Days After Midterm Blowout, 22 Democrats Join GOP to Advance 'Massive Giveaway' to Big Oil | Common Dreams
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"It’s exactly what the fossil fuel industry wants," one critic said of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act.
  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    We didn’t fall for it again. We know most democrat politicians are still morally corrupt. We didn’t vote for them because we thought it would fix everything. We voted for them to reduce harm while we continue to work to get all of the morally corrupt people out.

    • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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      37 minutes ago

      We voted for them to reduce harm News coverage of the harm we’re still doing while we continue to work to get all of the morally corrupt people out. go back to brunch

      There, that’s better. We should always strive for accuracy in communication.

    • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 hour ago

      reduce harm

      Looks inside

      Voting for the party that expanded ICEs concentration camps, killed the majority of palestinians, beat the shit out of protesters, massively expanded fracking.

      Rummages around

      Running defense for the same party as soon as anyone dares to critique them, and coopting leftist language to do so.

      Neat!

      If you were serious about “harm reduction” then your reaction wouldnt be some half-assed regurgitation of the same tired clichés blue-MAGA trots out every time anyone dares critique their cult.

  • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    But you don’t understand! When the wholesome Chungus Blue Liberals dump steam shovels full of money on extractive industries that’s automatically clean energy regardless of what it’ll put in the atmosphere. Only the evil, feckless Red Liberals would ever do anything so evil as subsidizing fossil fuels!!

    Just look at all the Liberals in the thread already explaining how this one doesn’t count against their preferred Neoliberal Ghouls, bcs it happened in between the election and the swearing in, so it didn’t really happen, and if it did then it was acceptable, actually, and besides none of those elected representatives are true scotsmen Democrats!

    • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 hours ago

      Nooo you don’t get it we have to be happy with the democratic party now! The next drones will be sent by a government that has a Muslim senator!! This means we can go back to brunch!!!

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        1 hour ago

        Americans do love a nice “mission accomplished” banner. I hope they can keep pushing Democrats to the left, so this election accomplishes more than being a liberal pressure release valve while Stephen Miller ramps up the program.

        • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 hour ago

          People here line to pretend Biden was actually a positive force. They only started giving a fuck about ICE when Trump came back, not to mention the genocide.
          Libs are going back to brunch until they get activated again in 12 months time when they have to be ramped up to vote for whatever ghoul the DNC wants to install next.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    I actually think this is Democrats listening to the majority of their constituents.

    The Midterm blowout came in large part from high energy prices due to data centers and the Ukraine/Iran wars. Yankees didn’t suddenly wake up to the need to transition to green energy, they’re pigs, they just want their treats to be less expensive.

    I find it hard to believe that the constituency that opposes new gas pipeline construction is that big in the US. Again, they’re pigs.

    • njm1314@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Duh. Literally nobody in these comments nor the article (that you clearly didn’t read) is confused about that.

        • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.mlOP
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          53 minutes ago

          Seems like its pretty necessary since we have people like you reflexively screeching at critique of the democrats.

          Also, and I don’t know if you know this, but editorialised headlines typically help with getting people to read the content. Didn’t work for you it seems, but it got others to read, so…

      • oscarmeyer82@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        I’m not american. Do you realize they only have two parties? Don’t come back at me with a whattabout third party unless you include some data about independant’s visibility, funding, and results from their recent election.

        • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 hour ago

          I put my cart before the horse and its not moving at all!

          It’s kind of weird to make demands about visibility or funding or votes when the way a party gets that is by… Getting support. So the response to there being a duopoly is to put support in a third party. How do you think a party gets votes if not by people voting for them?

          Do you look at bags of flour and expect them to spontaneously turn into cakes?

          • oscarmeyer82@lemmy.world
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            5 minutes ago

            None of that’s happened yet so they should take a small amount of time to vote for the lesser of two evils then get their ass to work on doing the things you’ve described so next election they have another choice.

            I don’t start trying to bake a cake if I know I don’t have any flour.

        • BanMeFromPosting@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 hours ago

          You types are incredible at hallucinating straw men. You should turn your creative energies towards creating art, rather than making up something noone is saying.