cooperativesrock

Woo hoo! Nice job and way to stick with it.

I saw one.

But the reason Tesla is different is that they don't work that way. For other car companies a rich family buys a franchise license and sets up "Jones Honda", Tesla isn't like that. Tesla owns the dealership and that makes their dwaler license different. With "Jones Honda" if they lose their dealership license, the Jones are SOL and Honda is just fine. With Tesla, they're all essentially "Musk Tesla" dealerships so only Tesla loses out.

And it's an open secret that doctors get kickbacks from the tests they order whether you need em or not. $800 out of pocket from an MRI that showed nothing? The dr gets a kickback on that cost. Harder to take them seriously if they're ordering useless expensive tests to line their pockets

Seconded! Larry David's satire was pure brilliance. Fawning over 47 is an insult to the 6 million

If they've seen Zootopia they don't get why the sloths work the DMV in that movie.

And you? What are you doing to resist? Shit on those who are trying?

Or they look like 70s or 80s movies of inner cities.

What they're saying is that the president isn't the only election and progressives and those further left rarely running for other offices is the problem. You don't just wake up one morning and decide to primary the top party choice with little to no experience and win. You build up, Bernie didn't just run for the nomination, he had a long record of successfully winning races in VT and was a known figure.

There are primaries and elections for school board, mayors elections, governor, state offices, state house and senate, congress, etc. This is where you build a movement, not president. The fact the the US Greens only trot out a presidential candidate every 4 years is how you know they're a spoiler and not a serious party. If they were we'd have greens running for all those other elections all the time, but they don't. We need a river of actual leftist politicians and we have like a handful of drops in a bucket.

Well, part of it is that almost every time I've said "The States" when asked that question in Europe they look at me like 'no shit Sherlock I'm not an idiot' and then ask where in the States. So it may be an efficiency thing for some. I still try to lead with the States as my answer.

I did. It seemed you were saying that the Earth day 1970 protest didn't do much to help the Earth. That isn't so.

The US EPA was created in July of that year and the Clean Water Act passed in 1972. Banning DDT for Ag in the US in 1972 brought birds of prey lile the Bald Eagle back from near extenction. They were supremely successful at getting legislation passed. The focus was toxic chemicals and pollutants, not climate change as that wasn't really on the radar then. So yes, the climate is in shambles right now, but it wasn't really part of their platform. They mostly got what they wanted from that march and activism then the urgency faded away.

That 3.5% number is of sustained engagement, not one and done. A single event with lots of people is the beginning of a movement. The work needs to keep going. But, the 1970s did see a lot of environmental progress.