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Of course they are. If they wait long enough someone else (US taxpayers) will foot the bill while the banks pocket an extra 30-50y of boosted profits.

This is the stance the vast majority of US companies are taking. Climate mitigations cost money, but if businesses ignore the problem long enough (while pocketing money that could be used to mitigate damage) it'll become a crisis that only the government can handle. At that point the US taxpayer is on the hook for all of those costs.

That's the entire purpose of climate denialism - if the problem is pushed off long enough someone else will be forced to pay and good fucking luck clawing any of that money back.

CR has been on my retirement radar for a while. It remains to be seen how viable that thought is once global warming and sea level rise really ramp over the next 20-30y.

I mean, wouldn't you if the rake handle had huge bags of cash tied to it? They'll always step on the rake but they're practiced enough that they only get hit in the face occasionally.

The last time a 3rd party candidate had an actual shot (and it was a looooong shot at best) was in 1992 when Ross Perot ran. He split the R vote badly enough that it handed the election to Clinton.

So long as we're using first past the post a 3rd party candidate has a vanishingly small chance of doing anything other than helping elect the opposition.

Well, yeah. Welcome to working for a tech billionaire.

I take daily work log notes in obsidian, then transclude chunks from those notes into topic notes and attach config files, images, context from the web, etc.

Progressives do want better, but the moderate faction, who don't post on Lemmy, is much larger and they think genocide is keen. If all the progressives unimously said we won't vote for a Democrat that supplies Isreal, it might not have even had an effect on her platform, we'd just get Trump. The moderates have more money and REALLY support genocide.

I think the problem with moderates is that they're not even really aware that the Gaza genocide is happening. Moderate voters are like ostriches, if they're diligent at ignoring world news none of the bad stuff is really happening or it's all just alarmism. Never underestimate how astonishingly willfully ignorant American moderates are.

People are extra sensitive about Harris/Israel criticism because of the extensive "don't vote for genocide!" astroturfing campaigns flooding social media to discourage left voter turnout in swing states. This is going to be a fucking close election and anything that even obliquely discourages left voter engagement is going to get side eye until we're past the election.

Also, re: Israel:

That's our Israel foreign policy in a nutshell and we really should do better. Hopefully once the Kissinger fans all die out we will.

Decimation means killing 1/10th of a group or population.

And he doesn't give a shit. Subscribers don't matter, control of a well known paper that will push his interests does.

What do you think about China's Uighur genocide?