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[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's not that kind of show.

Cody Showdy is like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, but for leftists.

 

Hi. Elon Musk is not very good at things – running companies, managing the government's money, parenting, gaming, etc. And he thinks you're so fucking stupid that you won't even notice.

Chapters:

00:00 - Nazi Salute

04:05 - Le Epic Gamer

17:04 - Not a bit

17:44 - Musk Isn’t Very Good At Anything

25:01 - Elon Musk, Non-Inventor of Things

31:11 - Elon Musk, Not Qualified For This

42:57 - Nazi Salute

50:34 - He Thinks You’re Even Stupider Than He Is

56:00 - Elon Musk, The Ultimate Gamer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So animal exploitation is still part of Solarpunk, yes? Good luck with that so called "imagination" then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

And what's your strategy for communicating The Big Problem?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's good to tie* long-term trends to experiences. People don't feel the global temperature average going up, but they do feel local temperature going up.

Here's a nice recent paper which includes Bucharest: Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality under climate change, demographic and adaptation scenarios in 854 European cities | Nature Medicine

Here's a nice platform to search for records... thanks to MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/weather/records/in-Bucharest,Romania look at the red line.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it means something bad is happening. People are talking about it because they don't want to do anything serious about it, which is somewhat good. It would be good to solve this problem with words only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

E ridicol cât de mare e diferența.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

He has the smile of someone who think he's a hero while having child sex slaves in his basement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Interesting photo. Looks like a forced smile at church in between beating the wife at home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, that's what I mean. What you described happened and it's a core part of how capitalists build up a popular base. The temporarily embarrassed ones are looking up to the ones who are actual millionaires. Don't worry, they get that money back in the end.

With wealth, like properties, shares and various "passive income", the class interests of the former working class person tend to turn into capitalist class interests: lower taxation, more deregulation, more personal and family wealth accumulation, more welfare and aid for "business owners", smaller social welfare systems (for the masses) with private (and exclusively expensive) alternatives, and so on.

From the horse owner's mouth: How FDR Saved Capitalism

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is where the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" (or billionaire) come into play. That's the most relevant form of being a class traitor.

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Deregulation Watch (corporateeurope.org)
 

Corporate Europe Observatory has set up Deregulation Watch to help civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defense of strong social, environmental and human rights protections.

On a related note:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_bottom

 
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Phil McGraw, known as "Dr. Phil" for the eponymous American television series focused on mental health, followed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other federal agents during the action, according to his X account and two sources familiar with the matter.

 

Into that maelstrom came a renowned scientist and engineer named Howard Scott. With a doctorate from the University of Berlin, he’d commanded complex projects around the globe, including British munitions plants and industrial projects for U.S. Steel. Scott and a small group of fellow engineers and scientists had made a diagnosis of civilization’s ills and a prescription for relief. The current capitalist system, they said, was irrevocably broken, and—as one magazine summarizing the movement put it—“we are faced with the threat of national bankruptcy and perhaps general chaos within eighteen months.” Scott described the solution in the language of an engineer—a civilization “operated on a thermo-dynamically balanced load.”

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