Also: if you’re a white-looking US citizen buttonhole them and tell a very very long and pointless story. The more time they spend listening to you, the less harm they can do.

The racism and dictatorship were the important promises. The rest was just for suckers

I strongly recommend getting a fitting and spending some time riding with a local club. The former makes sure you’re comfortable, the latter can familiarize you with riding on roads and get you into better shape

This is very very different from anything the US has had since McCarthy

Pretty much anything more complex than a bicycle has that effect

With Flock and the airline data sales, its very difficult to protect offline privacy

The cuts already happened already. He is as-yet-undiagnosed

I think that’s a fairly small part of it. There were two big things that happened:

1. Scientists were able to show that the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer. This gets rid of the treatment/cure payment thing entirely.
2. Air pollution turned out to be a lot more harmful than people realized, which means that there’s a much stronger reason to get rid of combustion as a routine thing that happens, and Trump’s bribe-payers would be out a really huge amount of money if that happened.

To be fair, they’re also talking about lethal injection for unfavored groups

Its ok, they were born, so they must have sinned, and are therefore going to hell and not worthy of being cured. /s

Some basic data is here

And no, ‘go vote’ is not the only answer, but it needs to be one answer

Thats the Republican plan, more or less

Nah. Its about actually showing up because a quite large fraction of US environmentalists haven’t been doing even that

We’ve already taken meaningful action; we are on track for 3°C by 2100 instead of 4°C. Thats a big deal

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Billionaires and Presidents can very easily surround themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear.

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I don’t think everybody is clapping

The current regime thinks that anybody with darker skin than they have is a theat to the whiteness of the country. So they’re sending everybody with darker skin that they can to concentration camps

I expect that the people doing the redacting have a very good idea of who was a perpetrator and who was a victim