Lithuania knows a thing or two about what is currently happening in the USA. They experienced it first hand.
Buckle up, America. It’s going to be a scary ride.
@KeithPowersNYC@MannyPastreich Then scrap the zoning code and all the additional regulations & community group permissions that prevent developers from building housing.
May I say a word for the Democratic Party for all its faults?
It is the Republican Party that nominated Trump three times, that gave way to Trump, that supports and enables Trump.
The Democratic Party in opposition could have done better. But at least they were in opposition.
The leadership of Operation Warp Speed made a lot of personal sacrifices to deliver multiple safe and effective vaccines in record time.
And they get almost no credit to this day.
@uaustinorg Maybe you should strive to be subject matter experts in your various fields.
Because you call yourselves a University.
Any idiot can be a culture warrior.
The EU has three times as many people as Russia. Germany’s economy alone is 50% larger than Russia’s. We don’t need the US for protection. But we do need to get to work.
"There should be no honeymoon for the Trumpists, no honeymoons for authoritarians. Let Edmund Burke be our guide: 'When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.'" https://t.co/6WOsloZMD1
My main thought:
We're probably going back, but we can't go anywhere.
Our era will be about protecting their attempts to dismantle the progress that was made in the last century or so. It's a more sober mission than pushing for progress but it is an important one. ☮️
In Iran, a woman who was accosted by the “morality police” for not wearing hijab removes her clothing & roams the streets in defiance. She has since been arrested by IRGC forces and forcibly disappeared. This is the brave face of true resistance.