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Paying people to have more children

mardi 10 mars 2020 à 01:00

Some countries in Europe are paying people to have more children, presuming that those will be of the government's preferred race.

It is good to give more support to parents — that can reduce their stress, which is likely to hurt their children. Not having having a superfluity of resources to care for children leads to parents that are under great stress and can't do it well. And that often leads to lasting problems for the children.

But if parents use that support to have additional children, that will put them back into difficult lives and cancel out the benefit.

Planet roaster lobbyists

mardi 10 mars 2020 à 01:00

Europe's planet roaster lobbyists have a revolving door with the European Union bureaucracy, and they are using it to make sure they can squeeze out every last eurocent, before civilization collapses and they can't make (or spend) any more.

Suing against fossil fuel power projects

mardi 10 mars 2020 à 01:00

George Monbiot: *The [UK] government must abandon its fossil fuel power projects. If not, we’ll sue.*

Attacking volunteer doctors

mardi 10 mars 2020 à 01:00

A mob of enraged immigrant-haters attacked volunteer doctors who had come to treat refugees who arrived in Lesbos (Greece) via Turkey.

Superdelegates

mardi 10 mars 2020 à 01:00

Biden got more delegates than Sanders in the primaries on Tuesday.

This is likely to mean that the superdelegates will choose the nominee, and I suppose they will choose Biden. That would mean no hope of electing a president that would try to correct America's devastating problems, including plutocratic rule, people dying for inability to pay for medical care, and global heating disaster.

The only way we can ever get the Democratic Party to stop foisting right-wing candidates such as Biden on us is to show it can't presume we will vote for them.

Bloomberg did badly in Super Tuesday primaries, and is almost ready to drop out.

It is heartening to see that just throwing money at a US election can't win it. Apparently one needs to use the money with more subtlety and expertise.

Bloomberg has the same age as Sanders. Remember how that age was taken up by the pundits and presented as a possible drawback of Sanders? Strange that they don't say the same thing about Bloomberg now. I suspect that this "concern" about Sanders was artificially generated.