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Look up Chytrid fungus.

I too have noticed disappearances of tree frogs and peepers from ponds that, 4 years ago had a deafening cacophony.

I hope for a mysterious recovery such as you had.

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The only way that we’ll have a fascist government this fall is if “Joe Biden” is reinstalled.

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Can you define fascism? Because while I find Biden to be a pretty terrible president, gutless, unimaginative, and wedded to US global dominance through miilitary power, which includes backing the theocratic zionist state of Israel in its genocidal war on Palestinians, but I do not seem him behaving as a fascist. The word is tossed around a lot, like the label

" Marxist" or "Communist" by people who don't have a clue what those terms mean. I'm suspecting that you may be one of those people. Example: while I'm not a Communist, I am a socialist, because I believe that democracy should be extended to the workplace, and that the means of production, the control over finance, and the levers of government should all be in the hands of the people, the workers in society. I am also a Marxist because I believe that the main driver of history is class struggle between those who produce the goods and services in a society and those who own the means of production and who take the profits from those who do the work. I have no idea what your ideological beliefs are, but if you are calling Biden a "fascist" you should be able to define the term. I believe Trump is a fascist or more properly is a wannabe fascist (because, despite his admiration of fascists like a Hitler and other fascist dictators, the constraints of law, Congress and the courts, he has so for fare been unable to be come one) and we do not yet live in a fascist society or country.

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