Florida, and coastal conservative states… do you want even less homeowner’s insurance? Ignorant chuds.
“I hate socialisms! Anyways, I don’t got no insurance and this cyclone bomb storm flooded and destroyed my uninsurable house, where’s my FEMA money to fix it? I need to get my house rebuilt now so I have a place to fight the socialisms from!!!”
Funny how their "small government" would be preventing "states rights" they whine so much about. They should just come out and say what they demonstrate with their actions, they dont care about any one except themselves.
The “small government” “states’ rights” type have always been disingenuous about that. Remember the Fugitive Slave Act? Same thing. States’ rights to have slavery, no states’ rights to refuse to be complicit in slavery.
They already have environmentally isolated safe places. They will ride this all the way until we all die and they get to tell the next generation of humanity it wasn’t their policies that did this.
This short sighted selfish governance is all that can be expected from the GOP. These peasant minded conservative dogs loyally following their slimy masters stealing our future.
The only bit of good news is that young Republicans believe in climate change. Now I really wish they'd speak out more and start moving their party in that direction.
The GOP needs to die and be replaced with a better conservative party. What the old GOP (circa Eisenhower or so) was is what conservative Democrats are now. At the very least, we need ranked choice voting and a third party who'll take votes from the GOP by being similar in regard to most things EXCEPT action on climate change.
I know that's not ideal, but politics is about the art of the possible and choosing the least bad outcome. I'd rather have gun nuts / anti-abortion hounds / homophobes that care about the planet and perhaps support unions or something than what we have now. What we have now is people that are against everything good for the planet and its people.
Democrats are not center-right, and comparisons to European political parties are not accurate. The US has a “first past the post” electoral system. US political parties are more like coalitions of smaller parties.
The Democratics encompass all the left wing parties, except the Greens (who are essentially Russian agents at this point). The Republicans are the conservative coalition (immigration nuts, rich dudes, Nazis, people who have experienced a trauma and are taking their anger and fear out on the world, etc.).
If you want to move the Democrats left, you need to get elected and raise money like AOC does. Sorry, shouting on the Fediverse doesn’t count.
What is this world salad? Democrats and Republicans may be equivalent to the political coalitions and federations of the EU but it is not a great solution that they try and represent so much. Both parties should be broken up and FPTP needs to be replaced with ranked choice. I’m not shouting on the fediverse, I’m joining a discussion already going on lmao
not sure why you think that. any ‘actually left’ person fully understands that Russia has devolved into a authoritarian oligarchy and would rail against it as ardently as they would against the current western capitalist oligarchy.
I am not saying cooption could not happen, but there is ample reason to think this could be avoided. if not, then yes, we are all fucked - and deservedly so.
oh, absolutely. but, as you have pointed out, we have had 8 years of covert/overt interference. anyone who cares is going to be looking out for it more intently now.
I may be overly optimistic, but surely the easily manipulated crazies have mostly migrated to the right, leaving the slightly less insane of us to figure out what to do next.
like the recent UFO / UAP crap… who the hell is watching this circus side show distraction? no one I know. the distractions are wearing thin, especially as the world bakes.
The whole COVID shitshow has made it very clear to me that crazies exist everywhere, on every side. Thinking one side is “too smart” to be manipulated is a great way to overlook that very manipulation.
the self sorting has been hard and fast over the last 10 years. my point is that hopefully the alligned groups who prioritize things as I do, are less likely to be peeled off and rendered ineffective. I really do think the bulk of self sorting has already defined hard lines in global society.
Guy from Georgia here… Nah, killing themselves through roasting is perfectly fine as long as they still get to hurt brown people. Selling your soul out to corporations who will rape the environment and destroy the lives of your children and grandchildren is a far second place to making brown people suffer.
Descendents? These motherfuckers will make US suffer. Climate change is happening much much faster than they’ve calculated even with their most bleak estimates.
That’s worked until now because we’ve been in the warning stage for the past 30 years. We are actively moving into the consequences stage. They can put out bullshit studies and cry “fake news” but that’s not a winning strategy when the yearly heatwaves and longer, harder hurricane seasons are smacking their idiot constituents in the face.
These people aren’t elected officials (well, some of them are) its a think tank that doesn’t pay taxes and lobbies in favor of whatever ‘elected’ asshole will take their money to destroy the ecosystem and fuck poor people in the ass.
So… What do these dumbasses think is happening with the weather and the eventual outcome of all of this? Are these clowns really that delusional thattheey think oil and gas is just going to be in definetly available??
Uh, the capitalists don’t give a fuck what happens next quarter; what makes you think they’ll care about what happens next quarter-century? Profit is the god we’re forced to worship, and we have bound and trussed earth’s biosphere for that altar.
Who are these capitalists you’re referring to? I understand, that conservative politicians and their sponsors are among them. However, there are many regular people with no personal interest in business. They will suffer and their children will suffer. Yet they are still willing to elect someone like Trump.
Some of them know and just don’t care because they’re getting paid now and who cares about tomorrow? That’s someone else’s problem. The evangelicals among them think that 1) god gave them explicit permission to have “dominion” (do whatever the fuck they want to) and 2) it doesn’t matter anyway because they’re going to be in heaven when the shit hits the fan.
They don’t care. They’ll be sucking their benefactors dicks in the doomsday bunkers the obscenely rich have been building in secret, safe from the consequences of their actions.
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