He was a member of the NAACP. I don't think he was any more racist than any other republican of the time. It's easy for me and you to pass judgment on those who were born more than a century ago. And before you say it, yes he voted against the 1964 civil rights act which I disagree with him for. He claims he had his reasons, that 2 parts of it were unconstitutional but I'm unconvinced. He also supported gay people serving in the military and was against don't ask don't tell. Towards the later years of his life he became somewhat progressive. He also fought hard against the rise of the Christian right. I respect some of what he fought for while disagreeing with some of his views. In any case, I think leftists like me have more in common with Goldwater than Goldwater has with MAGA cunts. We may disagree with each other but we at least agree on fundamental principles like the seperation of church and state.
Edit: I probably admire him more than most because I see Christian nationalism as one of the greatest threats to our country and he fought against it.
Budd Dwyer blew his brains out on live TV. Granted it was on a snow day when all the kids were at home watching TV. Maybe not the best decision but it did lead to one less republican wasting oxygen.
Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:
Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who's been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.
Yeah, destroying the planet to exacerbate wealth inequality really is a distraction from the scapegoat figurehead that has survived a hundred scandals being a child rapist. Surely this time if we focus all of our attention on the scandalproof figurehead's scandals rather than any of the issues, we're going to win. I know it sank two elections, but this time it's different. Because that's what's really wrong with the current US administration: Not imprisoning people without trial or destroying libraries of scientific knowledge, but the figurehead having some something wrong personally.
I guess Trump was right - when you're a star, you can grab them by the pussy and you can do anything.
The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump's cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we've ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won't release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.
NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.
Every country seems to be following America. It's sad really. We the rest of the world are so hungry to suck on America's test that we well do anything for it. Problem is it's going to stop being so prosperous and we fucked ourselves for a very short term goal.
I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!
Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.
It's somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I'd argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE'RE #1!!! WOOOO
It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.
The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow's Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.
Bread and circus's is often times derided but it was exactly why Rome was so successful. Under all the glory, triumph, and corruption the Roman elite knew damned well what happened when the commoners went hungry and they didn't wanted another Gracchi Brothers incident. Shame for us the modern milksop oligarchy forgot the damned bread.
This is why I don’t care about MAGAts. They are enemies of the human species and we should all be preparing to over throw these people when they try stealing the next election.
I am walking 12 miles a day at time just to get my millennial bones in shape. Pushing almost 300lbs on the bench and curling over 145lbs for sets. Get ready people. We need to defend this world.
I bought a shotgun, and once a month aim to do a gunnery drill for 150 shells. It is exhausting and expensive, but should be a good benchmark for the results of my swimming exercises: About an hour and a half of water weights, walking, and swimming. Probably another 20 minutes in the steam and hot rooms. Figure I need enough strength and endurance to patrol and wield a rifle.
If there is a 2nd American Civil War, the good guys will need infantry, and I intend to be part of the ranks. I won't excel, but at least it frees up skilled people to hack, drone, or spy on the MAGATs.
My back was fucked. But forcing myself to do manual labor has basically healed my vertebra. I do 12 miles of walking a shift. So my whole core is in its best shape in decades.
I need to go to the range with my rifles and shotguns. My dad was a sniper and trained me how to shoot. I hope to get something that can put a bullet through an engine block. Soon.
On my end, I picked a shotgun for three reasons: 1, to shoot drones, because buckshot has a spread. 2, common and flexible ammo. 3, ease of maintenance. The way I figure, a novice like me won't ever be able to do sharpshooting, that requires good eyes and lots of skill.
Yup, it was some rather insane actions by the right which finally convinced me to get my PAL/RPAL. I was always going to get it because I like shooting and the history, but this was the final nudge. Got myself a real beauty from the early 20th century that was once used to kill fascists.
I’m thankful for my eye sight. I’m nearing 40 and still have 40-20 vision. I used to hit running deer with my 30-30. When I lived in the Appalachians. I also know shotguns don’t do well against drones as you would hope but they are better than a rifle. Check out what they are doing in Ukraine with drones.
I assume both drones and armored humans would both be potential targets if fighting breaks out. If that is the case, I don't want to juggle munitions on the field, so it needs to be deadly against both. 00 Buckshot is what I use for practice because it costs me about $14 a box for 25 rounds. 000 is what I am figuring to use as 'serious' ammo for live combat, but that costs about $10 for 5 shells.
