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I thought we already have the blueprint and technology needed for it. We just need a lot more public spending for these projects. Even China is already moving fast on this issue despite the immense amount of oil the country still consumes. Have you seen their big solar panel projects? panda-solar-farm.pdf

That's not entirely true. If we had a some kind of overwhelming movement like what happened with the civil rights movements, women's rights movement, or Gandhi's civil disobedience movement at a global scale then such activism could successfully enough leaders in power to force the world to transition to renewable energy much faster.

I can't move to another city until about two years from now. I am still mostly living off of my parents financially and even if I had enough money of my own did there's no way that I can afford to spend any time and money on moving out to find another house given the demands of my school program and other things I have going on in my life.

For the time being yes, but the world now has the ability to transition to renewable much faster now than it has been.

I don't know how I can when I live in a pretty small city with not many social events or other kinds of areas to meet a lot of new people.

In the grand scheme of things that is a valid, but even the loss of approx. 10 million people around the world would still be such a historic tragedy that could've been prevented had we acted soon enough.

I really don't like Cornel West wanting to run as a third party candidate for president. If he seriously goes through with his campaign, then he could very well cause Trump to be elected president again, by being a major left-wing spoiler in the 2024 presidential election, like how Jill Stein was when she spoiled the 2016 presidential election and caused Trump to become president back then. Same thing happened with Ralph Nader, when he spoiled the 2000 presidential election and caused Bush to be elected president back then. I also, don't like at all what RFK is doing either. He's undermining Biden's re-election chances by causing more the Democratic party to be more divided. If the entire Democratic party throughout the US does not completely unify together under Biden in 2024, then that may cause a significant amount of Democratic voters who voted for him in 2020 to either decide not to vote at all or vote third party. Biden can't afford to have that happen either in order for him to win re-election.

Apparently, a nation may not need to have minimum wages/salary laws that state specifically what the actual number or numbers should be reduce or prevent excess wealth inequality. The Scandinavian countries actually have no minimum wage laws like the US, Canada, UK, or many of the EU countries do. Yet, all of the Nordic countries have such good pro-labor union laws and strong labor unions that every employee in each of those countries are paid good fair living wages/salaries through excellent collective bargaining agreements. https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/wages/minimum-wages/setting-machinery/WCMS_460934/lang--en/index.htm

Right. That's what I said in my OP.

Have you watched his video on his health situation on his blog yet?

There have been plenty of moderate Democrats in America such as Obama, Biden, Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi, Tester, Kelly, etc. who have been all for improving our border security. Besides, progressives such as Kyle Kulinski and Cenk have also said that they support border security for America. How have the Republicans done a better job of actually fixing this situation themselves? As we all know, most of their policies or ideas are so unpopular and so archaic that they never worked. Plus, most of the Republicans in Congress either are simply too obstinate or have some kind of mental illness or are too dumb to serve in Congress. The GOP knows this deep down, but they just don't want to accept that and instead keep doubling down on blaming the Dems for every problem that happens in America. Trump's border policies btw were actually a net negative for America and didn't even really significantly improve the border security. He just happened to be president during an era of relative peace and prosperity which he inherited from Obama until he fucked it all up by the end of his presidency.

I've always been for strong border security, even as a liberal/progressive myself. In fact, the entire border security of the US absolutely needs a serious upgrade. Unfortunately, ever since the 1990s, the unbelievable amount of growing partisan gridlock and right-wing extremism in Congress hasn't allowed the government to provide Homeland Security the funds and resources it desperately needs to update and fortify all of our country's borders to optimal levels. In any case, it's true that they was an abnormal amount of illegal immigrants trying to cross over the southern border from early 2021 to early 2023. However, that has no longer been case since mid-May of this year. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/us/politics/immigration-illegal-border-crossings.html#:~:text=Illegal border crossings by migrants,said in a recent statement. If the number of illegal crossings per day go up during the second half of this year, then it will probably increase by only a small amount. Title 42 from the Trump administration was a failed border policy, whereas Biden's newest border policies have been much more successful with securing our borders. Plus, at the same time, the Biden administration has been doing everything within its power to significantly open more legal pathways for more immigrants. Also, given the US's historically low immigration rate since the 2010s, the country desperately needs Congress to pass some kind of immigration reform to allow the most amount of new legal pathways for many more immigrants who want to live and work in America. This isn't just about the idea that America is supposed to be a country that welcome all foreigners to work and live in our country or having compassion for foreign refugees. The US economy would be significantly larger and stronger and there wouldn't be a labor shortage if we greatly increased our immigration rate. https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2023/february/role-of-immigration-in-us-labor-market-tightness/#:~:text=The flow of immigrants into,in the U.S. labor force. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opinion/great-resignation-employment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/opinion/how-immigrants-are-saving-the-economy.html

Reagan and the Republicans in Congress passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill in 1986 and then passed another one during H.W. Bush's presidency in 1990. Each of those pieces of legislation consisted of provisions that both improved border security and opened more legal pathways for more immigrants. It's maddening that ever since 1990, the Republicans have committed to killing every single immigration reform bill presented in Congress instead of making any reasonable compromise with the Democrats on this very very important issue like they used to.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has been pushing his nation into an more autocratic ethnocentric nationalist country.

