It’s a simple majority vote on the start of a session, Dems have had a simple majority plenty of times

Coke nails tend to just be a single nail (usually a pinky) or at most a single nail on each hand. However having just your two main digits’ nails cut indicates another activity that some may consider even more taboo than drug use, digital interaction with vulvas and beyond.

Dems have actively chosen to keep the filibuster despite having multiple opportunities to remove it as a rule.

Just to circle back to this now that I’m more sober,

It’s like being mean to customer service people of a bad company.

If you do this you should unironically be put in jail and stopped from having any form of communication device for the rest of your life. I can’t overstate how fucking pathetic and psychopathic this thought is.

370 billion, mostly for tax credits that are actively being abused by bad actors, all that don’t address the actual problems. Every house could have solar panels and every car could be an EV and it simply would not be enough to get anywherr near carbon neutrality, much less the needed carbon negative to avoid 2c by 2030.

The reality is China proved it was possible to lower emissions by actual green investment, building more green energy production last year than the total green energy capacity of the US. They’ve hit peak emissions while the US hasn’t. This isn’t meant as a China good thing, to preempt that nonsensical reply, but merely as a direct example of what the US could do given they have similar (though slightly lower) GDP. At this point in time China produces more green energy than the US produces total.

Yeah, racism tends to do that.

What importance? Neither party is giving up oil subsidies or really investing all that much into green energy, and neither party has even the slightest thought about criminally investigating investors and owners of oil and coal companies for their, and this cannot be overstated, crimes against humanity that top all other crimes ever committed by any arbitrary grouping of people.

The choices are accelerate climating change incredibly quickly via fake carbon capture technology and carbon credit schemes that not only don’t lead to lower total emissions but actually increase emissions, or accelerate even faster by releasing the few regulations we have rregarding the environment.

First thought: Atari still exists as a standalone company? And the answer is no but yes.

Second thought: they better not fuck with openttd.

It does! Just not for the US. Thanks to the US pledging unlimited protection funding Israel has well funded schools, universal healthcare, and even provides grants for housing along with explicit military support for those creative souls that repurpose old housing that has been recently abandoned in completely unrelated incidents by former ‘wildlife.’

Offer education, contraception, and healthcare universally, regardless of border. This would tank the birthrate in a non fascist way, which is an objectively good thing. This weird procapitalist idea that we need or should want or really could sustain 8+ billion apex predators is ridiculous. In no ecosystem is that sustainable, even if the predators are smart enough to stop directly predating in other animals.

We should genuinely be striving for the least number of people that still allows the highest quality of life, with a further constraint being the lowest impact to the rest of the environment. Make no mistake, everyone regardless of immutable or even mutable status should be allowed to have kids if they want, but we shouldn’t want or need to frame it as something essential to continue continuity of wage labor.

You’re the reason financial literacy needs to be taught in schools. I don’t even support the existence of investing, but you need to look up how index funds work.

If you find yourself on the same side of discussion as a genocide denying fascist, you might want to stop and reexamine your views.

So you’re fine with other oss projects kicking out Americans for their multiple genocides, right?

Sanctions like this don’t work to affect change, it’s cruelty for the sake of cruelty with no other plausible purpose. Citizens have practically no control of their government in any nuclear state, blaming them and punishing them for something wholly unrelated to them based on their country of origin or residence is literally in the definition of hate speech, and literally is a fascist activity.

The first violent Zionist settlers started migrating in the late 1800s, not the 20th century, this is more Zionist propaganda that leaves out the early terror in Palestine that foreshadowed the rest of the conflict. These early terror groups were mostly ineffective, but their eventual dissolution lead to Zionist thought spreading to what are now the top supporters and financiers of Israel. the rest of the comment is spot on though.

Except, you know, to do the right thing. Caring what a bunch of parasitic cowards think is such a stupid justification for cruelty.

The ones that made it to Florida were the former ownership class that had the choice of staying to face trial for their crimes against the Cuban people, or get on the boat. Occasionally a “politically persecuted” person or group would “escape” in later years. Usually these people either helped the CIA with their destabilization attempts or were just ordinary criminals that fled prosecution like many Americans go to Russia to do. The US was more than happy to accept both groups without any vetting as that helped their narrative that Castro was a tyrant making up charges.

Floridian Cubans, Gusanos, hate communism for the same reason anyone in the parasite class hates communism; they’re mad the playing field was leveled and they had to answer for their crimes against humanity.

Give any animal the ability to photosynthesize. Now animals are of course complex creatures that need a variety of nutrients to function properly, and the number of chemicals we’ve seen be able to be photosynthesized is low, but imagine only needing to nude sunbathe for like a half hour to get enough sugars to fulfill your caloric intake, including the less efficient carb->protein/carb->fat conversion and pop a pill for some vitamins. Imagine if all animals had that as a baseline and just needed to hunt/forage for nutrients and vitamins to support auxillary functions.

Overpopulation would be nearly impossible despite massive population booms, with the only real limitation being physical space and the social dynamics of any given species or interspecies interactions.

Conservatives naturally have to be in a rightward spiral at all times. Nearly all conservatives will end up fascist, how fast they do so depends on how much of a rachet the centrist party acts as and how much that centrist party elimates left wing voices.

The rise of crypto and other limited quantity intermediaries shows that stable value step is far easier than it once was, and of course with China and Russia having ridiculous levels of precious metal wealth a worse case scenario would just be a literal gold standard currency for brics transactions.

While the US might throw a hissy fit about this (I mean they invaded Libya exclusively because Libya were launching a gold standard to trying to get non US oil trading to adopt it) they dont have the ability to say no. The US has no manufacturing sector compared to China or Russia, the former of which the US relies on massively for the majority of its domestic manufacturing needs. It also can’t compete in the remote service economy compared to India, and again has outsourced a large chunk of that part of its economy there.

US sanctions only work if the country sanctioned provides nothing of value that can’t be easily done domestically. There’s a reason that China as a whole is not sanctioned despite doing things far worse than Cuba ever did.

Refusing to trade in USD would be the same as sanctions in this scenario, and I’m willing to bet brics has figured out that they have enough demand across their member nations to support not trading with the US.