The way I figure, 000 would be able to hit unarmored limbs, and consequently remove combatants from the fight. Dunno if a slug can beat armor, but I am almost certain that my accuracy is too crap to land a slug on a person. I can regularly land hits at 25 meters with a reflex sight, but that is with plentiful time, an immobile target, and no pressure.
Hopefully, if I join a militia, we would be able to hire a Ukranian veteran to instruct people. My guesses about how to prepare for conflict are probably wrong.
Would require transferring the relevant ground infrastructure and the people involved or at least their knowledge. Not as simple as one might think. Also ESA would have to allocate funds to it first.
I guess as an American I'm counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)
I will never understand why that dipstick didn't just spend some more time at a range. So much so that I'm starting to believe that it was a false flag.
Like, really, you try to assassinate someone under secret service protection -- arguably making them one of the most difficult people to assassinate -- and you don't even put in a few weekends of range time? You don't even zero your optic properly? You get as far as using a rangefinder and figuring out the distance to your target ahead of time, but you don't bother zeroing your optic. Really? Make it make sense to me.
If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.
I think the intention is to get rid of the data being provided to fix global warming. If the satellite is sold the data would turn up in some fashion eventually.
Perhaps this is what the great filter is. Any species that's intelligent, but isn't a hivemind; dies out via the stupidity of the collective -- sure, you can have accumulated knowledge, but if half (being extremely generous in our case) of your entire species is made up of drooling fucking morons that will actively drag the rest of you down, what good is it?
Anyone who needs a thermometer to cook meat is either a minimum-wage flunky who can't find their ass with both hands and a map, or shouldn't be cooking meat at all.
I would say that if presidents are allowed to be this corrupt, no long-term legislation or treaties can possibly be assumed to survive in between presidencies ... except that would imply that the US is still a representative democracy when the reality is otherwise.
Yeah, if the Democrats weren't a fucking joke of a controlled opposition, they'd be running on total rollback: declare a state of emergency and remove and detain every single Trump appointee, repeal every single executive order, reverse every single item of legislation, revoke every grant, cancel every contract signed during the Trump administration. Then ban any Trump appointee from ever holding office again, blacklist every recipient of a federal contract awarded for the first time under Trump, shut down any "nonproit" that served as a fascist front organization, and revoke the corporate charter of any corporation involved in corrupt lobbying.
I have come to the conclusion that Trump is actually an alien. He is helping to prepare our planet for the arrival of his species by ensuring CO2 levels quickly reach a more tolerable level. It's the only explanation that makes sense.
Simulation theory is my reasoning at this point. They're just throwing shit into the simulation now to see what happens. like a wealthy pedophile who can corrupt anything he touches and destroy people's lives as they cheer.
My conclusion is that he’s the culmination of the US losing the Cold War. Putin has been investing in kompromat on all the red politicians for a long time, and this is the era of profit taking.
People don’t get excited to vote against candidates/platforms nearly as much as they do to vote for them. The choices may not be equally bad but that’s surprisingly irrelevant. South Park’s Turd Sandwich is pretty spot on.
But to your point, most of them didn’t vote for the climate change apocalypse, they voted for the racism.
Some of them undoubtedly did vote for the apocalypse, because their religious views include hastening the end so they can get to the rapture. That’s terrifying and underreported, but I suspect it’s a minority. There’s nothing Great Again about destroying the world, unless you’re a rapacious billionaire who wants to sit on a larger stack of toys in your cool bunker. Most of the idiots won’t realize how they got swindled until it’s far too late.
Someone should just offer to buy it. Pakistan has the means and motive. Should be the kind of thing that fat idiot would go for. Plus he's salty at India rn...
The question is, will americans do something about there antichrist problem before he destroys the whole world, or will they just watch and complain only if they are personnally afected. The answer is within the question.
I'll never understand the whole assigning blame routine. Blame isn't a solution. It doesn't fix a damn thing to know whose fault it is. If you want to solve the problem, figuring out who to blame is nothing but a waste of time and energy.
That said, you're wrong. There's plenty of people and organizations to blame, from Rupert Murdock to the Heritage Foundation and beyond. Did refusing to vote for Harris help? Of course not. But this didn't fucking start with "enlightened liberals" (which is a complete useless term, btw; why the fuck is everyone got such a hard-on for calling people liberals, anyway?).
