Diversity Stress

[Barquentine]

On 6/23/2026 at 10:31 AM, I am Groot said:

There is no known alternative to this.

Bullsh!t! Survival of the fittest is not even true in nature. Animals will group together and protect the weak.

And Forchrissake, we're thinking, feeling humans. At least some of us are!

22 hours ago, CdnFox said:

honest answers to legitimate questions

It is a crisis. It was a slow build that is speeding up, snowballing. You haven't heard about loss of Arctic sea-ice, multiplying droughts and heat waves, warming oceans...?

But there are actions we can and have taken that will show relatively quick results.

Dropping coal use, electric vehicles...

Some results that show we can take effective actions:

AI Overview 
 "City smog is dramatically improved today compared to the 1970s. Thanks to strict regulations like the Clean Air Act, emissions from cars and factories are roughly 99% cleaner. While cities still experience occasional poor air quality, the thick, lung-searing, yellowish-brown hazes typical of the 1970s are mostly a thing of the past."

AI Overview 
 "In the 1970s, scientists were just discovering ozone-depleting substances, and the Antarctic ozone hole had not yet formed. By 2025, robust global regulations had successfully halted rampant expansion, resulting in one of the smallest and shortest-lived holes observed in decades."

 

[Michael Hardner]

2 hours ago, Barquentine said:

 By 2025, robust global regulations had successfully halted rampant expansion, resulting in one of the smallest and shortest-lived holes observed in decades."

 

Thanks in part to legislation signed by President George Herbert Walker Bush.

 

 

[I am Groot]

5 hours ago, Barquentine said:

Bullsh!t! Survival of the fittest is not even true in nature. Animals will group together and protect the weak.

Who said there shouldn't be social welfare programs? Not me. But there will always be those who are so much better, smarter, more energetic, more determined, and who will make way more money, hit more home runs, sell more records, sell more movie tickets, sell more books, or whatever. There are always those who thrive beyond the pack, and Capitalism needs that. It needs people to work to be one of them.

[Barquentine]

16 hours ago, I am Groot said:

There are always those who thrive beyond the pack, and Capitalism needs that.

And yet, as wealth is ever more concentrated in the hands of a very few, homelessness, food banks, the number of working poor, all soar. Coincidence?

[I am Groot]

On 6/25/2026 at 9:26 AM, Barquentine said:

And yet, as wealth is ever more concentrated in the hands of a very few, homelessness, food banks, the number of working poor, all soar. Coincidence?

Stop bringing in half a million immigrants and a million foreign workers and remove the million illegal foreign workers and that pretty much stops the homelessness, cuts 90% of the business from the food banks, and increases wages for low-income people. But the Left refuses to do that. 

The Left's view is "We MUST keep bringing in massive numbers of brown people, no matter how violent, uneducated, and hostile they are to us, no matter what the damage! How else can we signal our moral superiority!!?"

Edited yesterday at 01:40 PM by I am Groot

[eyeball]

7 hours ago, I am Groot said:

The Left's view is "We MUST keep bringing in massive numbers of brown people, no matter how violent, uneducated, and hostile they are to us, no matter what the damage! How else can we signal our moral superiority!!?"

Cite?

[CdnFox]

7 hours ago, eyeball said:

Cite?

google.com

[eyeball]

11 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

google.com

Google says...

The exact origin of this highly specific, multi-sentence quote cannot be definitively traced to a public official, prominent commentator, or documented media source. Extensive searches across public records, news archives, and literature return no official index for this exact arrangement of words.

Sounds like he pulled it out of his butt.

[CdnFox]

34 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Google says...

The exact origin of this highly specific, multi-sentence quote cannot be definitively traced to a public official, prominent commentator, or documented media source. Extensive searches across public records, news archives, and literature return no official index for this exact arrangement of words.

Sounds like he pulled it out of his butt.

Ahhh but it goes on to say 

"However, most sources indicate that the quote is correct and accurate and was said by a politician at one point". 

So there you go