ToastedPlanet

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[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Also, the North's industrialization which allowed the North to outman, outgun, and outrailroad the South.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/industry-and-economy-during-the-civil-war.htm

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A jaywalker doesn't petition the town council to cross the street illegally. They jaywalk. A state seceding could involve as little as a governor declaring their state left the Union. At that point the ball would be in the Federal Government's court to set the record straight, to clarify that the state in fact did not secede.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They can be North Texas, West Texas, Central Texas, East Texas, and South Texas.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (14 children)

As we learned from the American Civil War, the southern states were incapable of seceding. However this isn't the question at hand. The above user asked this:

What’s the process like?

There is no such process.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (25 children)

States can not secede from the Union. That was Lincoln's rational for reforming the Union. Since states didn't have the right to leave, they had never left to begin with.

https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/secessiontableofcontents.htm

And before anyone brings it up, Texas cannot secede.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/29/texas-secession/

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (9 children)

He doesn’t say anything else on climate, and this is not “abandoning action on climate change.” The people already in the tent don’t agree on everything, and they have not “abandoned action” because of it.

The people who don't agree with climate change don't believe it exists.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/06/trump-victory-sweeping-climate-consequences

This is not “uncritically supporting men’s rights.”

Your argument is focusing on the bait and ignoring the switch.

Listen to poor and rural people, men in crisis. Don’t decide for them.

We are listening to them. This is what they are saying.

This time around, one of the attack lines is “your body, my choice.”

https://www.vox.com/politics/384792/your-body-my-choice-maga-gender-election

Sure, if that’s how you need to frame it to fit your worldview go ahead. Just please try to find agreement when feminist framing is not used, because it usually won’t be.

That's how we're framing it. If that's not appealing to some people, there's a mainstream fascist political party they can join. We don't need two mainstream fascist parties.

By the way, the worldview is that all people are equal. And that inequality harms us all, but some people are harmed more than others. People on the left have no interest in a worldview where women are second class citizens.

Not sure if you noticed, but the attitude in America is dominated by proud ignorance and failure to discern real data from propaganda.

The people who know better have to educate the people who do not. There are people who aren't trapped in right-wing information silos who are interested in learning. But there have to be people who are willing to teach.

Not yet, but the stage is set for that scenario.

There are worse case scenarios after that one as well unless we work to make things better.

That time is past.

People are always coping. Might as well do it in a way that is enjoyable and doesn't require us to misrepresent our current and approaching circumstances as the worst case scenarios, when there are worse.

I was going to refer you to a doctor who is also a ninja to learn more about using humor to deal with stressful situations. But his website is down. So you get to read these instead.

This explains what RCPs and SSPs are.

https://docs.theclimatedatafactory.com/info/faq/whats-the-difference-between-representative-concentration-pathways-and-shared-socioeconomic-pathways/

These are SSP scenarios.

https://www.vox.com/22620706/climate-change-ipcc-report-2021-ssp-scenario-future-warming

This was considered to be the worst case RCP scenario. But I wouldn't be surprised if there has been some new work done on this.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/09/the-worst-case-climate-change-scenario-could-look-like-this-we-need-to-avert-it/

Presumably researchers will need to start looking at what were considered to be less likely scenarios given the results of this election.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You don’t understand. We ALREADY tried the Trump thing and it failed miserably.

I was there. I'm from the 20th century. I remember the videos of college students on our campus running around late at night like chickens with their heads cut off.

We don’t listen. We don’t learn.

We don't with that attitude.

We’re doubtful to ever experience a more black and white election than what we just experienced. And we still managed to fail.

I would love to see the encounter table you're referencing. Rather than assuming things are as bad as they could possibly be, they aren't, I recommend using humor as a coping mechanism. The former, assuming things, plays into accelerationism which falsely, without evidence, claims there is some bottom to how bad things can get. The latter, humor, is enjoyable.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Murphy starts off saying we should abandon neoliberalism which is good.

The left has never fully grappled with the wreckage of fifty years of neoliberalism, which has left legions of Americans adrift as local places are hollowed out, rapacious profit seeking cannibalizes the common good, and unchecked new technology separates and isolates us.

But then finished by uncritically supporting men’s rights, abandoning social issues, and abandoning action on climate change.

But here's the thing - then you need to let people into the tent who aren't 100% on board with us on every social and cultural issue, or issues like guns or climate.

Listen to poor and rural people, men in crisis. Don't decide for them.

It fits the description to a T. We don't have time for 50% or 0% action on climate change. The window to avert key tipping points that will have catastrophic consequences for the Earth's climate is now.

As a trans person, I am not interested in 50% or 0% of my rights. I would like my right to exist, 100% of the time.

We should push back on some of the more fringe men's rights groups. No one is entitled to a state mandated girlfriend. But it is probably worth understanding how patriarchy harms men because inequality harms us all.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

We already haven’t.

It's a week since election day.

We already have.

It's a week since election day.

This was the most blatant decision we’re ever likely to make as a society in our lifetimes.

This was the most blatant decision we're ever likely to make as a society in our lifetimes so far.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago (6 children)

We have enough of those people to do this for the majority of Americans?

Only one way to find out.

Pessimism may feel true, but just because something feels true doesn't make it true.

No one knows the future. But if we don't learn from out mistakes, it's likely we will keep making them.

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