I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's literally hundreds of way more important issues that need to be addressed in the US than the waste of printing pennies. Like, it's such a drop in the bucket compared to underfunded healthcare, rampant homelessness, mental health crises, broken education system, rising pollution, bomb trains, aging and failing infrastructure, bridges about to collapse, water treatment plants failing, a patchwork power grid that was built for the 19th century, dams about to collapse, resurgence of major diseases due to anti-vaccine hysteria, intense levels of propaganda via unregulated social media...

Anyway, I could keep going, so seriously, you're joking right? The waste produced from pennies is literally a drop of water in an ocean of fucking problems that are way more massive , way more impactful, and overall just way more important. If stopping minting pennies meant we could fund Medicare For All for the next fifty years I might give a shit, but it didn't and even with a better congress, supreme court, and President it still wouldn't have saved enough money to fund anything significant.

So I genuinely don't give one flying fuck about stopping minting pennies or if they had kept minting them. It makes no material difference in my daily fucking life whereas ICE being the world's third most well funded military means jackbooted fucking thugs are roaming my streets looking to black bag my neighbors. I just can't, the idea that the penny thing can be counted as "a good thing" in the face of the tsunami of bad shit is a joke.