Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects”

Vorticity@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A stupid person flailing around with their decisions will end up making a number of good decisions by sheer statistical probability.

  America hasn’t made one good decision, not even by accident. So the only conclusion I can draw is America is incredibly malicious and has become hostile to all things good.

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  • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not entirely true, they stopped minting pennies pretty early on.

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  • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So the only conclusion I can draw is America is incredibly malicious and has become hostile to all things good.

    Yeah, only not “has become”, but “always was”. It was just more convenient marketing to pretend otherwise.

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• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because there’s big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.

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  • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are things the majority of Americans want and have no option to vote for. Have wanted for years.

    I don’t like Americans.

    I do not think Americans would make good or compassionate decisions.

    But the american people simply are not in control here. The entire electoral system is built to keep them away from power.

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  • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have no understanding how the county works, do you

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• monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They do very occasionally blunder into something that has merits. Like, they rescheduled marijuana, and they’re fast-tracking research on therapeutic psilocybin and MDMA. Those are positive things, broadly speaking. Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.

  I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head, but part of that is probably availability bias: the vaguely positive stuff that they do is a lot less emotionally charged, and therefore less memorable, than the wildly awful stuff they also constantly do.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.

    I’m much more cynical about this. Tipping has always been the most acceptable kind of tax fraud, that we all willingly participate in. I’m sure it’s changing as credit cards dominate, but tips paid in cash leave no record trail, no evidence that they ever existed. Why would wait staff be diligent about reporting it? At the same time, it’s small potatoes to the IRS, hardly worth trying to enforce. Why even bother?

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    • uberfreeza@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also dont like it in general. mainly because as an ex-server i know most dont report at least a percentage of cash tips. and i assume the worst when it comes to businesses who will keep wages lower to advertise tips that are no longer taxed (up to a certain amount).

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  • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like, they rescheduled marijuana

    As someone in the cannabis industry, that is very unlikely to be a positive thing for anyone except rich dicks who own MSO’s.

    For reference, cannabis legalization in California was, by and large, terrible for the average consumer. You have people sucking on heavy-metal laden commodified cannabis (vape carts) for the first time on a large scale as a result of it, prices are generally higher, and quality is universally lower.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they rescheduled marijuana

    Half-assed it. How do you schedule the drug differently when it’s “medical” vs recreational? I don’t partake so it doesn’t affect me either way, but a lot of people like it for anxiety and to help calm the mind to sleep.

    How is it that a person in Massachusetts trying to calm their anxiety is using “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”, but a person in Florida using it exactly the same is using “ as drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.”?

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    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s nothing new. There’s always be the good old
      “this chemical is known to the state of California to pose a cancer risk”

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      • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s a state warning. It makes sense for it to be state-specific. It does not make sense for federal policy to be state-specific (though it long has been for cannabis anyway, that’s true).

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• Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  worst possible decision stated in the worst possible trump cock sucking way possible

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• Furbag@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They do, every once in a rare while, actually make a really bold but good decision. It’s always framed as “we’re doing [insert good thing] to own the libs!” And them they get all surprised when we’re not angry about it. And then they quietly yank the bill or get Trump or some republican governor to veto it or something so they aren’t embarrassed thay they actually passed bipartisan popular legislation.

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• jestho@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Short term profits (bribes)

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