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Seeing as he was already 88 (and still somehow in office!) when that happened, I'm not sure I'd put money on that.

In one of them there is also an impressively large hat as opposed to just a ridiculously large hat.

That article doesn't do anything to dispel my suspicions that he has no idea what he's talking about.

The most egregious aspects of the article were addressed in Jason Hickel's response to Milanovic. I think it's funny that he's citing a World Bank economist for a major chunk of his article given that the World Bank's position is that we can grow our way out of global poverty (it'll only take 200 more years!) and currently defines the threshold of extreme poverty at $770 per year, so it's a little bit hard to take the argument that $5,500 is unacceptable (even if that were the degrowth position, which it is not) with a straight face.

As far as the argument for decoupling goes, the evidence is that to the extent that it's happening, it isn't fast enough.

Bit idea: make a deck of cards with everyone's portraits, assigning different suits based on types of major transgressions and values based on rank in the administration.

This world is not fair. Pretending it ever will be, or was, is a fairy tale.

Nobody here is doing that.

I'm not trying to argue.

Then what are you doing?

I'd say that there is such a thing as a jurisdiction. Actions committed inside the range of a prosecutor's jurisdiction are eligible for prosecution by that party.

Stating the obvious.

The felonies are for election interference in a state that had jurisdiction. Election interference in a race for the same job he's shooting for again.

Election interference by improperly disclosing paying hush money to a porn star about an affair that none of his supporters cared about once the news broke. Not even that he paid the money, that he didn't fill out the correct forms. Out of all the things he did, this is what the legal system felt it could prosecute him for. Does that not bother you?

The felon is making promises to abuse the military industrial complex to a level that makes war crimes committed so far seem bashful.

We know he's awful - the argument is why some folks are talking way more about the felony convictions than the war crimes.

Trump was arguably on the side of fascists and has come out in praise of dictators.

And yet he wasn't punished for that, it was for the porn start hush money. Really makes you think.

Trump has said that NATO would be dismantled under his care

Would have been a good thing.

like some sort of mob collection scheme.

Wait 'till you see NATO.

Trump has said that Israel should step up their genocide.

Again, not something he'd be punished for if he did. Ex 1: Joe Biden, currently aiding Israel in stepping up their genocide.

For example: destroying lives and completely upending free and fair rule of law in Afghanistan bungling a withdrawal that left the Islamic religious terrorists in control

The withdrawal was negotiated under Trump but executed under Biden so I don't know if you can blame him for bungling the withdrawal. Also, lmao to the idea that Afghanistan was under free and fair rule prior to the withdrawal. That which left the Islamic religious terrorists in control was, in fact, the 21-year-long bungled invasion, which you can't really hang on Trump. Again, not something he'd ever be prosecuted for anyway.

There isn't a court to prosecute our president(s) for any defensive or offensive actions taken. There absolutely should be. Good luck getting any non-compliant nuclear powers to submit.

What Egon said.

Hard to see an alternative to degrowth when its opponents feel the need to write articles with the thesis "actually, extinction isn't so bad"

Based on the review, it doesn't seem like he has much of a handle on what proponents of degrowth are actually arguing. The idea isn't to stop technological progress in its tracks, it's to orient the economy away from emphasis on productivity per se to meet everyone's needs at a lower resource intensity.

Phillips wears his antagonism on his sleeve throughout, referring to Transition folk, degrowthers and the wide spectrum of the Green/alternative economics world as "anti-packaging jihadis", "degrowth militants", "green Mr Magoos", and "an army of tattooed-and-bearded, twelve-dollar-farmers’-market-marmalade-smearing, kale-bothering, latter-day Lady Bracknells"

I'm gonna go with a thanks but no thanks on Austerity Ecology

Capitalism once again demonstrating that it is a system for funneling world-altering wealth to the world's most unimaginative.

As updated, your comment seems to be arguing that there is no way to deliver justice to some people regardless of how much they may deserve it, which leads to the conclusion that our justice system is arbitrary in whom it choose to punish. So, given that, why should we care if Trump is a felon?

The answer is the intuitive one: We absolutely need to be worried about what humans are doing to the planet. But we should be worried about the transformations we’re causing and all the destruction of ecosystem services that they entail, not because extinction is inherently bad, but—first and foremost—because these transformations might well destroy us.

What a pointless waste of time and energy to write this article. "Extinction isn't bad unless, of course, we're eating at the very foundations of human existence, in which case it is in fact bad."

Also his pinned tweet is a link to an article claiming global warming would have been worse under socialism.

OMG I love polling leads within the margin of error!

Wake me when Trump is a flan 🍮