FTA: “Anyway, religion is a protected characteristic; but being a twat, is not, which is why it’s perfectly fine for a bank to decide it doesn’t want a twat as a customer.”
Honestly, genocide-denial should make her a non-starter. How the hell did she make it to Premier?
I mean, I know that initially she was picked, not elected, by like-minded individuals from her own party only, but even after that she still got the rural vote in Alberta. That is seriously disturbing. How much racial hatred can we put up with in #abpoli ?
In their ongoing pursuit of so-called #religiousFreedom, the #court and like-minded people are stepping over the bodies of #LGBTQ#youth literally stranded on the street, and turning a blind eye to the horrible #injustice all around them, in order to maintain their false ideal of pretending they are fighting 'sin.'
The 20th century’s fossil-fuel bonanza, with its extension well into this century, has enabled an explosion of economic growth that dwarfs anything humanity had previously achieved. Not coincidentally, it has also empowered our species to cause ecological degradation on an unprecedented scale.
Humanity’s industrial and agricultural activities have an impact on the Earth that now exceeds, by a whopping 75%, nature’s ability to endure them without lasting damage. In other words, we would need almost two Earths to sustain a world economy this size over the long term — more than two, if it continues growing.
In a May 30 essay for the New York Times titled “The New Climate Law Is Working. Clean Energy Investments Are Soaring,” one of the architects of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Brian Deese, wrote, “Nine months since that law was passed in Congress, the private sector has mobilized well beyond our initial expectations to generate clean energy, build battery factories, and develop other technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
But there’s just one problem. Those technologies aren’t going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The only way to reduce emissions fast enough to prevent climate catastrophe is to phase out the burning of oil, gas, and coal by law, directly and deliberately. If, against all odds, the United States does that, we certainly will need wind- and solar-power installations, batteries, and new technologies to compensate for the decline of energy from fossil fuels. There is no reason, however, to expect that the process would work in reverse; a “clean-energy” mobilization alone won’t cause a steep reduction in use of fossil fuels.
I think top leaders in Washington are using green-energy pipe dreams to distract us from the reality that they have given up altogether on reducing US fossil fuel use. They’ve caved.
Cox goes on to completely refute the dream of "Green Growth" and to call for Degrowth as the only sensible choice at this point.
It's a long, persuasive essay, and I hope you will read the whole thing.
@breadandcircuses Read this Cox item just before seeing your toot. It seems to me that Atlanta is the testing ground for the coming police state reaction to people rising up to demand real solutions. Chris Hedges has been warning for yrs of the Liberals' response (to say nothing of the #Christofascists should they prevail). Today I am watching as this area's previously pristine air quality is again heading into deadly wildfire induced range. So, Great Lakes area might not be the refugia I hoped.
@GottaLaff Perhaps not the most important point, as pointed out the info was in the Mueller report, but for a professional at this level to claim to not read newspapers is worthy of condemnation. He gets his marching orders from his "Lord", as most #Christofascists claim.
"Unfriending" America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me
Rising far-right Christian movement linked to GOP calls for "kingdom revolution" led by an "army of believers"
The New Apostolic Reformation aims to take over government at all levels, and also to erode institutional Christianity, destroying all doctrines and denominations it sees as obstacles to the Kingdom of God.
This woman is bravely taking legal action against the madness of #BookBanning in many American schools
This whole frenzy of #antiwokeness echos Savanarola, his religious fanatics, and their auto-da-fés. I wonder if these #RightWing fanatics know that they are replaying Florentine history? Might have to ban those history books, if they have em. It didn’t end well for Savanarola and his #ChristoFascists
And by “Texas,” the Hill means fascist Gov. #Abbott:
“#Texas on Sunday sent more migrants to Vice President Harris’s D.C. residence, just days after Title 42 — a pandemic-era rule that allowed officials to quickly expel asylum seekers at the border — ended last week.” #immigration#racism#bigotryhttps://trib.al/k9XlJ8e
@GottaLaff I have bad news for these #whitenationalist#Christofascists. If they do not figure out a way to bring in refugees and weave them into the national fabric, the birth rate of white USians will soon assure economic collapse. They can try anti-abortion laws and money incentives, but none of those policies have been shown to work to reverse the decline in birthrates.
#ChristoFascists not only don't care about crushing individual lives, their goal is to do more of it. The ACLU is fighting a law in Texas that allows CPS to seize trans kids and place them in suitable (read: right wing christian) foster homes to be de-transitioned against their will & against their doctor's recommendations.
This is, according to the UN, one of many acts that qualify as genocide, just as Native American children were taken away to be indoctrinated in Christian culture against their parents will. This is the State of Texas doing the same thing all over again.
Christianity, and christian belief, is only one option among many & should never be forced on anyone.
It's not truth, much less "the" truth. Their beliefs are disgusting and hateful.
#LGBTQ people of any age have every absolute right to live their lives to their own specifications, period. This is just one more in a long line of chrisitian violence & genocide against minorities.
If you want to know why the protection of reproductive rights is so important and why abortion bans are anti-life, see this story. Elect people who will protect abortion rights.
Just a thought: a lot of people are using words like "terrifying" to describe the right wing pundits, shooters, and their various patches, tattoos, adornments, or what have you.
Normalize saying DISGUSTING and ODIOUS or REPUGNANT or SLEAZY or LOATHSOME or DISREPUTABLE or DISHONORABLE or some such. They probably don't know words like opprobrium, but you get the idea.
Their beliefs and actions are shameful. They should be ridiculed, not given awe. They are garbage beliefs. Treat them as such.
They virtually live in an #AlternateReality, and most are not accessible for political reasoning anymore.
Anyone who gets almost all his "news" from the self-proclaimed non-journalistic #FauxNews channel will, in all likelihood, never be redeemed.
Therefore, these #Christofascists must be identified and blocked,...
@SrRochardBunson I used to say that both sides are the same, but clearly one is the greater evil and represents the #Christofascists. It's still a shitty choice between #Neoliberalism and Christofascism, but clearly #Neoliberalism is better but with significant caveats.