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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

A critical part of American politics is the renaming of anything one side hates as “radical” and “extreme.”

Ask yourself about Biden’s “radical abortion agenda” and its “extremism.” What is it, exactly?  Well, I suppose it’s Roe v. Wade, which had been in place for 50 years until it was recently overturned.  It’s a woman’s right to choose an abortion in most circumstances, and it’s favored by the overwhelming majority of Americans.

Now, abortion opponents are attempting to use the 14th Amendment’s equal protection under law clause to protect human “life” from the moment of conception.  Now that may rightfully be called extreme, IMO.

In any case, propaganda is alive and well in 21st Century America; in fact, it thrives as our educational levels continue to deteriorate.  If garbage like the meme here is spread with enough ferocity, it becomes the truth.  God help us.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s a “patriot” who wants to sell you “Hold the Line” coins that can be given as gifts to soldiers, first responders, and others who “uphold our constitutional values” (whatever that means).

This may not be the only get-rich-quick scheme in the United States today, but no one has ever gone broke selling trinkets with blustery language on them to the MAGA crowd. And the business model here, selling an item that costs a few cents each to make for $9.97 apiece, sounds pretty robust.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

As you watch this video on a new design for the future of transportation, ask yourself if this is something that could conceivably meet the needs of our descendants.

I can’t tell you what the future looks like, but I’m pretty sure I can tell you what it doesn’t.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Lots of jokes have been made about the passing of Pat Robertson, and the possibility that he’s burning in hell as God’s retribution for the televangelist’s having taken advantage of our nation’s poorest and most ignorant people on his rise to obscene levels of self-enrichment.

Here’s another good one.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Senator Tom Cotton is a Trump supporter and an overt racist from Arkansas.  Here’s his message to his constituents in his effort to amass funds to support his reelection campaign.

Investing in my campaign is investing in securing the border, banning TikTok, getting the trans insanity out of the classroom, and electing tough conservatives up and down the ballot.

This is the level of hatred and stupidity to which we’ve sunk as Americans.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

At left: Düsseldorf in 1990 and 2019.

Does this mean that we’re making progress at the global level?

No, but it does suggest that progressive actions can lead us all forward.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

As suggested by this clever meme, American society is awash completely with untenable beliefs.

Worse, this terrifying phenomenon is not limited to the uneducated; of the five best friends I had growing up, two of them, one a medical doctor and the other holding a master’s degree in mathematics, grasp onto ideas that are no more substantiated than the Flat Earth theory.

I’m reading the popular book Hamnet, set in the 1580s, and I find it interesting to note that a key feature of life back then was it was distinctly pre-science.  Because there were no better ideas, people believed in witches and demons, good luck charms, using cloth dipped in ashes to deal with warts on the skin, and dozens of other things that were abandoned as soon as the scientific method emerged, only a few decades later.

But what good is science if it is rejected by policy-makers and the citizens of the day?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Re: the meme here, how stupid do you have to be to buy into this?

The U.S. is the only developed nation on Earth without universal healthcare.

Bernie’s trying to make this nightmare end for tens of millions of people.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

MAGA conservatives supporting Ron DeSantis in his fight against Disney are riding high on the fact that the entertainment giant’s recent box office flops have lost them $900 million. They further delight that Desantis’ message, i.e., that Disney loves gays and that real Americans abhor queers of all types, resonates with a great number of Floridian voters.

What they’re deliberately lying about is that Disney’s capacity to earn money is unflagging.  Its net income/loss for the twelve months ending March 31, 2023 was $11.062 billion, a 41.58% increase year-over-year. Its annual net income/loss for 2022 was $3.553 billion, a 40.1% increase from 2021.

We need to add the fact that antipathy towards the LGBTQ community is a total loser in a general election, as the vast majority of American voters support these people’s rights.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This from Sara Tindall Ghazal a mother, wife, attorney, voting rights advocate, running for office in Cobb County, Georgia:

This evening, literal Nazis dared to show their true colors in East Cobb outside a synagogue, showcasing their hate for the whole world to see. Flying a flag that stands for genocide. My God.

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