Funny how our criminally corrupt and hateful right wing can no longer understand the subtle difference between “barely legal” and “barely illegal.” 🙄

5. …not destroying our home. And where our current culture, what Kingsworth calls “The Machine,” is leading us, is towards an ecological catastrophe and a population collapse.

4. …existence. We don’t just have to settle for what we are accidentally born as. But of course, this freedom isn’t infinite. I do agree with him that we do have to settle for the accident of our dependence on a healthy biosphere on planet Earth. We have to find a way to live that is consistent… 🧵

3. …no valid alternative to living in accordance with that nature. I believe that the thing that distinguishes us as a species is our ability to escape from the meaninglessness of evolution and decide for ourselves what the meaning and purpose of our lives is and what is the nature of our… 🧵

2. …flourishing in any sense: genetic fitness or reproduction, happiness or contentment, worthwhile meaning or goal in life… But where I really differ from Kingsworth is his essentialism, his idea that there is one particular human nature which is good because it’s natural, and that there can be… 🧵

4. …fighting after we win once. They have tried to undo Social Security, just for example, every few years ever since we won that fight. They will keep on trying forever, to take back every single thing we win. Every victory in politics only lasts until the next election.

3. …apathy or cynicism, we have Trump, and Vaught, who laugh at our futile efforts to remove the CFPB from the realm of politics. I say let them win this fight. In the future, let’s all take responsibility for winning the fight every two years, not just once— because the capitalists don’t stop… 🧵

2. …illusion that they’ve been relieved of their responsibility for voting in every election for politicians who will carry out those policies. We see the result now. The largest approximate third of the electorate is the third that didn’t bother to vote in the last election, and thanks to their…🧵

If a sane administration were in charge, we would be spending millions hiring members of the Ukrainian military and drone industry to come here on short breaks to teach us about drone warfare, which seems to have completely changed the way conventional wars can be fought and won.

Well, actually they are the same. Russia invades Ukraine with the intention of absorbing it into Russia and ending its existence as an independent country, language, and culture. Ukrainians fight back. Is that wrong or something? Of course not! The only difference is in the motivation for fighting.