LibertyLizard

Weirdly despite her otherwise repugnant and fascist positions she was one of the more anti-surveillance members of congress. Hopefully some of the new members can keep carrying that torch.

I mean these clowns can’t even fly what are they doing?

They’re in the process of forgetting, it hasn’t fully happened yet.

I’m not denying that democrats won in 2026. Jesus people are so ignorant about how politics work it amazes me. This one election is not a trend. It’s a reflection of a specific mood among the electorate, reflecting the conditions that exist here today. It does not mean that Americans have suddenly become philosophically left overnight. You have to look over several years to see those types of changes. This is literal snowballs prove climate change isn’t real level logic.

Could this be the beginning of a seismic shift where things never go back right again? Anything is possible but that seems extremely unlikely. Trump is unpopular so 2028 could also be a pretty blue electorate but beyond that I expect reversion to the mean.

Florida did not move left as much as the rest of the country. Again, this means, setting aside this one election, that Florida over the long term is continuing to become more conservative over time.

I don’t see that in your comment at all but ok. My bigger point was the state isn’t swinging left, it’s continuing its shift to the right, that longer term change is just being masked by a temporary left electorate that came out this year.

Important questions. My sense is not on their own but with pressure from the public maybe.

Iran seems more likely as it has more economic salience. Plus I think the unfortunate reality is that most Americans are in the process of forgetting about Palestine. If they ever paid attention in the first place.

I mean let’s see what the democrats actually do before getting too smug…

I’m not so sure… is the American public even aware of the boat strikes?

2/3rds of the senate is a big hill to climb, especially when many of the R’s that survived are from far right states.

Reading this as a permanent realignment is wrong-headed. This is one election where the electorate punished an extremely unpopular president. It’s unlikely we see another democratic win like this for some time.

What this tells me about Florida is that it is a far right state now. It’s about as red as South Carolina, Mississippi, or Montana. In an election where republicans aren’t as hated it will not be close.

Yeah I mean I alluded to that but I just want to point out that in this era of being blackpilled about the polls, if you watched and trusted them this wasn’t a complete shock.

The race was within the margin of error according to polling. Maybe a major upset from a political geography perspective but not if you believe polling.

Thank goodness the Benevolent Socialist People’s Censors are here to protect us simple minded workers from such dangerous counterrevolutionary information we would not understand. 🙈🙉🙊

If you live in California or other areas where this will cause high flood risk, it could be worth doing some planning in case you need to evacuate. In my area at least, the models are showing some terrifying possibilities for how much rain we could get. Also talk to your neighbors and see if they need support or if they can cooperate with you in providing assistance tool others in the event that something like this happens.

In terms of the bigger picture I truly don’t know… everything we’ve tried so far has failed. I guess anything you can do to throw sand in the gears of the planet destroying machine makes things a little better in the future. But the next couple decades are probably already baked in to be a bit rough at this point.

Sure if you have the infrastructure and topography to do so. But this adds to the cost.

The problem is everyone always compares solar alone to nuclear in this comparison it looks really good. However when you include the cost of storage, it doesn’t look as good.

The analyses I’ve seen suggest that we will need to build at least some nuclear to achieve the fastest and cheapest decarbonization.

People have a hard time separating people’s expertise from their general opinions. Nate Silver the talking head is kind of an idiot. But Nate Silver the election modeling expert is worth taking seriously.