LeftistLawyer

LeftistLawyer, 4 months ago to climate

Everyone: #Covid is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!

Everyone: The #ClimateCrisis is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!

Everyone: Lack of affordable #healthcare is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!

Everyone: The elite not paying their fair share in #taxes is killing us!
The elite: But the economy!

Everyone: The #economy is killing us!
Elite: Exactly 😏

#NoWarButClassWar

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago to random

Serious question, please boost for reach.

I’m a 50+ white male.

How many old white guys out there would be willing join a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to oppose old white guys in positions of power? How many people would be willing to provide financial support for the same?

Nothing like this currently exists in the U.S. and I think it could be a damn effective form of protest. Personally, I’m sick and tired of seeing old fucking white guys in power everywhere I turn. Am I an aberration?

Oh, and despite thinking of myself as a bit of wordsmith, I’m admittedly terrible at acronym generation. What’s a good name for an organization pursuing said mission?

#equity #EqualRepresentation #uspol #SystemicRacism

LeftistLawyer, 7 months ago to random

You know you live in a red state when you have to drive to a blue state to get your < 6 yr. old child an updated #Covid19 vaccine, because the red state pharmacist at Safeway tells you they didn't order any because they would wind up throwing 90% of them away.

And then you begin calling around for 3 hours and realize that nobody the vaccine.gov website says has the vaccines -- actually have vaccines.

And then you call corporate, and ask, "Well, if mRNA vaccine uptake is so poor, why don't you order Novavax"?

And the district pharmacy director asks you: "What's Novovax"?

And then you, a lawyer, has to educate a medical professional on health, safety, and demographic issues.

And then you give up and make an appointment in a neighboring blue state and your vaccine costs 10 times as much because you had to miss work and spend the gas money.

@red_state_insurgents

LeftistLawyer, 7 months ago to climate

This is the first thing I’ve seen from a major press outlet that even resembles a stick in the eye of conventional economic wisdom. And it is absolutely on point.

We must scream at the top of lungs, and shame any who dare, try to defend the conventional orthodox economic machine that is tearing our children’s future down around their ears. #FUCKNORDHAUS!!!

Please, I beg you, circulate this article as far and wide as you can.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #economics
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/

LeftistLawyer, 4 months ago to random

We witness cities having massive freak-outs over homeless encampments expanding, but no consideration as to the conditions in society that have created this problem. How do you not see this explosion in need and suffering and not think perhaps we are backing an incorrect and untenable economic system?

“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/late-stage-capitalism

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago to random

Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please!

https://newrepublic.com/post/172710/russia-build-safe-space-conservative-americans-move

LeftistLawyer, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Not a lot I can add to this except, it’s brilliant.

h/t Naked Capitalism
#covid #covid19 #airborne

LeftistLawyer, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

That's it ... I'm moving to Iceland.
#Trump

LeftistLawyer, 5 months ago to random

How to destroy the only known habitable planet in the universe:

Repeat ad infinitum to several generations of humans beings: "You can be rich if you're willing to work hard enough."

LeftistLawyer, 6 months ago to journalism

The #public doesn't understand the risks of a #Trump victory. That's the fault of #billionaires owning the #media and #politics.

With #democracy in the balance, the people must #boycott the billionaire captured press, and devise means of communicating important information unfiltered through billionaire interests.

Fixed it for you, Margaret.

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Three simple rules of thumb that’ll never lead you astray.

1. #BelieveWomen
2. #DoubtTechBros
3. #PunchNazis

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago to disability

Houston, we have a …
Is there a doctor in the house?
#covid #covid19 #disability

LeftistLawyer, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to climate

Can someone please explain why, on a planet with 5 billion too many people and #ClimateCrisis, declining birthrates are a problem?

I'm at a loss.
#economics #demography

LeftistLawyer, 8 months ago to random

If you didn’t already know — then this post is for you.

There is never a “good” side, or a “bad” side, in war.

