At ERCOT’s request, the Biden administration declared a power emergency in Texas on Thursday, waiving some air-pollution rules so generators in the state could produce more electricity.
Yeehaw! The more we pollute, the worse the heat will get, which will drive even more ludicrous demand, so we can pollute more, so the heat will get worse, so the demand will get even more ludicrous, so we can pollute more, etc.
Sorry. No. Real freedom is when cars.
Using “scientific rigor” as a method to mislead people is one of the more loathsome ways to lie. Like, sure there has never been a double-blind, randomized, controlled test with a large sample size to prove depleted uranium causes cancer. But there are some damn suggestive correlations that should be more than enough for anyone unwilling to commit war crimes and cause generations of suffering on innocent people.
That’s the problem with kids these days: we have a world-class pandemic at home, (that is desperate for attention but you barely acknowledge anymore), but you already want to go looking for something new. I blame Tiktok
“What? Ever since I took over, and especially after paid accounts, nearly all of posts I see on Twitter, damnit X, agree with me!”
I don’t think I’ve ever had the chance to post this sincerely before…https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
I like to use a similar scenario to try to convince people that there absolutely need to be reparations:
Everyone plays through one game where only one person can acquire property and everyone else’s GO money also goes to that person. Then, without resetting the money or property, the game is played a second time where the rules are the same for everyone (lol, wouldn’t that be nice, but it makes the argument better). Then challenge the person to say that the game is fair because everyone has the same opportunity and rules.
It works good for estate “death” tax arguments too.
Obviously, there are other arguments that should be more convincing, but y’know, 'Murica
They made $40 billion in profit on oil and gas in 2022 and they can’t even be arsed to spend 0.25% to pretend to be doing something to reduce the rate of their eco-cide 
I don’t like his metaphor, please allow me to suggest another:
It’s like one ship is a rusted out shit bucket that is falling apart because the first-class passengers and crew refuse to pay for maintenance and it is only afloat because of a large number of buoyant corpses in steerage and boiler room. And there is another ship that is much more modern, well designed, and maintained. The new ship could help the foundering rust bucket but instead the rust bucket is trying to ram the new ship hard enough to sink them both out of spite, obstinacy, and denial. Hopefully it will tear itself apart in the attempt before it can do so.
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“Of course it does! We trained those divers well, they wouldn’t generate evidence for our investigators to find that points back to us now would they?”
“You tankies make fun of how little The Squad has accomplished, but we’ll have you know they’ve accomplished just as much as Joe Biden!”
Mitch McConnell? You mean “Moscow Mitch” McConnell? You’ll have to try harder than that, tankie!
“The latest request from the Biden administration shows America’s continued commitment to helping Americans here at home and our friends abroad”
“…but God help them if those friends try to come here!”
Always the same map