What if he just had bad luck? He approached only 8 girls. Also, cold/warm approach and the initial stages of dating these days has become rigged against men more than ever before.

We are now in the middle of a housing affordability crisis. The baby boomers during the mid to late 1900s had it much easier with being able to afford some basic housing. How do you reconcile the idea that no one is entitled to free healthcare with the fact that you've already talked many times before about how abhorrent it is that the US is still the only advanced country in the world that still doesn't have a universal healthcare system due to the corruption of the healthcare cartel and unchecked capitalism in America? Also, what about the fact that the poor, the working class, and the middle class have increasingly become victims of the growing economic inequality in the US due to neoliberalism? Most of these people are either barely able to live paycheck to paycheck or are not gonna make it due to a number of factors outside of their control. I don't see how all of these people out there in America who absolutely deserve better can ever live a comfortable happy life these days so long as neoliberalism continues to exist. Furthermore, it's getting harder and harder and harder for men to even get a mediocre gf or wife let alone get laid with or even date an attractive woman for most men than it was back before both the boom of the internet/media technology and the waves of feminism. Women are naturally pickier than men in the dating world. Online dating/dating apps, instagram/facebook, the third or fourth waves of feminism, etc. have all made women incredibly more picky than ever before. The fertility rates in western countries might very well decline to such unprecedented low levels that would seriously threaten both the national security and advanced economy of each and every first world country in the world. Moreover the violence from incels and aggrieved men could rise to such untold horrific levels. How about so many of the other kinds of crises that are still going on out there in the US that most Americans have tragically become victims of through no fault of their own? I fear that dark days may be ahead for Gen X, Millenials, Gen Z, and younger.

MTG just did Biden a solid by accidentally advertising Biden's achievements as being on par with many of greatest and most popular programs initiated and signed into by FDR and LBJ.

All he would need to do now to put Twitter out of business is to put two more Xs next to the first X.

The Biden administration, including his FTC team, has been implementing the most aggressive trustbusting and merger busting policies ever since the mid 1900s in order to try to reverse so much of the growing amount of excessive monopolies that have been occurring since the late 1970s to early 1980s. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-20/summers-says-tougher-us-m-a-rules-seem-like-war-on-business https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188353064/ftc-doj-merger-competition-guidelines https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/ftc-justice-dept-mergers-antitrust.html

Yeah! Lmao I mean I get that the point she was trying to make was that both FDR and LBJ were major "Democratic Socialist" presidents who immensely expanded the government with all of their major social and economic programs. However, she compared Biden to FDR, who was truly one of the 3 greatest presidents our country ever had, and LBJ whose Great Society domestic agenda was undoubtedly on the order of FDR's New Deal domestic agenda. Furthermore, EVERYTHING that Biden, LBJ, and FDR all did have ALWAYS been very popular policies. So, thanks a lot MTG!

It's the conservative boomers in America who make up the bulk of all of the true racists in this country. I can't wait until they all pass away into another world. Once they are all gone about 20 years from now, then I believe that progress for our country will happen at a much faster rate. That's what happen right after America transitioned from the Gilded Age into the early 1900s progressive era.

There's no doubt that the social/flirting skills of most guys, from about the latter half of the Millenial generation and Generation Z, these days have considerably atrophied in recent years. Girls from about the latter half of the millenial generation and Generation Z, have also had their social/flirting skills suffer significantly since about the early 2000s. This is due the rise of dating apps, video call technology, other online technology, and what have you.

Yeah, I like him too. He's definitely a very sensible kind of progressive.

Oh, I see. Have you tried an approach anxiety program before?

@PurpleTree Did you talk to them at all? I would've said something like "Hey ladies. I see you both have been checking me out. I get it. I mean what's not to like...." with a cheeky smile. Even if they lie about by being like "Oh, no sorry, we weren't......" Then right away say "Oh no, you don't have to apologize. Come on, I know you both have already been looking at me like a piece of meat and are right now trying to come up with a game plan on what's the best way to hit on me." You definitely want to say all of this in a cocky/funny manner. At the very least it will makes things fun for all of you in the interaction.