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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump: "I AM GOING TO MISSTYPE SOMETHING TO PROVE PEOPLE WILL RAIL ON ME FOR EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING, HENCE DISCREDITING THEIR COMPLAINS ABOUT ME. I AM VAULT TEC LEVELS OF GENIOUSITY AT SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS"
edited 31st May '17 7:09:49 PM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Trump does not understand that being witty/outsmarting people requires you to actually have some wits/smarts in the first place. He is completely Ignorant of His Own Ignorance.
There was a "thought of the day" in my local paper, saying that children who receive praise from their parents for each and every little thing they do may become narcissists.
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.Trump probably passed out while writing "coverage."
It's a demonstration that the meme about him being strung out and enraged at like 3 AM tweeting is an every day sort of thing — it's actually him, no one's controlling him, and his account is a hatchet being driven into America's reputation.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Back to climate and the religious right for a moment, a GOP rep literally said that they believe that God will somehow miraculously fix climate change.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_592edc73e4b0540ffc837acf/amp
This is an excuse. They are basically saying that they believe humans choices don't affect outcomes, which is crap on a lot of levels (for every action, there is a reaction). This is an excuse to do nothing, because doing nothing is easy and comfortable.
Also the Sierra Club is organizing a rally tomorrow against leaving the Paris Agreement if anyone is near D.C.
edited 31st May '17 9:11:44 PM by megaeliz
@ Evergreen. (Kamon The Skunk) You're post was the first I've heard of the college but...Protests erupt over racism at Evergreen State College
In a press release sent to the local newspaper, the Olympian, the students wrote:
“What started out as anti-black comments on social media has turned into the dismissal of the rights of students and femmes of color, physical violence by police, and false sentencing of students protesting. Black trans disabled students are actively being sought out and confronted by campus police constantly; police are refusing to explain their actions and harassment. Students will not stand for this anymore, as students of color have never felt comfortable on campus and have not been treated equally.”
It all started when students planned a “Day of Absence and Day of Presence” demonstration, according to an email that surfaced on Twitter. In email correspondence between Professor Bret Weinstein and Director of First Peoples Multicultural Advising Services Rashida Love, Weinstein apparently expressed his disapproval of the event, in which white people were invited to leave campus for a day, according to the Washington Times. In the email Weinstein writes that such a day is a “an act of oppression in and of itself” and that he would protest the day by being on campus.
“If there was interest in a public presentation and discussion of race through a scientific/revolutionary lens, I would be quite willing to organize such an event,” Weinstein wrote.
[[The e-mail is pictured in the article].
According to a different press release written by student and custodian Blake Vincent, the protest began on Wednesday, May 23 when approximately 50 students confronted Weinstein outside his classroom.
“Students were understandably upset but were NOT overtly threatening or harmful in any way. Bret Weinstein began filming the students once they entered the building, but was contesting their rights to film him. The students then peppered Weinstein with questions, asking if he knew that what he did was harmful to both students and faculty of color,” Vincent wrote on Facebook.
“He replied that he did not think that he was wrong in his actions, which upset both students of color and white students,” Vincent went on. “The students chanted and continued to try to make their feelings known to Weinstein, but he was refusing to listen and instead attempted multiple times to take over the discourse and make the students listen to him. During all this, some of Bret’s students were surrounding him and verbally attacking the group of protestors.”
(Though do know that, most of the story is testimony from the participants...)
EDIT: And on further thought, I'll repost this to the Race- Privilege, Relations, Racism, etc. thread...
edited 31st May '17 9:20:51 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesThat's where I'm at too. It's not that we aren't aware of these things, but there's not a lot to say on it.
Trump pulls out of the Paris Accords. The fate of the earth is now in the hands of corporations and China. That's awful, but we knew he was going to do it. He's been talking about it for months. The only real news here is that Trump continues to be just as shitty as he promised.
Another Trump official with ties to Russia. Great. Let me know when the impeachment starts.
Comey's going to testify publicly in front of the FBI. Great. Let me know when that starts.
The administration is being awful right now but it's the same awfulness that they've been perpetuating for months, and the resistance is still pushing back in the same way they've been pushing back for months. Nothing new has actually happened; if it feels like there's something new to be outraged about, that's only because this administration is so outrageous that every day is another reason to be pissed off.
Covfefe isn't actually a big deal. But it's funny. It's providing a bit of levity in the midst of the horror Trump is wreaking upon the world.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's funny 'cause I was literally just talking about that earlier today.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.
that's actually why I brought it up.
Apparently even in 1908, people were predicting the end of coal. Who would have guessed? (In light of recent events, I've been reading a lot of Theodore Roosevelt)
-The opening address at the first national conference on conservation
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/trenvpics/conservationconferencespeech1908.txt
edited 31st May '17 10:03:43 PM by megaeliz
Though I'm aware of the seriousness of climate change, I find myself thinking that it's likely to be reversed as soon as Trump is out anyway.
The Paris Agreement was only supposed to go into effect in 2020. It's still unfortunate, but things go right, and hopefully its just the kind of damage that's reversible. Like we have to hope basically everything Trump does is.
As I recall, climate change is the big one because we are fast approaching the Point of No Return. We hit that, it won't matter what future administrations do. Pulling out of the Paris Accords is a big deal because climate change is a doomsday clock, and we as a species cannot afford to f*ck around with it a minute longer.
Time's up. Change has to start now or it won't matter anymore.
edited 31st May '17 9:59:23 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.And if I remember correctly, several cities have pledged to honor the terms of the Paris agreement, either way, and many plan to step up programs to reduce emissions and increase the percentage of energy generated by renewables.
And anyway, Trump can't stop the future. The renewable sector is growing at a faster that average rate, and prices are dropping fast. The promise of reduced electricity bills and the idea of energy independence will win people over.
edited 31st May '17 10:13:25 PM by megaeliz
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Doesn't matter how much every other country toes the line if one of the largest countries in the world decides it doesn't give a fuck.
Which is why it took until the Paris Accord for people to get their act together about this; it's an apocalypse-sized prisoners dilemma where your efforts to do the right thing don't matter unless everyone else is also on board.
And frankly climate change has already caused damage on a scale not seen in over 30 million years. What we're looking at now is more damage control than prevention.
edited 31st May '17 10:12:23 PM by Gilphon
Why do people want to go back to the "don't drink the water and don't breathe the air" days anyway? My dad mentioned how before environmental regulations were put in place, a river in Pittsburgh PA was so polluted that it regularly caught on fire! Or how on a river in Massachusetts, you could always tell what color paper a factory was making by what color the river was that day. It also stank. I knew a lady who told me that when she was a kid, they sold clothes pins so that people could plug their noses.
edited 31st May '17 10:28:23 PM by megaeliz

And, you know, it works. Trump hates being laughed at. It's not enough, obviously, but it's one more stone to throw at Trump. And of course, in a week we'll all forget it when Trump does something else.