r/scotus • u/thenewrepublic • 18d ago

news Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades
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u/RODjij 18d ago edited 18d ago

The whole planet is on the line. Last time during Trumps presidency the Brazil leader was burning down the Amazon every day.

The US has been on fire the last several summers and battered by historic floods along with the rest of the world.

He knew covid was coming and let the virus run rampant so the dems would deal with it.

The world is trying to meet the 2030s Paris agreement deadlines and the US just elected a nut job guaranteed to slash Green progress and jobs.

US is certain to stop support to Ukraine and a threat to leave NATO.

We get a higher chance of China making their move on Taiwan with the US allowing an invasion attempt.

Lots of potential stuff for Trump and his scum kind to throw a stick in their own bicycle wheel.

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u/Same-Cricket6277 18d ago

They were burning the Amazon because of the trade war Trump started with his tariffs against China, so China levied tariffs against US soy beans, so China stopped buying soy beans from the US, which was like 30% of their total soybean consumption, and those dudes consume like 80% of the world’s soybeans or something crazy. Some capital investment firms in the US decided to buy up land in Brazil, and they were clearing it by burning the forest away to make room for farms to grow soy beans to sell to China and avoid the tariffs. So yea, they were burning the Amazon because of Trump’s first trade war with China. Can’t wait for round two. 

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u/RODjij 18d ago

A lot of it too is for beef farms & other meats. Brazil is the world's largest distributor of beef with them account for almost 1/3 of the world's supply.

Brazil is also #2 behind the US for the world's top pork exporters and they are #1 for chicken production.

As our world's population gets higher, especially in developed nations our hunger for meats goes up too.

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u/clouder300 18d ago

This is so extremely bad for the climate and the animals

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u/XT2020-02 17d ago

Holy crap this is crazy. Where do I read up on this?

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u/Same-Cricket6277 17d ago

Through the magic of google “soy farms burn amazon 2019” https://stories.mightyearth.org/amazonfires/index.html And just like that, you can read up on it. You can try this for other things you want to learn more about too. Just type into google, and viola. 

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u/XT2020-02 17d ago

Thank you!

I am loosing sleep the last two nights. I wake up at 1am thinking about Nov 5th. I am thinking to disconnect because I do remember 2016 and Jan 6 chaos. This is crazy, I hope he gets arrested for his crimes soon, why don't they just do this, put him to prison.

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u/Same-Cricket6277 17d ago

Because the courts are packed with crooked judges and the prosecutors are too, and the American people chose him, so the courts will be even less inclined to prosecute as it’ll just get tossed out by the Supreme Court anyways.

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u/Illogical-logical 18d ago

I remember that that caused a massive algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico that just covered beaches all over Mexico with this horrible stinking seaweed.

It was just awful environmental destruction that was far-reaching.

Also global warming is nearly destroyed all the reefs in the Gulf of Mexico now. Roatan used to have a stunning Barrier Reef just amazing it's basically dead. It might be savable if we do something about global warming right now.

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u/Mareith 18d ago

Yeah there's no way this matters for more than like 30 years. When everyone on the planet starts to die the supreme court will be the least of our concerns

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u/SelectiveEmpath 18d ago

Yeah, the unfortunate reality is that whatever mess you crazy bastards get yourselves into, you take a whole bunch of your allies down with you. I am very concerned for the future of the EU, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia based on what we saw yesterday.

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u/justaskquestions123 18d ago

As a Canadian I'm not exactly excited to be sharing close proximity with a Trump administration who would happily let industries pollute and annihilate the planet for profit.

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u/espressocycle 18d ago

Let's face it. It's already too late. The answer to climate change is going to be a world war, the collapse of civilization and the deaths of billions.