Yes.

If it’s a slog to get to phase two, practice phase one more or change your build to do more damage.

You do know that hunger and malnutrition in the US impacts millions of people every year, and Cuba has eliminated food insecurity for its entire population, right?

If not, now you do.

It’s not the French Revolution because the French Revolution can only happen the once. History doesn’t repeat, but it can rhyme.

Thanks for explaining to me something I already clearly knew given I gave you specifics about the French Revolution, very appreciated.

Not gonna apologize cause I didn’t “push” maoism. I’m just asking for people with “left” politics to identify an ideological framework that resonates with them and then apply it to their lives instead of complaining about the right and begging capitalists for crumbs. If that’s anarchism, great. If that’s ecosocialism, great. If that’s maoism, great. Anything is better than identifying as a “leftist”.

So, a Republican is a leftist?

Get a coherent ideology. Identify with something other than vague gesturing to better policies.

That’s again vague enough to apply to some Republicans.

Or was coherent for the French Revolution, but we aren’t currently undergoing the French Revolution. Also, not aware of a “leftist” party or organizing body from then. Were they the Jacobins, or the Feuillants?

Not trying to insult anyone.

Asking people to have coherent ideology beyond a few policy points. Something that has a worldview that is looking beyond the next election cycle.

What the fuck is a leftist.

Be a communist or a socialist, a syndicalist or an anarchist, a maoist or a ecosocialism, but don’t be a fucking “leftist”. Be something with a defined ideology, legitimate theory, and history of practice.

Leftists are just Democrats who want to seem to not be Democrats.

Yep, fine with the justified homicide of klansmen.

Why does Daphne need to have visible nipples in this?

Caddy took an afternoon to figure out and setup, and it does your certs for you.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/carmakers-switch-to-electric-vehicles-strain-supply-of-battery-minerals/

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/mineral-requirements-for-clean-energy-transitions

https://thebulletin.org/2024/04/one-problem-for-renewables-not-enough-rare-earths-one-solution-recycling-but-theres-a-hitch/

We aren’t doing the recycling necessary to reclaim used materials from ewaste that is needed. While we may “have enough” materials to build enough renewable energy to meet our current needs initially, those materials will eventually need to be replaced, and unless we degrowth the energy output we currently need to be met will only grow. Those materials are only going to get harder and harder to extract, requiring higher and higher fuel consumption as those minerals aren’t located in urban centers with easy access to the electrical grid, they will require higher and higher fuel consumption for ICEs, internal combustion engines.

This also isn’t considering the continued growth in consumer electronics and the integration of electronics in public and private infrastructure that use those same minerals taking those minerals away from the use in renewables. Then there is the damage to the environment and people that mining those minerals requires, nor the damage that recycling ewaste does to the environment and people.

Without a socialist revolution in the core capitalist countries (global north), the continued growth is going to mean that they will consume the majority of rare earth minerals for both products and renewables, while pushing the impacts on environment and people onto global south countries, until they either refuse to do the damage to themselves or collapse under the strain of climate change, or both. In turn, that will mean a global shift to fascism as capital seeks to protect itself at all cost. Which then will lead to climate wars, over resources, and denying those to people outside the global north.

Renewables are part of the solution, but without socialism and degrowth to consumption levels of that of Cuba, the focus of renewables as the only solution is a pipe dream.

Read How To Blow Up A Pipeline, or Socialist States and the Environment.

It needs to be this exactly. We need degrowth.

There aren’t enough rare earth minerals on the earth to create the necessary equipment for solar, wind, etc to meet our current energy needs. The answer isn’t just green energy, we need to actively contract the size of the economy and make less shit that we then throw away.

And the Nazis.

Read 10 Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe.