Los Angeles can have a DSA Mayor, a DSA City Attorney and already has a DSA City Controller. So retweet this if this makes you happy or you need to wake up Los Angeles.
He actually said this last night, "I need Chevron." Becerra spoke from his chest in full defense of Chevron and the max contribution. Zero words about Chevron airdropping cash to stop us from having clean water and air. We cannot let this guy be our Governor. We deserve better.
Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.
We need to understand that this puts us in an extremely dangerous situation.
Keep in mind that these investment firms control the surplus that *we* collectively produce. And yet, we have zero say over how it is invested. Instead, our ruling classes invest it in whatever is most profitable to them.
So they continue to invest in fossil fuels and other damaging activities, knowingly sabotaging our future, even while the world burns around us.
All of us should be outraged by the madness of this arrangement. We can solve the climate crisis quite easily - we know what to do and we have the capacity to do it. And yet we are prevented from investing in the necessary changes.
I cannot emphasize this enough: the correct response is to bring these firms under public control so that we can mobilize investment — of *our* surplus, remember — toward achieving democratically ratified social and ecological objectives.
“We won’t give you public housing or medical care or even a living wage while we need you, but as soon as we don’t need you, we’ll give you everything!”
Holy shit. @krystalball just now on @majorityfm stream:
“The Democrats are trying to find a centrist position on genocide, and there isn’t one.”
That hit so hard.
I honestly don’t think Israel will survive as a state if it goes through with this looming wave of mass exterminations through starvation. It will be a matter of time, but the community of nations is ultimately made up of people, and the people of the world will not accept long term a state that is willing to commit this level of mass atrocity.
So if you are a supporter of Israel it is frankly in your interests to stop this starvation policy immediately. It is already too late to save many people but urgent action can save hundreds of thousands. If you don’t do it the entire project will end.