contrario said:
Jinx 2 said:
contrario said:
I don't even know where to start with you partisan nuts. I've got nuts to the left of me and nuts to the right of me. All of you are hypocrites when it comes to your outrage and you all look like fcking morons trying to be critical of the other side.
It's not partisan to want coordinated international action to ensure the future viability of the planet. It's common sense.
Unfortunately, only one party in the United States currently even acknowledges that, Houston, we have a problem. I believe that will continue until parts of Houston are underwater year round.
It'll be interesting to see how Australia responds to its awful summer. My guess is that climate change will become a bigger political priority because people are tired of watching it happen and watching the government ignore it.
Here is the thing Jinx, and deep down you know it's true: you would disagree with whatever Trump did and agree with whatever a democrat did. So you will play this expletive game and so will republicans and the ones in the middle holding our hands up in despair will continue to suffer because you partisans will keep blaming the other side while nothing actually gets fixed.
You aren't in the middle. Saying you are doesn't make it so. Where do you have any substantive policy disagreements with Republicans? Here's a litmus test. You don't "believe in" climate change = you are a Republican in this political environment.
Please don't speak for me.
I've stated, clearly and numerous times, that my major policy issue is climate change. That threat is so grave that it overshadows every other political issue out there. As long as Republicans across the board continue to deny science and, thus, opt the United States out of any meaningful conversations on policy with other nations (since this is a global issue), I will support Democrats.
If and when any Republican steps forward to acknowledge what's happening and that we need to be part of a global effort to mitigate the worst possible outcomes, I'll be all ears. But I'm not optimistic, and that certainly won't happen under Trump's leadership.
What baffles me is that climate change is a HUGE economic threat. If Republicans are (supposedly / ballooning deficit) the party of fiscal responsibility and private corporations are now assessing the impact of climate change on their business models, how is it fiscally responsible to ignore an issue that threatens to wreak economic havoc worldwide?
There are obvious disagreements among Democrats on various issues = why we have umpteen candidates, ranging from moderates like Biden and Buttigieg to those whose policies are more liberal (Sanders and Warren). I took a Washington Post quiz and it turns out the candidate who fits my policy positions best is...Michael Bloomberg.