• Nudding@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    That’s still a bad reason to increase the speed at which we’re killing ourselves.

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      10 months ago

      It’s a great reason until there’s an alternative. As long as voters look to gas prices for their votes, taking action that raises them is politically toxic.

      Meanwhile leftists are literally criticizing the Biden administration for high gas prices’ impact on the working class.

      You want to change it? Let’s change it. Starting with activists.

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        10 months ago

        Meanwhile leftists are literally criticizing the Biden administration for high gas prices’ impact on the working class.

        Which leftists are these? I’ve yet to run into them.

        You want to change it? Let’s change it. Starting with activists.

        I still haven’t been able to decipher what kinds of activists you’re alluding to.

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          10 months ago

          Progressive liberals I guess? The Hill, Mar. ’22: Gas prices lead to tensions within Democratic Party

          Progressives are concerned that high gas prices are worsening inequalities, creating tension between activists who want Democrats to do more to condemn big oil and those trying to navigate Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine.

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        10 months ago

        Cmon guys you’re both pretty, lets accept that were doomed and vote Big Asteroid 2024

        Really though vote now for the chance to vote again, not that it fucking matters because we’re 40 years late to taking any corrective action, but I’d like to vote again

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        10 months ago

        So business as usual. We were doomed 20 years ago, when we could have had a fighting chance.

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          10 months ago

          not exactly business as usual. Biden is doing more than most presidents have. Not enough, but also not nothing. But the fact is not enough will ever be done until public opinion drastically changes.

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            10 months ago

            Biden signed off on a record number of new oil projects, it’s not business as usual, it’s business is accelerating as usual. Environment be dammed

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              10 months ago

              there’s more to the topic than oil which is a necessary evil for the time being. or would you rather be beholden to OPEC and the Middle East?

              but sure, let’s go ahead and ignore everything else.