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this is reductive and false to the point where i have a hard time deciding where to begin

the use of the term still actually makes this sorta ominous.

Happy HRT birthday! Love your name btw :)

them being immortal would probably speed up their removal, if change can only happen through violence then your hand is forced

And they have physical bodies!

Franco stuck around for quite awhile, but yeah its track record is usually short.

And the best part is that this is driven by economics, not even policy at this point. Renewables are cheaper.

Reminded of when someone opened their car window and yelled to me on the sidewalk that I had dropped some cash on the ground :)

Last time I ran out to a parking lot to find someone who dropped some cash in a store, they split some of it with me!

I dream of finding the wallet stuffed with enough cash to dig me out of this mess, but in reality, if there's any way at all to get it back to who dropped it, I will. Found a wallet a few months ago on a day trip, laying in the road. Ending up using the names on the credit cards to Facebook stalk a dude, found his company website, called him, and met him a half hour later to return it. Had like 800 dollars in cash it. I just... Can't be an asshole, even when it would benefit me

yeah. frankly while most left/liberal dont' see it, Trump is also a product of the pendulum swinging. we have been on a good spat of liberalization for 30+ years and there was going to be a backlash. and as someone who grew up working class white, i totally get the unfairness and bitterness of so many of those people who the economic/education system has totally abandoned, and the horrible feelings and condescending that comes from the liberal elite/educated set who look down on everyone who isn't highly educated and living in a coastal city. i got lucky and got to be one of those people, but many of my peers did not.

frankly i find it truly revolting how much of liberal america is so disgusting smug and condescending towards anyone who isn't exactly like them, and that massively accelerated in the 2010s. used to be in the 2000s people would respect/admire me for working my way from a poor working class family to elite school on scholarship and putting myself through grad school and building al ife for myself... somewhere around 2015 that all became to change though and i repeatedly starting meeting folks who told me that i should have 'stayed in my place' and my 'education is wasted on losers like you'. etc. and that attitude has only gotten worse and worse in the 2020s. i'd say there is a massive massive increase in class snobbery and elitism that didn't exist 10-20 years ago.

i've also noticed progressives have moved away from economic issues largely and are entirely focused on culture war bullshit, esp use trans people and trans rights as the most important thing ever, which has alienated many many people due to the rage and hatred being spouted over it. to me this is a horrible horrible move, and plays right into the right wing's advantages. because they are offer a much clearer narrative about these things than the left/liberals are. and clear narratives win elections and voters.

what baffles me is how the democrats can't understand or replicate Obama's success and messaging and act like he was some act of God. He wasn't. He just appealed to people's sentiments and listened to them... just like Trump did in this last election... meanwhile the democrats totally ignore the people and lecture us that they know better than we do what is going on in the country and we should be happy with how things are.

I hope someone on the left/dems capitalized on the severe economic need in this country and steers away from the culture war bullshit. A candidate that wants to actually fix the problems in this country that affect everyone, but it seems nobody is coming forth to do so. And at best we are just getting some candidates who are just going to go with the 'trump bad, me not trump' routine again, which we know doesn't work.

what a lot of people miss in Trumps success is that he had a clear vision people could get behind, even if it was all bullshit and lies.

Renewables surpassed coal, not all fossil fuels. Renewables were 34%. The good news is they are faster growing.

Maybe there's only one soul. Like in The Egg. It's just one soul reincarnating into one life after the next, jumping forwards and backwards in space and time. Eventually after passing through the lifetimes of every sentient being that is, was, or ever shall be, the path of reincarnation loops back upon itself. There is only one soul, only one consciousness in the cosmos. One infinite endless circling wheel of experience, all bound in a universe finite in both space and time.