AnarchoAnarchist [he/him, comrade/them]

Warning shots are dangerous, that bullet will fall and in a densely populated area God knows who it will hit. I don’t blame the officer for not firing into the air.i do think that was a perfect opportunity to pull out a baton or a Taser. And I would even understand pulling his pistol to force the lynch mob to comply with his orders to back off.

I do not use the term lynch mob lightly, and find it hard to think of a more fitting description.

STEP AWAY FROM THE LAITHE!

Your timeline might be closer to the truth, we will know if the Chud Contingent begins accepting the reality of climate change in the next couple years. When Fox News starts blaming hurricanes and migrants on a changing climate it is gonna get dangerous very quick.

You would need bipartisan acceptance of anthropic climate change and IDK if that is gonna happen in the next decade, not after 50 years of oil funded propaganda. I think we will need to be well into the “find out” phase of climate catastrophe with crop failures before the average Red State politician acknowledges the reality of carbon emissions and is willing to sign onto any substantive mitigation efforts; but Republican politicians skew younger and younger people see this as a major issue, so it is possible.

My greatest fear with climate change, is not just that we will continue to crank up the thermostat, but that when things get bad enough it will be the US that unilaterally decides to pump sulfur into the stratosphere, put tons of microplastics up in the sky, or any of the other hair-brained mitigation ideas that have been put forward.

I have deep reservations about any of those ideas even if done in a multilateral way, carefully, backed with rigorous research, and buy in from every country on the globe. But that’s not how it will happen. It’s going to be some Democrat in 2075, when we’ve already seen four degrees of warming, trying desperately to save corn harvests.

Yep, plus IIRC Texas passed something, and several cities straight up passed legislation saying “we officially DGAF about weed”

The last one, cities saying they will not enforce laws on pot under like 2oz, was struck down by Texan courts really recently and The legislature is probably going to close The THCA loophole.

I love living in a state that is going full fash on the border while measles and whooping cough run rampant, and they defund public schools, but their highest priority is stopping me from enjoying a little reefer after a long day at work.

Should we worry about hundreds of uncapped wells leaking methane into the air? Should we do something about the state having to pay Bitcoin miners so they don’t mine Bitcoin and crash our grid? Should we maybe start putting out PSAs about vaccination so that young children don’t die of preventable diseases like it’s the 17th century? No. Dan Patrick has decided that the greatest threat to my fellow citizens is someone getting stoned and watching classic Simpsons episodes.

The Cannabis laws in Texas are an absolute joke right now, I can walk 10 minutes to a local vape store and buy an ounce of “THC-a Hemp” that is completely indistinguishable from flower in a legal state. The only difference being that Texas is almost wholly unregulated, and The state is unable to collect extra tax revenue.

The legislature has made this one of their highest priorities, and it’s probably going away. For now though, there’s a very good chance that whatever was in those Easter eggs is actually perfectly legal under Texan law.

Correct. You literally said “I don’t care what Marx said” then made a vulgar sexual comment.

I don’t know why you are so angry about paying taxes, but it makes you sound like a white man in Oakley’s driving a pickup ranting on Facebook. The disregard, the straight up hostility, to theory makes the chuddery even more apparent.

“Marx was a dipshit” is quite an interesting take on an ML social media site.

The Kracken has a chance to do something really funny

At least Gaza will be safe when it rains.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-compares-trumps-children-to-nazis/

Bill Maher trivializes the Holocaust by his own logic.

Liberals are correct to recognize that Trump’s admin came in with an agenda and have been unrelenting in executing it.

But their takeaway is not “Progressives should take the lead, articulate an agenda, and be equally unrelenting in executing it. When the Supreme Court blocks forgiving student loans, fire everyone at DoE in charge of collecting them. When the Supreme Court makes abortion illegal, provide those services in Military Bases in Red states. When Congress is unwilling to pass a Green New Deal, just do it unilaterally with EOs; and when the judiciary demands you stop, ask them how they plan to enforce their decree.”

Liberals are inherently conservative. They would fight tooth and nail to maintain the current structures that leave them hobbled. Meanwhile Republicans have learned “The power to destroy a thing, is the absolute control over it.”