Coal produces about 33% of global electricitySolar and wind produce 8–9% eachElectricity meets about 20% of total energy demandhttps://www.visualcapitalist.com/coal-still-powers-more-electricity/
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@jonesmurphy At this point, reality should have done the trick. Katrina, Sandy, the horrible Houston flooding, followed by Texas freezing. Hurricane/Cancer Alley. Mississippi dead zones. Persistent droughts in the Northeast. It's practically a sign of mental illness that people would still vote for their own doom after all of the disasters.
@dnkboston @knud @gerrymcgovern yes. Racism is brain damage literally to a psychiatrically concerning degree. They are suicidal. This closely resembles the mindset of the nearly 40 million women who voted once again for the Pu$$y Grabber to police their own vaginas. Or the Latinos who voted for ICE. And the increased % of black voters(led by Clarence Thomas, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg etc) who voted for resegregation. This is the crowd we are hoping will reduce energy usage. That's not happening.
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@dnkboston @knud @gerrymcgovern yes. Racism is brain damage literally to a psychiatrically concerning degree. They are suicidal. This closely resembles the mindset of the nearly 40 million women who voted once again for the Pu$$y Grabber to police their own vaginas. Or the Latinos who voted for ICE. And the increased % of black voters(led by Clarence Thomas, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg etc) who voted for resegregation. This is the crowd we are hoping will reduce energy usage. That's not happening.
@jonesmurphy Yeah, you're right. In general, I don't bother flipping myself into a pretzel to get them to do the right thing.
Best bet is to re-enfranchise those who have been disenfranchised. Second best is to get the people who stayed home.
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@jonesmurphy Excellent question, and I have no idea yet. But I have to persist with this until I do see a direction.
This is not an endorsement of Trump in any way, but his idiotic conflicts are making the point about the vulnerabilities of a fossil fuel environment. There is only so much political leverage and manipulation that can lower prices.
@dnkboston @knud @gerrymcgovern Trump supporters overwhelmingly do not care. His approval is insanely high, averaging right around 40%, well above his low of 34% after Jan 6th. Worse, Trump supporters led by Supreme Court Republicans have rolled back MLK's voting rights legacy to the point where 40% or even less is more than enough for them to retain power indefinitely.
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@jonesmurphy Yeah, you're right. In general, I don't bother flipping myself into a pretzel to get them to do the right thing.
Best bet is to re-enfranchise those who have been disenfranchised. Second best is to get the people who stayed home.
@dnkboston @knud @gerrymcgovern rew-enfranchisement will not happen peacefully. Enfranchisement did not happen peacefully. It took 100 yrs from the Civil War to Civil Rights and a LOT of bloodshed.
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@dnkboston @knud @gerrymcgovern Trump supporters overwhelmingly do not care. His approval is insanely high, averaging right around 40%, well above his low of 34% after Jan 6th. Worse, Trump supporters led by Supreme Court Republicans have rolled back MLK's voting rights legacy to the point where 40% or even less is more than enough for them to retain power indefinitely.
@jonesmurphy If they keep taking away our legal recourses...let's just say I'm not going to ask people not to do anything stupid anymore.
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@dnkboston @knud @gerrymcgovern rew-enfranchisement will not happen peacefully. Enfranchisement did not happen peacefully. It took 100 yrs from the Civil War to Civil Rights and a LOT of bloodshed.
@jonesmurphy I don't want to shed anyone's blood--or cause anyone's blood to be shed--but if that's where they insist on taking this, here we go.
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@jonesmurphy I don't want to shed anyone's blood--or cause anyone's blood to be shed--but if that's where they insist on taking this, here we go.
@dnkboston I want to shed the blood of Nazis, just as much as they want to shed mine because they are obsessed with being inbred and believe that this is superior to diverse ancestry. This ain't 1939 or 1776. They can bring it and find out.
