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- vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
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!
2 daysA 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.
- Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
That’s not entirely true, they stopped minting pennies pretty early on.
- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
Because there’s big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.
- 2 days
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.
- monotremata@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
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.
- AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
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?
- uberfreeza@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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).
- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
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.”?
- BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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” as an example.- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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).
- Avicenna@programming.devEnglish2 days
worst possible decision stated in the worst possible trump cock sucking way possible
- Furbag@pawb.socialEnglish2 days
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.
- 2 days
“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
AllahyahwehJESUS 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
- 2 days
Funnily enough, oil is just solar energy stored in molecules.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish2 days
If only it were possible to stockpile energy against any future need.
- blarth@thelemmy.clubEnglish2 days
The wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. It’s absolute hell!
- 2 days
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
- michaelalf@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Holy third World country Batman! This administration is fucking insane.
- Veserr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
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. 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright#cite_note-LibertyLeadership-14
The insane people are the ones who voted for this.
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish2 days
If he was sane he would pivot his company to renewables. Companies change what they do all the time.
- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 days
Competing with China is too much work. Easier to game the system than it is to change a business.
- foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Exactly. One of the big mistakes the average person makes is assuming aligned interest. When they make a move that we consider “insane” it’s because we’re focused on different outcomes.
Why are you doubling down on an energy sector that is more expensive, in decline, and causes pollution? You’d be insane not to pivot to renewables!
But… oil is subsidised, and they don’t care about pollution or oil decline because those are too far out. They can make money right now, more of it than they will ever need. So they do.
- Pringles@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 days
While I understand this sentiment and do agree that we should have a high sense of climate urgency, oil companies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. A big first step is simply to stop burning oil, but even if we do that we will still require a huge amount of it. All plastics, ALL of them, are oil derivatives.
Look around you, wherever you are, and you will see things that are made with plastics. And if they aren’t made out of oil derivatives, they are made by oil derivatives either as a source of energy, or the machinery to make it has plastics. The clothes you are wearing, your shoes, your hair comb, your toaster, car, glasses, pc, t-shirt, birding binoculars, camping tent, the list is never ending because it’s everyfuckingwhere. The prints on your glass, the pen with which you write or the keyboard you type on, it is so incredibly pervasive.
So we can rant at these oil companies, but an enormous chunk of the economy depends on it and that’s a simple fact. I’m not claiming to have the answers, but we can’t just get rid of oil, which is why I say that step 1 is to simply stop burning it. That will already stop the worst, the bleeding if you will.
And sure, renewables are good and to have renewable energy is infinitely better than burning oil, but they only solve the most obvious problem. The real issue is what would we use instead of plastics? And as far as I know, there is no alternative.
Maybe being unable to feel empathy and only caring about being powerful and pleasing those in power can be considered as insanity?
- Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish2 days
Don’t be rude. “Third World” countries aren’t this idiotic and know that renewable energy is the cheapest form of electrical energy, and the easiest to implement, that there is.
- Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
I was about to say, all those third world countries in Africa and South America are looking to do wind, solar, etc because it’s cheap and independent, rather than relying on coal or gas from other nations.
- crandlecan@mander.xyzEnglish2 days
Yep. It’s time people start remembering that those # World groupings were geographical in nature, not economical.
It was about support during the Cold War.
““Third world” is an outdated and often pejorative Cold War-era term originally used to describe countries not aligned with the US (First World) or the Soviet Union (Second World).”
- Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgEnglish2 days
Close but wrong, it was the alignment during the cold war:
- First World: USA & allies
- Second World: USSR & allies
- Third World: non-aligned
Quoting J-Live, “World’s Apart”
Verse 2
They say the old world brought up a new world order
And ran up in the third world and divvied up borders
Tribes were divided by countries that were thought up
Economically held back and never caught up
Power corrupts and the oppressed get slaughtered
Mothers and fathers’ll lose sons and daughters
Brothers and sisters denied human rights
And can’t even guarentee themselves clean drinking water
First world speaker, second world spoken to
Third world who they conversatin’ about
Hardly even got a voice in the conversation
So the words fall on deaf ears and get drowned out
But uh, speaking as the first person, I can’t take it
Speaking to the second person, you on some snake shit
Speaking for the third person, they ain’t gon’ make it
But who are we to talk 'cause it’s really our fault
They say the opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy
So lack of self-love ain’t self-hate, it’s apathy
We so desensitized by travesty and tragedy
How we supposed to realize humanity’s majesty
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Yes, and decimate use to mean to destroy one tenth of something.
Definitions change from their original usage.
- 2 days
They’re ideological, a hangover from the cold war.
The first world: The US, plus its allies in NATO which were mostly in Western Europe.
The second world: Russia and the USSR, plus its sphere of influence through the Warsaw pact.
The third world: Literally everyone else.
So for example the underdeveloped backwards hellholes of… er, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland were all non-aligned and thus technically “third world” nations.
- crandlecan@mander.xyzEnglish2 days
Fair enough. My point mostly was that for most (older) Western Europeans 3rd world is a synonym for an economic hellhole. Like, Switzerland. Fracking socialists 😤 Wait, that sounds… Wrong…? No? Anyways, it’s not just ‘poor Africans’.
- Stormy@thelemmy.clubEnglish2 days
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
- 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
“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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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, America’s independence from cheap energy sources, and America’s independence from looking after our children and grandchildren.
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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.
“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.”
- npcknapsack@lemmy.caEnglish2 days
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.
- Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish1 day
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
- RogueJello@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- axh@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
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.
- Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Don. Kim is largely a product of circumstance.
Don is doing this because he’s fucking stupid.
- Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish2 days
Is that supposed to be a good or bad thing? Particularly taking into account your username.
- fizzle@quokk.auEnglish2 days
Indeed.
In fairness the USA has been fairly methodical about regressing in this way, not like this one thing had totally fucked them.
- OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
The problem will go away if they post enough “china bad” on social media.
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.
Edit: yer man is so uncomfortable saying this and it’s not discomfort with public speaking. This is money hungry fuck territory.
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
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.
- el_twitto@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
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.
Considering that theyre doing this to prop up oil and coal, they might. I mean, we all might too.
- manxu@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
Silly you: no more wind farms means no more cancer! The Prez said so! /s
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 all that much on carbon. They might kick the can down the road a little more, but it’s gonna die sooner or later.
- 2 days
“Ha ha fuck you all, hope you die. God bless America yadda yadda”
- b161@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish2 days
America and Americans fucking suck dude. What a bunch of shitty dumbarses.
- Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- Spraynard Kruger@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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!
- Pollo_Jack@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Don’t tolerate religious conservatives in your country. It could happen to you.
- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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…
- thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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”
