Skinhn [they/them,any]

You'll have to jump on Google scholar for the source, sorry.

I haven't watched the video but did try to read some of his arguments and he seems borderline ecofascist from what I read. Obviously negative emissions technology does exist, even if it's harnessing natural processes otherwise Earth would look like Venus. On the ecofascist claim (apologies for the fucked PDF text:

Meanwhile, in an Indian village where my offset money has helped to fund a wind turbine, the villagers now have the (low-carbon) electricity to watch television, which provides advertisers of a petrol-fuelled moped with more viewers, and customers. A fuel depot follows, to meet the new demand, and encourages others to invest in old trucks to transport goods between villages. Within 30 years, the village and surroundings have new roads and many more petrol-fuelled mopeds, cars and trucks. Meanwhile, the emissions from my original flight are still having a warming impact, and will do for another 100 years or so.

Looking forward to growing some mango and pineapple for that sweet nature mutual aid

The cost of deploying enough shitty and highly expensive CO2 scrubbers to reach net emissions is only ten percent of global GDP. The only challenge is a lack of political will which will increasingly erode as things worsen.

The doomer narrative is certainly promoted to shore up eco fascism and to stop people demanding change.

And they are a rapidly developing state as well - many western cities were blanketed in smog as late as the 70s, and recent policy changes (e.g. in recycling) demonstrate an aspiration for cleaner production.

And it's important to note current western levels of consumption reflect significant planned obsolescence and lack of repairable consumer goods, absolutely disasterous urban planning, a high level of intensively farmed goods, etc.

Thanks for linking, looks like extreme lib shit

You say right wing talking points, but surely there is a leftist take on the Hunter Biden corruption?

More on this?

Julia Gillard, former Australian prime minister, had a policy proposal to shift our small island camps for children to paying Malaysia ~1 million per refugee they took. The talking points are actually that the government is trying to reduce the number of deaths of asylum seekers coming to Australia...

There's some liberal technocratic scheme where you can get ten sessions with a psychologist/psychiatrist with a mental health plan from a GP (currently 20 from covid).

110v failed state

While I think this is fair, I think there's a level of critical support required, or even a degree of critical neutrality - at absolute worst someone might argue China is as bad as western imperial countries, but most of us don't live in China but those western countries.

She interned for Kerry, so 'sold out in such little time' is probably too generous.

The cancer association is very real. The same types of human papilloma virus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer also cause oral cancers. IIRC the number of non-cervical HPV-related cancers was higher than cervical HPV-related cancers.

The cervical cancer vaccine (e.g. gardasil and the other ones) would prevent it if given prior to HPV infection.

This articulates a general feeling of unease I've had with these really well, thanks.

No it's doubling down, as in not only do westerners chest on exams and lie on their resumes, literally this fucking guy complaining about 'chinese cheating culture' or whatever writes that he is also cheating exams - but they pay him so he can't even conceptualise how he could be doing the wrong thing

I am too tired to make that make sense in the same sarcastic tone as your original post

The poster readily admits to taking money to help them cheat

I mean she's not even saying she would abolish ICE how people understand that, she wants to replace it a more civil INS-type institution.

I think it will be a good thing because it will be radicalising to see someone who started off progressive but ended up with the same policies as Biden or Hillary.

I don't think that you are making the same point as I am.

My point is that the left is not represented in the US. It might as well be all republicans. Sure, there are some republicans that want to marginally expand some bits of healthcare, and others that want to reform ICE and replace it with something fundamentally the same, but US leftists should realise that they don't need to beg - they're not getting anything for it.