“the broad terrible consequences happen slowly in the long term while the visible benefits are now”

This is what I fear the most

When the pic on the left was taken?

Don’t be so sure, lots of new solar here even if we have those dumb corrupt nazis in power

Yep, commies completely destroyed the thermal plants and now the only way is solar, batteries & bagazo (subproduct of sugar cane). It is so much cheaper $ faster than building fossil fuel plants).

There is no money, country doesn’t produce anything and also there is just no time either

They have been doing it for a while because they absolutely destroyed the thermal plants and don’t have the money to even maintain them.

I agree solar is fantastic for almost everyone and much more Cuba. Solar + batteries + biomass for sugar cane production discard (bagazo)

😂

Yeah I noticed the absence of Black people in the No Kings protests. Can’t blame them, because they will target them first and also because they will get less solidarity from everyone else

He is a rat, but I think he is backing down and is giving himself a way out saving face. For what I understand he is approving the early release of the loan.

Very little that Castro said made sense.

The coercion to go to Revolution Square with ur job or ur school was unbelievable. TV has 2 channels & of course, him. They made you study his most relevant speeches at work or at the CDR in your neighborhood.

We are not there yet, not 1/10th of the way

I’m an optimist and would like to cheer you up but if they start replicating the study’s findings you should cheerfully put all your affairs in order.

Excellent and useful thread!

Also: not exactly the same, but if in real life someone can’t see you — most likely because they have some narrative about you, your life and theirs — and you start to notice that facts seem not to get thru, stop. If it is a close relative, STOP.

… and that they aren’t prone to indulge in that kind of rhetoric. Jesus, being really really poor means nobody gives a shit about what it hurts you or what you have to say.

I had to look up “squalor”:

“the state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.”

No, hundreds of millions of Americans are not in squalor. Having lived in Cuba and Brazil I can tell you that people in that situation tend to have almost no debt. 1/2

Status quo ante is GONE.

It makes me nervous cause I’m old and I liked it very much thank you but nobody ain’t recreating 2012 or 2015

Most of the “outsiders” live incredibly comfortable, sheltered lives but want to tear it all down.

My Cuban heart aches — scale of destruction is not the same o/c. We long for so much pre 1959 even if we were born after triggered by physical vestiges, old magazines, books, videos, old people tales

I am not an elite but this is BlueSky.

AOC would b diabetes type II 4 me whereas another Trumpian fascist would b full metastasized stage IV pancreatic cancer. Would work hard for D2 for Nov of course

I also have recurrent dreams of leaving that would multiply by 10 is AOC is what it is.

If things are like that in 2036 everything has gone to shit already, the economy is in Argentinian mode, and the best scientists and engineers have already left the US. So no fusion either.

And there is also California, equally desperate for that precious nuclear fusion 😆

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People in South Australia are clamoring for nuclear fusion as they have a very high INTERMITTENT renewable energy penetration. Heard they are using so much gas for BASELINE.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

“Versus 11/35 days in 2025, 1/35 in 2024, and 0/35 in 2023.”

New year on year comparison dropped and I am here for it. So much fun!

Yeah — that’s what I fear.

Anyway the real heroes of Minnesota are the countless volunteers doing boring shifts where nothing happens. The mom of three delivering food to 40 families in her kids’ school. The dad standing at the door of an elementary with a whistle for hours. The drivers endlessly looping, seeing nothing.

Sincerely, how replicable you think this is around the country. If it is half replicable we are going to win big time.

I am in South Florida.

Yeah!

It absolutely gave me the creeps and I got here just months before 9/11.

Back then I got very scared for our civil liberties, fearing more an over reaction than some terrorist attack. Everyone has different paranoias.

What do they have on you, POS?

LOL

But I mean after they said that Hitlers *army* was chased out of every town, expecting they don’t fuck up their falacies is a little bit too much.

Evidence again of @jonathanbchait.bsky.social's point that the phone is the weapon Trump fears most

So, so terribly sorry