That’s to make up for how incredibly dangerous they are. /joke

USA military interventions in Asia have been a constant concern for a long time, and the USA allied Korea and Japan directly oppose Chinese expansion and Chinese allied North Korea. The USA military control of the pacific ocean is seen as a wall to be overcome. The Chinese deeply despise the existence of NATO; the world’s largest mutual defence pact, and the US Government as barriers between them and their expansionist goals.

For examples, the takeover of Hong Kong and Taiwan almost failed due to US support, and their econimic use of Philippine and Australian seas have faced setbacks.

China is openly allied with other USA adversaries such as Iran and Russia.

It also helps that President Trump has repeatedly praised and admired Xi Jinping openly in public. The USA Tariffs will have no effect on Chinese trade profits at all as USA citizens will instead pay the fees. The less average faith a US Citizen has in their country and the more easily radicalized they are to harm their country, the better it is for China. They constantly predict the downfall of America and the rise of China in a single breath.

If you want evidence of all of this then look no further than the quotes of Chinese officials and the ideals of “communist parties” of the USA.

2. The brakes would be electing 60 democrats to senate to pass campaign finance reform, public healthcare with no concessions, and tax reform. As they have repeatedly tried to do for many years but always come up short of votes. Bonus points if they expand the court, house, and senate but I dont know if its an achievable goal until after the campaign finance reform.

Ah fuck you really going to make me infodump I hate you sm fr

Part 1: The Two Parties

In the 1960s Civil Rights movement a deep political polarization began which results in wealthy interests backing the Republican party more and more, President Ronald Reagan in return shifted the party away from unions and towards deregulated and low tax markets and industries, and when Democrats introduced a campaign finance reform to curb the issue in 1995 it failed but was reintroduced and passed in 2002 it furthered that divide yet again, that bill was then sued by Citizens United wealthy interests and the SCOTUS sided with Citizens United as a Partisan 5-4 decision. So now we live in a world where political divide has all of the wealthy interests backing one side whose policies are actually extremely unpopular but people are easily misled into not knowing the stances of people they are voting for, or misled on the repercussions of those actions.

Figure 1: Partisanship of Congressmen

Figure 2: Partisanship of citizens

Part 2: Legislative Requirements of the USA

The USA has steps to pass laws:

• It gets called to vote by majority leader and passes the House of Representatives, which is capped at 435 congressmen allotted very very roughly proportional to the state populations.

• It gets called to vote by majority leader and passes the Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes, unless a handful of senators decide to filibuster it to delay the vote indefinitely, in which case the bill gets amended with concessions and sent back to the House for yet another round of voting. Filibuster can be bypassed with 60 votes which is basically impossible due to aforementioned partisanship.

• The president signs it into law.

Now the problem here is that to remove a congressman, the president, or a supreme court judge: you need 60 votes following a successful impeachment inquiry. So it never happens.

Part 3: Foreign Interests

Influential media from the Murdochs, the Kochs, and the CCP are constantly pushing the USA further into the grave they’ve been digging for 50 years. China has always been a source of cheap labor and the relationship soured greatly following the Chinese influences on Korean and Japanese elections during the time those two nations were rebuilding following the World War era and were under the watchful eye of the US Military who were a central figure in the aforementioned conflict. This divide deepened with the 1984 Tienanmen Square Massacre where cities all over China were quelled by military forces being deployed on their own people. But far from being the end of it, the Pacific was still a prime trade route where the USA sought profits, and so Chinese influence continued to spread more as the days went by.

Part 4: Where We Are Now

President Obama was denied a lifelong SCOTUS nomination in an election year, giving the nomination to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump was granted yet another lifelong SCOTUS nomination in an election year. The SCOTUS was thusly deeply conservative.

His court nominations allowed him to run for office despite not qualifying under the insurrection clause, because if the courts choose not to reverse a lower court decision that he wasn’t barred from office then nobody is enforcing the law.

Billionaires bought or operated their own home made social medias in the USA, the CCP deployed TikTok campaigns to elect a fascist.

This isn’t just a thing that happened which we were unprepared for. It’s a thing that has been happening for decades which so many of us have been desperately attempting to stop.

Now that right there is an idea within an idea, like a matryoshka brain.

The nuance here is that the user probably means cooling the earth’s atmosphere, not the earth as a whole enclosed system.

Yeah, on the earth surface 23% of the light gets absorbed by the atmosphere before it even hits the panel, and 85% of the remained doesn’t get absorbed by the panel at all.

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Jokes aside, Solar Panels are something like ~15%% efficient, the rest of the light doesn’t get absorbed by the panels. Only ~48% of solar energy gets absorbed by the earth’s surface, ~23% gets absorbed by atmospheric particles, the rest just leaves. So the atmospheric temperatures wouldn’t change much.

If you power Red-Yellow-Blue +ultraviolet LED grow lights for a “full spectrum” effect then you’re still using less power on the lights than the solar panels would absorb.

To reach GHG neutral emissions by 2035 would take adding AT LEAST something like 64 Terawatts of solar. So if a 1MW solar power plant takes up approximately 0.02 sq km (5 acres) then 1,280,000 sq km of solar would do it.

math note: (Somebody needs to check the math on this part because for some reason consumer panels are rated more like 183 watt / sq m which is 3.6 MW for the same size (note that 1 sq km is 1000000 sq m because of the rise in power (no pun intended)), just astronomically different than the 1 MW from the big plant…)

Good news, then! We can put the whole damn thing in 1/9th of the Saharan Desert! Or if we trusted that weird consumer number then we can put the whole thing in Montana! That leaves 99.749% of the earth’s surface open to get hit by the sun’s bullshit as nature intended alongside the 85% of the 0.251% that didn’t get absorbed by the panel.

Of course, becoming carbon neutral doesn’t offset the methane gasses emitted by the arctic as a result of current levels of warming, and producing more than 67-70 TW of electricity is pointless because we aren’t actually using that much power currently. One potential thing we could try is storing excess power underground such as with molten salt, or storing it on the moon or even as an additional satellite where the material would naturally cool over time.

Your knowledge on US politics is based on memes. Trump won the popular vote by a very small amount, less people voted for Trump in this election than people who voted for Hilary in his first election.

And 10 Million former DNC voters stayed the fuck home.

This is why America is failing. We chose this outcome. America as a whole wants death and self harm.

More than half of everyone who voted did so for Trump, and people who could have voted but didn’t are complicit.

Trump won the popular vote.

If you think US citizens voted for all the horrible things the US government does, you don’t have the slightest idea of how anything works in US politics.

Have you checked who the fucking president is? Yes, I do think US Voters are masochists. Very much so.

You seem like the expert to me, Socrates.

That the US Citizens voted for these deaths and they got them. The solution seems pretty clear, convince people to vote differently.

If the blame is transitive based on who writes the rules then Voters have more responsibility than that CEO ever did.

Countless hours and public funds, wasted.

The last time they had 60 votes they passed medicaid expansion and protections for preexisting conditions, if they had one more then they could have passed singlepayer but the then Independent 68 year old Lieberman voted against it alongside every single Republican.

Give Dems power and good things come. Give GOP power and the government serves only the rich.

I mean, not really, no. Citizens United was fourteen years ago. Reagan gutted corporate tax and regulation over four decades ago. Anti-Union politicians have been around for like a century. It was always really obvious.

Maybe that wouldn’t be the case if the people stopped voting for people like Donald Trump.

Why not, more than half of americans already have.