So as I was sitting down tonight I was thinking about why I generally support taxing carbon versus spending our way out of climate change, while at the same time I favor financing transit over making it expensive to drive in cities. Now the first argument is fairly easy. Taxes and subsidies are essentially the …
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2020 election primary, reanalyzed
In most election maps of the 2020 election it shows the candidate who received the most votes in the election, but the problem with these maps is they don’t show who got a plurality vs a majority. Because we live in a society which for some reason still uses the primitive first past the post …
Conspiracies without regard for reality
Interesting twitter feed today after I made a little comment correcting a mistake about the historical record, read it here: Medical debt isn't federally owned. If any is, he should cancel it. He only has the authority to cancel federal loans. He won't do shit about health care. Obama lied about a public option when …
Why the Taliban is letting us evacuate
The only reason the Taliban isn’t fighting us is because they aren’t organized enough yet. If they start attacking Americans we will kick their asses. Give it 5 years, once they have total domination over Afghanistan, the story will be very different. They give Biden credit that the Taliban kicked our ass and they are …
India and today
Rule number one: Don’t trust terrorists. Fact: Pakistan harbored bin Laden and has a history of arming terrorist groups. Fact: Pakistan and India have terrible relations Fact: India has been a target for terrorist attacks before. Fact: Afghanistan is about to become a major training center for terrorists. Fact: there have been many attacks by …
How we got here, Afghanistan edition
Fuck the New Democrats. Fuck the Republicans. Fuck Jimmy Carter. Reagan was the devil. May both Bushes rot in hell. Obama did a better job than any other president over the last half century, but he still could have done far far more. Trump is a good for nothing bastard, who doesn’t give a fuck …
Short treatise on climate change
Quick reference sheet for climate change and solutions Global warming is real. The largest contributor to climate change is carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions come from a wide variety of sources, primarily from electricity generation, transportation, and agriculture. The ratio of which source is the most important differs by region. The 2 most important …
Voting Laws and Tipping Points
We are in a really bad situation when it comes to where politics are heading right now. Besides from the COVID recovery, which is currently failing, the current administration has no accomplishments yet beyond the stimulus which passed earlier this year, and no realistic chance of any on the horizon. A week from tomorrow, the …
The delay is deliberate
In 9 days the Census Bureau will release the counts which will be used for redistricting every state in the country. If the John Lewis Voting Rights Act were passed before then, republicans would not be able to gerrymander these states. As long as the filibuster is in place, HR1 will not pass. As long …
Is Medicare for All Socialist?
First of all, socialism is generally talking about non market based mechanisms, where everything market based is derided as a compromise. A non market based system would then mean there is no usage of a market, meaning the entire system is devoid of exchanging with people outside of its all in one system. This means …