SolarMech

I don’t understand how people can work for sleezebag companies.

This is part one.

To this day I refuse to carry debt or even own credit cards tho.

I think this is part two.

It's awesome that you do this, but if you can afford to avoid debt entirely you are probably somewhat priviledged compared to some. A lot of people in the US are working off student debts for degrees that didn't quite deliver the jobs they were expecting. Or just were dealt a bad hand to begin with.

I think his point is about judges being corrupt. He has information useful to us and he's not mentioned how he feels about his uncle. No point being mean to him.

Sorry for the late reply, the lack of a red envelope makes me not notice replies.

People on election day have to decide if they go voting at all. This is a big deal, it's what most of the campaign in the ridding is focusing on changing (you want to make sure all of your voters go vote, that is top priority in an election).

Having a party that is a bad fit for you is demotivating and likely­ to reduce turnout. That is what I mean by "likely to vote". It's not the right wing option that people will go for. It's the comfort of staying home and not bothering to vote for a "lib" if you're a progressive, or for a "commie" if you're a lib. For some people, the NDP is already too far right...

So yeah, some of the support of the NDP would transfer over to the liberal party, but definitely not all. And that's not to mention all of the crazy people who can go from NDP to tories at the drop of a hat (voters have shallower roots than the base, or have irrational hatred of specific politicians or parties) or who would just vote Bloq Québécois or something else.

OP's argument has to be made. You want to shave off as many of the fools following that twisted ideology as you can, via any argument that rings true. Which means your argument also needs to be made, but I don't think it's going to convince a lot of conservatives or undecided voters. Hell I think pointing out the hypocrisy as OP is doing is more likely to convince them to become atheist, than your argument is.

Removing religion altogether is a long term goal that sounds nice. Not having the world's superpower go fascist is a short-term one that is essential. Turning a fundamentalist christian into a compassionate christian makes the danger go down significantly. And you can get decent traditions of charity and even activism from the compassionate side of christianity.

And on a final note, I've been in atheist circles long enough to see some of them go bad. Like racism, mysogyny, etc. Atheism does not cure all. Religion makes things worse but is not the source of our problems.

What I'm trying to get at, is society's problem run deeper than religion vs atheism, it's just one dimension, and not the most important.

That was the lesson I got when I started working and finally had my holiday. Great, I'm off, but no one else is. At least all of the museums, attractions and activities are open.

Not even. Billionaires don't want you to have money because if you did you'd have bargaining power and the ability to turn down jobs you don't like, well, you'd turn down jobs you didn't like. Or at least work fewer hours.

So long as you need some sort of job, you'll do some work for them or those who work for them (essentially supporting their structure) rather than for others in your community for that sake (ie: earning less money to do a job you relate to more, which I think a lot of us would naturally do instead of working for corporations).

So long as someone is having trouble paying rent, they'll do jobs they otherwise would have considered degrading or unconscionable.

So long as someone is stuck in the street without a home or job and hardly able to get food, and we see him, we'll work twice as hard to make sure we don't end up like that.

This is why they don't give us money. Material need is a lever of control, that keeps their power intact.

Yeah. This is why ignorance is bliss.

At least until they meet the consequences of ignorance. Then again, some idiots are just plain lucky.

Takes time to become ubiquitous.

And then y'all exported yer culture out to us via Hollywood.

Sure, we are terribly behind schedule and will take losses for it (in what form I do not know, but for sure it won't be pretty).

But we need more and more energy and will need more, and even that growth in that graphic is not enough to prevent fossil fuel use from growing. At least until people wisen up that we'll just need to learn to make do with less energy per capita... I'm not convinced that part will ever happen.

Not to mention I'm not sure how much wind and solar you can do at the same time in the world. At some point everyone will need the same materials...

Yes. They will start doing so when it is too late for that to help.

You'd think the republicans, their voters, their donors, and the whole media apparatus behind it, would get some of the blame too. I know, they'll see it as glory rather than blame. The dems didn't do it, they were just lame.