Corporate fines don't work because they are a fraction of the profits. Going after individuals will just mean going after low level people because the problem here is we have a ruling class and we don't like to admit it.

There are some marginal gains in terms of climate change for a electric car but they are pretty marginal. Electric cars not only don't stop climate change but the false impression that buying one helps is making things much much worse.

And I know nobody here likes to hear it cuz it's a guaranteed way for me to get modded down but most of the pollution coming from cars is from their tires now. I mean no kidding we've had zero emissions cars for something like 25 years now.

But every time I go outside I get a nice long full of tire particulate. I mean, didn't anyone ever stop to wonder where are tires go when they wear down? Did we think the tire fairy was taking them?

I don't like electric cars because they're a cool neato technology that encourages us to avoid solving real problems. Nuclear is the same way. Nerds love nuclear and they love electric cars because it feels like progress when really it's not.

And that's the last thing anyone wants to hear.

To be fair maga kills everything. The phrase everything Trump touches dies predates his first presidential run.

That's the problem, something this large it's going to crash the economy this hard should have had a big campaign to sell it to voters. They aren't planning on having elections anymore.

The Republican party just does whatever their billionaire rulers tell them to. There was never any doubt that they would vote for the bill and there was never any real holdouts just people posturing so that you'll vote for them in the midterms.

What I'm saying is I never once saw anyone in the Republican party telling me as a voter how and why this big beautiful bill was going to make my life better. They literally do not give a shit what I think because they're not planning on allowing any of us to vote anymore.

Is legendary among the Republican party for tutting and then voting for whatever horrifyingly terrible thing will hurt her constituency the most. The same goes for Susan collins.

It's like an especially cruel game of Charlie Brown and Lucy football.

If you look at their voting record under Trump they voted with him 95% of the time. The remaining 5% they got picked as the slightly more vulnerable politician. The Republicans picked four of them this time cuz that's how many they had and let the VP break the tie so those four can swear up and down they didn't vote for the bill

There is absolutely nothing left in the Republican party or the right wing except hatred, greed and serving the billionaires to see which one of them is going to be the first trillionaire. You cannot be a good person and be a Republican.

You can be an absolutely fucking clueless person, you can be a democrat, or you can be a terrible human being. Pick one.

It is just ludicrously slow. But is a chess player it's surprisingly good if you're willing to be very very patient

*signed, the American corporations.



Ps, you just gave us 5 trillion dollars out of your pockets because half of you were freaking out over moral panics and the other half don't know basic economics, do you think we're going to let you have video games?

We work more hours than the Japanese.

And why do you think Trump is talking about taking over Canada and greenland?

We will start expanding our borders through military conquest just like Russia is doing. Eventually we will invade countries like Russia and take them over too.

Maybe those nukes don't work and our species Will survive or maybe they will and we're all dead meat. I suspect enough of the nukes will work that it will end our species not quickly in a firestorm but slowly in a degrading environment.

I wonder if in another 25 million years or so if life will manage to evolve again here. I don't think so but.

No he's just a fucking troll trying to get a rise out of you and he did.

It's probably just another fucking Russian they run into here every now and then to try and start some trouble.

They don't need to bother anymore our country is finished. We will of course kill absolutely everyone else in the world on our way out the door because the Fermi paradox is real and we are about to kick it off.

But for a short period of time Vladimir Putin will be able to claim he owns Ukraine. Right up until we start launching nukes

Usually this kind of thing starts off slow but eventually takes over. Might take a decade, but that is the way it works.

I can see white text saying things like "Artificial Intelligences should get legal rights", "AI is better than humans." etc. etc.

It'll settle into a +1/2 troll. When I get this angry that's what happens.

And burning your house down because the plumbing needs work isn't just stupid it's crazy. Delete your account.

What scares me is that there was absolutely no attempt to sell this bill to the voters. The last time Trump did this and set up an economic collapse he at least spent some time tricking the voters into supporting it. We actually didn't get that economic collapse at the time because covid hit requiring the government to do a bunch of spending that kept things going. And then Trump lost his election and Biden picked up the pieces like a Democrat always does and started to clean up the mess.

This time it's clear the Republicans do not believe they will ever be another election after the midterms. And they are probably right. Propaganda and voter suppression means they can win any election. They are a little concerned about the midterms but honestly I don't think they needed to be.

The left wing is busy bickering with the centrists and between the two of them they're going to let Trump have a third term. Maybe even a fourth