my covid test is positive

“COVID is the problem”

“I’ve got norovirus”

“That doesn’t matter”

except in the context of managing withdrawal symptoms

Seems like one hell of a caveat

Democrat does not equal liberal.

Oh, you scratched yours, didn’t you?

Might be how a country/regional service date stamps its metadata relative to how Google Analytics converts it to a result. Exactly 12 h sounds more like a conversion issue.

most scientists agree it is too late

I mean, “too late” for what is always the question. Folks keep insisting The Apocalypse is next month. And then it doesn’t come, and we get a wave of “I guess nothing actually ever happens” during a new record heat wave.

if it takes the entire world falling apart to make the realities undeniably apparent, then so be it

The world is a big place. It’s not clear what “falling apart” is even supposed to look like.

I’m seeing people predicting a 4% drop in population because of a particularly harsh El Nino this year. I’ve been hearing about a looming economic crash that’s at least ten years overdue.

At the scope of a human life, all of this is still very gradual change. You’re going to be living in the middle of it and not realize how much has changed because you never knew subzero weather in St. Louis or glaciers in Montana were normal.

The talk is of some kind of sharp sudden drop, and not the further churn of a 30,000 year old global extinction event.

Thankfully I stopped voting after Biden, so my bad luck 🍀 has peaked.

I mean, you joke. But folks really do seem to believe there’s a karmic curse on people who “vote wrong”. That’s the entire theory of Leopards Eating Faces, anyway.

Australia is American Plus.

Your county is doing everything the US does on steroids. It’s just too small for anyone outside the South Pacific to notice.

Albanese and Trump signed a minerals deal just last October, ffs.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomes the extension of the US-Iran ceasefire, says his government has been in regular contact with US and that President Donald Trump would ‘always be welcome’ in Australia.

“Did we ever think we would see the day when we would say, ‘Please bring back George W. Bush’?” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said during an interview with Evan Smith last week. “We really did work together.”

“Capitalism caused all these ecological problems”

“Okay what about the same problems occurring outside of a capitalist framework”

“Those don’t count”

Shrug

You’ve got to move beyond the ideological and address the material. Ecological harm isn’t predicated on privatized profit.

You aren’t going to find liberals venerating Reagan, Bush, and Clinton

How Democrats Came to Feel Nostalgic for George W. Bush

“Did we ever think we would see the day when we would say, ‘Please bring back George W. Bush’?” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said during an interview with Evan Smith last week. “We really did work together.”

Why Do Democrats Keep Embracing George W. Bush?

Former Democratic Representative Katie Hill tweeted, “In a million years I never thought I’d be crying watching this, thinking how much better we’d all feel if Bush were president today. Wtf.”

Why would I do that?

Presumably because you have a hagiographic understanding of your nation’s police and courts, and you really do believe civil rights are delivered from a benevolent judicial priesthood.

You stating that someones vehicle is public is quite literaly 180 degrees from the legal opinion.

Whose legal opinion?

The problem is capitalism.

The Soviets were shit on environmentalism for a long time. We didn’t see a serious environmental movement in China until the early 2000s. We’ve never really seen one in the USSR, prior to its collapse.

humans are just another parasitic and unchecked species that is probably going to learn about their own environmental limits the hard way.

Humans are the exception precisely because they can see the axe falling and move out of the way.

Outside of the fossil fuel dominated US/Saudi sphere, we’ve seen an enormous collaborated effort to curb greenhouse gases. Not everyone is ignoring the risks and consequences.

What we have the capitalist West is a conscious choice between short term profit and long term survival.

There’s also climate accelerationism

Trump has done more to curb emissions with the closing of Hormuz than the last five presidents combined.

average liberal already knows the US is fascist

No. They always think the current moment is the exception and everything way very respectable and dignified historically.

That’s why you’ve got liberals venerating Reagan, Clinton, and Bush, having completely whitewashed the horror of those presidencial eras from their minds.

It’s voting for Trump

Accelerationism is when you vote. And the more you vote, the faster things get

You see there used to be this us thing called the 4th amendment

Point to the moment in history during which the 4th amendment existed the way the lay American thinks is does

Why are adults still eating this crap?

Because it’s a mix of sweet and salty, which scratches our instinctual desires.

Best thing inflation did was force me to learn how to bulk cook.

It has been a hobby and a passion for hundreds of millions of people going on 10,000 years.

Retvrn 2 Tradition

Sure. But you’d lose the case.

You don’t have right to privacy in public.

At least in the 80s there was potential for improvement

We don’t talk about the irreconcilable damage inflicted during the earlier industrial era. We don’t talk about what modern fossil fuels and plastics replaced.

Nothing about this is eternal. We are no closer to oblivion today than we were during Operation Plumbbob or the Black Plague.

You won’t live to see the end. You won’t live to see the beginning of the end. You won’t even live to see the end of the beginning.

We’re all living through a single footstep on an endless road.