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Chicago recently built a bunch of solar to directly power all city government buildings, so researching that and politely taking your town or city into doing that plus battery storage might be worth a try just from a cost point of view.

Similar initiatives have worked at a municipal level for things like fleet electrification and heat pumps, though this is all stuff that was a much easier sell if you got the program moving last year.

Other people mentioned congress, but while important to keep the pressure up for 2026 in the near term focus especially on talking with your state legislature and especially city council members.

Look up YIMBYism, show up to your public meetings, be polite and ideally bring some friends, remember that even in large cities major projects are routinely rewritten or expanded at the behest of the one or two people who showed up to every meeting with a clear, this is what I want out of the project and this is the easy way to do it.

Join your local left leaning orgs like DSA and mutual aid groups, even local progressive dem orgs. Even if they have some shit takes, which they inevitably will, remember that in the end doing good in the next few weeks and months is worth infinitely more than everyone agreeing on theory for what happens in the hypothetical world beyond late stage capitalism or how a few dozen people from Pittsburg are going to bring about an end to imperialism.

Talk about the importance of growning your towns bike lanes into a cohesive and safe network people would trust their twelve year old kid to get from home to school to visiting you at your workplace on, strike up conversations and network with the people who also raise good questions and requests at public meetings, and most importantly listen to what the people that have been working on advocating for these these things for decades, they have more experience, political capital in town, and may be convinced to help with your thing like municipal electrification.

This has been a long time coming, and most of the decent ones chose to resign rather than split the party. I remember for instance years ago when the far right really started winning elections in Idaho, a lot of the lifelong conservatives chose to resign in quiet protest rather than fight them or try and work with them.

It’s basicly the same thing you’re seeing in the federal government now, a lot of the people would rather resign than deal with him, and as such he gets to fill the roles with his loyalists without a fight.

It’s effects tend to very based on plant and local conditions, but typically the point of agrivoltaics is to shade plants in hot, dry climates around midday to improve yield. At low angles sunlight goes around the panels, but at peak sun they are shaded.

This way an ‘innovative’ and ‘disruptive’ approach that can be the basis of a startup that can be sold to a bigger company or IPO for a bunch of money, and as a bonus draw clean energy funding away from tried and tested solutions into inefficient gimmicks that in turn keep the gas plants running that much longer.

So the impact of Chinese climate policy is also vastly overestimated because the Chinese are a small minority of earths people?

I mean while there are some that are actually dumb enough to believe it, most of the Tea Party republicans don’t feel the same way as their constituents, but rather that their constituents are a bunch of idots easily distracted from the ways their getting screwed over by proformitive nonsense. This is to say nothing of how most of the ideas the Far right supports are pretty damn unpopular across the board, or how tirelessly they worked to kick and pressure every candidate who wasn’t on board the Trump train out of the party.

Moreover, if we are not supporting the candidates who do agree with us and fighting to eliminate those that don’t or who actively go back on their word after being elected nothing will actually change beyond some pretty words every now and then.

Every currently serving Dem says they wholeheartedly Support the idea that the rich should be paying their fair share, just like nearly all of them support abortion or equal rights for all americans. A majority of them don’t obviously, but they sure do love to talk about supporting the abstract idea of such.

It is demonstrably trivial for canadates to say they wholeheartedly support X and then vote against it in practice without consiquence. We need to actually hold them to account, which yes, means fighting and running against them when they are chosen and not just supporting anyone who can give a platitude about how great X is.

The Idea that candidates will automatically loose if they don’t actually uphold the ideas their voters want would seem to be pretty ludicrous when places like Montana voted 58% yes to abortion and 59% to elect the man who got it taken away from them in the same election.

We are not talking about outword messaging, but rather what we actually are doing to make said ideas come to pass.

I mean the progressive caucus has been pushing for universal healthcare, an end to mass incarceration c and a wealth tax for decades now, but have lacked the votes to makeup a majority of Dems let alone congress as a whole.

Pushing for ideas however seems to assume that there is some correlation between how popular a policy is and its chances of becoming law, which is just at a factual level untrue in the US. Studies have found a proposal with 70% public approval and a proposal with 30% public approval have the same chance of actually becoming law.

There is some correlation between how the super rich feel about a piece of legislation and its odds of passing, but the primary statistical determinant is how congress criters themselves personally feel about a law.

As such, getting actual progressives on the ballot and getting the neoliberals off the ballot will lead to real, if not as significant as I personally would like, change that will benefit actual people’s lives, while congratulating ourselfs on all the great ideas that are never going to be adopted by people’s whoms job literally depends on how much their billion dollar donors like them will just lead to disillusionment when said great ideas are never put into practice.

Also worth noting, the detailed plan is the slort of thing that tends to get talked about over signal with your local cell, not necessarily on a public forum.

At least locally our public strategic plan is to build parallel structures of support like food banks while making all the shity things the Republicans doing to our town so obvious that we might just flip the state Blue for the first time since 1964, or at least make some solid gains at the city and county level.

At the national level, I think the long term plan is to build enough voter mass to primary the shit out of non progressive-caucus dems for 2026, counting on the general anti Trump wave that we’ve seen in Florida and Winsconson’s recent elections to carry us to a progressive caucus majority in elections that have big enough margins to be exit polling evedent.

Kinda sorta? The carbon still goes into the atmosphere and there’s such demand for used cooking oil to run vehicles that there have been cases of new cooking oil being mixed into used because it was more valuable for vehicles than cooking, but if it was definitely going to get burned in a waste incinerator than better than nothing.

Climate wise, electrification (either for bikes, cars, buses, or trains) remains the only option and is something everyone is going to have to do eventually, but economic wise the higher upfront costs limits access.

Note, his team is prepping an escalation of the insurrection act on the 20th, with the possibility of martial law. Mass nonviolent protests on the 19th followed by relentless online mockery for the parade makes more sense.

Make sure to research and mention all the work Trumps done to undue all of Ragen’s foreign policy accomplishments.

This is a funny accusation in light of the amarican situation where our leader openly owns multiple businesses in Russia and other foreign nations, to say nothing of selling pardons or any of the other blatant corruption.