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LightFIAR

@LightFIAR@med-mastodon.com

he/him; AIDS/HCV/SARS activist since ACT UP in 89; ran Fdn for Integrative AIDS Res (FIAR)

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futurebird , to random
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There is a lot of negativity about Therapsids. Lots of people (mostly me) calling them "ugly" and "too small heads" and "make up your mind about being a mammal or not" but I'm turning over a new leaf!

Dicynodont?
Why not dicynodo!

LightFIAR ,
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@futurebird Almost looks like a gigantic water bear!

JSharp1436 , to random
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⚫ Noam Chomsky, the intellectual, who exposed over many decades the hidden workings of power, has died at the age of 95.

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/06/the-noam-chomsky-i-knew

LightFIAR ,
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@JSharp1436 I don't think he's dead yet!
We all may be soon but I have not heard that is the case. He'd suffered a massive stroke last week.

rbreich , to random
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The Biden FTC is on a roll.

It banned noncompete clauses.

It blocked the Kroger/Albertsons merger that would send grocery bills skyrocketing.

Now it's taking action against Adobe for allegedly trapping users in pricey subscriptions.

This is government working for the people.

LightFIAR ,
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@rbreich If he is going to beat that corrupt POS criminal Drumpf--he needs to do MUCH more of this. And like the attached. That MUST include ENDING THE GENOCIDE, restoring COVID funding/research/mitigation, ending pipelines and drilling, ending the War on Drugs, ending medical debt--he needs to EO and PUSH for the kind of things Americans NEED to get them encouraged to get out and vote. As it is he is LOSING youth, BIPOC votes by the millions.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-immigration-policy

futurebird , to random
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Exciting ant queen collecting trip in AZ. Why does it feel like all the coolest ants are in the South and South West. It's not fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1CkkkKbOM

LightFIAR ,
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@futurebird @aronow @errg @kechpaja Silly biped! Simple solution: adore the divinity of felinity and your concerns will melt away. Meow!

rbreich , to random
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Banning medical debt from credit reports.

Cracking down on junk fees.

Banning non-competes.

Capping credit card fees.

Negotiating drug prices.

Expanding OT pay.

These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.

LightFIAR ,
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@rbreich Yeah, but at the end of the day, this is all just shitty crumbs that a) fail to get at the roots (e.g., student debt--education should be FREE, pre-k to phd) and b) pale in comparison to his MAJOR fuck ups from COVID to the latest racist anti-immigrant shit to more CO2 than ever, pipelines, bloated and corrupt military, and GENOCIDE. Gosh. We should be so grateful for the end of life as we know it.

ScientistRebellion , to random
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India has hit 50C on the mercury.
Good time to revisit this piece from our friends form the @guardian

War needs fossil fuels

Protesting war is part and parcel to protesting against the barons intent on genocide, both from their bombs and from the heat.

In solidarity.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change

LightFIAR ,
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@ScientistRebellion @guardian Consider using Foul Fuels instead. Quite accurate as these people are going to kill us all for very short term "gain."

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« Children are starving in Gaza because of Netanyahu’s policies. »⁣⁣⁣
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LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @palestine Can people make a citizens arrest of Bibi the Butcher if he shows up and send his filthy fascist genocidal ass to the Hague?

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @palestine There are certainly sufficient ethical and moral grounds to arrest him. He is committing genocide and working hard to keep war going to keep his fascist ass out of prison. This represents a threat to life on this planet given a) the war is about foul fuels and b) an escalating middle east war --> WWIII...

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @palestine I'm sure all the Palestinian children and families butchered and maimed by that fascist fuck are greatly concerned about any such exacerbations!

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @palestine Cutting off the head fucks up the authoritarian ladder, crippling Likud. Fascism is brittle.

LightFIAR ,
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@GeriatricGardener @poligraf @palestine Oh, I agree in re the rest of fascist Likud. But it will fuck them up and scare them perhaps if they see Bibi the Butcher hauled off in chains. As he should be. Smotrich, Ben-gvir, Gollant, Herzog--all those fuckers need to face justice. Gotta start somewhere and why not at the top?

