I keep wondering why we don't see more of this.
IMO, planting trees is the most obvious and basic response to climate change. Literally what they evolved to do is to remove carbon compounds from the atmosphere.
They're not going to solve the problem alone, but they're such an obvious benefit, and planting them is something every community and even every individual can do right now.
Yeah! It's obviously a deliberate manipulation when Google just links to negative stories about him instead of the positive ones, like... like... um... uh...
No, that's not smug elitism at all. Smug elitism was when the limousine liberals were jetting around the country to go to $10,000 a plate dinners and wring their hands over the fact that the ignorant hicks in flyover country wouldn't vote for them.
#Joy Genocide is realpolitik. It's the DNC and Harris trying to juggle the fact that they need to run on positives to counter Trump's negatives with the fact that if she makes even the tiniest hint that she'd cut off the flow of arms to Israel, a whole bunch of fabulously wealthy and influential individuals, corporations and lobbying groups who profit off of it would stop at nothing to utterly destroy her.
It has nothing at all to do with elitism and everything to do with the simple fact that the US federal government is wholly owned by special interests, and those involved in the Israeli military/industrial money laundering scam are among the most influential of them.
WTF?
My work with Democrats started in high school, when I was an alternate-delegate for Hillary Clinton.
Then you just weren't paying attention, because that was the peak of Democratic smug elitism. That was the period when it was just about impossible to read anything by or about any Democrats without seeing them making scoffing, condescending references to "flyover country " and "Jesusland." The Democrats of the early 2000s weren't just elitist, but overt about it - they didn't just think they were better than everyone else (and particularly everyone outside of New England and Cascadia) - they told us so, on a virtually daily basis.
Either you're shamefully ignorant or a fraud, because without a doubt the current Democrats are less - not more, but less - elitist than they've been at least since Bill Clinton.
It's safe to assume that the "uncomfortable" part is that he's either going to have to admit to soliciting sex with minors or perjure himself, and neither one is going to end well for him.
It's not quite true that we "never" hear about Ukraine's far right. We hear about them fairly regularly in fact - from Putin's apologists and sycophants.
"We do not currently assess" is ludicrously blatant mealy-mouthed misdirection.
Ah... yes. A lot of things just clicked into place for me, and not just regarding Vance.
Most notably really - trying to grasp the idea of "TheoBros" broadly - I wondered how such a thing is even possible. How can any even moderately intelligent person spend a great deal of time online and cling to a Christian belief at all, and much less a conservative one? There's just far too much information out there that contradicts that view. Granted, there is of course content tailored to affirm it, but it's essentially a specialist thing - not just a bubble, but a very specific and limited bubble, surrounded by a sea of contrary views and contradicting facts.
And then it clicked - the way to maintain a conservative Christian viewpoint on the internet is to be an aggressively censorious conspiracy theorist.
The only way they can face the sea of contradictory information is to ascribe it to some sort of ridiculously massive conspiracy by the forces of evil - such that the vast majority of what exists on the internet is the lies of Satan's minions - and to establish little, aggressively monitored and censored enclaves in which their views and only their views are allowed, and everything else is condemned and preferably censored.
Their whole cognitively dissonant view on "free speech" - in which they somehow simultaneously cry about being "censored" generally simply for being massively downvoted and even as they, in their own bubbles, overtly censor any and all contrary views - suddenly makes sense. They explain away the fact that the vast majority of people disagree with them and even condemn them as a conspiracy to silence them, and create the illusion that they're not merely a noxious and irrational few by aggressively monitoring and controlling their walled gardens, so that opposition is at least underrepresented if not silenced entirely.
It also explains their slippery relationship with truth, and specifically things like Vance clinging to the Haitians eating pets myth even after it's been proven false. For them, coming across information that proves them wrong has to be an essentially daily occurrence, so they undoubtedly work out an approach to it, such that they, exactly as he's doing, just flatly ignore the necessary ramifications of the truth and instead just blithely cling to whatever myth affirms their beliefs.
Yeah... suddenly a whole lot of previously inexplicable behavior and beliefs are making sense to me...
And frankly, while it's notably pathetic and cringily willfully ignorant, it's also scary. More on that later maybe...
Right. The country in which officials insist that soldiers should be entirely free to sexually abuse Palestinians can investigate itself. 🙄
Israel is a rogue state.
I first read that headline as "is deranged."
Same sentiment but more precise.
Identity in general doesn't matter much on forums (as opposed to microblogs, like Twitter or Mastodon). Forums are focused on topics rather than people, and what is said is generally more important than who says it.