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1. Republicans refuse to enforce any environmental regulation on industries, no matter how dire the consequences. 2. Poisonous chemicals leech into air, soil,
by thebooktocome 4y ago
1. Republicans refuse to enforce any environmental regulation on industries, no matter how dire the consequences.
2. Poisonous chemicals leech into air, soil, water. Then they accumulate up the food chain. Humans are at the apex.
3. Synthetic hormones, plastics, and etc. decimate fertility.
If you’re concerned about population growth, you should support some degree of environmental regulation. Only one mainstream* party in the states gets you that.
* A mathematical consequence of first past the post voting systems is that the two largest parties are stable. Third parties only exist as unstable equilibria. If you desire a serious third party, you should also support election reform. . . which also means not voting Republican.
- ChickenNugger 4y ago[flagged]
- CuriouslyC 4y agoThe ironic thing is that HN is actually biased towards libertarians and bernie bros, it only feels like it's heavily democrat because those groups don't like a lot of republican policy either.
- uoaei 4y agoWhat's funny is that until now, many couldn't conceive of a distinction between Bernie bros and Democrats.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoBernie bros are pro social equity (income distribution fairness), pro education, pro drug law reform and anti-establishment, but also typically not into political correctness or D&I, and frequently either gun positive or gun neutral (schools excepted). They are mostly people who came under the democratic umbrella to support Bernie but often do not consider themselves democrats.
- ChickenNugger 4y agoI was a Bernie bro and now I'm a registered Pacific Green. Which means to Democrats online, I'm a Republican, and to Republicans online, I'm a Democrat.
- lostlogin 4y agoThat’s getting close to the famous ‘Reality has a well known liberal bias.’ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents%27_Dinner https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_...
- ChickenNugger 4y agoI mean if your perspective on reality is dominated by these companies it will definitely appear that way: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg But there's a whole world out there, and Trump winning in 2016 sure surprised a lot of people who believe that reality has a liberal bias.
- diag 4y agoTrump only won thanks to the electoral college, not because of democracy.
- ChickenNugger 4y agoEveryone who's candidate loses says this every single election, regardless of party. And the electoral college was a deliberate concession to the sparsely populated states where all the food is grown, as is the Senate. Because America is a constitutional republic, not a direct democracy. I don't know if this is still taught in school but I distinctly remember learning it.
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- thebooktocome 4y ago“Where all the food is grown” is a very interesting euphemism, I hadn’t heard that one before.
- lostlogin 4y ago