Is everything sensible or socially conscious Communism now? Taking public transit, being more physically active, telling my family that I love them... all communism?

Jimmy Carter asked the nation to turn down thermostats ~50 years ago, and these people are still freaking out about it.

Fox and their audience would happily unplug someone's life support to charge their cell phones. God forbid they turn up their thermostats a degree or two to prevent widespread blackouts.

If they hate Mamdani so much why don’t they leave New York instead of whining about it ?

Ah yes, asking your community as Mayor to be conscious of thermostat temperatures during a heatwave, to avoid brownouts or blackouts...

Communism. Not common sense.

Off topic, but as somebody who remembers when eastern seaboard grid died during the summer. I wouldn't want it to go down in this fucking heat.

And these "hosts" seem old enough that they should remember.

The best part is, now that Mandami is being criticized by the Fox outrage machine, all of the government websites that had similar recommendations are being changed.

Automatic temperature controls engineer here:

This is exactly what you want to do in a heat wave. It’s called load shedding.

78°F in 100°F weather is going to feel perfectly cool. You’ll prevent your equipment from breaking down faster and see a notable difference in your electric bill.

Fox morons - this is definitely a Gandalf-I’m-trying-to-help-you moment.

Fox news logic is:

IF person who said is Mamdani THEN its communism

We can then extract from that communism isn't a set of actions and values to Fox News, its an adjective we apply to specific people to make them scary.

American conservatives talking about “freedom” have very much come to resemble spoiled children wailing about any resistance to even their flightiest whims. A government advisory does not impinge upon your freedom, jackasses.

in other words. they can't find any legitimate issues with the mayor of new york and how he's governing and presenting himself to his constituents and the public, so they came up with this line of bullshit about thermostat settings.

In America, asking someone to do anything for anyone other than themselves…

is COMMUNISM

Kinda like telling a woman what they can and can't do with their body, right?

I wonder if it'll still be communism when the data centers advise it

Just use celcius like the rest of us and it doesn't seem that high!!!

Why are they suddenly back to using "Communism" as a catch-all pejorative, while at the same time apparently sending their kids to learn Mandarin?

Fuck these assholes.

People on Twitter pulled up old tweets of Nikki Haley and Greg Abbott asking for the same things. It's a day that ends in "y", which is how you know Republicans are arguing in bad faith.

Damn commies! I'ma go check a real state to see what they say. So DeSantis appointed every member of the FL commission, and they say it should be set to .. 78. More commies! What about TX? ERCOT is the worst run energy commission in history. Surely they have it right .. 78! IT'S EVEN IN THE STOCK IMAGES!

This is literally what got Reagan elected. The same tactic will still work on many people.

This is why an actual democratic socialist wins in new york.

To them, Gavin Newsome, Joe biden, and Kamala Harris get called socialists like it's a prize in a cereal box. At one point the young just ignore them.

My A/C can't even get my rental to go below 80°F in this heat wave anyway 😆. I'll be relocating to the basement with frozen açai until further notice.

COMMUNISM is Suggesting THERMOSTAT LEVELS!

-People telling Schools NOT to use Water or Electricity because FREEDOM!

Fox news viewers need to feel like victims every single day.

Has anyone told them who is in charge?

Fine, ignore it and pay more for your energy usage as you are free to do.

Its just another way of Fox saying that they consider their base to be nothing more than People of the Earth.

Capitalism is when people die of preventable causes, such as dying from heat exposure or complications from it, because allowing them the resources to cool their houses (that they likely don't own and are privileged to have at all) is communism.

Good thing Trump sat on a black towel when he appeared on this couch or she'd have a brown racing stripe on her dress.

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of reasonable room temperature. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Putin, Merz and Macron, French Radicals and German police-spies.