One of the ways US fossil fuel use is down but production is record breaking is it’s US coal being burnt in India.

This particulate pollution from small scale coal use is obviously horrible locally, but it doesn’t just stay there

I remember an article a while ago that said a lot of the particulate is landing on icebergs all the way at the poles. Because soot is dark, it warms up even faster than the iceberg and increases the speed it melts. So even when it’s out of the atmosphere, it’s still causing damage.

I wish we could do something about it, but regardless of party, every incoming admin keeps breaking the prior admin’s fossil fuel production limits.

Yep.

It’s been a busy couple years, but the Panama Papers never really led to anything.

We know “they” are doing this, it’s not even an ambiguous “they” because of that story, we have names and evidence of the wealthy breaking laws to dodge taxes. But we just didn’t do anything because those people also tend to give a shit ton of money to both parties.

A single unimportant person got four years in the US and two lawyers got four months in Brazil.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/panama-papers.asp

But none of the wealthy dodging taxes was held accountable. Hell, the leaks named dozens of former and current world leaders… Why would they hold themselves accountable?

As much as I care about politics, we need to start coming to the hard realization that it’s just a distraction so the wealthy can stall till they can just buy robots instead of paying people.

That’s the clock for taxing the wealthy. The need for human soldiers and manufacturing.

If we don’t beat that clock, then humanity as we know it is fucked.

Everytime we talk about taxing them, we hear “they’ll leave if we tax them!”

But they fucking won’t, and even if they do, it’s as simple as a “tax dodger law” when the wealthy enter the country.

There’s not many billionaires. If first world countries said if you have a billion in net worth, it now costs 100k/day in taxes to be in their country…

It’s not like the billionaires will really live in isolation. Hell, they won’t even really go thru with moving legal residence out of the country that made them a billionaire.

Either they move the permanent residence where they’ll actually spend their time, or they can pay the 100k/day to be there and not pay the taxes they should be.

Edit:

For America specifically, we have the “exit tax” already…

https://1040abroad.com/blog/exit-tax-explained-a-us-expats-guide-to-expatriation-tax/

It’s not the best, and it doesn’t stop millionaires from leaving, but it’s a big reason US Billionaires never renounce US citizenship, even tho we’re like the only country who taxes income from foreign countries.

They make universal flappers now that are actually universal.

And most arms are extendable and can have angle adjusted multiple ways, so basically universal.

If you replace anything else, you might as well change all the internals at once with a set

They’re surrounded by nations who are calling for their extermination

They’re surrounded by countries they constantly attack and stir shit with…

And by “stir shit” I mean commit war crimes, human rights abuses, and outright genocide.

Yet you’re surprised the neighbors don’t like them?

The word has lost its meaning now for a lot of people.

Decades of genocides can make genocide feel normal

Your comment is a perfect example.

Nah, if they didn’t have nukes and US backing (which is likely how they have nukes)…

Then they wouldn’t act like they’re untouchable and wouldn’t commit so many genocides against neighboring countries…

Like, what you’re doing is saying the schoolyard bully has to be a bully because no one likes them. Ignoring the fact that the reason no one likes them is they keep beating up smaller kids.

They can stop being a bully anytime and the situation would improve. Getting mad at the bullied kids because they don’t like the bully makes no logical sense.

Like, you expect people to just ignore when a different country attacks yours and kills your children?

That’s just water under the bridge and they should get over it?

It’s their fault for responding to violence with violence instead of meekly allowing themselves to be exterminated?

Do you even read what you type?

Or do you legitimately just not understand what’s happening?

The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to vote on a censure resolution against Iran for its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Correct me if I’m wrong…

But aren’t Israel’s nukes “open secrets” because they’re not legally allowed to have nuclear weapons either?

Everyone knows they have them, we just pretend they don’t

I read the books so I already know what’s gonna happen…

But I still might wait for more episodes to be out.

Season 1 is probably one of my favorite book adaptions, they nailed it.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but I’m not expecting you clarifying to help

Years ago they tried to pass a minimum amount of time you had to hold a stock before selling…

It was a fraction of a second and neoliberals and Republicans immediately united to tell everyone how antithetical to America that was.

For some reason, that wasn’t enough to show people that both groups have the same priorities and we can’t fight an oligarchy with fucking oligarchs.

We’ll never win if only a handful of politicians are actually on our side.

