America’s Sad Presidential Race
The presidential race in the United States is decidedly not about intelligent or academic achievement.
That would have been fine were it not for the fact that it’s not about character, honor, or decency either.
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Cruelty in America
The United States refuses to offer its citizens healthcare or quality education. Pregnant women with abnormal pregnancies often die because doctors are forbidden to perform abortions, even in medical emergencies. 16% of all American children live in poverty and frequently go hungry.
At left is what Russian author and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said about cruelty. It’s of particular importance as we approach the November election, which could result in sending Donald Trump, a would-be autocrat, back to the White House.
What’s the Point?
OK, what exactly is the point?
How about this: Rich white people get richer.
Everybody else faces some blend of exploitation: discrimination, hunger, impoverishment, disease, poor education, scarce resources, death/injury in war, etc.
In the Native American communities. decisions are made based on the way they affect the welfare of the next seven generations. The right wing couldn’t care less about what happens to the common American 10 minutes from now.
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Comparing Our Times with the Days of the Nazis
The meme here isn’t quite correct. Trump supporters aren’t avoiding the truth about their hero; they’re not pretending to be unaware of his lies, racism, cancellation of women’s rights, and criminality. They openly embrace this stuff; it’s what attracts them to him.
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American Politics and George Orwell’s Classic Novel
Who would have thought American politics would have come to this, i.e., the parallel to Orwell’s “1984”?
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Sustainable Agriculture
I just met a woman whose company develops and deploys sustainable agriculture solutions, and I had the opportunity to ask her about her viewpoints on the topic. A quick summary:
• No-till farming. This is an agricultural technique for growing crops with minimal disturbance of the soil. It decreases the amount of soil erosion, while increasing: the amount of water that infiltrates into the soil, soil retention of organic matter, and nutrient cycling.
• Spot spraying. As one might hope in the information age, the idea of spraying certain chemicals, whether they are intended to kill insects or weeds, can be minimized. Modern technology makes this possible.
• Vertical farming. We’ve all seen this concept whereby (thus far) relatively small amounts of produce are grown indoors, in containers that encourage the plants to grow “up” as opposed to “out.” One’s initial reaction might have been negative: OK, we have the sun above, the fertile earth below, and rain that has made “horizontal” farming work, for the last 10,000 years. What’s the matter with letting nature takes its course? The answer resides in the growing scarcity of arable land and fresh water. We now have grocery stores that grow the produce they sell on their roofs.
• Social media’s scorn of vegans. There have been vegetarians for the last couple of hundreds of years, but it’s only been in the blink of an eye, since the dawn of social media, that meat-eaters have begun to ridicule those who have decided that killing and eating cows (or sheep or pigs) may be bad for human health, cruel to the animals, and bad for the planet. By ridiculing sensitive and thoughtful people, humankind has arrived at a new level of meanness and stupidity.
• Plowing under rain forests to make room for more cows. It was at this point that this erudite, sophisticated woman dropped the F-bomb to describe her repulsion for a society that eagerly welcomes its own death if that means more hamburgers.
Great to meet a kindred spirit.
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Yes, Some Level of Voter Fraud Actually Does Exist
As shown at left, voter fraud, albeit rare, does occasionally exist. My personal theory as to why it’s so uncommon is that the penalties are harsh, and the prospect of changing the results of an election are infinitesimally small.
This moron and (former) attorney is doing three years, and, when released, will be looking for work, perhaps as a bartender or grocery clerk.
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Trump Will Win the Deep South, But ….
Congratulations to Mr. Johnson of rural Georgia for his ability to see that Donald Trump is anti-American. Unfortunately, his viewpoints on this subject land him in a slim minority in the Deep South, but it’s worth noting that the overall U.S. electorate is not as ignorant and blind as many people believe.
Moreover, voter turnout in going to be off the charts.
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In Support of Kamala Harris Includes Quite an Array of High-Level Economists
Well, all this may be true. But there is a voice to the contrary, and that’s Donald Trump’s. He’s convinced close to half of the U.S. electorate that, even though he’s a pathological liar, that he’s the only one telling the truth and guiding this country in the right direction.
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Do Democrats Control the Weather?
Seems unlikely. But this guy’s meme on Marjorie Taylor Greene certainly made me smile.
In fact, however, I believe MTG is actually good for progressives, because of her bottomless capacity to make asinine claims like this one.
You go, girl.
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