lessons from ohio and kansas: white americans massively support individual liberal policy items. but still hesitate to vote democrat. why? the migrant issue. its that simple.
i appreciate companies putting in the effort to make me feel good about doing the dumbest shit. after i updated my credit card info online my gym sent me an email that began with “Hooray!”
these are also my exact thoughts about chris christie’s seemingly pointless campaign. he’s not campaigning for himself, he’s campaigning against trump, regardless of whom that benefits (hopefully joe biden in 2024)
“However much liberals don’t like him — and they really don’t like him — it’s to his credit that Christie has a pretty good read on the political sensibilities of respectable white people, who are the great globular middle of American politics that privileges above all the preservation of peace, order and the status quo. Trump’s presidential crimes are too much for many of them. Christie seems to be pandering to that view.”
why do we have to keep explaining to grown sentient human beings why appeasing a fascist will never ever be good for the country in the long term no matter how much it may act as a bandage in the short term. and not even that because we’ll be feeding a monster who is relentless in his destruction. i mean, every fucking day is proof of the fact that donald trump does not give a shit about how many lives he destroys and the damage he causes to everything he touches. and if you think we should just wait out his death, hey the asshole doesn’t drink nor smoke. who knows how many extra years that’s added to his rotting carcass. my one fear is that i am going to die before him and sob about it on my deathbed. and even if he dies soon, why do you think we’ll be free of his shit? you think his now emboldened cult is going anywhere? no, fuck him. hold that motherfucker accountable and as for his cult, bring it on, shit-sippers.
i dont know if farmers market evangelist is an actual job position but if not i will create it after my retirement
wife just did her first work commute on her ebike and had a lot of fun. it helps that the route goes through a sweet local park. anything that helps us avoid driving her old decrepit car with terrible mileage is good for everybody. anyways, baby steps.
every morning when i wake up i have to remind myself to not worry about every wild plant, animal and bird in the world
first tornado warning of the season
cracks open a fresh squeezed bottle of liberal tears
here’s to the greatest Chinese hoax ever
yeah good luck to us
a software forum user just demanded that my company “get rid of DEI”. the gop is creating a whole demographic of people with severe mental disease
the weather forecast calls for tornadoes today. havent you done enough, china?
apparently conservative thought leader ben shapiro has been burning barbie dolls because he couldnt find their ladyholes
donald did a lot of damage in four years but think of the damage he could’ve done if he hadnt spent most of his waking hours reading every single reply to his every single tweet
my wife could probably run me over with her fat tire bike and the police would just chalk it up to a tire dispute
the more time I spend in Jersey the more I feel like the state has been unfairly maligned in public by assholes such as me
kudos to the man he’s been busy getting all the terrible defenses out all in the same day. donald please give the man a raise if you were planning on paying him at all
guy at the bar: hey man how you doing… let me think, I’ll get your name right this time…atash?
me: nope. strike 2 buddy
fuck that intellectual mediocrity fascist-ally shit-bucket who calls himself Cornell West
the Washington Post has a “both sides” piece but the pictures of the ppl they are both siding pretty much refute the premise that there are two legitimate sides
glad to see that the quality of donalds legal representation remains underwhelming
ppl with a nihilistic mindset of “oh well climate change is gonna kill us all anyways”, usually privileged suburbanites, don’t realize how bad things are going to get. it’s like the rurals promising civil war. bro you better stock up on your insulin and zoloft before you lift a weapon
I’ll convince myself that the federal government is the best solution to climate change mitigation once it manages to mitigate gun violence
Nazi assholes understand how ideas and mindset have to be infiltrated at the grass roots level in parallel with the government. they’re not waiting for the government to criminalize the LGBTQ community. they’re focused on delegitimizing this community at the school board and town square level
my two cents on the climate change mitigation issue:
I completely agree with everything @denny, @ddanielson (and others) are saying and suggesting about individual lifestyle changes to combat climate change.
no one is arguing that only individual efforts are needed to combat climate change so why is anyone bothering to refute this strawman? of course the government has an important role.
but good luck creating any kind of top down sustainable action from the American government unless you can guarantee that only a Democrat will ever be president and only Democrats will hold Congress. for fucks sake, 0 gop candidates have pledged to do anything about the climate emergency. most have pledged to roll back any mitigation initiatives that have already been implemented. yes, America is slowly turning blue but we don’t have the luxury of that kind of time. especially not if even blue America believes in climate change but doesn’t agree with what mitigation looks like.
I think individual actions and a change in the individual mindset are a prerequisite for any kind of government action. we are the ones who elect the government. if Americans can’t or won’t get out of the entitled consumerist “American dream” mindset they’re not going to vote for a government that tells them the “American dream” of excess is dead. no government is ever going to be elected with the platform of shrinking the economy (something I feel is a necessary condition for climate change mitigation). we can wait for the government to fix things but unless there’s a parallel movement to change the consumerist mindset and normalize the necessity of lifestyle changes through a personal plan we will hit a “green backlash” which Nazis are already weaponizing against democracy.
and we can blame corporations and oil companies all we want (and for the most part we should) but blaming only them at this point is like blaming drug dealers instead of their clientele. we are the ones who are living this high carbon lifestyle. we’re the ones addicted to it. the corporations might be killing the planet through pushing the mass adoption of this lifestyle but we’re the foot soldiers actually doing it. let’s not give ourselves a pass.
waiting for the government to do something without actually making any lifestyle changes yourself basically amounts to “no one is doing anything about this so why should I”.
what this is also implying is that you would rather have the next generation deal with this shit or even the current generation in less privileged countries because you can’t be bothered to change your lifestyle in any way.
having said all that I’m pretty complicit and a huge part of the problem because I’ve done my fair share of recreational flying and living an extravagant lifestyle compared to people in developing countries. for me right now it’s the guilt of knowing that I’m contributing to the death and suffering currently occurring everywhere on the planet that’s a direct result of my actions. I’m watching entire forests wither and die here in the northeast through drought. or get annihilated by tornadoes and wind storms. I’m watching fireflies and migratory monarch butterflies go extinct. I’m reading about desperate efforts in the southwest to save baby birds being born during this heat wave. I’m reading about farmers in India who are suffering from heat exhaustion on a daily basis. I can’t change my lifestyle drastically but I can at least try and make high impact changes on a personal level that will help. maybe I’m just doing this for myself to kill the guilt and I won’t make a difference by myself. but if a significant number of people do it, then we have something going. and that is something I feel is a more likely scenario than the government jumping in and saving us in time. the one thing I know for sure, I definitely don’t want to be the asshole who won’t make any lifestyle changes but instead spend their time screaming at climate change protesters who are actually trying to educate and get the public to think about the issue (and they are succeeding, regardless of what anyone thinks).
today I have discovered the band hermanos gutierrez, a band I have been looking for ever since I was looking for a band with the same moody ethereal western vibe as the band labradford