cduggles
Bluelight Crew
Cool idea. Wrong thread, unless there’s a meme about it.
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Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
Actually some truth to this.
China will be the next superpower in the next few decades. Simply because they don't play by the world rules (such as climate change) and nobody can stop them.
MydriHaze
Ex-Bluelighter
And the other "great powers" will fall, probably gonna have an embargo on the ressources if not the WWIII, the south and the east never forget neither...
Burnt Offerings
Bluelight Crew
Pfft when it comes to gluttonous overconsumption and turning the natural world into a charred cinder, those chinamen are pretenders to the throne. USA, USA, USA!
darvocet21
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Climate change can't possibly be a hoax because climate has always changed.
There isn't a climate emergency and there is certainly no "climate collapse," which is a phrase used by politicians to raise money from guilty rich liberals like Jane Fonda, who called covid-19 "God's gift to the Left" in 2020.
All of the computer modeling and scaremongering has mercifully turned out not to be true. The ice caps haven't melted, New York City and Miami are not underwater except financially and because their populations have rebounded, even polar bears rarely get on the news unless they catch covid.
When I was a kid it was about water and air pollution, and how you should recycle and buy organic and by those measures I've always been an environmentalist.
But even that isn't so simple.
The air quality in Los Angeles in the 1970s/80s was gawd awful, a thick brown layer of smog hung most evenings over the basin and caused sunsets of impossible colors. First lead was taken out of gasoline, and that helped.. higher fuel efficiency cars also helped. But by far the main reason that the skies in Los Angeles are clear most days of the year is because There are no factories in Los Angeles anymore. They've all been moved to where labor is cheap and lives are even cheaper. The CEOs who tell you how green and woke they are also had no choice but to move their assembly plants and factories to China, Vietnam, Bangladesh. It's just business
The vast majority of plastics that are recycled aren't. Up until a few years ago China was the major importer of plastic waste for recycling. And then it was discovered that China often was sending the plastic on these immense barges to the poorest countries on Earth to be buried or incinerated, or simply dumping it in the sea. China is also the world's worst polluter, and estimates run high for the amount of plastic in the oceans originating from China's rivers and estuaries as well as Chinese vessels and fishing fleets.
Just as there was about to be criticism China announced to the world they were not going to take plastic any longer, since plastic when it's recycled can not be reused for food or medicines and therefore there's only so many recycled plastic garments, footwear, and cheap furniture that people are willing to buy. It was a simple issue of supply and demand, and so now most of the plastic you throw in your blue container wind up in the same landfill as the trash.
Michael Shellenberger and others have suggested that plastic could be used in super efficient incinerators as a fuel, and it's an idea I suspect won't go anywhere like fourth generation nuclear power which could potentially use the huge quantities of nuclear waste being stored at aging and decommissioned powerplants as a primary fuel source. Some countries like New Zealand and Australia have actually passed laws banning nuclear power, which probably seemed like the right thing to do after Chernobyl and Fukushima. However these laws have the consequence of also stopping research and development of new technologies utilizing radioactive isotopes.
Which is a huge irony since nuclear power is essentially net zero carbon, apart from power plant construction. On the other hand solar panels contain such a dizzying array of toxic materials that they cannot be recycled and wind up in landfills. Also most of the world's solar cells are manufactured in China using prison and slave labor, mostly ethnic Muslims in China's west.
And so on
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Burnt Offerings
Bluelight Crew
What does China’s indiscretions have to do with anything? We get it...China bad. China very bad. That still doesn’t let “Western” petrochemical companies off the hook in any way, shape or form.
And yeah, the climate is always changing. Stating that fact doesn’t address the nature or timeframe of the current change, however. The scare mongering didn’t turn out to be true? The last few years have been some of the hottest on record, and anyone lucky enough (like myself) to still be able to live in and experience the natural world can see the changes and deterioration with their own eyes.
And yeah, the climate is always changing. Stating that fact doesn’t address the nature or timeframe of the current change, however. The scare mongering didn’t turn out to be true? The last few years have been some of the hottest on record, and anyone lucky enough (like myself) to still be able to live in and experience the natural world can see the changes and deterioration with their own eyes.
cduggles
Bluelight Crew
The frustration is real. I’m so tired of coddling and indulging people who have perpetuated the epidemic. They’ll change their tune when someone young and healthy that they know dies. I think at this point that’s what it’s going to take, and there will still be holdouts.
alasdair
MydriHaze
Ex-Bluelighter
Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
I didn't realize Trump made that deal. Interesting. Biden is defending the shit out of the decision though so they're not branding it that way by any means. Kinda surprised they wouldn't be trying to blame today's events on Trump.
They should have stayed long enough to get our allies out of there, instead they abandoned tens of thousands of interpreters who risked their lives to help us. I don't get it.
Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
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I doubt it's an actual tweet of his. It's a song lyric. Just supposed to be ironic satire.
cduggles
Bluelight Crew
Great song esp. the Eminem version.
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I think it bumps too
Las Veghost grower
Bluelighter
I watch all the MSM channels equally, and IMO they are equally as bad as each other, just with different agendas…how anyone can say FOX is garbage but CNN is great or vice versa is beyond me…as a general rule if you agree with everything your news outlet of choice says it’s prolly by design and at that point just cheerleading
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Las Veghost grower
Bluelighter
I’m not a Texan but I imagine the way they look at it is abortion is one being taking the life of another being, and the vax is a personal decision that effects the person only…me thinks
Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
The vax is not a simple personal choice, it's a public health issue and your choice effects everyone around you. Covid is not cancer. Cancer is a personal issue. Covid is a public health issue.
The Texas abortion law is based on religion and is absolutely unconstitutional in it's current form. They used basically a legal loophole to get it through (delay strategy). It will be struck down soon.
It also makes it illegal to even THINK about getting an abortion... Thought crimes... Bullshit. Basically if both of us lived in Texas, even if I've never met you, I can SUE you if I don't like what you're thinking about.
people can literally just sue who they don't like and make up some shit like "I know they were THINKING about getting an abortion."........ you telling me that's OK or constitutional? To sue someone based on what they were THINKING but haven't done? It's ridiculous!This law allows Karens to sue random other women for minimum of $10,000 simply because that Karen believes (but does not have proof) that another woman is thinking about getting abortion... not that they've done it, but that they were thinking about doing it... Seriously. That's the law....
right. republicans used to be all about the big bad government staying out of your business. now, not so much...
alasdair
alasdair
Las Veghost grower
Bluelighter
Is that a real thing ? What I guess you’d call “thought crime “, is there an instance where someone has sued and won on these grounds ?The vax is not a simple personal choice, it's a public health issue and your choice effects everyone around you. Covid is not cancer. Cancer is a personal issue. Covid is a public health issue.
The Texas abortion law is based on religion and is absolutely unconstitutional in it's current form. They used basically a legal loophole to get it through (delay strategy). It will be struck down soon.
It also makes it illegal to even THINK about getting an abortion... Thought crimes... Bullshit. Basically if both of us lived in Texas, even if I've never met you, I can SUE you if I don't like what you're thinking about.
This law allows Karens to sue random other women for minimum of $10,000 simply because that Karen believes (but does not have proof) that another woman is thinking about getting abortion... not that they've done it, but that they were thinking about doing it... Seriously. That's the law....