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”

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• michaelalf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Holy third World country Batman! This administration is fucking insane.

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  • Veserr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think he is insane at all. He went to MIT. He owns an oil company.

    In 2011, he founded Liberty Energy, then known as Liberty Oilfield Services.[15] As of February 2023, the company was valued at $2.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. As the CEO of Liberty Energy, Wright earned $5.6 million in 2023.

    In 2019 Wright drank fracking fluid to demonstrate that it was not dangerous. In a video posted to LinkedIn in January 2023, he said, “There is no climate crisis and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either”.

    On November 16, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Wright to serve as U.S. secretary of energy

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright#cite_note-Libe…

    The insane people are the ones who voted for this.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If he was sane he would pivot his company to renewables. Companies change what they do all the time.

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    • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Blatant corporate capture.

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      None of this is proof of sanity, especially the drinking fracking fluid bit. I’d argue just owning an oil company in this day-and-age alone qualifies one for some kind of major personality disorder.

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    • FundMECFS@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe being unable to feel empathy and only caring about being powerful and pleasing those in power can be considered as insanity?

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  • Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s intentional. Remember the big show of him and billionairs flying to grovel to China a month ago?

    The help he’s given Russia and the surrender to iran.

    He’s destroying the place on purpose

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Don’t worry Jeffery…I’ll show them. I’ll destroy their precious America for what they made me do to you…”

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• OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Low value energy” because “the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow.”

  Oil, on the other hand, famously requires no effort whatsoever to locate, extract and refine before use. The wells are just spewing out oil constantly, for free, for eternity. We never have to transport it. Oil just spawns nearby population hubs as Allah yahweh JESUS wills it. There’s no way a hostile country could close a relatively small waterway and make that a lot less convenient. And no, oil will not run out eventually. It’s eternal. Omg what a cuck who cares about climate change? CO2 is just plant food. Did you fail high school science?

  Thank you. I’m thrilled to be destroying the climate (and getting rich) on this blessed day of independence

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Funnily enough, oil is just solar energy stored in molecules.

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    • Sparrow_1029@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Buried sunshine”

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If only it were possible to stockpile energy against any future need.

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  • blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. It’s absolute hell!

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    • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just imagine! We would be so stuck. It would require some kind of hydrocarbon-based fuel to be held in storage just in case. Or we could try to split the atom. But that’s pure madness. It’d never work

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• Mereo@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well USA, you have signed your demise against China.

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  • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ssssst! They don’t know yet!!

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    • axh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They know. They just don’t care. North Korea might be a poor shithole but Kim is an Emperor for life, and can do whatever he wants. I would guess that’s what Donny aims for.

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Indeed.

    In fairness the USA has been fairly methodical about regressing in this way, not like this one thing had totally fucked them.

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  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem will go away if they post enough “china bad” on social media.

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• el_twitto@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck those stupid fucking motherfuckers. Fuck, I hate what these ignorant fuckwits have done to my country. I hope they all get cancer and die soon.

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  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Considering that theyre doing this to prop up oil and coal, they might. I mean, we all might too.

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  • manxu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Silly you: no more wind farms means no more cancer! The Prez said so! /s

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, there are a bunch of people who are involved in the oil and gas (and coal, but those guys are are a corpse) industry who are terrified of things going away. If coal goes, so does, say, Gillette, Wyoming. That’s part of where Trump got support from.

    But it’s not gonna change the general trajectory much on carbon. They might kick the can down the road a little more, but it’s gonna die sooner or later.

    ourworldindata.org/…/co-emissions-per-capita

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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “I’m thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will take the future of our grandchildren out into the backyard and shoot it into the head until it dies on the altar of fossil fuel profits.”

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  • npcknapsack@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, no, they wouldn’t do that. That’s murder! No, no, they shoot the grandkids in the legs and arms, then complain they’re lazy and entitled and say nothing was done to them. Bring your popcorn, and if you’re feeling generous, you can smother it in crude and offer it to the grandkids.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was just about to say as opposed to what burning coal?

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• davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  US Energy Secretary: “I’m thrilled to report that tomorrow morning, on July 4th, we will end subsidies for wind and solar projects”

  Celebrating America’s independence from rational thought, independence from cheap energy sources, and independence from looking after our children and grandchildren.

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  • TrippingBalls@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had to double check that this wasn’t The Onion

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Onion has got me so regularly because Republicans are so willing to do crazy shit that’s obviously a Very Bad Idea Indeed and completely bonkers, just to “own the libs” that the Onion can write batshit crazy nonsense and not sound any different from trump.

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• Vorticity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why does everything that comes from this administration have to be the worst possible decision for any given situation? They’re so dumb, you’d think they’d stumble into a good thing every once in a while.

  Fuck these malicious assholes!

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You have no understanding how the county works, do you

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  • monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • jestho@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Short term profits (bribes)

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  • Furbag@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …but not for fossil fuels

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ironically, it’s fossil fuels that need subsidies now… unless solar cells are subjected to tariffs.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fossil always needed subsidies. The energy taxes on fuel are not enough to cover the externalities and also the list price still doesn’t even cover the infrastructure costs

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    • nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The IMF has kept an account of fossil fuel subsidies over the years. Explicit amount in 2024: .73b usd, 0.6% of global gdp. Implicit 6.7 trillion, 5.8% of global gdp.

