Mix in some red food coloring and you’ve got yourself a good time

I really wish the x axis was average distance traveled and the y axis was danger.

I get that the way this graph was designed was for humor and to highlight hot air balloons, but if you’re looking for a safe vehicle for a specific distance, it really doesn’t help out in any way. It probably wouldn’t be safe to drive my car across the Atlantic Ocean.

Horses are technically more dangerous to ride than motorcycles. It’s just that motorcycles attract a kind of people who like doing backflips in front of a semi truck.

Microplastics from heavy vehicles scrubbing away their tires is a bigger issue than tailpipe emissions, which is why tailpipe emissions are the only thing focused on with regards to regulatory standards. Can’t have people thinking BEVs are similar/worse for the environment than a small car.

If she didn’t have any bombs to write on in the first place, people might not have such an issue with biden.

Because you’re hyper fixated on a vote months from now that won’t help Palestinians at the current moment? Your priorities are pretty clear.

The point might actually be to sink Biden’s approval rating so low that he’s forced to reverse course on the specific thing making him unpopular and less likely to win.

If you actually cared about Palestine, you’d be on the streets demanding immediate action instead of begging people to check a box months from now when half a million Palestinians have starved to death.

I’m not sure if calling “the US chose to finally stop vetoing UN resolutions” as action. They didn’t vote in the affirmative. By the time the current administration does something to actually change things like refusing to send weapons, there won’t be any more Palestinians left who haven’t forever lost their family, home, or life.

This country was founded under genocide and fascism and continues to this day. We still have legalized slavery that we support every time we buy tomatoes at the grocery store as well as our tax dollars. Anti-protest legislation and weaponry are being pushed every single year so much that you can now be considered a domestic terrorist if you protest on a road or pipeline depending on the state. We are relatively comfortable as a direct result of us taking advantage of the global south and continued colonialism projects. The more the unsustainable status-quo is extended, the more people will want to burn shit to the ground because they’re seeing their friends and family struggling with absolutely no help from a government that would rather bomb brown kids and bail out corporations and practice insider trading than help them out. They are having to choose to never have children and never own a home because of the status quo. Thinking voting in the same system that got us into this mess will fix it is naive. Should trump even be allowed to run if we were a real democracy? Should citizens get any say in if we’re perpetuating a genocide if we were a real democracy? If you think voting for biden will “save democracy”, you obviously think we have more time than we actually have.

Voting 3rd party is an answer to the wrong question. The question of “how do we fight off fascism” can’t be solved at the ballot box, and it can’t be solved by someone who refuses to treat threats of fascism harshly and swiftly or even help bolster defenses against it. Voting for someone who is trying their hardest to lose this election isn’t going to fix this. Voting 3rd party isn’t going to fix this. Being convinced that the government will be our saviors against themselves means you only need to be engaged in politics when it’s time to vote. Get to know your neighbors. Physically defend the most vulnerable against those who are willing to “just follow orders” from a fascist government (state or federal). Sabotage and protest and strike until the capitalists and government start bleeding money and are willing to operate in good faith. If you think that’s too much work, go ahead and vote for biden and blame leftists when he inevitably loses. Fascism is already here, but it might start affecting you soon.

It’s an easy decision to make if you aren’t the one tied to the tracks. Palestinian Americans are losing their families and flipping that lever will neither bring them back nor make the situation better. Not only that, but flipping the lever without any real change of action from the DNC just means they can just trust their base to overlook genocide again and again in perpetuity as long as republicans remain the worse choice (which will be always).

I was thinking more so if Trump won the election rather than succeeded the insurrection, but I’ll give you that. Fascists are gonna fascist. I just don’t see any way to stop creeping fascism so long as people are downplaying atrocities for the sake of damage reduction. We’re going to end up with fascism regardless since we’re doing nothing to prevent it.

If trump was president right now, democrats would be at least more harshly condemning his actions in Gaza because it wouldn’t be politically expedient for them to downplay their complicity in genocide to maintain their current level of comfort and power. Gotta keep that machine running no matter what, I guess.

Perhaps we should work to make sure no one is on the tracks instead of pulling the lever?

Progressivism is a marble on a hill. Either they roll to the right and join the liberals because they support and believe in an unjust hierarchical system as long as it’s sufficiently pinkwashed or roll hard left because they see the issue is the system itself

Someone is begging for his house to get peed on.

If you’re sitting around waiting for a Revolution, you’re still doing nothing but voting. You obviously think we have more time than we do. I don’t have much more time to spend on people who would happily vote for our extinction, so long as it’s a more comfortable ride.

You seemed to have not read my previous message where I explicitly said revolution. Protests, unless they stop the beating financial heart of a city by blocking highways (which quite a few states have passed bills considering this domestic terrorism), are largely ineffective.

