Warm-up! https://maydaystrong.org/

Fuel/oil Maersk, if I recall, does container shipping and has other ways of moving boxes, but all of them burn fuel

Would things be different in a parliamentary system? I’m not actually so sure. Every single member of the house of representatives is up for election in November and they don’t seem worried enough about their electoral chances to restrain him in any way.

Congress is still nominally the strongest branch of US government and they’re fully abdicating their responsibilities. What would a parliamentary system solve when one party is a death cult?

Getting ready, I suppose. We need an actual grassroots movement with commitment and organization. General strike seems about all that’s left to us

We can, in theory but shit’s hard in practice. Any systems for exerting collective power have been incredibly degraded, some of which has been intentional by motivated power systems. We don’t have local community groups with power anymore - we need strike funds, mutual aid groups, local leadership and activism… And none of that is really in place right now.

My take is that lack of collective power is giving rise to lone gunmen types that don’t feel they have any recourse

At 35% mortality rate, it’s exceedingly unlikely to cause a pandemic. Still sucks for everyone affected, of course

I saw an interesting observation during returns last night that there was a trend of more rural districts keeping incumbents while those closer to cities flipped to Trunp-endorsed candidates. I’d love it if these redhats get whomped by Dems in the fall,

Remember that republican could stop him at any time. This isn’t about Trump anymore - he isn’t running for re-election so disapproval has no direct effect. The only way we have in our legal framework to stop an insane authoritarian in the white house is for Congress to stop him. Their abdication of duty need to be laid at the feet of every R in office

Republicans hoped to flip this because harris won by a hairs breadth, but Greene is winning by 22? A +22 point Dem over performance would be a massive landslide - maybe enough to override vetoes

About 60% of conservatives don’t want it and they’ve been able to stop progress since Lieberman killed the public option in Obamacare. There’s also the issue that while 90% of more liberal Americans want some form of federal assistance, pharma and health insurance lobbies Dem representatives very hard.

Probably lots of reasons. At least one of which is that too many don’t want to pay for services for people who “don’t deserve it”.
Another is a religion-based idea that helping people is bad for them because they won’t work without ‘motivation’

Imagine if jones had lost the AG election, this would be over without appeal

Good luck VA! (I’m guessing the ayes win by 6)

That’s the real indictment of USA. There will always be demented megalomaniacs, but we expect to be able to stop them. The Framers didn’t expect a Congress so corrupt, cowardly, and weak

We do things bigger! The many terrible things that we’ve perpetrated are unfortunately not unique among the cadre of world superpowers; the same way that rich people are “eccentric” instead of “crazy”, we’ve gotten passes on our worst transgressions because a) other world leaders are also bad, and b) there was a veneer of justification.

What makes the recent(ish) shift stand out is tone. This entire Iran excursion isn’t the worst thing we’ve done by far, but it’s displaying weakness in how blatantly base and stupid and venal it is. Tongue-in-cheek, it’s Gauche - when we’ve aspired to expect a more refined dystopia.

So, we’re pirates. Cool coolcool

I saw a random guy posted in the shopping district of Kyoto with an “end genocide of Palestine” sign. Bibi is burning down Israel’s global standing to stay out of jail

At least not above the baseline self-hatred that makes them fascist to begin with

I could see Shane saying “fuck it”. Then again, there’s a witch flying around somewhere and the thunderstorms are pretty intense…

136 (over the 135, 2/3 threshold) projected with 53% now!