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@poligraf @GeriatricGardener @palestine Having a citizens' arrest of Bibi would be fantastic and START the process. But indeed--there is the far bigger and vexing question of what happens once the genocide is stopped? One-state? Two-state? I am at a loss on that question but you're right it's vital.

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @GeriatricGardener @palestine Why do you think it would backfire? It might--but it cannot be worse than the "front" fire of genocide through bombs, white phosphorus and starvation.

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @GeriatricGardener @palestine LOL...OK your point 1 is bullshit. I've been an activist for decades and assure you illegitimate actions are often necessary. As to whether Biden will lose because HE is supporting genocide with bombs and cash--HE has to fucking change course FAST.

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @GeriatricGardener @palestine LOL...ANY action can backfire or have unintended negative consequences. That doesn't mean you don't try. And it might get to stop funding and arming fascist Likud's genocide. Anyway, don't worry. Nothing's going to happen to Bibi.

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @GeriatricGardener @palestine How many kids have to be butchered and maimed? What kind of sick pathetic "liberal" asshole are you?
Fuck You, mr. chamberlain.

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @GeriatricGardener @palestine You're not constructive at all. Your a motherfucking apologist for genocide. Go fuck yourself, you miserable fascist-embracing asshole.

LightFIAR ,
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@poligraf @GeriatricGardener @palestine OK, now you're just mealymouthed babbling. Fuck you, Fuck Biden, fuck Bibi the goddamned genocidal BUTCHER. A shanda fur die goyim. You've made your sad ass bullshit clear and you can just fuck right off. I hope there's a HUGE group that citizens' arrests that sick motherfucker.

rbreich , to random
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Convicted felon Donald Trump has succeeded in getting his three remaining criminal trials postponed indefinitely.

If he really thought he was innocent of the 54 remaining charges, don't you think he'd want the trials to happen before the election so he could clear his name?

LightFIAR ,
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@rbreich Sounds like it is way past time to replace Milqueotast Merrick. He's fucking useless.

18+ futurebird , (edited ) to random
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There are all kinds of people in the world who see things in all kinds of different ways.

(US pol/ Trump tw)

A "truth" from Lara "Women For Trump" on Truth Social. Trump2024 Our very last chance to save our Country. (praying hands, US Flag) An AI image of Trump and Melania Holding hands, as they never have in life, as they look at a candle together. They both look sad and pensive as they have never looked in life. "Re-electing Trump is no longer a political choice it's a survival choice."
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    • LightFIAR ,
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    @futurebird Opened, piously and no doubt, to Ezekiel 23:20!

    NotImpressed , to palestine group
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    @palestine

    "Keir Starmer’s Labour party has parachuted a professional lobbyist for Israel into the safe seat of North Durham for the UK general election. Luke Akehurst, the director of We Believe in Israel, has spent over a decade working as a campaigner for that country’s interests..."
    "Akehurst, who is not Jewish, was once described by a fellow Israel lobbyist as “outrageously pro-Zionist”."

    Please don't vote for this character 👇

    https://www.declassifieduk.org/luke-akehurst-arch-israel-lobbyist-picked-for-labour-safe-seat/

    LightFIAR ,
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    @PGBeattie @Lassielmr @NotImpressed @palestine Same shit in U$A. Because these 0.01% rentier parasite owner-donors have purchased 90% of politicians and legislation to their advantage. These assholes need to be stopped.

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    ScientistRebellion , to random
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    Poor nations deserve restitution for the harms endured at the hands of rich nations refusing to decrease

    Averting the worst of is a moral imperative

    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/27/world-has-moral-responsibility-to-help-small-island-states-survive-climate-crisis-un-agency-chief

    LightFIAR ,
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    @ScientistRebellion Indeed. Though I recommend considering the phrase "foul fuels" (since fossils are wonderful and illuminating). And let's identify the type of rentier parasite assholes killing people and planet for profit (along with democracies/governments).

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    rbreich , to random
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    Wall Street tycoon Stephen Schwarzman endorsed Trump yesterday.