Besides, all your doing here is playing into the divisive rhetoric. Our only chance is solidarity amongst the working class, and this bullshit ain't helping. Well, no, I guess if I'm going to be honest here it does help the sociopathic oligarchs maintain control. So congratulations - you're fighting for the wrong fucking side.
I'll never understand the whole assigning blame routine
Proceeds to assign blame:
There's plenty of people and organizations to blame, from Rupert Murdock to the Heritage Foundation and beyond.
And then continues to assign blame:
Well, no, I guess if I'm going to be honest here it does help the sociopathic oligarchs maintain control. So congratulations - you're fighting for the wrong fucking side.
You'll really go to any extent possible to avoid the idea of solidarity, won't you?
So whatever you win I guess? Since that apparently is all you seem to care about, which is just ludicrous and bizarre. So go on with your bad self. Or something?
You'll really go to any extent possible to avoid the idea of solidarity, won't you?
The say while continuously behaving in a way contrary to solidarity.
So whatever you win I guess? Since that apparently is all you seem to care about, which is just ludicrous and bizarre. So go on with your bad self. Or something? Weirdo
Because that's not a paragraph typed out by someone trying to "win" whatever the fuck they think this is. This is one of those "every accusation is a confession" situations.
Truth be told I don't know either, I'm just exhausted by seeing commentors online screeching the same tired screeds "if only the other leftists voted for Kamala" "Kamala supports Israel!!!". Who cares how we got here at this point? If you're not licking the regime's boot they're coming for you eventually. If people are outraged then good, swallow it for now and organize in your communities, get active, coordinate. We'll have plenty of time for purity tests and factionalism when the dust settles.
It matters how we got here because we need to avoid that in the future. In America's dogshit FPTP system, not voting for Kamala was handing Trump a win, so they are just as much at fault as MAGA.
Certainly in the long term FPTP needs to go, along with the Electoral College, the practice of Gerrymandering, the Democrats ridiculous system of Super Delegates, and the cap on the number of representatives in the House. None of which is to mention the overturn of Citizen's United, the long overdue process of campaign finance reform, reigning in the power of lobbyists, breaking up the conglomerates that have formed in the wake of the Regan era kneecapping of the FTC and a ban on Congressional trading of stocks and securities. While we quibble about that though the far right have managed to turn their culture war into a full blown Crusade complete with a neo-geshtapo with a larger budget than the militaries of several countries, and before you've managed to agree on a root cause for the decay of the institutional protections we used to take for granted a bunch of masked fascists have thrown you in a camp. Heart disease isn't a huge concern when the same patent is bleeding out from a gunshot wound. The cause of this clusterfuck is bigger than one election, or one bloc of voters, it's a complex interplay of multiple contradictions and flaws in the foundation of the American State dating back centuries. Yes, it is important to repair the damage, to improve and learn from our failures but that does not matter in the immediate term. The left will not get the chance to reform and repair once a full blown purge of dissidents and thought criminals is being carried out, we're six months to a year away from camps for Citizens critical of the regime, and two to three years out from outright death camps. We are in deep shit, anyone in the US' borders or sphere of direct influence is in deep shit. People who voted third party or abstained absolutely fucked up. I can't stress enough how much that no longer matters as fascist tyrants continue to tighten the noose
I love BBQing indoors. Babies taste best. CO and smoke detectors are just alarmist annoying hysteria that my family would use against me to value their lives over baby BBQs. BBQ hating commies in my household should not ruin my freedom with information based logic, and so tools of alarmism must be destroyed.
Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn't been absolute dog shit decision?
Many of them have died
Not enough :(
yeah but it doesn't count when it takes that long.
too little too late
It doesn’t have to take that long.
Technically they made the EPA, which I guess they decided was a bad idea.
Yes, but not since the days of Goldwater
The super racist guy who Hillary Clinton supported whom the Goldwater Rule was named after?
That's who you think was the last good Republican?
He was a member of the NAACP. I don't think he was any more racist than any other republican of the time. It's easy for me and you to pass judgment on those who were born more than a century ago. And before you say it, yes he voted against the 1964 civil rights act which I disagree with him for. He claims he had his reasons, that 2 parts of it were unconstitutional but I'm unconvinced. He also supported gay people serving in the military and was against don't ask don't tell. Towards the later years of his life he became somewhat progressive. He also fought hard against the rise of the Christian right. I respect some of what he fought for while disagreeing with some of his views. In any case, I think leftists like me have more in common with Goldwater than Goldwater has with MAGA cunts. We may disagree with each other but we at least agree on fundamental principles like the seperation of church and state.
