Donald Trump offered to weaken climate regulations in exchange for a $1bn contribution from oil company bosses to support his return to the White House later this year. During a dinner for senior oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago club last month, Trump “vowed to immediately reverse dozens of president [Joe] Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted” if they gave him the money, according to the newspaper. One top priority for the executives, which Trump said they would get “on the first day”, was an end to the freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, the article notes.
This is one of the reasons why it’s disappointing to hear progressives and center-left people talking about not voting for Biden over his response to Gaza. There are literally thousands of other issues where a second Trump term would disastrous. Plus, Trump would be disastrous to Gaza as well. Makes no sense.
It’s worse than that. Even if by some miracle we make it out of a second round of Trump, the DNC isn’t going to learn their lesson. They didn’t learn it in the past when they lost, they aren’t going to learn it now. They’ll keep on doing the same thing they always do, maintain the status quo at the worst, and make limp progress at best.
The problem here is systemic to our election system. It’s not going to be solved by pissing away votes through 3rd party and protest votes. The DNC won’t give a single shit. The only way this gets solved is if we dismantle FPTP voting in this country, and push hard for election finance reform, and a ban on lobbying.
So in the end, it seems like a bunch of people are going to end up letting Trump slip into office, and it will be a disaster. Accelerationism only hurts people. It isn’t going to result in a utopia.
We gotta vote in every election and vote hard left when possible. And it’s gotta be millions of us.
Otherwise, we’re getting more of this. But I’ll keep doing my part.
Agreed. For what little it’s worth, I’m doing my part.
This is one bold example of the differences that matter in this election.
One side tells you directly how they will fuck you over.
The other side lies about how they will fuck you over.
They are both the same and will fuck you over.
Both sides might be bad, but one side is neoliberal and the other side is fascist, give me the neoliberals until we can dismantle the systems that allow both to exist.
i’m almost 100% sure you both sides people are bad faith actors because nobody can be that stupid. gtfooh
Bad faith my ass.
The entire system is corrupt. I trust none of them and they fact that people vote the lesser of two evils kinda proves what I’m saying.
You must support ranked choice voting then?
That would destabilize the two party system into more parties and more representation.
If not then I don’t understand your motivation.
If not then I don’t understand your motivation.
Some of them are true believers. Some are being edgy because they know it bothers people. Some are bad actors trying to convince others not to vote because not voting always benefits the Republicans.
You said that both parties are the same, but also that one is the lesser of two evils, which means that one is better than the other. So are they the same, or is there one party that’s better than the other?
“WAAH!! I can’t have the perfect candidate so I won’t participate and/or throw my vote away on a third party candidate, damning everyone in the process!!”
^that’s you
Brother you haven’t said anything except “both sides are the same” which makes your intentions real clear.
Yea… no. Trumps clearly fucking worse on the environment.
I never claimed one is better then the other. They all suck, the system sucks and bribes (aka lobbying) is to blame
Biden put rules in place to protect the environment. Trump will remove them. How is one not better than the other if the environment is important to you?
