America’s New Eco-Friendly Political Conventions
Yes, let’s institutionalize virtual political conventions. Reinvesting the monetary savings in public education, cleantech R&D, cancer research, debt reduction, stay-in-school programs, infrastructure, college scholarships, summer camps for the underprivileged, whatever. Just pick one. Or eleven.
And yes, keep the jet fuel in the ground.
If you’re not an airline or a hotel chain, virtual political conventions are a better experience for all concerned.
I can’t imagine what passers by would do to my house if I were to have this sign on my front yard, but I won’t be finding out.
It’s this complete indifference to the success of America and Americans that makes him so useful to Russia.
Like alcoholics, most crazy people try to conceal their infirmities.
There is a wide variety of ways to ruin the planet, yet it’s possible that the Trump administration has identified and implemented every single one.
One can almost hear Obama saying:
Franz Jägerstätter was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed for his refusal to fight for Nazi Germany. He was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church.
Below is the heart of the discussion I have frequently with people re: the pandemic.
The Marquis de Sade once mused, “What are all the agonies of everyone on Earth, compared to a single one of my pleasures?” That’s the level of criminal psychosis required to be the type of person Chomsky is discussing here.