Edit: I probably admire him more than most because I see Christian nationalism as one of the greatest threats to our country and he fought against it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2jGe560-Y4
Budd Dwyer blew his brains out on live TV. Granted it was on a snow day when all the kids were at home watching TV. Maybe not the best decision but it did lead to one less republican wasting oxygen.
Oppose slavery.
But its hard to believe they were the cool party until the 50s. Thank you Reagan.
Slavery is still explicitly legal in the USA.
They were Hoover's party. They stopped being cool long before the '50s.
Alright, given that i am not from the us my knowledge is somewhat limited here.
Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:
“NO.”
The same thing the Trump administration does every time a judge tells them to stop doing something
Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who's been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.
They could tell him to do it himself. Im pretty sure he won't actually have a clue how.
I certainly don't know how. I couldn't even get up there.
haha this really tickled me for some reason, like of course a random person couldn't do rocket science
That's when you back it up with force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Just like every other dictatorships, the Trump regime wages war on knowledge and data.
And it's not new either: this started on day one of Trump's "presidency", and it should have been an ominous sign of things to come.
Americans voted for this. What a sad, sad country.
Sounds like a diversion seeing that Trump is in the Epstein files.
Nah, this seems in line with Project 2025 goals.
Yeah, destroying the planet to exacerbate wealth inequality really is a distraction from the scapegoat figurehead that has survived a hundred scandals being a child rapist. Surely this time if we focus all of our attention on the scandalproof figurehead's scandals rather than any of the issues, we're going to win. I know it sank two elections, but this time it's different. Because that's what's really wrong with the current US administration: Not imprisoning people without trial or destroying libraries of scientific knowledge, but the figurehead having some something wrong personally.
I guess Trump was right - when you're a star, you can grab them by the pussy and you can do anything.
The reason that people keep repeating it is because Epstein is the conspiracy theory that Trump's cult is founded upon. Him denying that the list exists has caused the biggest schism in his supporters that we've ever seen. People made this thing their entire belief system, and now their idol is saying that it never existed and that he won't release it. Even though his campaign was based on the promise of releasing it.
NASA, please say you destroyed it but instead turned it over to a country who gives a shit about the world. I know there are so few of them but this is such a waste.
Every country seems to be following America. It's sad really. We the rest of the world are so hungry to suck on America's test that we well do anything for it. Problem is it's going to stop being so prosperous and we fucked ourselves for a very short term goal.
I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!
Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.
It's somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I'd argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE'RE #1!!! WOOOO
That documentary about Edward Bernays. The Century of the Self. The episodes are appropriately named too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.
The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow's Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.
100%, people don't lead revolutions with stomachs full of food
Bread and circus's is often times derided but it was exactly why Rome was so successful. Under all the glory, triumph, and corruption the Roman elite knew damned well what happened when the commoners went hungry and they didn't wanted another Gracchi Brothers incident. Shame for us the modern milksop oligarchy forgot the damned bread.
yeah but, what if they had, like, a really really cool circus?
As someone who has felt true starvation I can assure you that folks would sooner but her the circus for food than enjoy it's entertainment.
Americans are very much a me country. Look at me I want mine all of that. They would be so much better off if they where a we country they used to be.
Indeed, the French beat the Americans hands down.
He does anything to make the Epsein circus go away
He was constantly doing horrible things before the Epstein circus started. This is just what Trump does.
This is why I don’t care about MAGAts. They are enemies of the human species and we should all be preparing to over throw these people when they try stealing the next election.
I am walking 12 miles a day at time just to get my millennial bones in shape. Pushing almost 300lbs on the bench and curling over 145lbs for sets. Get ready people. We need to defend this world.
I bought a shotgun, and once a month aim to do a gunnery drill for 150 shells. It is exhausting and expensive, but should be a good benchmark for the results of my swimming exercises: About an hour and a half of water weights, walking, and swimming. Probably another 20 minutes in the steam and hot rooms. Figure I need enough strength and endurance to patrol and wield a rifle.
