It's bad news for Australian wildlife and the environment as one state, perhaps 10% of Australia's land area, weakens protection for native bush. This will increase greenhouse gas emissions too.

The West faces a choice: to ally with most Muslims to defeat the jihadi fanatics that kill them, or to equate them to the fanatics and drive them into the fanatics' camp.

Recognizing that human grievances drive people of Muslim background to become devout and fanatical at once, we must end Israel's siege/occupation of Palestine — which is called for by justice anyway.

An ex-Russian thinks Trump will be like Putin: a gang leader who uses bigotry but only really wants to repress those who oppose him or get in his way.

This may be true — I've suspected it too — but the bigots that Trump has made socially acceptable will continue to recruit, with or without further support from him. Moreover he seems inclined to continue to give the bigots help (for instance, Bannon).

Meanwhile, Pence is a solid theocratic right-wing extremist.

Trump will increase some threats to humanity's survival.

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