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The wrecker shares Roosevelt's bad aspects

mercredi 7 décembre 2022 à 10:47

The wrecker shares all the bad aspects of Teddy Roosevelt, minus all that was good and all that was great about the latter.

War on America

mercredi 7 décembre 2022 à 10:47

More on the wrecker's declaration of war on America and everything that is good about it.

Nothing is perfect. There are a number of things in the US Constitution that ought to be changed, Republicans have highlighted some of them in recent decades by stretching them for abuse. The Constitution must protect the environment much more, and the rights and well-being of the disprivileged and disadvantaged. Fairly taxing the rich and curbing the power of business would make that possible. Eliminating the electoral college could make elections more democratic.

The wrecker would not do any of that. He would make himself dictator.

Public phones

mercredi 7 décembre 2022 à 10:47

Volunteers are installing public phones in Philadelphia. They are like payphones except gratis.

Every city and town ought to provide these, and you should never have to walk half an hour to reach one.

Urgent: Climate finance pledges

mercredi 7 décembre 2022 à 10:47

US citizens: call on Biden to commit to the full $100 million for climate finance pledges.

Adding a media player forbids tinkering

mercredi 7 décembre 2022 à 10:47

Cory Doctorow: in many kinds of products, adding a media-player and its DRM creates an excuse to use the DMCA to forbid users to tinker with any aspect.

Nowadays, any product with DRM is no longer merely defective by design. It is oppressive by design also.