If there is a 2nd American Civil War, the good guys will need infantry, and I intend to be part of the ranks. I won't excel, but at least it frees up skilled people to hack, drone, or spy on the MAGATs.
My back was fucked. But forcing myself to do manual labor has basically healed my vertebra. I do 12 miles of walking a shift. So my whole core is in its best shape in decades.
I need to go to the range with my rifles and shotguns. My dad was a sniper and trained me how to shoot. I hope to get something that can put a bullet through an engine block. Soon.
On my end, I picked a shotgun for three reasons: 1, to shoot drones, because buckshot has a spread. 2, common and flexible ammo. 3, ease of maintenance. The way I figure, a novice like me won't ever be able to do sharpshooting, that requires good eyes and lots of skill.
Yup, it was some rather insane actions by the right which finally convinced me to get my PAL/RPAL. I was always going to get it because I like shooting and the history, but this was the final nudge. Got myself a real beauty from the early 20th century that was once used to kill fascists.
I’m thankful for my eye sight. I’m nearing 40 and still have 40-20 vision. I used to hit running deer with my 30-30. When I lived in the Appalachians. I also know shotguns don’t do well against drones as you would hope but they are better than a rifle. Check out what they are doing in Ukraine with drones.
Bird shot works on ducks, maybe it'll work on drones?
I assume both drones and armored humans would both be potential targets if fighting breaks out. If that is the case, I don't want to juggle munitions on the field, so it needs to be deadly against both. 00 Buckshot is what I use for practice because it costs me about $14 a box for 25 rounds. 000 is what I am figuring to use as 'serious' ammo for live combat, but that costs about $10 for 5 shells.
The way I figure, 000 would be able to hit unarmored limbs, and consequently remove combatants from the fight. Dunno if a slug can beat armor, but I am almost certain that my accuracy is too crap to land a slug on a person. I can regularly land hits at 25 meters with a reflex sight, but that is with plentiful time, an immobile target, and no pressure.
Hopefully, if I join a militia, we would be able to hire a Ukranian veteran to instruct people. My guesses about how to prepare for conflict are probably wrong.
Yep
Sell it to the ESA, if it isn't a cover-up.
Would require transferring the relevant ground infrastructure and the people involved or at least their knowledge. Not as simple as one might think. Also ESA would have to allocate funds to it first.
I guess as an American I'm counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)
Hopefully by a few different miracles, a much much shorter amount of time
I don't trust Americans to fix their own problems.
Yeah because it turns out they can't aim worth a damn.
I will never understand why that dipstick didn't just spend some more time at a range. So much so that I'm starting to believe that it was a false flag.
Like, really, you try to assassinate someone under secret service protection -- arguably making them one of the most difficult people to assassinate -- and you don't even put in a few weekends of range time? You don't even zero your optic properly? You get as far as using a rangefinder and figuring out the distance to your target ahead of time, but you don't bother zeroing your optic. Really? Make it make sense to me.
If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.
I think the intention is to get rid of the data being provided to fix global warming. If the satellite is sold the data would turn up in some fashion eventually.
Who would've thought that the bourgeoisie will weaponize climate change and put it against us, the working class? 🤦♂️
measuring things is woke
yeah all that "quantitative objective science" liberal BS
/s
Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes
Perhaps this is what the great filter is. Any species that's intelligent, but isn't a hivemind; dies out via the stupidity of the collective -- sure, you can have accumulated knowledge, but if half (being extremely generous in our case) of your entire species is made up of drooling fucking morons that will actively drag the rest of you down, what good is it?
Anyone who needs a thermometer to cook meat is either a minimum-wage flunky who can't find their ass with both hands and a map, or shouldn't be cooking meat at all.
That's why no more weather service. If you can't see the F5 Hurricane barrelling down on you it doesn't exist.
I read this this is the voice of Butthead. To which Beavis would reply "Heh, heh, yes, we need more FIRE!"
This is some "Don't Look Up" type shit. Can't happen if you don't acknowledge it.
Chat, are we cooked?
literally trying to cook us now
We won't know. Neat, isn't it?
I would say that if presidents are allowed to be this corrupt, no long-term legislation or treaties can possibly be assumed to survive in between presidencies ... except that would imply that the US is still a representative democracy when the reality is otherwise.
