On Orango Island, the irrational traditional religion protects the forests and maintains solidarity, while the irrational evangelical church would introduce the "brotherhood" of extractivist competition.

(satire) … the United States sent Laos a bill Monday for the 80 million still-undetonated bombs left in the country from the Vietnam War.

Arms-control treaties are likely to have prevented nuclear war.

Scum vs scum: a plutocratist Democrat vs a Republican is the plutocratic system playing good fascist / bad fascist.

This has been true for 20 years. What is changing now is that progressive Democrats are increasing. In 2020 we need to knock off a lot more of the plutocratist Democrats in the primaries.

The use in the US of just a few models of voting machines, mainly from two companies, results in central vulnerability for rigging elections. Communications for reporting the totals are also vulnerable.

For trustworthy elections, voters should mark their votes by hand on paper.