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@dnkboston I want to shed the blood of Nazis, just as much as they want to shed mine because they are obsessed with being inbred and believe that this is superior to diverse ancestry. This ain't 1939 or 1776. They can bring it and find out.
@jonesmurphy I want them to be dragged into court, convicted, and live out a long sentence in prison. I'm vengeful.
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@jonesmurphy If they keep taking away our legal recourses...let's just say I'm not going to ask people not to do anything stupid anymore.
@dnkboston "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" JFK, exactly 3 yrs to the day before I was born.
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@jonesmurphy I want them to be dragged into court, convicted, and live out a long sentence in prison. I'm vengeful.
@dnkboston I hope that does happen. It's a huge improvement on what I expect, namely Civil War II
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@dnkboston "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" JFK, exactly 3 yrs to the day before I was born.
@jonesmurphy I rarely have anything good to say about JFK, but in this case, yep.
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@dnkboston I hope that does happen. It's a huge improvement on what I expect, namely Civil War II
@jonesmurphy We're there. I'm steeling myself for when my future grandchildren ask me, "Halmoni, what did you do during the war?"
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@jonesmurphy I rarely have anything good to say about JFK, but in this case, yep.
@dnkboston JFK was quite decent as US Presidents go. Just imagine that he was immediately followed by Richard Nixon, the most similar previous President to Trump. JFK aggressively advocated for the Civil Rights Act, something which very likely contributed to his murder.
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@dnkboston JFK was quite decent as US Presidents go. Just imagine that he was immediately followed by Richard Nixon, the most similar previous President to Trump. JFK aggressively advocated for the Civil Rights Act, something which very likely contributed to his murder.
@jonesmurphy He was rapey and racist. Also, I'm from Boston, so I've been choking for a while on how great all things Kennedy are.
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@jonesmurphy He was rapey and racist. Also, I'm from Boston, so I've been choking for a while on how great all things Kennedy are.
@dnkboston most white voters voted against JFK in 1960 due to his insufficient racism. When he gave his aggressive speech for the Civil Rights Act in June 1963, his approval among white voters crashed hard. Boston wasn't very fond of JFK back then. They like him a lot better dead than alive. Like MLK.
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@dnkboston most white voters voted against JFK in 1960 due to his insufficient racism. When he gave his aggressive speech for the Civil Rights Act in June 1963, his approval among white voters crashed hard. Boston wasn't very fond of JFK back then. They like him a lot better dead than alive. Like MLK.
@jonesmurphy He said some really disgusting things to a diplomat from Europe--I want to say the Netherlands--in the context of decolonization.
That would very much track with Boston.
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@jonesmurphy He said some really disgusting things to a diplomat from Europe--I want to say the Netherlands--in the context of decolonization.
That would very much track with Boston.
@dnkboston LBJ also was a lifetime segregationist. Yet the vast majority of white supremacist Americans hated those men for their support of MLK and the Civil Rights laws.
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@dnkboston LBJ also was a lifetime segregationist. Yet the vast majority of white supremacist Americans hated those men for their support of MLK and the Civil Rights laws.
@jonesmurphy Johnson knew what the support would cost the Dems. I'm glad he did it, but I wish we'd had an actual strategy to counter the GOP reaction.
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@dnkboston LBJ also was a lifetime segregationist. Yet the vast majority of white supremacist Americans hated those men for their support of MLK and the Civil Rights laws.
@jonesmurphy Reading The New American Poverty by Michael Harrington and how the Vietnam War absolutely screwed the alleged War on Poverty. Johnson did a couple of things to be proud of, but more that screwed us.
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@jonesmurphy Reading The New American Poverty by Michael Harrington and how the Vietnam War absolutely screwed the alleged War on Poverty. Johnson did a couple of things to be proud of, but more that screwed us.
@dnkboston white supremacist voters responded by electing criminal racist Nixon, FAR worse than LBJ. LBJ's flaws are microscopic and insignificant compared to those of the vast majority of white Americans.
