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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • And the foundation. Broke Bretton-Woods and created massive inflation, deregulated fucking everything, started the War on black people “Drugs”), all the things used by corporations and the rest of the conservatives to gradually erode the power of citizens.

    Edit: but I think people are taking the wrong conclusion from this. I interpret these endorsements to be less policy related and more “Holy fuck the other guy is literally unhinged and will turn the US into a smoking ruin, vote for stability please god” related. Staffers are basically just office personel. Take the wins where you can.



  • I haven’t kept close track for a year so I think it’s gone up again but my shared bill in Oregon typically was around $250 at I think ~14-15c/kwh. A majority of our power comes from the BPA hydro dams on the Columbia so the cost hasn’t quite skyrocketed like other areas, but Pacificorp is still trying to raise rates 20% a year.

    (We are rural and also use electricity for pumping water from a domestic well, and irrigate a fairly large lawn as a wildfire break, so that is also our water bill.)

    PG&E is just criminal.










  • Human rights are not a compromise. I will not even entertain the idea of compromising those. Abortion rights stay.

    Gun control is an iffy one. It really should be fixed, but it will take decades of continuing reforms and filtering firearms out of the market to really get it to where it should be. On a short term basis, “compromising” (but not giving up) on this would be OK.

    Climate change will obviously just kill us all, soooo…

    In a keep two, give one scenario to shut Republicans up for an election cycle, it would be safe to compromise on gun control in exchange for cementing proper human rights and getting meaningful climate action.