Yeah, if the Democrats weren't a fucking joke of a controlled opposition, they'd be running on total rollback: declare a state of emergency and remove and detain every single Trump appointee, repeal every single executive order, reverse every single item of legislation, revoke every grant, cancel every contract signed during the Trump administration. Then ban any Trump appointee from ever holding office again, blacklist every recipient of a federal contract awarded for the first time under Trump, shut down any "nonproit" that served as a fascist front organization, and revoke the corporate charter of any corporation involved in corrupt lobbying.
I have come to the conclusion that Trump is actually an alien. He is helping to prepare our planet for the arrival of his species by ensuring CO2 levels quickly reach a more tolerable level. It's the only explanation that makes sense.
Honestly, I WOULD prefer him to be some kind of alien super agent. It is a lot less depressing than the alternative.
Simulation theory is my reasoning at this point. They're just throwing shit into the simulation now to see what happens. like a wealthy pedophile who can corrupt anything he touches and destroy people's lives as they cheer.
Sadly he's just the product of the american "culture" of selfishness and arrogance. They will destroy the world as we know it.
My conclusion is that he’s the culmination of the US losing the Cold War. Putin has been investing in kompromat on all the red politicians for a long time, and this is the era of profit taking.
Don't look up, people.
Sorry Donnie, we're gonna need a really big missile in order to take that down, could you send us some cash to build it?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-05-20
It's standard procedure to deliberately deorbit satellites that are no longer in use, since the whole program was defunded.
It's not like they are doing this out of spite, they are just doing what they said they would do, which people voted for.
Crazy, but true.
I don't think anyone voted for this, and certainly most people didn't vote for the administration in charge, so ...
People keep saying that most people didn't vote for this, but it's just disingenuous
2/3 of eligible americans did not vote against this. that's the stat that matters
People don’t get excited to vote against candidates/platforms nearly as much as they do to vote for them. The choices may not be equally bad but that’s surprisingly irrelevant. South Park’s Turd Sandwich is pretty spot on.
But to your point, most of them didn’t vote for the climate change apocalypse, they voted for the racism.
Some of them undoubtedly did vote for the apocalypse, because their religious views include hastening the end so they can get to the rapture. That’s terrifying and underreported, but I suspect it’s a minority. There’s nothing Great Again about destroying the world, unless you’re a rapacious billionaire who wants to sit on a larger stack of toys in your cool bunker. Most of the idiots won’t realize how they got swindled until it’s far too late.
Distraction.
He's on the Epstein list and wants it to be buried under all his other bullshit.
If we don't test for CO2, then no-one can complain that we have high levels of it taps forehead - that's big, beautiful brain thinking right there.
Same thing he did with Covid and the jobs guy last week
Need to reframe this:
"The satellites measure success of our roaring industry! The higher values, the better."
Ah employing the same 500iq strategy as they did during Covid.. if no numbers are reported, then there must be no climate change!
"You will serve until such a time you are no longer needed".
if nasa really have those laser destroyer sats it's time to aim at the whitehouse
I put my phone down, then picked it up a few moments later hoping I ate the onion.
I hate him.
.... ostrich ....
What next? Trying to get rid of animated cartoons factually depicting Tumps penis?
Gonna have myself a time.
Can we accidentally leave the keys near ESA HQ?
Just relabel the satellites as methanedione detector and good for the plants for big beautiful grasses and they are not going to check back
Vandalism
Someone should just offer to buy it. Pakistan has the means and motive. Should be the kind of thing that fat idiot would go for. Plus he's salty at India rn...
The question is, will americans do something about there antichrist problem before he destroys the whole world, or will they just watch and complain only if they are personnally afected. The answer is within the question.
Thanks to all you "enlightened liberals" who refused to vote for Kamala. THIS IS YOUR FAULT. We'll bury you with the republicans
Da fellow Amerikan it’s DEFINITELY not the fault of trumpers. That would make too much sense.
I'll never understand the whole assigning blame routine. Blame isn't a solution. It doesn't fix a damn thing to know whose fault it is. If you want to solve the problem, figuring out who to blame is nothing but a waste of time and energy.
That said, you're wrong. There's plenty of people and organizations to blame, from Rupert Murdock to the Heritage Foundation and beyond. Did refusing to vote for Harris help? Of course not. But this didn't fucking start with "enlightened liberals" (which is a complete useless term, btw; why the fuck is everyone got such a hard-on for calling people liberals, anyway?).