    He joins a growing list of billionaires who once condemned the former president but are now flocking to his campaign.

    Never underestimate how quickly billionaires will sell out our democracy for tax cuts.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich WTF difference does it make when is a piece of fucking shit?
    Don’t look now, but Joe Biden has just adopted the Trump China policy he has previously and relentlessly repudiated—and gone one further.
    https://portside.org/2024-05-25/price-bidens-new-china-tariffs

    rbreich , to random
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    Reminder: When you invest in the American people, the middle class expands, and the economy grows.

    When you cut taxes on the rich, the rich get richer, and the gains don’t trickle down.

    It’s that simple.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich "Trickle down" always made me think of a demented old incontinent man (who looks a lot like Reagan).

    rbreich , to random
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    Boeing shareholders approved a $33M pay package for CEO Dave Calhoun, despite overseeing huge losses and safety problems.

    It's the biggest package ever given to a Boeing CEO.

    Calhoun is resigning by year's end. Guess what he gets then?

    A $45 million golden parachute.

    Unreal.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich And the ability to murder whistleblowers at a whim?

    rbreich , to random
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    50 billionaire families have already spent $600 million on the 2024 elections.

    More than half—$416 million—went to Republicans or conservative groups that want to extend Trump's tax cuts for the rich.

    Could there be a clearer example of how big money corrupts our democracy?

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich True enough. So what are we going to do about it? Drumpf? Make it MUCH worse. Biden? ditto. This is what Oligarchy looks like. We're fucked. There's no democracy left--just a dying planet run by assholes.

    faab64 , to israel group

    Doctors Without Borders said that the intensification of the onslaught by Israeli forces on #Rafah has forced it to stop providing lifesaving care at Rafah Indonesian Field hospital as of 12 May.

    "Since Israeli forces have expanded their offensive in Rafah, it has become impossible to provide lifesaving medical assistance amid a campaign of death and destruction", the organization stated.
    #MsF #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
    #palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
    @palestine @israel

    LightFIAR ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel BIDEN NEEDS TO GO. TRULY

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gaza-famine-biden-israel-hamas-b2542961.html

    LightFIAR ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel NO. THEY ARE BOTH COMPLETELY INELIGIBLE FOR OFFICE. Such comparisons are absurdist nonsense at this point--they are both beyond evil.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel They're both criminals. Biden's poll numbers are shit and have been forever--so I don't think preference figures in here. More, what to do when feckless fuck Joe hands the Shite House back to Drumpf-nazi. That may reunite the fractured left/liberal against him--but all too late for people and planet. Either way--the 0.01% win. This is what Oligarchy looks like as they both service garbage people like these:

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    LightFIAR ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel There are many possibilities.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel Waiting? For what? Hint: Godot isn't coming to save us.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel Tour?

    rbreich , to random
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    The Biden Admin's rule limiting credit card late fees was set to begin tomorrow.

    But a Trump-appointed judge blocked it at the request of the Chamber of Commerce — costing U.S. families an estimated $27 million a day.

    MAGA and corporate interests want to keep ripping you off.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich While it's ostensibly good Biden wants to eliminate student debt (how about medical debt?), a) it's been thwarted constantly and b) it's window dressing that doesn't address the underlying problem of education being absurdly costly, run by high salary admins who treat professors and students like SHIT. What we need is FEDERAL programs for free, well-funded education from pre-K to PhD. WE CAN AFFORD THAT. Especially if we end programs like GENOCIDE.

    plink , to israel group
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    from
    As Assault Intensifies, Joins Case Accusing of Genocide

    "It's a real diplomatic punch," a former diplomat said. "Israel would have to take it very seriously."






