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Quote:That sounds like what a politician would say. Now that Trump no longer has use for V.P. Mike Pence because Pence was disloyal and didn't certify Trump as President on Jan. 6th, Trump's running mate in 2024 could be either QAnon Shaman or the Shaman's lawyer.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
QAnon Shaman’s lawyer says all Americans are to be blamed for 6 Jan violence.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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If you want to fix climate change, you need to fix this flaw in conventional economic thought
The flaw is reflected in benefit-cost analyses of cutting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The traditional thinking suggests a go-slow path for cutting CO2. The logic seems compelling: the cost of damage caused by climate change, after all, is incurred in the future, while the costs of climate action occur today. The Nobel Prize-winning verdict is that we should delay necessary investment in a low-carbon economy to avoid hurting the current high-carbon economy.
But this conventional logic calls for significantly more climate action now, because the costs are often overestimated while the potential (even if uncertain) benefits are underestimated.
Recent pronouncements by the International Monetary Fund and the International Energy Agency are nothing short of revolutionary. Both institutions have now concluded that ambitious climate action leads to higher growth and more jobs even in the near term.
The logic is straightforward: climate policies create many more jobs in clean-energy sectors than are lost in fossil-fuel sectors. The proposal for a $2 trillion infrastructure package in the United States could be expected to spur higher net economic activity and employment. https://bloom.bg/3sFzDS9
The standard economic models have been used to reject policies that would have helped turn the tide many years ago, back when the climate crisis still could have been addressed with marginal changes to the existing economic system. Now, we no longer have the luxury of being able to settle for incremental change.
The framework of neoclassical economics is still blocking progress. The discipline is long overdue for its own tipping point toward new modes of thinking commensurate with the climate challenge.
More at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-you-want-to-fix-climate-change-yo
u-need-to-fix-this-flaw-in-conventional-economic-thought-11625681698
or
https://web.archive.org/web/20210708015152/https://www.marketwatch.com
/story/if-you-want-to-fix-climate-change-you-need-to-fix-this-flaw-in-conventional-economic-thought-11625681698
Republican Senator says climate change is bullshit. No economist will be changing that Senator’s votes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210707185505/https://www.marketwatch.com
/story/sen-ron-johnson-mouths-to-republican-luncheon-that-climate-change-is-bullsh-t-11625681957
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:That sounds like what a politician would say. Now that Trump no longer has use for V.P. Mike Pence because Pence was disloyal and didn't certify Trump as President on Jan. 6th, Trump's running mate in 2024 could be either QAnon Shaman or the Shaman's lawyer.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
QAnon Shaman’s lawyer says all Americans are to be blamed for 6 Jan violence.
My vote is for Candice Owens.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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What are Republicans up to these days?
Refusing to investigate the deadly insurrection of January 6 because it might make Donald Trump look bad.
Refusing to increase funding for the IRS because that might force rich people to pay the taxes they actually owe.
Claiming without evidence that the NSA is spying on Tucker Carlson.
Whining that Facebook hates them, despite voluminous evidence to the contrary.
Declining to persuade their fellow conservatives to get vaccinated.
Passing laws that allow Republicans to replace election officials who are insufficiently loyal to the party.
Complaining endlessly about critical race theory, despite the fact that they still haven't produced much evidence about how racism is actually taught in American classrooms.
Pretending to negotiate over infrastructure funding.
Missing from this list is anything aimed at actually making the country any better off than it is now. It's all just political theater. I hope they're proud of themselves.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Sure. Pretend that none of that is going on.
Don't complain when 2022 is a bloodbath for Democrats.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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Quote:Is that bad English, or what?
What Republicans are up to these days?
I stopped being a holdout for strictly grammatical English years after the NYTimes gave up on formal grammar. But one's English needs to at least make sense.
Of course, there's always the chance that it's not poor English that's at fault in that statement. It could be that the English is an accurate reflection of scrambled thinking, and so, it's actually a fractured mind at fault.
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Quote:Is this another of your "I fixed it for you" comments? Just asking because the original doesn't say what you say it says. While you are at, tell me about the Republicans' goals? The Democrats have an extensive list of goals, while Republican Party resolved to have no goals, which you can easily read because it is only one page: https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:Is that bad English, or what?
What Republicans are up to these days?
I stopped being a holdout for strictly grammatical English years after the NYTimes gave up on formal grammar. But one's English needs to at least make sense.
Of course, there's always the chance that it's not poor English that's at fault in that statement. It could be that the English is an accurate reflection of scrambled thinking, and so, it's actually a fractured mind at fault.
https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I quoted you directly, without altering anything.
And you went back and changed your original post because frankly, it made you look at least stupid, if not a bit insane. And then you lied about it, which makes you look even worse.
Whatever.
That's on you.
SLOPPY - why do you never start any threads of your own but instead spend 100% of your time shitting up everyone else's? Is it because you really have NOTHING you want to discuss and are only here to troll?
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Quote:Would you happen to be Catholic? Rev. James Altman has an inspiring YouTube video for you, whether Catholic or not:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I quoted you directly, without altering anything.
And you went back and changed your original post because frankly, it made you look at least stupid, if not a bit insane. And then you lied about it, which makes you look even worse.
Whatever.
That's on you.
"Their (Democratic) party platform is absolutely against everything the Catholic Church teaches."
"You repent for your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of Hell."
Rev. James Altman has claimed the moral high ground, 1kiki, as you have, over and over and over and . . . .
Whatever happened to the marvelous Priest who tells it like it is? His Bishop spoke to him:
“(The bishop) and his diocesan representatives have spent over a year, prayerfully and fraternally, working toward a resolution related to ongoing public and ecclesial concerns of the ministry of Fr. James Altman,” the statement said. “The obligation of a Bishop is to ensure that all who serve the faithful are able to do so while unifying and building the Body of Christ.”
More at https://madison.com/news/state-regional/wisconsin-bishop-takes-rare-st
ep-of-removing-defiant-priest/article_94698475-563f-5c5b-9ac7-ff1c5c2b5334.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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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I quoted you directly, without altering anything.
And you went back and changed your original post because frankly, it made you look at least stupid, if not a bit insane. And then you lied about it, which makes you look even worse.
Whatever.
That's on you.
That's why if you really want to save anything Second posts you need to archive it. He likes going back and changing things all the time.
I'm assuming that since this is just more of him spewing his daily bullshit that you didn't feel the need to archive it though.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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