shutdown because the liquid wastes were too expensive to properly dispose. Wrong they were. The factories are running fine and profitably on Houston Ship Channel. These same stupid whiners claim that climate change can only be handled by reducing the population in the world. Wrong again, you dumb motherfuckers who voted for Trump.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Correlation is not Causation.
You could list off literally 1,000 different reasons why college "educated" white kids aren't having children.
Now if we could only find a way to equally damage the brains of every ethnicity across the planet into not having kids, we might finally have a winner on our hands for how to solve the overpopulation problem that nobody ever wants to talk about.
Eventually, the waste gases vented into the atmosphere will be reduced, but I expect there will be decades more litigation before they are forced to do what they should have done 30 years ago.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Wrong.
There are too many people.
Far, far, far too many people.
10,388 more being born every day... Just in the US alone.
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/state-of-the-pl
anet/world-population-clock-live/story
Watch how quickly that number keeps ticking up, despite the best efforts of the WHO and CDC bumping up the fake Covid numbers.
Then keep in mind that this number is exponential, which in turn means the problem itself is exponential.
While also keeping in mind that half of the US population was told earlier this year that their jobs are not essential.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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Quote:Wrong.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wrong.
There are too many people.
Far, far, far too many people.
10,388 more being born every day... Just in the US alone.
Watch how quickly that number keeps ticking up, despite the best efforts of the WHO and CDC bumping up the fake Covid numbers.
Then keep in mind that this number is exponential, which in turn means the problem itself is exponential.
While also keeping in mind that half of the US population was told earlier this year that their jobs are not essential.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
The review of the book about what is ahead:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-course-they-would-on-kim-stanle
y-robinsons-the-ministry-for-the-future/
The free book about what is ahead: https://tpb19.ukpass.co/description.php?id=36665289
With climate change and the Holocene extinction looming in the background, as characters variously seek to halt it or fall victim to it, the reviewer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described this narrative as "a good old-fashioned monster story". It begins with an inciting incident and follows characters who interact with privileged groups unwilling to change their habits to address the monster. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
6ix, I'd say it is pretty typical of privileged groups to be unwilling to change their habits. It is the Ebenezer Scrooge way of thinking before the Ghosts of Christmas scared him -- Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim have to suffer and die for Scrooge, who won't pay them.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Why Did So Many Americans Vote for Trump?
To the dismay of Democrats, the president’s strategy of ignoring the pandemic mostly worked for Republicans.
. . . Democrats needed to present a competing, compelling strategy to counter Republican messaging. Struggling workers and businesses never clearly heard exactly what they’d get if Democrats ran the show, and Democrats never came together to scream bloody murder that Republicans were refusing to give it to them. Democrats needed to underscore the depth of Republican failure by forcefully communicating what other countries had done to successfully control the virus. And they needed to promise to do the same through something like an Operation Warp Speed for testing and P.P.E. to get America safely back in business.
Instead, they whined that Mr. Trump’s negligence and incompetence were to blame for America’s economic woes and complained that Mitch McConnell wouldn’t even consider the House’s big relief bill. They weren’t wrong, but correctly assigning culpability did nothing to help working-class breadwinners who can’t bus tables, process chickens, sell smoothies or clean hotel rooms over Zoom.
The Republican message couldn’t have been clearer: Workers should be able to show up, clock in, earn a normal paycheck, pay the rent and feed their kids. Democrats were telling the same workers that we need to listen to science, reopening is premature, and the economy can’t be fully restored until we beat the virus. Correct! But how does that help when rent was due last week?
Make no mistake, it was unforgivably cruel of Republicans to force blue-collar and service workers to risk death for grocery money. Yet their disinformation campaign persuaded many millions of Americans that the risk was minimal and that Democrats were keeping their workplaces and schools closed, their customers and kids at home, and their wallets empty and cupboards bare for bogus reasons.
The president’s mendacious push to hastily reopen everything was less compelling to college-educated suburbanites, who tend to trust experts and can work from home, watch their kids and spare a laptop for online kindergarten. Mr. Trump lost the election mainly because he lost enough of these voters, including some moderate Republicans who otherwise voted straight Republican tickets.
Democrats need to rethink the idea that these voters would have put Democratic House and Senate candidates over the top if only Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were less radiantly socialist. They need to accept that they took hits on the economy by failing to escape the trap Republicans set by doggedly refusing to do anything about the uncontained contagion destroying it.
And they need to understand how Mr. Trump saved his party by weaponizing polarization. Conservatives needed a way not to get spun by the president’s destabilizing act of disloyalty, so they steadied themselves by reaffirming their loyalty down the remainder of the ballot. They were voting against a personal crisis of identity, not the Green New Deal.