    @palestine @israel

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/egypt-icj-israel

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rrb @f800gecko @plink @palestine @israel Hamas ❤️ Bibi
    yrs, untergruppenführer bengvir

    rbreich , to random
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    Office Hours: Is Biden focusing on the right issue? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-is-biden-focusing-on?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich Read this. #GenocideJoe has fucked this up so badly his failures, bigotry and pandering to fascist Likud may well mean he hands the Shite House back to Drumpf. He and Congress have no idea what anti-Semitism is.

    https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/2-lessons-holocaust-gaza

    rbreich , to random
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    Will the protests hurt Biden? Saturday Coffee klatch, May 4, 2024 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/will-the-protests-hurt-biden-coffee-e29?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich Biden hurts Biden by his myriad shitty, right-wing and horrible choices from fucking up COVID to more foul fuels than ever to BELLIGERENTLY arming and funding fascist Likud's genocide.

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    1. Joe Biden is a terrible, terrible choice as US President.

    2. Joe Biden is obviously a MUCH better choice than either Donald Trump or Nikki Haley.

    Both statements above can be true, because that’s how our electoral system works — how it is designed to work.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @breadandcircuses Keeping Drumpf out is vitally important.

    Where I disagree is that Biden is "much" better when he has been a complete horrible nightmare from his mishandling of COVID to more foul fuels and CO2 than EVER and arming and funding genocide. When Drumpf said "stop testing and it'll go away" Biden then promptly made it so. He is as despicable as Drumpf in my view.

    flawed , to israel group
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    One more instance that brings the guess work some credibility.

    Now the ruling class has roped in the fascist street thugs (largely Israeli fascists, may be other fascists too) to attack UCLA students in collaboration with State goons.

    The way it works is:

    If Fascists can attack on their own without State goon help, State goons will simply sit idly by & let the attack happne.

    If fascists doesnt have the required street muscle, State goons collaborate & intervene to help fascists.

    These attacks usually happen in the dark to ensure they can hide their identity when they do this criminal dirty work on behalf of their masters.

    It entirely depends on the circumstance.

    In both cases, they use this manufactured chaos as a pretext to attack the people ruling class (in collaboration with fascists) wants targeted.

    Its a strategy that has extremely high % of success rate — barring few rare exceptions.

    https://kolektiva.social/@flawed/112345502657922404

    @palestine @israel #israel #palestine #gaza #anarchy

    Aljazeera reporting on this fascist attack.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @flawed @palestine @israel ISRAEL IS A SHANDA FUR DI GOYIM. FUCK ISRAELI NAZIS.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Love Hillary, hate Hillary, whatever. But during the 2016 debates, she called Trump Putin’s puppet and said he “encouraged espionage against our country”. She spoke the truth, in public, straight to his orange face.

    Lots of people owe Hillary Clinton — and America — an apology.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @Strandjunker LOL. Putrin. Yeah, sure but meanwhile she's another genocidal asshole in love with fascist LIKUD and AIPAC.
    https://time.com/4265947/hillary-clinton-aipac-speech-transcript/

    Strandjunker , to random
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    I know there is a lot going on, but CIA agents were killed, captured, or compromised because Trump sold their names to our enemies.

    Just thought I should remind everyone of that.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @Strandjunker Same with Dick Cheney and that bag of criminal shit is still at large.

    rbreich , to random
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    RFK Jr. says President Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump.

    Rubbish!

    Only one candidate has been charged with a criminal conspiracy to overturn an election. That's Trump.

    RFK Jr isn't running for president. He's running to reelect Trump, and he knows it.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rbreich He'll probably take more "independent" votes who would otherwise vote for Drumpf. Sadly, RFK, TFG and are all such HORRIBLE candidates, the corruption of the electoral college will hand reins to the biggest fascist...