But it’s almost impossible to compete against dark money in a primary, and the people running the DNC know that. So they’ll never agree to get dark money out of primaries. It’s the only reason they’re still holding back progressives.

Why that would be huge:

It would incentize the rich to hold stocks long term, this would lead to corporations thinking more than what profits are in 3 months.

Which translates to greater stability for other investors and job security for the people who work there.

But it’s never going to happen as long as Smaug Pelosi and people like her who’s main priority is personal wealth is running the Dem party. Because we all know Republicans will never support it.

But if we don’t purge the Dem party of neo liberals, and fast, we’re all fucked. We can’t keep walking down the path of “the rich always get richer” like nothing is wrong.

Wealth is finite. And without taxes and regulations the people who already have a lot will always accumulate more faster than they can spend it.

With them hoarding all that wealth, no one else has any.

What OP is talking about has been a thing since the 90s and even 80s and earlier with ex-military.

Move to a cheap country where your pension/disability/passive income/whatever makes you wealthy.

Originally places liked it because it was an influx in cash. But then it became too popular and they were gentrifying places to the point locals couldn’t afford to live and these leeches never worked.

It became big again with the internet when people became able to work and American job while overseas remotely. But by now most American companies just won’t pay American wages. If they wanted someone overseas they’d pay them the low wage they always do.

With those younger people they added the “temporary” because they say they’ll move back someday.

What you’re talking about (if the job is in that country) would be a migrant worker.

But they also don’t like that label, they think they’re better than it.

I think it’s safe to say 1/3 will support the aliens, 1/3 will hate them, and 1/3 will just ignore the problem.

It feels like whatever the issue is, that’s the split.

I’d love to see countries mark “expat” as an option on forms…

Just as a trap to filter them all out.

So?

What matters is winning elections.

Stomping our feet and saying they should do what we tell them isn’t fucking working.

So if you want them to vote D so together we can stop Rs…

Maybe we should try running a better candidate than we have been?

Maybe no matter how much the wealthy insist on it, just being slightly better than trump isn’t enough.

Maybe we should just run the best candidate we can, one that already agrees with Dem voters so we don’t have to ask millions of people to hold their nose?

The excuse for running candidates further to the right then Dem voters has always been that it would magically win an election.

It hasn’t, and it won’t.

It’s a bad strategy and we’ve stuck with it for about a decade longer than we should have already.

What logical reason can you give to stick with a plan that even when it works doesn’t get us as much as we need, and fails regularly?

As a bonus, the more Dems move right, the more Republicans do.

So every election Dem voters have their potential winnings reduced and potential loses increased…

And people are really surprised why turnout was low?!

Tradition…

It’s another one of those things where we’re not going to codify it because Republicans want it as a pocket ace, and moderates control party policy and they just have a phobia of admitting anything actually needs fixed, let alone fixing it.

But the electors in a lot of states can do what they want

32 states + DC are legally required to vote for the party that nominated them as electors tho.

So some are “locked in”, the rest can pretty much do what they want. I know some states are on an “interstate compact” where once they get enough states it triggers them having to vote for the national popular vote winner.

But I’m not sure what the overlap is with the ones who already have the requirement to vote for the party that appointed them or how that will shake out.

Ya, CCCP started it all with Hitler

Whut?

Is this an attempt at a joke or do you really believe that?

It’s hard to tell these days when someone is just pretending

No, this is the voter she pissed off Dem voters for…

It didn’t work out well if you’ve already forgotten.

If someone says trump is Hitler but they voted for him anyways…

Then he was already going to vote for trump, and chasing his vote just led to losing traditional Dem voters with literally no gain.

Moving to the right is political suicide, yet we keep doing it because that’s how you max donations. And that’s all the people running the party care about.

It’s like people really believe America entered WW2 to fight fascism becaus Americans are innately good…

Large amounts of the country said the same shit this guy is. They wanted to either stay out of it or outright join the nazis.

Especially the wealthy. Prescott Bush was believed to be part of the Business Plot that wanted to overthrow the US government in favor of fascism and doing the Axis powers.

They didn’t succeed (mostly because of Pearl Harbor) but his son became head of the CIA, VP, and then president. One of his sons also became president, and almost another one.

If we don’t remember what history was really like, we’re doomed to keep being surprised when the same shit keeps happening.