Primary seems too lenient for the ecological damage and deaths they orchestrated.

Chuck Schumer supports Nazis, pedophiles, and corporations that are killing the earth and future children and children alive today. Chuck Schumer must go m. Call your reps!

Fucking Whitehouse. So glad I don't live in RI anymore.

RI could be energy independent if it wanted to...between existing solar/wind infrastructure, RIRRC generation, legacy generation...and then keep investing into wind/tidal/solar.

Oh and hydraulic. You know the Blackstone River used to be disgusting and incredibly productive (as opposed to just the former). Massive mill systems along its shores. Kicked off the US side of the industrial revolution. Allowed the north to even be abolitionist in the first place (aside from, ya know, the whole Newport slave trade....but fuck Newport, damn island is nothing but welfare recipients living in mansions pissing on welfare recipients living in overpriced cottages tiny-homes, while all the shopkeepers live on the mainland, making bank off of the highly seasonal economy).

But MuH OcEAnFroNt ViEWZzz!

Oh suck it. Wind turbines are fucking cool. I'd rather have a dozen in my view of them than some lame flat endless ocean. Assuming I could ever afford to live some place with a view.

I guess it's kinda telling...the Industrial Revolution itself is whitewashed history. Last time around, it "ushered in the end of slavery" while giving capitalism big shot of steroids. Then machines in factories replaced laborers and craftsman, people were out of work, and the rich got exponentially richer as money concentrated at the top.

Fellas like Rockafellar and Ford and DuPont used their wealth and influence to get people to vote against their own interests. Not to mention the rise of fake news yellow journalism, and the Press Barons themselves.

If they would even vote...lots of attempts to suppress woman and minority votes, even when they were legally allowed to.

Then we join a world war and come out on top because most of the rest of the "industrialized" world was bombed to hell, while we were building up interstates and railways to feed the military. We joined at the end of the fourth quarter, jerked off around the Mediterranean, had a couple good fights, took all the credit, and started a cold war with the actual heroes.

Eventually the rest of the world northern hemisphere rebuilt, they're kicking our ass, and we are about to repeat the cycle.

Last time it took the Dust Bowl to really kick our asses into complacency. I hope next year's fertilizer shortages (and probably water shortages, at this rate, too) will compare?

Ossoff (D-GA)
Warnock (D-GA)

Well that's a fucking disappointment.

The bill hasn’t been enacted into law yet, still time to contact representatives while it’s in the amendment process: https://5calls.org/issue/bipartisan-affordability-and-jobs-act/

The new election was such a mixed bag for me. On one hand we now have Peggy in the Senate. On the other hand we have fucking Amy traitor Klobuchar as the fucking governor of Minnesota to try and fill the shoes of Walz. God I hate her so much

Hickenlooper is up for reelection next cycle - hope Colorado sends his ass packing. Imagine voting with Republicans just a week after the country clearly signaled the far left is what they want. Can't wait to vote against this old neocon.

Also - schumer lol. Of course

Damn I really thought better of Whitehouse, at least on climate issues. :(

Owned opposition

Collusion. They are more friendly than you and your best friend

The least we can do is force them to compete in a primary, and they can always choose to run independent if they don't like it.

Schumer. Another reason to toss his corrupt ass out.

Klobuchar (D-MN)

I was intrigued the other day after the midterms by a comment that pointed out that the Minnesota democrats are actually a different party than the national Democratic party. (Yikes, capitalization feels very important in that sentence!)

So I was reading about the DFL and how they were supposed to be the more progressive wing of the people that form the collective of the Democratic Party. But then I saw that Klobuchar is their highest office holding member. I got very confused how she is the face of progressive Democrats. To be fair, all I've really seen or heard of her is what she said or was said about her when she was in the presidential primaries, but I wasn't sold on her based on that.

