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Which is why groups that aren’t targeted should be out there being supportive IRL and making it safer for targeted groups. Strength in numbers.
I’m a big fan of IRL, personally.
201·25 days ago- has a podcast where he fawns over conservative guests like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk
- borrowing talking points from Jordan Peterson about “bro culture” and a “crisis of masculinity”
- wants to “solve” California’s housing crisis by jailing unhoused people
- thinks “social issues” like transgender rights and due process for immigrants are distractions from the real issues (like tariffs)
Newsom has generally been pivoting conservative over the last few years, most commenters think in preparation for a 2028 presidential run, and has turned it up since Trump was elected.
The American people aren’t stupid. They’re poorly educated and brainwashed by propaganda.
When a kid without developmental disabilities gets to 12th grade and still can’t read or write his own name, we don’t blame the kid for being stupid - or at least we shouldn’t - we blame the parents and teachers. The kid was failed by the people who had the responsibility to teach him.
Same with politics. Voters don’t have degrees in political science. They make the best decisions they can based on the information they have. Biden presided over the worst economy for the poor and middle class and the biggest wealth transfer to the ultra rich in my lifetime, Harris told voters “I’m not going to do anything different from Biden but Trump will destroy America so vote for me”, Trump told voters “I know you’re hurting, Biden and Harris failed you, and my policies will help you”, and voters made the best decision they knew how to make.
Which was a stupid fucking decision. Granted. But the lion’s share of the blame has to go to Biden, Harris, and their enablers. They were the experts. It was their job to keep America from making that stupid fucking decision. And they failed America.
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15·2 months agoSure, it’s a big tent, if all you want is the “solar” part and not the “punk” part you can participate in that half 😆
But the “punk” in solarpunk refers to left anarchist politics and rebellion against the capitalist economic machine, and has ever since the term was invented. I’ma borrow from this Reddit post that answers your question quite well:
The punk comes from DIY attitude. Build-your-own-robot.
The punk comes from mutalist, anarchist, decentralized organization, like in Ursula LeGuin’s dispossessed.
The solar panel itself implies anarachy as people provide power for themselves rather than rely on a central plant or authority. And yet by networking your homesteads together in a horizontal mutalist way you provide insurance agianst variance in both supply and demand.
Without the punk, you just have techno optimism, e.g. the Picards on their vinyard without a care in the world because the Federation can provide all their needs without effort, probably with fusion power or something even more fantastic.
Solarpunk is anti-capitalist and anti-colonialism.
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Always has been.
… Britney. Britney.
Christ, that meme’s old enough to drop bombs on Yemen.
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Love to hear how you think digital currencies aren’t digital currencies.
Not all digital currencies are cryptocurrencies. CBDCs are digital implementations of government-backed fiat currencies. If you don’t understand the difference I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.
by your flawed metrics, solar power is “hype”.
Solar power produces energy. Cryptocurrency produces nothing and wastes energy doing it.
at least 130 countries are working on developing national cryptocurrencies.
CBDCs aren’t cryptocurrencies.
As for the rest, “It’s good because it’s making lots of money” isn’t as persuasive an argument as you think it is.
Wouldn’t a law that exempts a law enforcement agency from constitutional limits be an unconstitutional law - and therefore an illegal law - and therefore not lawful?