u/Cymbalsandthimbles

It seems that these models were able to be retired BECAUSE of the efforts to transition to renewables and not burning coal at full capacity. Which would ostensibly mean a win for the climate advocacy movement. Yet, I see many climate denialists acting like they are entitled to a victory lap now and taking this is some sort of vindication that they were right to ignore the overwhelming scientific consensus for decades about burning fossil fuels and so now we should never trust science again. In my country, the US, the Trump admin is now banning the phrase “climate change” from any official White House policy and looking to “drill, baby, drill” on protected lands while his cronies build AI & crypto data megacenters that are using more energy and water than the entire state they’re built in.

I was just reading an AJ+ piece about how the former President of Honduras, that Trump recently pardoned for selling drugs into the U.S., is working together with the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime to pump hundreds of thousands of dollars into a website based in the U.S. for the sole purpose of disseminating misinformation that undermines popular left-wing governments in countries like Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil.

The piece also mentions that in exchange for the U.S. support on the misinformation campaign, Trump will gain a new military base in Honduras as well as the expansion of “special economic zones called ZEDEs,” (Zones for Employment & Economic Development).

This is essentially more experimentation with the “network state” concept, right? A place for tech billionaires to play with their money without any government oversight and they can scam as many rubes as they want with whatever cryptocoin they’re pedaling that day?

Sounds like a lot like Varoufakis’ Technofuedalism to me.

Link to the AJ+ piece: https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/posts/the-us-israel-honduras-and-argentinas-president-were-caught-working-together-to-/1404873335006973/

Link to a piece explaining the “network state” concept: https://abmagazine.accaglobal.com/global/articles/2024/dec/business/the-rise-of-network-states.html