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the means of returning to power - would be absent.

Unless the randomized reps decide they like their newfound power, and change the rules to allow them to maintain/extend/return to power.

Bribes would be a concern, so good pay and anti-corruption mechanicms would still be required.

Direct bribes are only part of the problem. Corporations would still do the things they’re doing now, where they bribe politicians with cushy jobs once they leave their government positions. Good pay on the job while at the government doesn’t stop that.

Randomized representatives can still be propagandized, bribed, and have hunger for power.

On the other hand, look at how easy it was for Trump to completely hijack the GOP. That’s the model you should aim for.

That’s what I’ve been saying for a while now.

“true capitalism” or some shit

Disparage actual capitalism for not being capitalist enough, and do an Indiana Jones hot swap for the actual end goal of worker ownership.

Valve developed a specialised version

That sounds pretty nice. I’ll take a look at that.

Lutris is an app that does that but for installing games without using Steam.)

So for example if I want a non steam game like Minecraft I’d go through Lutris but beyond that I’d use steam?

Does it have wine or something like that built in for windows games?

Because TBH the only thing stopping me from switching is the games.

And for those uses they aren’t getting phased out:

Surprisingly, there is a whole slew of exempt special-purpose bulbs that will continue to be manufactured, according to the Energy Department. Here’s what manufacturers can still build and stores can continue selling:

Appliance lamps, including fridge and oven lights

Black lights

Bug lamps

Colored lamps

Infrared lamps

Left-handed thread lamps

Plant lights

Floodlights

Reflector lamps

Showcase lamps

Traffic signals

Some other specialty lights, including marine lamps and some odd-sized bulbs

Exactly. From this particular article/policy:

Similarly, it projects that the rules could cut carbon emissions by 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years.

We’re still just an inch away. The fascists haven’t stopped at all.

So I interpreted this as you saying you wouldn’t install AC in his shoes, but also don’t appear to have an alternative course of action in order to not overheat and die due to not having AC, therefore you’d be the first to die.

And that’s not what I said.

That’s not even close to what I was saying.

It’s normal to use AC for billions of people already, so it is a solution to our reality as it is.

A solution would end the problem. AC does not do that. In fact it is the opposite since heavier AC use leads to higher energy use which ultimately means more greenhouse gasses.

It’s a band aid. It allievates the symptoms, and only for those who can afford it.

The solution is to end our production of greenhouse gasses.

If your grid is overloaded, get some solar panels and make your own power off-grid. If your air conditioner breaks, buy another one or keep a spare one on hand. That’s what the fuck I’m gonna do, because AC is great and I love having it.

Not everybody can afford that.

That’s all well and good until your AC breaks, hits its heat transfer limit, you lose the ability to afford it run the AC, or your electricity goes out because the grid is overloaded because everyone else is also running their AC.

AC is a band aid, not a solution.

Exactly. Fuck the polls, get out there and vote.

If the death penalty exists and corps are people, why aren’t companies being executed?

All of the examples you mentioned are hypotheticals and not real or part of this context.

The first 3 are, the last one is not.

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446/

In addition to the above, there is also the fact that roughly 8 million people a year are dying from climate change. Climate change that is heavily driven by billionaires. What about the self defense of those 8 million that die every year?

Additionally, if it is publicly known, it is also within the rules of society

This statement has some very “Let them eat cake” energy.

You are no better than the rural folks around Salem distrusting the rich witches in the town who controlled their distribution, unironically.

I haven’t murdered anyone. Nor have I based any of my argument on something false. So this is not true.

Murder is wrong except in self defense.

What counts as self defense then?

When somebody has a knife at your throat? What about people planning to put a knife to your throat? What about people creating plans to dump toxic waste into your neighborhood?

At some point a line must be drawn. So why shouldn’t that line include the rich who dump astronomical loads of emissions, poisoning our air and water, and otherwise killing the planet?

There isn’t calls to eat the rich simply because of a difference in political opinion. There is a lot more to it than that.

Do you think all prisoners are guilty?

Do you believe all crimes (including non violent ones) should be punished equally with "deserving everything they get to them?

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