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• CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I did an experiment with this - knowing nothing about this guy, I was like “I bet he either worked or currently still works for the oil industry.” Then went to Wikipedia and the second sentence of his article is:

  Before leading the U.S. Department of Energy, Wright served as the CEO of Liberty Energy, North America’s second largest hydraulic fracturing company

  Nailed it lol

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  • RogueJello@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good news! (For him) Under the current lack of rules he probably didn’t have to give up any of the stock in Liberty Energy! Hope that works out for him (not really) when we start living under the rule of law again.

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• Mediocre_Bard_Redeux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  America is the dumbest fucking country.

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• HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not surprised. Just tired.

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  • Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  we need a c/wildlyinfuriating

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• valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is an amazing little speech. I think except for the first sentence and the “Thank you” at the end every sentence contained misinformation on renewables. I wonder how long it took them to come up with this density of lies.

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  • Leviathan@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How long? One Trump rant is my guess.

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  • MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Didn’t you hear? It’s now easier than ever to create large swaths of slop thanks to AI! It probably took ~1 minute. /s

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What stupid fucking country lmao

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• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, the sun and wind have no money to “donate” to our political parties, and the oil companies have many billions of dollars, so sun and wind is out on its ass.

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• Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is happening as the nation is in a massive heatwave that’s about to cause unbelievable electric bills to a large chunk of the country since we already barely produce enough energy as it is… Idiocracy grows by the day

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good. All this is going to do is show that renewables are cheaper even without subsidies. Then maybe people will finally start questioning all the fossil fuel subsidies.

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  • Kurtismayfield@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    <Then maybe people will finally start questioning all the fossil fuel subsidies>

    Oh this made me laugh this morning, thank you.

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• heavy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These losers can’t read the room. Energy prices have skyrocketed, and we’re all stuck holding the bag again, just like we always do. Also, since this is blatant propaganda, why would anyone use wind or solar if it didn’t work? Simple question. God what a clown show.

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  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re trying to crash the country they don’t care how so the billionaires can carve it up into city states. This isn’t a secret this, Peter Thiel and his ilk have been pretty open about this plan.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep. States like Oklahoma are already petty fiefdoms ran by whatever christofascist can yell the loudest. We have zero government transparency or accountability because the federal government refuses to enforce the law.

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    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s basically a hostile merger. They cut their teeth in unregulated markets and then noticed the government over there just getting tax money for nothing.

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• khannie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s… Just like looking at a car crash in slow motion.

  Like renewables just keep on giving and provide so much energy security. I honestly can’t see why any country, even with the vast reserves of fossil fuel that the US has, willingly ignores the future. Wild.

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• Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “We stole all the money to bomb children.”

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  • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Terrorist* children. Nay, terrorist babies even! Even the foetuses can’t be trusted if you’d ask me 😶

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    • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Me debating a prolifer: “have you even considered the fact that the fetus refuses to condem Hamas?”

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• BigMacHole@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is GREAT news because we’ve done EVERYTHING in our Power to bring Fossil Fuel costs DOWN and LOCAL which means CHEAPER energy then the FREE Sun and Wind we get everyday at my Apartment!

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• b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  America and Americans fucking suck dude. What a bunch of shitty dumbarses.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some Americans are pretty cool, though. Not everyone is a piece of shit like in the administration. Many are, but many are also pretty based.

    Speaking as a European.

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    • SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks. As someone from the USA, I will say that perhaps the vast majority of us are dumbass pieces of shit. But it’s not everyone, and there are some pockets of civilized people, even in this hellhole. Hope you’re managing to keep cool in the heat wave over there!

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  • Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t tolerate religious conservatives in your country. It could happen to you.

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    • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This country is founded on religious conservatives lol

      Not to say your sentiment about them being bad is wrong, but rather to say, you should extend that sentiment to realizing that America is what America has always been. Just ask the natives, or most South Americans, or the Vietnamese, or the Iraqis, or the Yemeni people, or the Palestinians, or…

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not all americans, but all the ones at the top that can make money are absolutely abusing and exploiting the system at the cost of the earth and life itself. Green supercedes everything in America. Unbelievably sad.

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    • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not abusing or exploiting the system. Massive wealth accumulation is the goal of capitalism and is inevitable so long as egregiously wealthy families are able to pass that wealth on.

      Alternatively / additionally, “the purpose of a system is what it does”

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t this a crime against humanity? Future generations will hopefully judge you for what you are.

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• bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look at his dead eyes. There is no life or soul in his eyes at all. He’s a psychopath. It’s so creepy and disturbing that we allow psychopathic monsters to rule us.

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• rangber@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fucking ghoul

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• grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “I am pleased to announce the GOP fully endorses the planet Earth going up in flames & the inhabitants succumbing to extreme heat & choking on wildfire smoke & vehicular emissions, so as to benefit our patriotic allies in the fossil fuel industry in Jesus’ name, amen. “

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• prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He is right in saying that wind an solar are not constant and we need additional transmission capacity to transfer the power to where it is needed vs made. But their solution to these problems are bullshit.

  Build out transmission networks and get energy storage capacity quickly. don’t cater to big oil and coal and nuclear.

  They are not stupid, they are evil.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meanwhile in China

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• stumu415@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wind and solar are free, hence why they’re being axed by this miserable fucks. Oil and gas can be sold and their lobbyists pay shitheads like this clown big bucks.

  We got other countries with surplus because they went solar and wind-- literally giving back to the community because of excess-- but since the Pedo Party can’t make a buck off it, we suffer for it

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