Other than that, apologies once more from PA for Fetterman. Still better than Oz, but still the worst Democrat in the senate... 😖

Ossoff surprises me a LITTLE bit. I didn't think he was a progressive but it seemed like he was trying to ride the wave. same with Warnock.

peters is retiring and abdul has taken his seat, fyi

edit: not surprised by slotkin, tho. unfortunately we're stuck with her for four more years.

It sucks that a lot of them are on their way out, but somewhat expected because this is how democrats have helped pass bullshit in the past. Also dissapointed to see freshly elected democrats (like Ossof) vote for this, though I'm not familiar with most of their track record on this type of stuff.

Fortunately we’re already replacing Peters (MI) with my boy Abdul. Unfortunately we also have Slotkin.

Goddammit, Ossoff.

(by the way if you put a backslash at the end of your lines they will do a line break without a double space. Like this\ I'll show you
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Oof, Ossoff on the list. I expected better of him

But don't lump shitty neoliberals in with "democrats" like others agree with them

Schumer is literally the Senate Leader currently.

or how many neglected to read it for its substance

All of them neglected to read it. I think senators and congresscritters should have to take a test to prove they read a bill before being allowed to vote on it.

For those who like explanation.

The man is a Democrat, but only barely.

He is less insane than his Republican opponent by far, but not a great candidate in his own right. I'm glad we won the general election but I wish he had lost the primary to someone more progressive.

for some reason I read this as a "step-bro" joke

Step-voter, what are you doing?

It's not like he ran as a progressive. He's pretty center left.

or would you want a more efficient process?

Not sure what you're asking - but a large part of the reason that I find capitalism such a bad idea - and particularly the neoliberal private/public version - is that on top of the cost of the capital, you also need to pay out the profit to the parasitic owners.

I'd be very happy with less red tape, of course, provided that it was actually giving effeciency. But most capitalist moves in that direction are actually just increasing externalities - putting the risk on the public to increase private profits.

But my question is about how you would feel about this type of efficiency if the projects benefited society as a whole.

A rational society would have an honest conversation about just how much our environmental impact on our nations and planet should be, and to weigh the cost and benefits of various forms of environmental impact. Everything we do affects the environment in some way. You have to weigh the benefits and drawbacks. You can avoid digging a landfill if you build an incinerator, but then you have to deal with the emissions from the incinerator. Solar panels reduce CO2 emissions, but you have to build a mine to get the materials to build them, and all the damage therein...Vast solar farms in the desert are a great idea, but now you have to build vast new energy transfer infrastructure. That's going to involve tearing down some nature.

How you balance all those? Local damage vs global issues like climate change? Do you try to create some planet-scale ecological model, and have scientists optimize for minimum biodiversity loss? Do you just leave everything up to popular vote? I don't know. Choose your flavor of socialism. But the idea is that the overall human impact on society would be something that is consciously chosen and managed in some rational way other than pure profit.

Depends. Is it Primaries season, or is it the General election?

If the former, then vote progressives in.

If the latter, show me in the races these Democrats were elected where the Republican wasn't objectively worse on practically every issue.

I don't think that is a gotcha once you consider the full context.

Voting blue is not an assertion that the Democrats are good.

The problem is that our culture is so rotten and voting system so broken that the other viable choice is nazi dictatorship on top of being even MORE capitalist and corrupt and destructive.

If these are your representatives, stop what you're doing and contact them to express your displeasure of their support for this bill.

At least then you can say you did something even if they (likely) ignore the fuck out of your concerns. Talking about it on the internet to bring awareness is great, but reaching out to your representatives directly is what may actually make change.

Of course Fetterman and Schumer are on this list.

Pretty easy to do with a Republican majority

Yep, call your representatives while it’s still in the amendment process! https://5calls.org/issue/bipartisan-affordability-and-jobs-act/

This isn't failure, this is how it's designed to work

Democrats are the HR department of the Oligarchy

Thats how i see it too. We have to keep pushing.

Fuck off, Russian equivalency bot. R = D? Nope.