Criticisms of Extinction Rebellion aren't new -- I've written poetry that contains it. "Who are the eight skilled organizers": well at least one of them is in jail in the UK. May they emerge wiser and not believing in this BS or telling anyone else to believe it.
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The excuses for why it doesn't work are incoherent, too. People saying that maybe 3.5% only works for "maximalist" movements that want regime change or independence -- but Hong Kong got a full third of the population into the streets for that and it failed. I really don't like stories about numeric thresholds that we just have to hit, as if what state opponents do in response doesn't matter.
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OMG the bogus 3.5% mobilization number is from the same place as the "nonviolence works" study!
Now that people are starting to figure out that 3.5% has been hit plenty of times and nothing happened, they've started adding stuff about how it has to be sustained.
https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/dxe-in-the-news/chenoweth-blog
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Since I'm on something like my 10th #data #archive question:
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At any rate I don't think that this is a case of people being distracted by unimportant things and not paying attention to a more important thing. People have no direct control over this, the Democrats have no intention of resisting anything, asking them to is a bad use of people's energy, and the office itself has been a clown show.
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There was Scott Pruitt, of course. Resigned while under 14 investigations.
And then there's Andrew Wheeler. I vaguely remember him coming up through EPA before he came back later and managed to unite a whole lot of scientific and medical groups, the editors of leading journals, and a bipartisan group of past EPA administrators against one of his proposals.
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When I was in a student environmental group we decided to bring in Rita Lavelle for a talk after she got out of prison. Maybe we paid her $50 or something like that? I think she was having trouble scraping money together at the time.
She was convicted again later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lavelle
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This post starts with "while you were looking at other shiny objects" as if people should care who is confirmed as head of the EPA. It's going to be really difficult for a new contender to break through the record of past administrators and set a new low. Corrupt EPA administrators are a tradition going back to Anne Gorsuch Burford, the 4th one and the mother of the SC justice.
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One of the general #climate politics sources that I read:
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/polycrisis-2025/
ETA: It's written from an international perspective, so it doesn't have the usual dullard pretense that the US is a great country and a world leader.
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One of the problems that I've never solved as I got old was how to tactfully and kindly tell people that they were incompetent at something that they wanted to do and needed a lot more practice before telling anyone how to do it.
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US scientists -- Canada wants you (as do many other countries). With all of the problems that Canada has, it's still better to work from there than to serve the US empire as it declines.
https://immigration.ca/fast-track-high-demand-occupations/
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doesn't terminate
except through the usual processes
of death or sleep or boredom
What does it mean
it doesn't end?
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I'm pretty happy with it
This is the first draft
I'm not sure if there could be another draft
once I started
It
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It won't be
without people to wonder why
a pause brings a poem, not conversation
People in the future
It includes all that by reference
The poem is the world, by reference
It only has pauses
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any time I start
speaking, I could have stopped in mid-poem
years ago, and be about to continue
Or anyone else
could be about to continue a poem
this one or some other
Is there really another?
This wouldn't be
without words read in the past
back through what I've heard, read
what everyone near me did
back to other languages and dim time
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and people thought it was done
the poem was over
and it wasn't
Will I have to die for them to be sure it's done?
But I've already died,
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We read them as if they are
trains bumping over railroad ties
But
that is a convention
Once I paused
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When I was reading the poem once
(or speaking it from memory, no
one is really sure which comes first)
I paused
And started up again later
But how much later?
There is no set time for
a break in a poem
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Well, I cleverly created a poem as a Moebius strip (many picky problems publishing that: didn't really work) that tells me that I'm pretty happy with it that I am always saying. I suppose I can sort of publish it here, starting from a random point.
The strip starts in the next post:
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