The “sides” are billionaires, propped up by competing resource extraction rackets with big guns. So essentially, you’re rooting for one group of billionaires to prevail over another — and continue making your life miserable in a different way.

So please resist the urge to cheerlead for innocent people to die so billionaires can add a new private plane and yacht to their collection.

You’re smarter than that.

#NoWarButClassWar

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago to random

1. American media = Corporations.

2. Corporations are by nature sociopathic.

3. All that matters is money and so they stay where they continue to get the most reach for the buck.

Just that simple. Spreadsheet morality.

Full disclosure @StillIRise1963

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago to Law

#Originalism was never about #jurisprudence.

It's nothing more than a shiny excuse to suborn established #precedent and do what ever the fuck the #court wants.

#law #lawfedi #scotus

LeftistLawyer, 6 months ago to ai

Should #AI ever live up to the hype and actually achieve #sentience, I'm certain we worry so much about it killing us all in our sleep because we invented it.

If history proves anything, it's that humanity is adept at inadvertently killing itself, and professionally adept at advertently killing anything resembling an out-group.

In short, until we can trust that we don't constantly want to inadvertently kill ourselves, or give others suspicion that we constantly want to kill them -- we have no business inventing other intelligent forms of existence.

But, let's not hide the elephant in the room.

As soon as we do invent true artificial #intelligence, we'll immediately employ it to more effectively kill out-groups that don't have it. So, at the end of the day, if it turns on us and kills us all, we'd deserve it.

LeftistLawyer, 4 months ago to random

Imagine if lead were still in gas and the feds tried to make it illegal today.

Guarantee you conservatives would be straight up huffing the shit on Fox News.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307752/

LeftistLawyer, 7 months ago to random

#silentsunday

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago to random

Retreat is no longer an option.

LeftistLawyer, 2 months ago to Ukraine

This is a very important piece.
If there is any lemonade to be made of the lemon that is the #Ukraine war, it has to be exposing the #elite rot in the U.S.

They sold our industrial policy to enrich themselves and cripple the working class. They treated our defense capabilities like a casino.

They lord their superiority over YOU, while simultaneously ruling over the demise of our nation.

I despise them.
#uspol #NoWarButClassWar
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-and-western-systems-fatal

LeftistLawyer, 2 months ago to Economics

I think anyone following me knows I have serious problems with the field of #economics. It's little more than post hoc rationalizations for #power masquerading as #science

Well #AngusDeaton just dropped a shit bomb all over his fellow money priests.

A must read:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/03/12/nobel-laureate-economist-angus-deaton-capitalism-power/

LeftistLawyer, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to climate

Once upon a time a new species evolved that thought itself very intelligent.

But this new smarty pants species had a terrible blind spot. It couldn't figure out how to stop shitting in its own nest.

It wasn't a problem at first, because when the new species filled it's current nest with shit, it would just abandon the shitscape and start someplace new.

But soon enough, the new species covered the globe and had nowhere else to create new shitnests. The species wound up drowning in its own shit and went extinct.

There was much rejoicing from all the other species that had figured out how not to shit in their own nest.

They never thought the new species was very intelligent to begin with.

The End.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #uspol

LeftistLawyer, 2 months ago to climate

I’m beginning to get the distinct impression that leftists who care about the environment enough to do actually get off their ass and do something about it are a miniscule minority.

Most seem more interested in virtue signaling their love for humanity while we fill our nest so full of shit our children drown in a boiling vat of it.

And honestly, I think the IDPOL cancel culture just has a lot of people too scared to speak out for fear of being labeled an eco-fascist.

It’s crazy.

There won’t be any people to love in a decade or two if we don’t get our environmental shit together. And it is going to hit the marginalized groups the hardest, first.

We don’t have the luxury of choosing our battles anymore people. We ALL have to be #Class warriors. We ALL have to be #SocialJustice Warriors. And, we ALL have to be #EnvironmentalWarriors

#ClimateCrisis #Climate #SpeciesExtinction