Nah, there's more than enough innocent people suffering under Putin's theocratic fascism already.

Way to focus on the important parts 🙄

panics and casts his cats in the lead roles

Emily and Charlotte weren't thrilled either..

I'm pretty happy with my casting for the rest of the Republican party, though:

As a big bearded guy FROM a Nordic country, sure does.

You don't know what you're talking about

False.

You don't have any idea who I vote for

Can't know for sure, but based on your statements, there's a very low probability that you only vote for the few politicians that DON'T receive legal bribes from fossil fuel interests.

or my positions on energy

Not possible unless you were being unclear or just blatantly lying.

You've made a number of completely baseless assumptions about me.

Nah, I've made a series of educated guesses based on seeing the same exact arguments hundreds if not thousands of times before

Always by people who oppose the solutions that actually work for subjective reasons but want to pretend that change objectively just isn't feasible.

Yeah, don't you? It's always good to have a jar of spares, just in case you want to go to the Olympics for the third time!

Yeah. Election sharks should be used for defensive purposes only.

Stop, Adam. Let her express herself.

The state’s high court acknowledged in its ruling that abortion and gender-affirming care “are distinct types of medical care,” but found the law does not violate Nebraska’s single-subject rule because both abortion and transgender health fall under the subject of medical care.

Time to introduce my Viagra & Assisted Suicide bill

I especially like this one 😄

The thing is, we can't just immediately turn off all the coal and natural gas power plants

No, but they could be completely replaced by a combination of renewable energy production and would have been if not for people like you making excuses for sticking with the deadly status quo.

all the diesel and gasoline powered vehicles

There's literally no vehicle that can be powered by diesel or gasoline that can't be powered by an electric motor.

So, we have to keep producing fuel for those machines so long as they remain in use.

And if it was up to you, that would probably be forever.

that's just not happening, at least not very quickly.

It would have happened decades ago if not for luddites like you.

And, sure, many, many solar and wind farms have been built over the past several years, but those two energy sources only account for about 6% of our total energy consumption.

Because people like you keep voting for politicians who are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industries and thus only a fraction of the possible production is realized.

The non fossil fuel machines and equipment just aren't being adopted quickly enough, and in some sectors, like air travel, non fossil fuel alternatives just don't exist yet

Again, because of luddites like you standing on the brakes as the world burns.

What this means is that fossil fuel consumption is going to remain for the foreseeable future.

The tens of millions of people killed in the next decade or two as a direct result thank you and people like you.

On the plus side, they didn't invade Hawaii on behalf of United Fruit (now Chiquita) and apparently let Canada have Alaska.

Swings and roundabouts, as the Brits say 🤷

Also, the white guy covered in dessert is presumably an ally there to show solidarity and, judging by the size of him, also physically protect them if necessary.

Screw being charitable towards that guy, he's bald!

/j, in case there's any doubt

Yeah! As a youth, there's nothing that excites me more than quarterly projections!

Ask a random person on the street to name 1 cycling team, they wont be able to do so

In the US, sure. It's very big in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, though.

Ask them to name 10 football teams and they will do that with ease

Probably

And most of them will be arab owned

That's a whataboutism. That Arab countries sportswash doesn't mean that Israel doesn't.

The scale is not the same

The scale is irrelevant. Sportswashing is sportswashing whether it's one cycling team or the entire American and Saudi leagues suddenly being filled with superstars from European clubs.

Maybe you are an american and you arent aware what has happened to european football teams.

I'm not and I'm very much against sportswashing no matter who does it.

Israel is a very divided society. They have extremely conservative religious people and super liberal ones. You cant force change like that, change takes time.

I'm talking about the Israeli government coalition, which has full control and consists ONLY of theocratic fascists and less religiously motivated fascists.

They're the ones in charge of denying LGBTQ+ people rights, they're the ones in charge of committing daily atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank and they're the ones in charge of the Hasbara gaslighting you've fallen for.

The same can be said for KSA

You're going to defend Saudi Arabia too, now? Yikes! 😬

I am sure there are plenty of saudis who are kinda liberal and dont really care about oppressing gay people and women.

Yes, but they're not in charge so they're not the ones we blame for the atrocious actions of the Royal family and their representatives.

I dont expect MBS to give women freedom to do what they want, i know that isnt feasible in today's KSA

He's an autocratic monarch ffs! If he wants it, it happens no matter how little the clergy likes it.

And while this is a huge issue, it is mostly out of KSA's leadership hand

No, it isn't. Stop covering for the barbaric regime.

At least Israel has democracy, which is a big achievement

Democracy for some but not others isn't real democracy. Did you consider Apartheid South Africa a democratic country?

which is a big achievement

Not really, no. It's the norm for rich modern countries, which Israel is. You might as well give them credit for having trains or public swimming pools.

Even if it is only for its jewish population.

So you're fine with an Apartheid ethnostate so long as the people who belong to the right ethnicity/religion get to help decide who abuses the others?

Doesn't sound like you care about democracy that much, if at all.

And it is the only democracy in the area

Nope. That's also pure Hasbara gaslighting used to excuse the daily crimes against humanity committed by the fascist apartheid regime.

Funnily enough, the other state that had somewhat democracy in the area was Syria. Hence the syrian protests, etc. Egypt also almost became democratic, but the West didnt approve a muslim government, hence the government was overthrown

Pure Islamophobic propaganda.

Except for the part about the US, which is also wrong but not Islamophobic. As much as the US loves overthrowing democratically elected governments, this one was the Egyptian military acting alone.

KSA does not have democracy

So you ARE capable of saying true things! Bravo!

its rulers are naturally very insecure about their regime

On the contrary. It's the fact that they have absolute power which is not threatened that allows them to act with such impunity.

They need local and foreign support.

They have full local control already. There's like a thousand princes ruling their own smaller fiefdoms, all subservient to MBS.

As for foreign support, they have no problem buying that with oil, money, and sportswashing.

Just like Israel gets foreign support by buying politicians, sportswashing, and the biggest propaganda operation since the cold war if not ever.

Father Time and the Orange Rage Demon sounds like a great B-movie, though 😄

That's the only way that democracy is not in imminent danger.

If fascism is only beaten by the same tight margin that more sane and humane (but still neurotic and cruel) conservatism was for the second presidential election in a row, that means that the second largest party in the richest and most powerful country in the world being a fascist party has become the norm rather than just an unusually persistent aberration.

Anyone who's going to vote for the Mango Mussolini has already decided to and nothing can convince them not to.

Likewise, everyone else who's ever heard of him would never in a million years vote for him.

Contrary to the perennial Dem election strategy Plan 1992, there's hardly any undecided voters. The only ones who truly are undecided have deliberately not followed politics for the last 8 years and are unlikely to vote.

So yeah, he already has all the votes he's going to get and won't lose any. Let's just hope that he's wrong about having enough to eke out an EC win.

you aren't wrong, just an asshole