It happened a bit more organically than an active choice; Walz started doing it well before it was clear that Biden would drop out, and it caught on.
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Retired priest speaks of ‘painful’ treatment by Church of England over her climate protests
(www.theguardian.com)
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California greenhouse gas emissions decline across most sectors | The decrease in emissions took place even as the state’s economy continued to grow
(ww2.arb.ca.gov)
The cut in emissions is from 2021 to 2022 is small — 2.4%
He didn't have the kind of national profile it takes to pull that off. He's not perfect either — just absolutely fabulous compared with somebody like Vance who seems determined to serve vampires.
The thing that's amazing is that Walz did these things in the 1990s, when it was still reasonably common to fire teachers for any kind of hint they might be gay. That takes real courage.
The underlying problem is that it's on net reducing forest cover in North America, but that reduction in forest cover counts against the US emissions budget, rather than the UK one. This kind of shell game where you push emissions into another country doesn't really solve anything.
Maybe he fantasized about doing that:
“You would have known if I had gone down on a helicopter with Trump,” Brown said Thursday. “I’ve never been on a helicopter with Trump.”
Oh, that's how they work: Apply directly to the forehead. /s
What they're doing is putting the lie in the headline, where lots of people read it, and burying the truth paragraphs down in the article. Because very few people click through to articles, but just see headlines, the impact is to leave a large chunk of the public with a false belief.
The NYT repeats the lie in the headline, but buries the truth down in the article. The result is that people see the lie, and not the truth.
Very few people encountering an article on social media actually read it; something like 2% do so much as click through.
This pattern basically guarantees that a huge numbers of people will have a false belief.
It's equally weak because it's all bullshit. The problem is that the press isn't willing to assess truth on this kind of thing, and then center that.
Sulzburger too unfortunately.
The harm in "boys have access to these" is basically zero; they might occasionally use a pad to bandage a skinned knee or something.
I may not want their coup, but they have the same rights as any other citizen, including a speedy and public trial, and not being subject to cruel and unusual punishments.