All that’s left are tears at the reality, or laughter at the gallows absurdity of the reality.

The US is trying to keep these tiny ones out because they want you you buy their big gas vehicles or larger, more expensive electrics. Larger vehicles consume more resources, take more to produce, and even large electric vehicles draw more from the dirty grid than a small personal conveyance like these designed to move you and your groceries.

And that’s a strawman to infer that our self-destruction hinges on this single point. This is yet another example on the heap of the larger problem. “it might hurt short term PROFITS for our greed mongers, so we won’t allow something that might begin to mitigate the scale of the problem.”

That said, it sounds like you agree with them, and if that’s the case, I have good news, they’ll continue to get their way in every economic sector, and yes, cumulatively, our species is paying and will pay an even greater price for allowing blind, insatiable greed to make every decision.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/mexico-central-america-us-heatwave

If we cared about having a future for the species at all, Humanity’s only mission right now would be to END the global economy’s jihad of growth/metastasis, every major nation would institute child limits, and we would work to end consumerism and find homeostasis/equilibrium instead for the sake of our very survival, because this reverse terraforming we’ve done in decades will take millions of years for the earth to heal from. That’s nothing to Earth’s 3.8 billion year old story of life, but it might as well be eternity to our short term monkey brains.

But as common economic decisions like this demonstrate, we have decided to burn the future so as not to disrupt the reckless party of avarice and gluttony for our owners today. Is what it is.

Thats a new spin to me. The only thing monopolies secure is their own existence.

Because “free markets, competition, being voluntary” are propaganda by capitalists using their owned media and purchased government to make its victims double as it’s defenders.

The goal of market capitalism is to end competition, manipulate the markets to your advantage using anything from bribery to cost benefit analysis of potential consequences to potential profits, and conspire with your economic sector to coerce the workers you need into accepting less.

This is just expanded indentured servitude with a marketing team.

Capitalism is clearly going to death us first.

The Earth is 🔥burning🔥, by our own hands, and we’d still rather play team sports for greedy sociopaths than prioritize even doing it a little slower with cheap EVs.

The Earth will heal in a few million years once we’ve destroyed ourselves. ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Unfortunately, despite the fact I agree with you this court is illegitimate, and would add our entire government is illegitimate due to the capitalist’s capture of it and legalization of their bribery of incoming officials, these illegitimate rulings will be enforced by our captured government at the point of a gun, and for this I blame the framers for failing to put any reasonable checks, including term limits, on the judicial branch.

They’re a product of unrestrained Capitalism capturing its own government and accompanying regulators. This was the inevitable outcome of “turning the bull loose.”

Short term profit > the needs of the many and the long term habitability of this planet for all future humans.

Who cares about our species’ future? Bezos’ support mega yacht for his mega yacht needs a support support mega yacht to keep it company!

I’m sorry, but again, jim crow.

Our most revered eras of prosperity, except the 90s, were so prosperous on the backs of a massive, racially determined underclass supporting it and not benefitting from it with no other options. They never even had well funded schools worth the defunding that’s happened to the rest since then.

And once a lot of people died getting rid of that, the owners decided fuck all the peasants, leading into today’s economic despair.

Also rock and roll was derived from African American music, and was just another thing Americans stole from their underclass to benefit themselves.

And prior to us getting attacked, there were a metric ton of powerful Americans who sincerely dug the Nazi’s style, including Henry Ford, who manufactured war machines for both sides, and is still held up to children as a titan and pioneer of American entrepreneurship because he made a lot of money and facilitated more profit for other capitalists, all that matters here, so who cares what he supported ideologically amirite?

🔥🇺🇸🔥

I’d say we had a nice run, but considering genocide, slavery, highly selective voting populations, Jim Crow, Union Busting, supply side economics, citizens united, etc… No we didn’t.

We weren’t even some benevolent saviors in World War II despite the constant crowing, we had our pacific fleet destroyed so we fought back. The war came to us, we were practicing eugenics prior to WWII.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26322647/

Israeli warmongers like Netanyahu perverting what it means to “learn from history,” and dishonoring the struggles of those that came before him by taking on the methods of those that tried to snuff them out.

The lack of self-awareness is darkly cartoonish.

My standards for my country are incredibly low, I just wish everyone would acknowledge that we are a people who don’t care that our kids shoot our kids regularly.

Instead we have everyone playing pretend it’s a tragedy when it happens despite changing nothing since the last one perpetually a few days ago. Bullshit. Our inaction tells a different story. If we cared, we’d force our government to change it, and considering the severity of the problem, with revolution that’s necessary because anything short doesn’t work. Australia woke up in response to kids killing kids, so fuck this sociopathic cesspool with a cactus for failing to.

Here in America, we consider it normal for kids to kill kids, baseball got boring and we realized Apple pie was too carby, so we spectate our children blowing each other’s brains out. Its who we are, world, balls to bones. Measure us accordingly, because we all know we’ll bullshit our kids that are left into believing there is no problem, so I’m grateful the perverse absurdity of our “society” is being recorded elsewhere. 🤷

If you force the peasants to stayed paired off and breed, especially in desperate, abusive conditions, they will produce the best kind of exploitation livestock for our glorious capitalist owners: the desperate kind that tolerates any abuse.

I mean, the nice thing about screwing this up is that you’d be dead before you ever realized you screwed up.

What a lovely metaphor for the self-created doom our species is sleep walking towards.

We’re patient zero for the world’s current greed disease.

Not only won’t we go along, our purchased government will internationally war against this. Never forget we destabilized tbe South American continent a government at a time to keep their markets open for capitalist exploitation.

TODAY THEY LEARNED FACEBOOK IS CITED AS A FACTOR IN 20% OF US DIVORCES!

Tots and Pears.

Covid kind of disillusioned me to the whole “all humanity needs is a common enemy/suffering to get right” concept.