To me it seems like abortion happens to be the canary in the coal mine for a lot of people, and the loss of democracy is carbon monoxide.

Wasn’t expecting to laugh out loud here. Thank you for that

Based on our sun’s life cycle, it’s not likely.

Even if all emissions stopped tomorrow for good, temperatures would continue to rise, our climate would continue to destabilize, and the mass extinction event currently underway would continue.

Like your comment says, we have likely fucked the climate enough that we’ll probably be gone within a couple hundred years.

The problem is, we’ve killed off so many species and damaged our biodiversity to such an extent, that by the time biological life could evolve to a similar level of biodiversity like we once enjoyed, our sun will already be expanding enough that earth has become uninhabitable.

We did it guys!

I saw an instagram profile that “specializes” in Trump related AI art, and is run by a German teenager. It looked like there were paid features Trump fans could sign up for, and a lot of them were eating it up in the comments.

The account owner has just a couple pics of himself posted in a suit, and one brief explanation + a few short comments on why he loves Trump, and how he came to being a huge Trump fan. Which are all very vague/surface level reasons and come across about as genuine as the more lazy sponsored videos on YouTube.

I’m convinced this is what he’s doing lol. Also a little impressed tbh

Yeah I used to scoff at the gluten-free label on basic ingredients that are not wheat based.

… Until I started shitting myself and getting migraines due to gluten. I’m no longer laughing, and am especially grateful for the label on anything containing oats, which can be a huge source of cross-contamination.

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas do not pay incarcerated workers at all for their labor.

This only adds to your point, but I wanted to include that several states (in the South of course) do in fact pay absolutely NOTHING for their prison labor.

Some areas may pay prisoners minimum wage for work release jobs, but I believe many of those can turn around and garnish those same wages for room and board at the prison. It’s ridiculous. The second you make more than a dime for your labor, we will start charging you for the right to live again.

His last election was the most competitive of his career.

The public in general leans pro-choice, so Republicans are absolutely losing support with their insane anti-abortion policies even if it isn’t obvious yet.

He’s also been in national headlines a lot lately for his extremism. He has always been horrible, but he has never been so visible for it.

Next election, he will be hanging on by voter suppression, a wish, and a prayer.

What worries me though is why he’s gone off the deep end already if he still believes he needs to get re-elected…

Also I learned how ranked choice voting works from a 2-3 minute youtube video, and it was explained in a way that middle schoolers could understand.

I watched a Perfect Union video on YT a few weeks ago about the minimum wage for gig workers/delivery workers in NYC.

People worked so hard to get it approved, and this douche has been undermining it since it was passed. I think he has even made changes to it after the fact in ways that are not legal.

That’s all I knew about him before, so this headline doesn’t really surprise me.

This is why anything with “for liberty” or “right to” in the name immediately makes me suspicious.

I wish more people realized this. “Right to Farm” was just passed in Texas by voters by a wide margin - long term it just removes accountability from agricultural giants and even emboldens them to push out small farmers.

It was advertised as being for small farmers 🤦

Do you still have the link to that post?

Yeah there’s even videos on YouTube that break it down really well and go in-depth while keeping it at a 5th grade reading level and under 3 minutes.

I could definitely see ranked-choice being intentionally over-complicated in writing if someone wanted to undermine it, but with enough people/sources sharing simple video resources on it, it’s a method that could be easily understood and adopted by the public.

Toss in all the barriers to even get a third party candidate on the ballot

Appe-teasers

Jfc I hate my state

I don’t really care that I’m getting downvoted, but I am surprised?

I probably could have given more context, but I made this comment in good faith and genuinely think this will be an issue for him given the last several days.

Even if the majority of the country is in support of supporting Israel at this time, the IDF is committing verifiable war crimes against civilians, which the UN is criticizing. Supporting that both in words and funding is going to make it hard for a lot of people to vote for Biden who would have otherwise just to avoid any chance of Trump getting elected.

There’s been pro-Palestine protests all across the country this weekend. I’m seeing a lot of anger for him in other areas online from people who claim to have voted for him; more than I’ve seen since he was elected. I’ll be interested to see how support for him is in polls and surveys in a few weeks.

I could be wrong, but I think this will be one of his biggest hurdles next year when running for reelection.

He’s going to need it after openly supporting a genocide that a lot of Americans are waking up to.

All my homies love Bernoulli

That’s also typically why you see efforts to raise the mandatory retirement age for publicly held offices, like this one on the Texas 2023 ballot