StinkyFingerItchyBum @ Thedogdrinkscoffee @lemmy.ca Posts 1Comments 281Joined 2 mo. ago
Just like the Dems in the US are infected with a captured opposition faction who run the DNC at its roots, the Canadian Cons are infected with WildRose/Reform which are just labels for Koch funded MAGA.
The Cons had their civil war, and the PCs of old lost. I think, despite this election being a rejection of that bullshit, the Cons will double down and double down again because its not grass roots based. It and Western Seperatism is just Koch funded propaganda because Koch is the guy who makes the money on the price differential between WTI and WCS. They will do anything to maintain the billions in free money they get. They fund MAGA the same way.
This is so true it hurts.
We need to see them have a civil war and reject the reform maga factions and bring back the Progressive Conservatives.
How does Lemmy differ? Are we architectually bot/AI resistant?
I really like Singh. He is a GOOD man. A GOOD leader. I want to be at a party with him in the room. But I agree, he wasn't the factor in his fate. The centre left sacrificed the NDP for the libs because of the US. Strategic voting worked. If they hadn't this would have been a conservative win. It's acceptable because the alternative is disastrous.
Singh's cuddlyness was probably trying to follow Le Bon Jacque's lead. Fluffy warm and cuddly via Layton got the NDP some big successes and bigger hopes until tragedy struck.
I'm more worried about the next election. A minority in a time of great struggle won't go full term. I give this around 3 years. The libs can't win the next, no one goes 5 terms in a row.
Lets assume the Cons take the next, and the NDP get a bounceback from extreme liberal fatigue. Does the NDP need Hope or Anger? I'm not sure, but we saw a lot of rural areas be two way con/ndp. These areas would probably respond to channeled anger. Flip a few blue to Orange.
They will replace him. He failed badly and no one thinks he can lead anyone but liberals to victory. ;)
How embarrassing. How embarrassing. I love it. That smug shit lost his seat. A great day for WOKE! LOL!
When you rape people, ostensibly even children on Epstein Island, you get elected president.
Sure, but don't let perfect be the enemy of better than that shit. We knew since David K. Foot Boom Bust and Echo that an aging demographic was going to strain healthcare.
I agree that Liberals and Conservatives are both too fond of privatization, cutting taxes and selling out. But I suspect we were always going to end up here regardless of party, even beyond the false dichotomy.
Begging them to stay dependant on Russian fossil fuels, thus under their boot.
Ha! No thanks. Russia's friends suffer more than their enemies.
Let's not get weighed down by dispelling antiquated definitions of energy transition.
An unsustainable system will transition to something else inevitably. It is hapening right now. The idea is not at an end. Its at the begining.
What's up for grabs is a constant string of decisions to change over time that lead to better and worse outcomes with associated tradeoffs. The outcomes are on a spectrum that arguably range from:
Today transitioning to Extinction of the human race and most of the ecosphere with it. (Collapse hardest)
To
Today transitioning to long term viability of the human race and most of the ecosphere with it. (Collapse softest)
Limiting the discussion of the causes of these outcomes to just energy, for the sake of conversation, we can define the conditions of those two outcomes.
The collapse hardest is BAU, a growth paradigm where we say the nice things develop new energies that only supplement the old, not replace, and keep a growth oriented framework in play. This follows the path of growth, overshoot and collapse. The system built was designed for a high civilizational metabolic rate, requiring a high eroei that can't be met when fossil fuels eroei of 100:1 are exhausted and a high energy system must suddenly live on ~ 3:1 eroei. It's a starvation diet, followed by atrophy and death.
The collapse soft version is where we use the time and resources we have to build a small degrowthed core of resilient civilization that can survive on a low metabolic EROEI of 3:1 like renewables.
Arguments about the energy transition often have naysayers pipe up with "there aren't enough minerals to electrify everything!" My response if you are correct. We can't and shouldn't try to electrify and renewable-ify the 8 billion plus people trapped in growth paradigm of high waste and high consumption. To try is to guarentee the collapse-hard outcome.
Metals are infinitely recyclable and we do have enough for a small sustainable civilization that lives within the planetary boundaries on renewables only. High efficiency, low metabolism and small enough to fit in the shoebox we call Earth.
Opponents and proponents of Nuclear also usually don't understand it's optimal use. First, let's accept that nuclear is just another non-renewable. Even with breeder reactors. Even with alternative fuels like Thorium and molten salts. Building those plants, mining those fuels, disposing those wastes don't fit in the EROEI paradigm.
Where they do fit, it in powering TEMPORARILY the transition of today to a smaller lower EROEI civilization. If we just cut fossil fuels today, magically we would just kill billions in the most unethical experiment. But using nuclear temporarily as a bridge from a non-renewable growth oriented civilization to a steady state, sustainable, renewable one is highly desirable.
The interesting part is getting past the money and power of the fossil fuel industry that will do everything in its power to fight this. Its lived values on display prove it only wants to die with the most money and power.
The documentary will be called
"Trump: how to kill a superpower"
But the ship didn't explode after a few light taps.
1,2,3,4
This is what you voted for.
Broken families, broken dreams
What comes next? SCREAMS!
1,2,3,4
I declare a trade war.
Planes stop, so do boats
Soon well be at each other throats!
our society isn't built to embrace recession yet.
Our society isn't built to survive either.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so very unlike your Christ.
-apochryphal
**Replication crisis intensifies
Half of infinity is still infinity, but smaller?
Can you hand me that spatula? I need to scrape my brains off the walls.
I really want to vote today, but I won't.
I already did ;)