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At left is a good topic for a lively discussion.  Two comments:

1) One presumes we’re talking about Americans here, even though our population is about 4% of the Earth’s total.  At this point in the U.S. decline into some form of oligarchy, the rest of the world has little to lose if Trump ultimately succeeds in turning the United States into something like Russia: a couple hundred million people, living in a country with a handful of billionaires, most of rest of whom are unhealthy, ignorant, poor, and hopeless.

2) Climate change, by contrast, doesn’t go out of its way to target Americans.  Like the dominion of Trump, however, it does inflict its pain disproportionately on the poor.  Rich people in each of the 200+ sovereign countries on the planet will continue to experience minimal harm due to the effects of global warming.  As bad as things are likely to get on this planet for the many, there will always be good things available to those who can afford them: Ivy League educations, fancy cars, fabulous real estate in what remains of the world’s habitable regions, the planet’s most attractive sex partners, and fine steak dinners.

Of the Threats that Face Us, Which Will Get Us First?

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Banning Drag Queens from High Schools

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Prioritizing the relative importance of addressing America’s social woes is, to be sure, an inexact science.

Our war vets are living on the streets, dying of preventable diseases.  We may never another free and fair election.  Clean energy, which was once making significant progress in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, is being shot to ribbons by the current presidential administration.

But goddamn it! We need to start solving problems that don’t exist, like drag queens in our schools.

Banning Drag Queens from High Schools

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OMG! College Students Are Protesting??

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College students have been protesting en masse against U.S. aggression abroad and suppression of human rights domestically since the 1960s.  These institutions and their students cite “free speech,” as guaranteed by the First Amendment, as the basis for this basic American right.

Now, with the stupidification (my word) of this nation, this has suddenly become controversial.

OMG! College Students Are Protesting??

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Is Bullying a Bad Thing? Not if We Want a Society of Brutality

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Does this guy have a solid point?

Is war a bad thing? What about rape and torture?

Do they point to weaknesses that must be strengthened?

Is Bullying a Bad Thing? Not if We Want a Society of Brutality

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