no time for mansplaining, this place is gonna blow
actually, it’s going to collapse. the bombs are only there to break the supports and compromise the structural integrity of the building so much that it collapses on itself. you would need a much more powerful bomb to literally blow up the building from the inside out since most of the energy would just be absorbed by th
anyways the fact that corporations Are the biggest contributors to climate change have made for some horribly bad takes as people just like, forget, that they only exist because people buy their products
People don’t buy new electronics because there are shiner ones. People buy new electronics because the old ones are either designed to deteriorate, or because they can’t run newer software. Electronics corporations sell products by strongarming people into upgrading due to planned obsolescence.
And corporations don’t exist because “people buy their products” they exist because they’ve taken advantage of centuries of violent enclosure practices to set up a rent-based economy, where the majority of people are forced to buy from them just to live. Going “off the grid” is simply not feasible for most people.
Like I want to be charitable here and assume this isn’t your intention, but I really can’t see how ‘buy less’ as praxis is that different from liberal consumer activism.
President Donald Trump once again
unleashed what’s become his presidential hallmark: a bizarre, winding,
threatening press conference, this time following his White House
meeting with Democratic leaders Friday to try to break the impasse
causing the government shutdown.
In a long, meandering briefing
in the Rose Garden, Trump told reporters the partial shutdown now
heading into its third week could go on for months, even years, if
Democrats don’t give him the $5.6 billion he’s demanding to build a
U.S.-Mexico border wall. The Democrats have steadfastly refused. The
shutdown has affected some 800,000 federal workers — 420,000 of them forced to work without pay — since Dec. 22.
“This is national security we’re talking about,” Trump said. “We’re not talking about games.“
When asked if there was any “safety net” for workers going without pay as the shutdown continues, Trump responded: “The safety net is going to be having a strong border.”
Trump
also floated another way he could get his wall: declaring a state of
national emergency over border security to build it without
congressional approval.
