If I never read or was told another word Lauren Boebert said it would be a week to soon.
We - Democrats - never tell our story. We're too busy jumping up to defend ourselves from their lies. Which spreads their lies to a wider audience. Some of whom believe them.
Ignore them.
Ronald Reagan got elected on the platform, "Government sucks."
In all the years since, one thing no Democrat before Joe Biden has stood up and said, "Government is a good thing. It's supposed to be here, it's supposed to make your life better."
We still won't say it.
3. There is no specific program on Biden's agenda more important than "Government is a good thing."
But we're too busy with point-by-point refutations of Lauren Boebert and *ucker Carlson.
And the rest of the MFM (the last word is Media and the first compound word a swearword)
4. Host Democrats who say, "The Biden Administration needs to improve their messaging..." BUT NOT, THEMSELVES, DELIVER THE MESSAGE, which is under the way our global society is organized, government is inevitable and necessary. So we ought to make it the best we can.
5. If you read TDOE you can come to see that government is not exactly necessary, because the way we have organized our society is optional and we don't have to live like this, but in the meantime, if we're going to have one, a Hobbesian War of All Against All is not the ideal.
6. We accept their terms.
I don't accept anybody's terms. Like it or don't like it, what I do here is specifically make my case for actions we can take here at the bottom of the economic totem pole to break their machine and make a slower one.
With donkeys. That thing.
7. It is my policy to never do anything to spread the ideas to which I am opposed. Specifically not to refute them. Science is different - I'll stand up for physics against magic, which puts me strictly opposed to high energy solutions to our problems.
But I don't refute speeches
8. If people come on my TL and want to demand that I refute their talking points, I block them. Everyone can hear that shit anywhere they want to go. The whole world believes we can solve this with a massive new manufacturing system of an entire global energy systems, using
9. the machines and the factories which exist on Earth today to make it, and all will be fine.
I reject that. Don't ask me to refute it.
Show the energy flow to make and install it. It's not mine to disprove, it's theirs to prove.
But this bullshit about somebody bought somethin
10. I'd as soon make a scene about somebody farting in an elevator.
I saw this clip on Twitter of LB with her admittedly foxy body in tight black clothes making some speech, and - I have blocked every conservative I've ever seen. This is 100% coming from Democrats and adjacent.
11. I want Democrats to wrap everything they say and do in, "Government is a good thing, we're supposed to have one, and here's what it did for you today."
And just abso-fucking-lutely ignore Boebert, and Three Letters, and Teeny bopper, and all these motherfuckers. They're here.
12. Life is real. Do things. Don't argue with fools.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Climate justice. Environmental racism. White supremacy. Genocide. Slavery. Climate change. The Industrial Revolution. Ecosystem collapse. It's all one thing.
It is a historic fact that the same people who invented the Industrial Revolution were the ones who came over here and
2. Killed almost all the people who lived here, and their children, in an ongoing holocaust of Biblical proportion, cut down the forest, plowed the prairie, killed everything the people who lived here were living on, turned it all into money.
Couldn't have done it without 🚂🚂
3. It is an absolute literal fact that the Industrial Revolution powered a significant portion of the genocide.
And we didn't just kill all the people. We killed the land. We're still killing it - land dies slowly. It's tough. There are two and half billion years of life there.
2. The nations of the world could all get together at a real, we're-actually-scared conference, and agree.
3.
🔹 Reduce all surface speeds 5 mph / year until nothing goes faster than a running horse
🔹Apply analogous energy throughput limitations on air and sea traffic worldwide
🔹Plant all lands freed up as a result of 1🔹 and 2 🔹 to complex locally adapted ecosystems / food source
I have taken a break from speaking about actions which would be available to global developed societies if they wanted to reduce their GHG emissions.
There are several. It wouldn't be hard. It's just unthinkable.
2. If the urge strikes you to tell me people won't do this, please do not hit send on the tweet. The endless repetitions of that response have nearly forced me to quit this line of discussion. I cannot express the weight of the feeling of futility I carry. I actually care.
3. I already got it.
Fuck this. Lemme go catch my breath.
Y'all are beating me to death. I know you feel all-knowing, but I can't bear the weight of your collective certainty.
YOU DO REALIZE ALMOST EVERYONE IS GOING TO FUCKING DIE, RIGHT?
3. The BIF (Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework) aka (Big Industrial Fuckup) highway project, by itself, will be one of the largest increases if fossil fuel use as well as non-fuel based emissions in the history of the nation.
Biggest new concrete manufacturing in 70 years.
In the first place, climate change is a values decision.
It is a scientific fact that we know all the things we do which cause it. We know that, on this entire burning planet, about a quarter to at the most a third of the people who live here do the things that cause climate heat
2. and the other two thirds, the ones who aren't causing it, they're all getting along OK.
But we look down our noses at them, and burn their fields, and flood their gardens and their homes, with out energy and its outputs.
We literally do all this on purpose. Now that we know.
3. There is no question whether or not humankind could survive without pouring all this energy into the ecosystem.
Two thirds of us are today.
We're just too fucking proud.
I took a video of my hand driving today. It's uploading, just a short, probably be up by the end of this thread.
I had a dead tree down in my way, too big for me to move with my unaided body strength. I needed to get it into the creek. And my slip, which I had a rocky start with
yesterday, was still out in the Winter Pasture. These names are historic, from when G had about a hundred Angora goats and this was a fiber farm. I knew her but just as a friendly acquaintance. Long road to here.
But I digress.
3. I got a late start. A local church, where our adopted family goes, gave away a Thanksgiving meal free to all comers, out of a little kitchen facility which our family member owns.
Advertised it in the paper, all comers, free food, no speeches no hassle, drive by pickup.