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[–] 138 points 1 month ago (7 children)
  • [–] 75 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Let's not let Nixon off the hook here

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Nixon may have been a criminal and an asshole, but he actually had some positive accomplishments - for example, he vastly improved diplomatic relations with China, established the Environmental Protection Agency, and supported lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.

    [Note: contrary to social media standards, acknowledging someone's legit accomplishments does not equal forgiving all their bad shit.]

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    he's literally the problem almost every single time there's a long standing problem. most of it traces ban to Ronny which is amazing considering he may have been brain dead the entire time.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    I've always said it and I'll keep saying it because it is undeniably true.

    Not a single one of America's enemies on the face of the Earth could harm Americans more than the Republican party does.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I guess only republicans. Okay.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's impossible for Republicans to do more harm than the Republicans.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yes. It is hard for anyone to do more harm than themselves...

    But it isn't like they are unit 731, or the roman emperors.

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You can draw a neo liberal shitstorm bumpy line from Regan to Trump.

    Regan telling Iran not to release the hostages until after the ekection and if he won he'd sell then weapons (Iran-Contra) and he's elected twice.

    Carter had bad ratings because he wasnt a typical US President, he actually gave a fuck about people and place. Welfare queens indeed ffs

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Ironically the welfare queen bullshit was based off one very specific person, a career conwoman who was suspected for murder at the time she was mentioned as a part of insurance fraud. The implications was that welfare fraud was severe and she was just the top most fraudster, meaning the scale went down from the 150K fraud she did with lesser amounts all the way down.

    Truth is, there was just her. Welfare fraud was so rare and NEVER even CLOSE to her level that they were negligible. But it didn't matter to them. Also the actual proven amount of fraud was 4k to 8k at the most. A fraction of the amount the government claimed. This would have been closer to 20 to 40k in today's money. Not petty theft, but far from some grand world shattering scheme.

    BTW the overt scrutiny of her welfare fraud was so severe that a major reason why many of the investigations regarding her role in that murder were dropped because it would take away media attention from her fraud and reveal just what a career criminal she was.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    I've been saying the exact same thing for decades. Imagine where we'd be today if we had embraced solar and wind 50 years ago?

    It's all about boiling water anyway. Who cares how we boil it? Shouldn't we boil it the cheapest, easiest way possible? The sun's beating down, the wind is blowing, it's easier to harvest that, than drilling holes a mile into the Earth.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Imagine where we'd be today if, during the oil crisis of the 70s, we started working towards reducing our dependency on oil with intention.

    They all say it'd take 30 years. Ok, so if we started this endeavor after 9/11 we'd be in the home stretch.

    If we started this in 1980...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Funny you say it's all about boiling water when neither solar nor wind power generation requires boiling water. Actually, even the forms of solar that do involve water typically don't boil it but just heat it to disperse that heat in the house. The only form that involves boiling water that I'm aware of is a large mirror array that reflects light over a large area towards one target, which could be a boiler.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It’s all about boiling water anyway. Who cares how we boil it?

    Then you want nuclear power. When established, it's cheap, reliable and scalable. And the only real solution to the growing demand.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    Nuclears lifetime cost per KwH isn't cheap, and that's the main reason it hasn't been mass implemented.

    The upfront cost is simply too much for the amount of energy it produces.*

    But solar and wind are the two cheapest sources of energy available, we need more energy stores to go fully solar and wind. We don't really have enough mountains, to rely fully on hydro energy by pumping water up a hill with excess energy - But it's a start, Sweden is minting money on this strategy.

    Battery technology however seems to be evolving rapidly at the moment, there's a serious hope we'll end up with batteries as base loaders in two decades - One big issue, is how to ensure no need for a way larger energy grid capacity than necessary, but people are working on ways to introduce battery farms locally at wind and solar farms. So they'd pass the excess energy over there, rather than through the grid

    *My information might be outdated, as I'm not aware if the SMRs if proven capable, are cheaper today than the calculations I've seen my mate do for a bachelor projects of economics just short of a decade ago

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Imagine where we’d be today if we had embraced solar and wind 50 years ago? I don't want to break your imagination, but you "the US" are stuck in a loop. One step forward, two steps back.

    Columbine shooting was 27years ago and nothing was done. Except a "Pray For" on social network. Don't expect too much from your country.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    Conservatism should be considered a intensive hate crime against humanity.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    I've said it often enough that reagan was the worst. Even worst than the orange tumor. That backward criminal couldn't exist without trash like reagan.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ask every "progressive" running for POTUS in 28' if they plan to put them back and then follow up if they will put that in writing on their platform. If they say yes, suggest they use tungsten carbide bolts to attach them.

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