Besides, all your doing here is playing into the divisive rhetoric. Our only chance is solidarity amongst the working class, and this bullshit ain't helping. Well, no, I guess if I'm going to be honest here it does help the sociopathic oligarchs maintain control. So congratulations - you're fighting for the wrong fucking side.
Did the guilt of making the objectively wrong choice write this?
You got a counter argument, or are you just gonna pout?
You wrote a paragraph saying assigning blame is bad then spent two paragraphs assigning blame. Figure it out.
Hmmm, obviously there no possible way that was, you know, specifically to demonstrate my point.. Nah!
But, did you read the last paragraph even? Like, what's solidarity and avoiding unnecessary divisive rhetoric for to do with blame, anyway?
Seriously, though, if we all didn't start channeling the rage at the people who are actually destroying things, what's even the point??
Who are you channeling rage at right now?
Proceeds to assign blame:
And then continues to assign blame:
So guess you understand it just fine.
You'll really go to any extent possible to avoid the idea of solidarity, won't you?
So whatever you win I guess? Since that apparently is all you seem to care about, which is just ludicrous and bizarre. So go on with your bad self. Or something?
Weirdo
The say while continuously behaving in a way contrary to solidarity.
Because that's not a paragraph typed out by someone trying to "win" whatever the fuck they think this is. This is one of those "every accusation is a confession" situations.
Why is "enlightened liberals" in quotes? I feel like anytime this conversation comes up it's "leftist" or something similar in scare quotes.
Some people seem to think if you don't try harm reduction you aren't a real leftist.
What makes someone a real leftist?
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/No-True-Scotsman
I don't know, but there's a dead horse to beat somewhere
Truth be told I don't know either, I'm just exhausted by seeing commentors online screeching the same tired screeds "if only the other leftists voted for Kamala" "Kamala supports Israel!!!". Who cares how we got here at this point? If you're not licking the regime's boot they're coming for you eventually. If people are outraged then good, swallow it for now and organize in your communities, get active, coordinate. We'll have plenty of time for purity tests and factionalism when the dust settles.
It matters how we got here because we need to avoid that in the future. In America's dogshit FPTP system, not voting for Kamala was handing Trump a win, so they are just as much at fault as MAGA.
Certainly in the long term FPTP needs to go, along with the Electoral College, the practice of Gerrymandering, the Democrats ridiculous system of Super Delegates, and the cap on the number of representatives in the House. None of which is to mention the overturn of Citizen's United, the long overdue process of campaign finance reform, reigning in the power of lobbyists, breaking up the conglomerates that have formed in the wake of the Regan era kneecapping of the FTC and a ban on Congressional trading of stocks and securities. While we quibble about that though the far right have managed to turn their culture war into a full blown Crusade complete with a neo-geshtapo with a larger budget than the militaries of several countries, and before you've managed to agree on a root cause for the decay of the institutional protections we used to take for granted a bunch of masked fascists have thrown you in a camp. Heart disease isn't a huge concern when the same patent is bleeding out from a gunshot wound. The cause of this clusterfuck is bigger than one election, or one bloc of voters, it's a complex interplay of multiple contradictions and flaws in the foundation of the American State dating back centuries. Yes, it is important to repair the damage, to improve and learn from our failures but that does not matter in the immediate term. The left will not get the chance to reform and repair once a full blown purge of dissidents and thought criminals is being carried out, we're six months to a year away from camps for Citizens critical of the regime, and two to three years out from outright death camps. We are in deep shit, anyone in the US' borders or sphere of direct influence is in deep shit. People who voted third party or abstained absolutely fucked up. I can't stress enough how much that no longer matters as fascist tyrants continue to tighten the noose
Also, love me some Zildjans
There's the second dead horse, thanks for bringing it
Is it massive enough to be deorbited on top of Mar-a-Lago?
I love BBQing indoors. Babies taste best. CO and smoke detectors are just alarmist annoying hysteria that my family would use against me to value their lives over baby BBQs. BBQ hating commies in my household should not ruin my freedom with information based logic, and so tools of alarmism must be destroyed.
Just deorbit it straight into cunt-a-lago
Maybe they can fake this somewhat convincingly, since Trump and his cabinet are a bunch of fucking retards.
Trump Does Is Things The Way He Wants
That's not how the UN works. It's a diplomatic platform, not a world government.
Plus the US is one of the least blockeable countries on earth. They have basically every natural resource and industry.