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It's a simple majority vote on the start of a session, Dems have had a simple majority plenty of times

You, as the collective you, have said every election that democracy is on the line. Every single one, some large contingency of neoliberals pulls out ol' reliable and claims their opponent will end democracy. Trump and Clinton's camps both did it. Kerry did it, Obama, fucking Clinton(penis) v Dole had that messaging. It's worse than crying wolf, it shows a ridiculous misunderstanding of what is allowed by the rulers of the country. The rich have no interest in a dictatorship, and they set the rules. The current oligarchy wherein both candidates essentially do the same thing is by far the most profitable arrangement, so it will continue.

Dems have actively chosen to keep the filibuster despite having multiple opportunities to remove it as a rule.

In short, yes. In long, no but it's nice. In schlong, xtardew valley and other such mods need some more exposed API nodes to really take off, so yes.

Just to circle back to this now that I'm more sober,

It's like being mean to customer service people of a bad company.

If you do this you should unironically be put in jail and stopped from having any form of communication device for the rest of your life. I can't overstate how fucking pathetic and psychopathic this thought is.

370 billion, mostly for tax credits that are actively being abused by bad actors, all that don't address the actual problems. Every house could have solar panels and every car could be an EV and it simply would not be enough to get anywherr near carbon neutrality, much less the needed carbon negative to avoid 2c by 2030.

The reality is China proved it was possible to lower emissions by actual green investment, building more green energy production last year than the total green energy capacity of the US. They've hit peak emissions while the US hasn't. This isn't meant as a China good thing, to preempt that nonsensical reply, but merely as a direct example of what the US could do given they have similar (though slightly lower) GDP. At this point in time China produces more green energy than the US produces total.

Yeah, racism tends to do that.

We usually have dedicated baggers in the US, though many stores switched to having the cashier do it due to the 'labor shortage' during the pandemic. It's basically a jobs program, usually given to disabled or older applicants that management wants tax credits for, but don't actually have a use for; also teens that otherwise would be too costly to train if they're only being employed for the summer.

Capitalism breeds innovation in how to pretend labor is necessary for everyone to do.

You've said that every election since Carter lost.

What importance? Neither party is giving up oil subsidies or really investing all that much into green energy, and neither party has even the slightest thought about criminally investigating investors and owners of oil and coal companies for their, and this cannot be overstated, crimes against humanity that top all other crimes ever committed by any arbitrary grouping of people.

The choices are accelerate climating change incredibly quickly via fake carbon capture technology and carbon credit schemes that not only don't lead to lower total emissions but actually increase emissions, or accelerate even faster by releasing the few regulations we have rregarding the environment.

And that itself is beautiful in its own way. Free self expression from unrecognized, unwanted youth; a shout against a society that has thrown them away.

Stein really doesn't miss. But Europeans will never give up genocide, it's their heritage.