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fohat.digs:
Check this out, from the right side of the aisle.
https://www.adn.com/politics/2025/04/14/we-are-all-afraid-speaking-to-alaska-nonprofit-leaders-murkowski-gets-candid-on-upheaval-in-federal-government/
tp4tissue:
Humanity is hopeless. The center of that article is around the impact on the Fishing industry. The same fishing industry that's responsible for over 50% of plastic pollution in the ocean, (through discarded fishing nets). The same industry that has essentially caused one of the greatest extinction events of marine life. Estimates place 70-95% of all ocean sharks are gone.
Their lens is so focused on, Human livelihoods. Even at this moment they are completely blind to the catastrophe that is the Human enterprise. The holocaust every few minutes we commit against the natural world.
They talk about shutting down NOAA, as a bad thing, WHICH it is. But then, it reads, Oh without NOAA, how will Fishermen set safe-sustainable fishing targets. There is no such thing as sustainable fishing, with Drag nets. Every year the fishing fleet of earth, cull using drag nets an area the size of the United States (under water). Drag nets destroys the ocean ecosystem as it scrapes the bottom and mass kills all life.
So Fohat.dig is worried about republican vs democrats, this Republican senator is worried about Fishing.
All the while, nature collapses all around us in a mass die off.
To be clear, NOAA is very important. But not for fishing reasons.
tp4tissue:
-- Cuts of as many as 20,000 HHS staff upend public health research
-- FDA's program to improve bird flu testing in food also suspended
-- Suspension affects tests for Cyclospora in spinach, glyphosate in barley
-- Trump aims to cut $40 billion from HHS budget
So.... if you're eatn' ne birds. You know, just don't? But if you have to, wear gloves + gas mask, do it outside, then decontaminate.
tp4tissue:
Working-class white voters who’ve read a book in the last year are much more Democratic than working-class white voters who haven’t. -Nate Cohn (statistics)
So the democrat land owners by enslaving the population and destroying education to maintain "their own" slave wage force, shot themselves in the foot.
Well, there's your problem. /Chekm8
Democrats and Republicans might disagree on the surface about ideals, but they AGREE 100% on Capitalist Slavery.
To which Tp4 contends, they're the Same party. In America, there is the Very right wing Democrats, and the Extreme right wing Republicans.
The fact that the Democrats are a right wing party is unabashed and undisputed. The only unawares is in the working class.
In general though, if they were "really different", the actions say otherwise. For a long time, Democrats actually had the ability to codify many things on abortion/lgbt for many years, Democrats DIDN'T DO IT. They hung it out there to use as media fodder for the next election.
When Biden came in, he KEPT all of the Previous Trump Tariffs.
So there you have it. Pretty clear cut, Same Grifters, Different flags.
fohat.digs:
That's not surprising. I have read well over a thousand books in my life (and maybe over 2K) so the "left" is strong in this one, even though probably no more than 10% were politics and/or American History.
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