Democrats might have done better had sunny polls and their own biased partisan perceptions not misled them into believing that backlash to indisputably damning Republican failure would deliver an easy Senate majority — but not much better. Until the mind-bending spell of polarization breaks, everything that matters will be fiercely disputed and even the most egregious failures will continue to go unpunished.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201128165943/https://www.nytimes.com/202
0/11/27/opinion/trump-democrats-coronavirus.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Trump era shows ‘Constitution stronger than one man’ expert says
Donald Trump’s recount failures, his campaign losing cases in states such as Pennsylvania and more, and the Georgia Senate runoff, are analyzed by experts who discuss these events as evidence that our democratic institutions are ‘holding.’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-era-shows-constitution-s
tronger-than-one-man-expert-says/vi-BB1brKuR?ocid=msedgntp
You can bet changes will be made to make sure one person cannot reek such havoc again. Bottom line is democracy wins because most here will fight to maintain it.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Wrong.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wrong.
There are too many people.
Far, far, far too many people.
10,388 more being born every day... Just in the US alone.
Watch how quickly that number keeps ticking up, despite the best efforts of the WHO and CDC bumping up the fake Covid numbers.
Then keep in mind that this number is exponential, which in turn means the problem itself is exponential.
While also keeping in mind that half of the US population was told earlier this year that their jobs are not essential.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
The review of the book about what is ahead:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-course-they-would-on-kim-stanle
y-robinsons-the-ministry-for-the-future/
The free book about what is ahead: https://tpb19.ukpass.co/description.php?id=36665289
With climate change and the Holocene extinction looming in the background, as characters variously seek to halt it or fall victim to it, the reviewer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described this narrative as "a good old-fashioned monster story". It begins with an inciting incident and follows characters who interact with privileged groups unwilling to change their habits to address the monster. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
6ix, I'd say it is pretty typical of privileged groups to be unwilling to change their habits. It is the Ebenezer Scrooge way of thinking before the Ghosts of Christmas scared him -- Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim have to suffer and die for Scrooge, who won't pay them.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Wrong. As always.
Thanks for never changing.
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Originally posted by second:
Why Did So Many Americans Vote for Trump?
If you're going to continue to try to boil it down to a single reason, don't be shocked when Democrats have their asses handed to them in 2022 as is already being predicted by CNN.
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Originally posted by THG:
You can bet changes will be made to make sure one person cannot reek such havoc again. Bottom line is democracy wins because most here will fight to maintain it.
If you enjoy losing money, go for it.
Halfwit.
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Withdrawal from Afghanistan is Trump’s Gift to Joe Biden
In January of 2008, Vice President-elect Biden visited Afghanistan to get a feel for the issues the new Obama Administration would be facing there once it took office. The trip did not go well: Biden’s meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai was tension-filled, while his talks with senior U.S. military officers left Biden filled with doubts. Every time Biden asked a military officer to explain what the United States was doing in Afghanistan, he got a different answer—from fighting the Taliban to fighting al-Qaeda to helping Afghans rebuild their country. Biden’s exchanges with American soldiers were even more worrisome. What are you doing here? Biden would ask those he met. They didn’t know.
And so it was that, following Obama’s inauguration, Biden emerged as the administration’s leading Afghanistan skeptic: worrying that the military would press for a surge of troops in the country (but without laying out what exactly the surge was for), questioning whether a change in commanders (from Gen. David McKiernan to Stanley McChrystal) was really necessary, then upending the administration’s discussions on the military strategy by suggesting it was wrong to promote a counterinsurgency campaign that focused on the Afghan people. What was needed, Biden said, was a counterterrorism campaign that focused on al-Qaeda. As the last person to talk to the president on any important issue, Biden was both confrontational—and protective. Or, as Bob Woodward would later describe it, Biden “believed the military could not push him around, but they could roll an inexperienced president.”
As it turns out, Biden was right on all three counts. Within a week of his return from Afghanistan, the new president was pummeled by military officers recommending a surge of 30,000 U.S. troops (Biden was stunned), McChrystal’s appointment foundered on a sea of alcohol-fueled embarrassments (complete with personal stabs at the vice president) and Biden’s fear that Afghanistan would become “just another version of Vietnam” proved prescient: at the end of Obama’s first term the war was still being fought, and still going nowhere. The history is painful but instructive: of all of Barack Obama’s senior national security officials, it was Joe Biden who most closely questioned the military’s Afghanistan plan, primarily by pointing out that they didn’t have one.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/withdrawal-afghanistan-trump%E2%8
0%99s-gift-joe-biden-173202
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Okay. So we're going to pretend that Biden* isn't an establishment warmongering pig now.
He should probably announce that he was just kidding about all of his cabinet picks so far then.
All of them.
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Originally posted by second:
Withdrawal from Afghanistan is Trump’s Gift to Joe Biden
Firing Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger was a pretty great gift too.
It's going to be funny watching Biden* explain to his base why he gives them their jobs back.
Ted won't need an explanation though. Ted loves both of them.
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