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A little more detail. I marked 4 of the 5 largest extinction events. Crossing the purple line shown in the diagram resulted in extinction events throughout Earth's past. This is about 5C from where we are today. If we cross that threshold, the feedbacks might become overwhelming.

@DisinfoIsBad No - Dems felt providing bombs to kill Gazans was more important than stopping Trump.

Democrats with a 50/50 Senate passed a 2 trillion COVID recovery, a massive infrastructure plan, the worlds biggest climate bill, codified gay marriage, passed the first federal gun control in 30 years, and a hell of a lot more, but you were fine with Trump coming back.

@Stasiahoney When was there are floor vote on an $11 or $12 minimum wage?

@151Call And Bernie with his progressive said no to an $11 or $12 compromise. Fucking millions of people out of a huge raise. They don’t give one fuck about working people. It’s all a goddamn grift.

Leftists: The minimum wage should be $15 Dems: OK now it’s $15 Ls: no it should be $25 Ds: OK now it’s $25 Ls: no it should be $100 Ds; OK it’s $100 now Ls: fuck you Israel whores They are worse than maga I think.

@tify330 The protesters have been forced to leave school, lose access to degrees, and foreign students have been deported. There is little due process to protect protesters.

They told us it was because Dems were in power but now that Dems are out of power they have gone silent. Not surprising at all.

@Joe_Roberts01 What are the values of the Democratic Party these days aside from enabling unfettered capitalism to crush the working class? Universal policies that support people undermine fascism but the Democratic Party ignores that reality which is why Trump is President today.

@151Call Debate policy, that’s fair. But you don’t let the values central to the party be undermined by fringe radicals just because they have an audience.

Democrats should treat the Hasan Piker drama for what it is, a preview of the larger fight ahead. The next few years will be a battle over whether this party is anchored in broad-based, morally serious coalition politics or captured by a fringe that mistakes radicalism for strength. My latest.

@groove_sdc Do you support a universal healthcare system like Medicare for All. If not, what is there to collaborate on? Universal childcare? Eldercare? Free public college tuition? Not supporting these makes you a Republican.

The fact that leftists are always telling Democrats “YOU NEED US” as opposed to “let’s work together” is a big tell in what their end goal is They want power That’s why collaboration is out of the question and they don’t mind if Republicans winning gets them closer to control

@RockChartrand Capitalism won’t exist on a 5C world.

You can argue that America is one of the most capitalist countries on earth. What you can’t argue is that it’s consistently capitalist, or that it hasn’t become less so over time. So when you resent the outcomes you’re seeing today, it’s worth asking whether you’re reacting to capitalism… or to the steady move away from it.

@MotorCityLib Dems are capitalists, right? Leftists are not.

Some folks go after Never Trump people, some people incorrectly go after Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries like Keith Olbermann who just want empty gestures. I go after white leftists cuz they know the level of damage a united GOP government can do and enable it anyway.

@pablomelito1 @leafmoding The vote shaming is crazy right now.

@151Call @leafmoding Vote for us we suck less…

Awfully privileged to turn your nose up and say "the dems need to EARN my vote" when you know Project 2025 is the alternative. Awfully bold to then go on and perform as if you care at all about the people impacted by the results of your indifference.

@RockChartrand Federal taxes get removed from the money supply so no billionaires is a non issue.

You’ll also collect a lot less in taxes when there are no more billionaires. If revenue was the goal, they’d be rooting for trillionaires. But it isn’t. Envy won’t allow that.

@Achint03531271 @leafmoding Schumer was chanting “We support Israel” not too long ago. Just crazy.

@leafmoding Remind me again how many democrats have openly condemned the actions of i*rael so far? We're at a point when Tucker Carlson has just made a two hour long video explaining just how entrenched "they" are in US politics but the nice centrist dems have had their mouth shut tight.

@estherzelda0514 The problem is that Congress falls in line to support a pedophile fascist when a minority of Americans support fascism while Congress fights tooth and nail against Universal healthcare, childcare, etc. when a majority of American support universal healthcare.

The root of my frustration with radical politics is that it's not radical at all. There is no contemplation of what real change would require or look like, or they would all concede that voting and harm reduction are perhaps the most effective tools at their disposal, and should at least be utilized as part of a larger plan, simply because voting in a democracy like America is typically simple. Then we would be in much better circumstances, and many more people would have the license to actually cooperate with visionaries without paying a political price. But instead, the supposed "radicals" have aligned with the premise of doing nothing, and being extremely annoying while also doing that. This makes them nihilists at worst and extremely stupid and lazy at best. But the point remains that they are hardly the demographic you'd associate with getting anything done, or even proposing anything interesting to be done. So you have a situation where the "radicals" are actually just moral scolds that do nothing except annoy people, and that means those that are capable of innovative thoughts or getting anything done will tend to avoid them as a matter of principle. Ironically, this creates a world where we're all very stuck on a path of slow decline, which is not exactly consistent with change or revolution. But then again, explaining to a "radical" the concept of revealed preferences is likely to have you be called incomprehensible psuedo-academic names, so I understand why nobody really bothers.

@soncharm Libertarians don’t think air is a right either. Who wants to go to the moon or Mars if air isn’t a right?

Every time something like this pops up we get a round from the libertarian fraction making the ‘if it requires labor of others it can’t be A Right’ point. Which, to be clear, I agree with!, but gets kind of old (and many just *will never* buy into) I think really what we need is a word different from ‘right’ to refer to such things. Okay, so health care isn’t/can’t be ‘a right’. But it’s still good! And we want everyone to have it! At least to some basic level. That would be good, right? We all agree? Maybe ‘social good’? Health care is a social good.

@caitoz One would think that Iran being on “the list” for decades that the US military would have had a plan regarding Iran. Clearly they don’t have a workable plan which makes one think that the military never thought attacking Iran was a good idea to bother having a plan.

The actual, official 2024 Democratic Party platform accused Trump of "fecklessness and weakness" for failing to go to war with Iran during his first term. Kamala Harris labeled Iran the #1 enemy of the United States. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly slammed Trump for being too soft on America's enemies and announced that she "will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel." There was no "plan" for avoiding this. Your people wanted this war as much as Trump and his handlers did. That's why they're doing nothing right now.

@RachelBitecofer Supporting the genocide caused Harris to lose. The primary protest vote made that clear. Eliminating Hamas in Gaza is like eliminating racists in the US, not possible, unless you kill everyone or actually pursue egalitarianism.

You’ll never sell me on the idea that Ds would have been any better off with a primary in 2024. From Oct 2023, Gaza would have taken center stage and the candidate would have had to be a Hamas apologist to avoid having the crowd chant “genocider!” at them.

@benigma2017 I usually agree with you but not in this case.

@151Call I explained this to you above. I’m sorry that you don’t agree.

Joe Biden ran for a second term knowing he was losing it and eventually became so visibly infirm that the party had to force him out. By then it was too late and his replacement lost in a landslide to an insane carnival barker. That's Joe Biden's legacy.

@benigma2017 Reagan defeated Mondale by 58 to 41 %. Reagan was an actor too …. Complete trouncing. Trump won by 1-2%.

@151Call Harris lost the popular vote. Democrats have an approximate 3,000,000 voter buffer before they lose the popular vote. She lost EVERY swing state and her opponent was a cartoon villain. She lost in the modern day version of a landslide.