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    LightFIAR ,
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    @jeffowski
    But they'll take anyone's money dumb enough to waste it on MAGAt land.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/make-the-rnc-white-again-gop-ends-minority-outreach-program

    LightFIAR , to random
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    #GenocideJoe claims his admin has spent more on global heating (while producing more foul fuels than ever):
    “So not only do these kinds of projects not help, but they perpetuate use of fossil fuels at a critical moment in history when we need to do the opposite.
    “Despite the U.S. government having spent billions on failed CCS projects, under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), it is set to spend many billions more, a lot of it in tax subsidies to fossil-fuel companies.”
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-false-promise-of-carbon-capture-as-a-climate-solution/

    Bakersm11 , to random
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    MAGA Sneaker Con

    Trump Hater Kochsucker Niki Haley is a Libtard

    (Windmills cause cancer Idiots for Trumpland)

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-unveiled-his-line-of-gold-sneakers-at-sneaker-con-in-philadelphia/ar-BB1irBrL

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    LightFIAR ,
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    @otownKim @Bakersm11

    wdlindsy , to random
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    Greg Olear and Tom Carter offer valuable commentary on the "Unholy Trinity" that has moved US political life towards overt fascism (more specifically, Christofascism) in the recent decades. The link below includes a link to a podcast conversation about this between Olear and Carter.


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    https://open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/p/leonard-leo-and-the-unholy-trinity

    LightFIAR ,
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    @wdlindsy This is what Oligarchy looks like. How do we rid the world of these people and direct their assets to needs of people and planet?

    auschwitzmuseum , to random
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    13 February 1927 | Haya Mikulinski, a Jewish girl, was born in Tel Aviv. She lived in Amsterdam.

    In September 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

    LightFIAR ,
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    @auschwitzmuseum The deep horror of this is rendered ever more profound by the fact another series will show all the children and innocents butchered by Israel.

    rahmstorf , to random German
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    Informativer SZ-Artikel über das baldige Überschreiten der 1,5-Grad Erwärmungsgrenze.
    „Schon in einer Generation wird dieses Versagen wahrscheinlich als Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit gewertet werden.“
    https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/wissen/klimawandel-januar-temperatur-el-nino-klimaziel-e477774/

    LightFIAR ,
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    @rahmstorf Deshalb müssen DIESE MENSCHEN für ihre Verbrechen gegen Mensch und Planet zur Verantwortung gezogen werden. Vermögenswerte, die vollständig entzogen wurden, kriminalisieren JEGLICHE Gewinnmitnahme oder Erwirtschaftung von üblen Treibstoffen und stecken diese Führungskräfte ins GEFÄNGNIS, wo sie hingehören.

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    Wow. Jag Bhalla offers one of the most sensible, thought-provoking, and wholly convincing articles I have ever read.

    Title: "Climate Optimism Is Dangerous and Irrational"

    Subtitle: "Overly-confident math models based on unrealistic assumptions are used to avoid crisis-consistent climate policies and to protect global elite privilege, while abandoning our duties to the planet’s most vulnerable."

    It includes these section headings:

    ‣ The IPCC’s Official Modeling Malarkey

    ‣ The Worst Offenders: The Economists

    I hope you can take the time to read the entire article. It's very long, extremely well-researched, and completely devastating.

    This is near the conclusion...

    Climate change is not just going to be “apocalyptic,” it’s already apocalyptic.

    It’s just that the apocalypse is not something that happens to the entire world at once. Instead, the apocalyptic events are experienced mostly by the world’s poorest people (who, incidentally, have contributed the least to creating the problem). Who, witnessing the scale of flooding in Pakistan last year, could possibly say that the climate crisis is not “apocalyptic,” unless you regard Pakistanis as unpeople whose well-being simply doesn’t factor into the equation? 33 million people were displaced, and millions of homes destroyed.

    When white Western elites publish books with titles like "It’s Not The End of The World" or "Apocalypse Never" or "False Alarm", what they mean is “it’s not the end of the world for people like me,” “apocalyptic conditions will never be experienced by my sector of society,” and “those of us who are among the world’s richest do not need to be alarmed.”

    Of course, even these are false comforts — the mansions of Malibu are flammable, after all.

    FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/07/climate-optimism-is-dangerous-and-irrational

    #IPCC #Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

    LightFIAR ,
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    @breadandcircuses Of course, economists and even many GOOD scientists have been bamboozled by hypercautious modeling and forecasts that, as I just posted, result in the refrain "faster (and worse) than we thought" for decades. The DRIVERS of this horror are gummints in thrall to assholes like these who MUST be eliminated from any power and all assets redirected.

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