David Koch, who spent his live advocating for profits over our planet has died. Don't ask me to give him any sympathy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/...index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/...index.html
Koch polluter dead.......
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David Koch, who spent his live advocating for profits over our planet has died. Don't ask me to give him any sympathy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/...index.html
Hate to cut your dancefest short -
But he probably left a rather large bequest to the GOP.... Maybe even to the NRA.. RE: Koch polluter dead.......
August 23, 2019 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2019 at 11:40 am by Brian37.)
Koch Habit, By Brian37 (AKA Brian Jame Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Sevante got it right In 1896 He sounded the alarm Too much CO2 Would cause the planet great harm But the Barons of fossil fuel Have been greedy and cruel Put profits above the planet Most governments they do rule The lungs of our planet In the Amazon 20 percent of our oxygen production Soon to be gone It is a Shell game All about profit Bullshit short term thinking That will cost our entire planet We had solar technology As early as the 1920s But the polluters Bought up all the patents And as a result The weather more extreme More floods, wild fires And stronger hurricanes More plastic in our oceans Too much acid rain Ocean levels rising Coral reefs continually dying Effecting food supplies Flooding farmer's fields On which The world relies I really want to hope Really want to believe My species is not so selfish To accept the emergency we face We have to do better Those at the top To put our planet first Instead of mere profit. (end) Poem inspired by this guy. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-years-eart...e-gas.html And a Metallica song dealing with this very subject. I have to admit, although I liked the song when it first came out. I really did not understand the full impact and importance of it back then. (August 23, 2019 at 11:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Hate to cut your dancefest short - I wouldn't expect less from such a giant douchebag. (August 23, 2019 at 11:19 am)Brian37 Wrote: Koch Habit, By Brian37 (AKA Brian Jame Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter) You know he also supported abortion rights, LGBT rights, and a citizenship path for illegal immigrants, right? Why didn't you work that into your poem? Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
According to Brian there' s two kind of people.
The good ones - who are just like him And the NRA. I guess he needs to keep things simple. RE: Koch polluter dead.......
August 23, 2019 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2019 at 1:01 pm by Brian37.)
(August 23, 2019 at 12:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 23, 2019 at 11:19 am)Brian37 Wrote: Koch Habit, By Brian37 (AKA Brian Jame Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter) So? A libertarian is merely someone who is willing to fuck over minorities . It means nothing to claim you value minorities if you still say "fuck you I got mine." Libertarians get social issues correct, but economic stability has to go along with that. And the truth is pollution adversely affects poor communities at a far greater rate than the middle class and rich. Even globally speaking, what America doesn't put into local landfills, we send to more poor countries who do not have the means to effectively manage the waste we send them. Easy to pick on the poor when you have money. A Libertarian is someone willing to pay poverty wages to LGBT and Pot smokers. Martin Luther King Jr had the attitude that the better blacks did economically, the better everyone did. It means nothing to support the things you listed, if economic stability does not go along with it. None of our allies have the wealth gap we do to the degree we have it. It doesn't do LGBT, women, or blacks or Histpanics any damned good for you to say you value their rights if they don't have economic stability. It also does not do poor rural whites or suburban whites any damned good if "fuck you I got mine" "sink or swim" is your mantra. None of what I typed above is a call for a nanny state. Nobody wants Stalin's Russia or Castro's Cuba. But it is still classisism at a minimum, if your attitude is " fuck you I got mine." The best way to value ANYONE of any rural, suburban or urban zip code, and the best way to create more independence is to pay livable wages, provide affordable health care. Long term that will make every zip code more stable, instead of what we do now, which is corporate welfare. (August 23, 2019 at 11:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Hate to cut your dancefest short - He's still dead though right? You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis. (August 23, 2019 at 1:15 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(August 23, 2019 at 11:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Hate to cut your dancefest short - And likely to remain that way. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(August 23, 2019 at 1:15 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(August 23, 2019 at 11:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Hate to cut your dancefest short - The problem with religious and political ideologs is that they ignore both Shakespeare's MacBeth's ACT 5 SCENE 5 "Flurry Of Activity, signifying nothing" and Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot. " I do shout and scream myself. But not because I want immortality, but because I see the good in my species, in that we are perfectly capable of problem solving while ditching tribalism and ego. I do fear however, our species tribalism will shorten our ride. I hope not though. (August 23, 2019 at 1:25 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(August 23, 2019 at 1:15 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: He's still dead though right? 'Sound and fury', not 'Flurry Of Activity'. And I really, REALLY don't think you understand what MacBeth was saying in that scene. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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