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When I was a boy, growing up in the 1960s, the United States was certainly not a nation of assholes. We valued personal liberty, which meant the freedom to say and think and do anything we wanted, and to do anything we wanted as long as we weren’t hurting anyone. This is what it meant to be an American.
Our allies also valued that freedom, and our enemies were the dictatorships that demanded mindless conformity to arbitrary positions held by the autocrat.
All this has gone totally out the window.
It’s easy.
Run for president in a country in which a plurality of voters care less about the honesty and law than they do about punishing everyone but white straight Christian males.
Here are people who want $200 from you. They say:
For years, people accepted that small wind turbines did not work.
Three-bladed wind turbines capture ~90% of the theoretically available kinetic energy in wind, and there are numerous reasons based in physics and economics as to why small wind failed about 15 years ago.
Scam.
To the point being made at left, I’m a progressive, but I honestly couldn’t care less if white people of the American south want to wallow in incest, disease, poverty, and ignorance.
On the other hand, I am concerned about the plight of hungry children, homeless veterans, the collapse of the environment, the destruction of the educational system, and the criminal psychosis of the U.S. president.
I had a friend who co-coached my son’s all-star soccer team with me 20+ years ago who told me, when I told him that I was an environmentalist, “Oh no, Craig, we must hasten to destroy the Earth, so as to welcome the return of Jesus Christ,” by which, of course, he meant the rapture, the apocalypse as discussed at length in Revelation.
I have heard some twisted s*** in my time, but this stands at or near the top.
Plenty of people say that religion and science are not mutually incompatible.
Some believe that life couldn’t have come from non-life.
Of course, there are other, perhaps less thoughtful believers, who say that God and His son Jesus Christ are the only path to heaven, because the Bible tells us so.
Most scientists, like neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris says that religion is to the human mind what a virus is to a computer.
Here’s a short video that addresses the assault that the U.S. federal government is conducting on the health of people in red states and counties.
Of course, this is another fine example of what Lyndon Johnson said: “If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the finest black man, he’ll open up his wallet to you.”
In this case, uneducated white people don’t care about their own ignorance or poverty or disease, as long as their president is vigorously punishing non-whites.
At left is a question typical of a Republican moron. Might someone say, “No, taxes don’t need to be spent on things that serve our interests?”
The question, of course, is what actually does serve our interests.
Believe it or not, there are people in countries on this planet who think that tax money serves their interest if it goes to creating a healthier, happier, better educated, more humane society.
These are the same countries that tax rich people heavily, where attaining a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars is extremely difficult–probably impossible. But those nations don’t have homeless veterans living in the street and presidents who are rapists and convicted felons.
Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of morons who believe hateful garbage like this.
The average 10-year-old can understand that we can BOTH protect our citizens while obeying the U.S. Constitution and international law when it comes to treating the undocumented legally and humanely.
Again, this is what is called the logical fallacy of the “false dichotomy.” Only idiots believe we have to choose one over the other.
I would say that the regulations on energy (and transportation) companies should be sufficient to put pressure on them to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonize in favor of renewables and nuclear.
