In New York State, Socialists Have Won a Landmark Victory for Green Jobs and Clean Public Power
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/new-york-bpra-green-new-deal-public-renewable-energy
#jacobin #socialism #epa #climatechange #climate #climatecrisis #climateaction #oil #tech #uspolitics #politics
@GottaLaff I understand where you are coming from. This is semantics. When I use the term it is a condemning way, describing a pattern. It would certainly not be a word in this case to describe an acceptable standard. It’s a terrible standard/pattern that hopefully most people would not want, accept for the My Precious crowd, with lots of thoughts and prayers and all manner of excuses about why their liberty trumps dead children. 🤔
@MSNBC Most disheartening is that this walking, talking train wreck is considered a viable candidate for our top leadership position. Is this what the beginning of a collective, voluntary national implosion looks like? 😳
I remember when people tried to blame herbicide for this. And if they banned it, NOTHING would have been done to help these workers.
Chasing the wrong claim because of your ideology helps nobody. See also mercury in vaccines and other RFKJr top hits.
@GottaLaff Sadly the daily mass shooting somewhere in America has become the norm, although most of us can say we did not experience it.
@tomcapuder My position is that if in the end we’re all not existing, there is no point, incapable of remembrance, oblivious. Not trying to sound morbid, just following a chain of logic. 🙂 Regarding free will,I believe based on our individual natures, and biological programming, we have little in the way of choice. Carrots or peas example. If you avoid what you don’t like, should this be called a choice? It’s more of a preference, not neutral free will.
We exist because we exist. That's life. We make our own meaning. When I finally realized no #god or #afterlife exists, life became more—not less—precious.
Since non-existence is the norm, we should make the most of our few decades of existence. Because that's all we have.
@tomcapuder it’s impossible to explain, I sense? hope? desire? there is something more, just don’t ask what. 😊 I want purpose, and meaning. Without it, your life means nothing. Base it on the idea that rising from nothing is a 1 time event along an infinite time line, would make non-existence the norm, and would make the accomplishments of this life a complete waste of time. Might as well get back to my non-existence. Why care what you did or accomplish?🤔 🙃
I'm agnostic, too. Neither of us can *know* whether a #god exists. If you don't hold a *belief* that one does, you are an atheist.
We can't *not* act based on our inner moral compass, which I think evolved in our thinking social species for its survival benefit. "Do unto others" makes evolutionary sense and long pre-dates religions.
@tomcapuder Applied to any coercive religion, I’ve said for decades that you can’t be accurately judged by anyone if being good is based on Divine Retribution threatening your afterlife status. We have to see how you act without the leveled threats. This is different than acting based on your inner moral compass, doing good deeds just because “You” want to. 🤔 Btw, I’m Agnostic, I don’t rule out the possibility of something more after… just don’t know what that might be. 🙂
The idea of an #omniscient #god completely obliterates the idea of human free will. #ThinkAboutIt
"Thousands of right-wing protestors stormed a LGBTQ+ Pride event in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi, setting fire to rainbow flags and clashing with police..."
Anti-LGBTQ bigots storm Pride event in Georgia capital
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/anti-lgbtq-mob-storm-tbilisi-pride-georgia/
@uspolitics Is this a proper read? Florida under current leadership can’t be trusted with Federal funds as it said FY to its citizens in COVID economic distress? You’d think some large number of Floridians would be upset by this. 🤔
DeSantis agency sent $92 million in covid relief funds to donor-backed project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/28/desantis-hosseini-interstate-covid-money/
#DeSantisAgency #CovidReliefFunds #DonorBackedProject #FloridaPolitics #GovernmentAccountability #Corruption #Politics #News
Little Donnie even cheated the Mob.
#SCOTUS Justice Thomas has received benefits through his involvement with the Horatio Alger Association — “many of them previously unreported — from a broader cohort of wealthy and powerful friends,” reports NY Times. https://press.coop/@nytimes/110684171709305147
Casey Desantis in new ad:
"We will not allow you to exploit the innocence of our children to advance your agenda"
Except when Ron exploits the innocence of your children to advance his agenda...
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.