I sincerely hope all this organizing you are clearing doing is going to help. I will pitch in as I can, truly. You can insult me as much as you want, and if you are successful, I will be the first to admit I was wrong. However, from where I am standing we are much more worse off. Maybe that is what you want. It is clear to me, that a lot more people are going to die and even more are going to suffer.

I’m not on any high horse. I’m down here covered in filth. I am not proud to have voted for Kamala, but I’m frustrated that she lost. I’d much rather be getting lectured at that she isn’t doing enough, and no one be talking about USAID, and trans people, women, etc all fearing for their future.

Life is complicated. We have to tell ourselves stories to get through it. I viewed voting like a trolly problem. I chose Kamala because I viewed it as the least harm I could do in that situation. You did what I view as refusing to pull the lever. Both situations result in harm. I am not ok with that harm either way, and I recognize my culpability. Do you recognize yours?

There is a guy in power right now giving Nazi salutes, stripping lifesaving aid from tens of millions of people, advocating for ethnic cleansing, and a whole lot more. I voted against that and I’m the Nazi? Fuck you.

I am not pretending Democrats weren’t peices of shit. I have no delusions about that. I am operating under the reality that Americans, the people in Gaza, and most of the world, is in a much worse situation right now because you decided to take a moral stand against the person more likely to help, to be influenced by protests.

Are you protesting what is happening right now? I know a lot of vulnerable people can’t.

They voted their conscience? So they wanted ethnic cleansing? That is what they voted for. There was never any doubt what Trump stood for, what he was going to do.

Can you honestly blame people for being frustrated that’s this super hardline approach is what we got when people claimed to want something else then voted against their interests?

Same with supporting the working class. With wanting to end corruption. All these things people claimed they cared about then turned around and voted in Trump. It’s maddening.

Go shove your blue maga bullshit. It is absolutely ridiculous.

I’m listening to some of the claims he’s making in here and it’s ridiculous. “Oh it’s such a fresh take”… Naw man, that’s Djent.

Sure glad we didn’t elect Kamala.

Move where? With what resources?

40% of people live near a coast. In the US that represents 10% of the land area.

Altadena is not living in the woods. There is not a Forrest there, yet it still burnt down.

There are blizzards in the south currently.

I don’t know the stats, but I’m guessing we are going to see more and bigger tornadoes in the middle states.

Soon the only place people will live are in Caves of Steel

Go to the wedding. That is a really big deal. After that don’t engage with him on politics. Maybe don’t engage at all. Show up for birthdays and maybe a holiday or two. Do the ‘quiet quitting’ of family interaction. You aren’t going to change their mind. I’ve been trying for 20+ years and it’s just gotten worse.

That seems like an incredibly dumb idea.

Capping rent makes more housing less likely. Are you suggesting government built housing?

Not allowing one or two private equity firms to own a lions share of the market would help.

Clip article is referring to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7wcU4W4tDE&t=0

Especially since it isn’t true.

Current firefighting techniques allow fires to take their course in unpopulated areas. Since we are a fire safe community we all have defencable space. The son of the folks at the top of the hill is a wildfire fighter. We know the risks and minimize them. Hell a couple of Teslas burned up and the fire was contained. Due to their batteries it probably took longer to put out than anything that grows around here.

You pretend like insurance companies know best, and ‘market forces’ are these perfect righting forces. I call bullshit.

I live in a ‘high risk area’ e.g. not a paved hellscape. We are a fire safe community.
https://cafiresafecouncil.org/resources/map-of-fire-safe-councils/

My father built the house in 1981. Everyone in the community has been paying insurance premiums for 40 fucking years and because PG&E didn’t do necessary maintenance on their lines in paradise, the insurance companies have been pulling out.

SISU!

The should is doing a lot of lifting in that statement.

On a TOTALLY unrelated note History Civilis did a really interesting video on the July Revolution

Something to keep in mind. Entering the country without documentation is a misdemeanor. When people are fleeing political persecution they can’t get the appropriate paperwork.

A lot (not all) of these people come in and turn themselves in. The policy is (was?) recognize that minor documentation issue and let them stay while it gets resolved. In that manner yes they were accepted, if only temporarily, while their documentation problems are resolved.

I don’t think these are licensed.

Why Sacramento though? I would have thought LA county, or Yolo county.

Yes, and you can can have sympathy for one person without having to care for everyone too.

I think the “do this for every disabled person” in the OP is… Bullshit. Reminding people to funnel some of that sympathy to other, closer people where you can have more impact in their lives is reasonable, but the sentiment here is condescending.