Voting is also pretty ineffective at actually being democratic. Everyone seems to be voting against the worse option than an actual thing they want. Hell, Biden’s approval rating is worse than Trump’s. He’s either not doing a good enough job or isn’t good enough about lying about how good of a job he’s doing. Biden acted fast when it came to the rail worker’s union cutting off profits and he also moved fast when it came to Yemeni Houthis who interrupted a profitable trade route. He also acted fast when Silicon Valley banks were failing. On everything else, it’s “ho hum, the republicans won’t let me” or “I worked with the republicans on a climate bill which was named as if it took care of inflation, with the help of a ton of provisions that the republicans wanted on there”. If making surface level gains to the benefit of republicans is democrat’s goal, it seems like what’s “incrementing” is actually just democrats becoming more and more like yesterday’s republican but under a more pinkwashed flavor.

The US desperately needs a mass labor strike, but I fear that people are too amused with the increasingly-out-of-reach bread and circuses to act before it’s too late. Will we enter an era of fascism? Probably. And that’ll probably be the case even if Biden is re-elected. Voting isn’t enough if you actually care about how things are going. But it seems you’ve chosen your side in all of this, so I doubt I’ll ever be able to convince you that things desperately need to change- more than Biden would ever be able to accomplish.

Trump is an effect of this system, not an anomaly. Thinking that we can vote our way into a healthier system when this one works perfectly and increasingly well for billionaires and corporations who control how and what congress votes on is naive. If the system of law is so flawed that a person who tried to foment an insurrection ACTUALLY has a shot at being president again, it’s clear to me that we’re just living in some clown world where nothing we actually need to happen will actually happen without direct action.

Positive change is relative dependent on your status in society. Trans people are still afraid of their lives under Biden. Marginalized communities are still seeing their towns become polluted under Biden. Women’s rights are still being taken away under Biden. People are still electively dying because they can’t afford medical care without ruining their family. We have an issue in this country where a large number people are hurting so bad that they’d rather make someone else hurt than fix anything because they feel defeated. I assume a lot of them see trump as a sort of “well, my life isn’t going to get too much better regardless, but it’s fun making those people in that gated community squirm for a bit”. Do you think this issue goes away if trump can’t run for president? Do you think this problem goes away if Biden wins? We need more of a sense of community and we can’t get that if everyone is competing for table scraps and playing team sports with politics.

If half of the voters in this country are seen as enemies to the survival of democracy, what’s the end goal in solving it? Mass de-programming? If the shoe was on the other foot and they wanted to do a mass-deprogramming of you (or worse considering gun ownership) and everyone who thought like you, what sort of impact would that have on your opinion of them? They’re our neighbors who are hurting and unfortunately they’re getting all their outside perspective from propagandists on Fox News and OANN instead of actual people. And it’s not like liberals are without their propaganda either. No one is faultless. Instead of acting with kindness and understanding when the working class are having difficulties, there’s so much of “well, those stupid rednecks should’ve tried not being so stupid by getting into a coal career if they didn’t want their jobs and livelihoods to be ruined. Sucks for them. The world will breathe better without them in it”. And we wonder why they’re angry enough to vote for trump. Presenting Biden as the knight in shining armor so much that all the responsibility is removed from ourselves and any blowback from our political negligence can be waved away in a sort of plausible deniability is not the right way to incrementally fix things. It’s just a way to distance ourselves from the problems we have created.

Incentivizing companies to convert to green energy rather than punishing companies who poison our planet shouldn’t be praised. Yet again, tax payers are “bailing out” companies that introduce life threatening issues to our world caused by metastasized capitalism.

And I fully understand than any bumps in our energy production along a transition cause hundreds of thousands of people to die. It’s a big deal and requires a steady hand. That isn’t lost on me. But people are currently dying and enslaved to keep this system propped up, and that can’t be ignored. Treating our abusers with kid gloves when it comes to punishment isn’t something I’m going to celebrate. We somehow got VW to fund Electrify America due to their emissions scandal, but the issue is that polluting the world within the legal parameters is fine. It means we need to keep tightening parameters until every single mega corporation is paying for a functional and emergent technology for society to help reverse the harm they’ve caused.

If we’re going to keep going with this failed and exploitative system, we’ve got to create better standards of living for everyone. That means everyone has the ability to live a dignified life in a house they could afford with no food or job or healthcare insecurity. We’ve got to remove the legal act of prison to table labor. We’ve got to stop trading with countries and companies that use slave labor or labor under a living wage. We’ve got to ban for-profit prisons and for-profit public services. We’ve got to hold companies accountable in a real way. We’ve got to stop instigating insurrection across the world so we can sell weapons of war. We’ve got to stop funding genocides. We’ve got to bar lobbying from being legal. These are non-negotiable. If our politicians continue to side with our abusers and continue to be okay with murder, so long as it takes 20 years for the murder to reach its end, we do what America was founded on- revolution.