Wise people have been making this observation all throughout history, going back at least as far as the Ancient Greeks.
And this, from modernity: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
Native American tribes are known for their decision-making that contemplates the best outcomes for those who will come seven generations down the line. This, btw, is the very definition of “sustainability.”
Of course, that never could have a reality in a white-dominated capitalist society. But life in the United States didn’t really go off the rails until fairly recently, when big money got into politics, and corruption took over.
Now, 60% of American families are living paycheck-to-paycheck and the planet is on fire.
I doubt Trump will be the U.S. president three years from now, but I also doubt that dementia will be the cause for his removal from office. That’s because, though he’s most certainly criminally insane, his symptoms of senility aren’t growing too fast, if at all, as far as most of us can discern.
He’s just as good at playing his base of hateful idiots now (probably better) as he was years ago.
His problem now is that he’s pushed his demand for absolute control so far as to alienate all but the most extreme fascists in the Republican party. His power is buckling, soon to break.
At left are the thoughts of conservative radio host and FBI deputy director Dan Bongino.
“Liberals say putting criminals in jail doesn’t work?” That’s some serious stupidity. Of course, you’re not catering to our country’s brightest minds.
Bukele ordered the ripping apart of his country’s many violent gangs, and I don’t think anyone could be blamed for such an enterprise, if it’s carried out lawfully.
We’d all love to know Bongino’s stance on Trump’s having pardoned 1600 convicted felons who were sitting in our nation’s jails/prisons, every one a supporter, since his return to the White House.
In Trump’s Truth Social post at left, we see the criminal sociopath’s threat to turn the United States military against the people of Chicago.
This brings us dangerously close to the point that our generals and admirals receive an order from the Commander-in-Chief, saying, “We’re invading our nation’s third largest city” with the response: “The fuck we are.”
The author of the meme here has a good point, though I would argue that there are more galling aspects to all this, e.g., having a wanna-be dictator and criminal conman in the White House.
I’ll certainly admit that it’s the height of irony that the hateful morons who support Trump deplore DEI and then turn around and applaud the appointment of some of the most clearly unqualified people imaginable to key positions.
The idea at left isn’t a bad one, but there are a number of complexities at play here.
Renewable energy in all its forms is rooted in the idea of transforming some kind of energy into electricity. This cannot be understood without a basic knowledge of physics: the conservation of energy, electricity and magnetism, semiconductors, fluid dynamics, the states of matter, and thermodynamics.
I would incorporate all this into the appropriate sections of first-year 11th grade physics textbooks.
Nuclear energy (fission and fusion) goes in AP physics.
Composting goes in 9th grade biology and/or 10th grade chemistry.
It’s amazing how little attention Americans paid to having been ripped off blind by Elon Musk.
The presence of greedy billionaires in our lives is bad enough, but when they conspire with the U.S. president and openly loot our Treasury, shouldn’t that raise something of a ruckus?
We live on a planet that features war, torture, environmental collapse, and a criminal sociopath elected as the most powerful person on Earth.
Can someone explain why anyone could possibly want to spend more than a few seconds on the rebranding of a fifth-rate restaurant chain?
Most Americans, me included, are puzzled as to how the Trump administration can openly thumb its nose to the findings of our courts. Until recently, behavior like this would have wound you up in jail.
