cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28131779

In addition to “climate change” and “green,” EERE forbid officials from using “emissions” to avoid the implication that they are a negative. Climate change is caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, which is driven primarily by burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy.

Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    Assholes have never even heard of a thesaurus. Plus, we now have AI at our backs. Behold, what ChatGPT ginned up for me a second ago:

    1. Global heating
    2. Planetary warming
    3. Atmospheric instability
    4. Rising planetary temperatures
    5. Ecological overheating
    6. Weather system disruption
    7. Global temperature shift
    8. Planetary imbalance
    9. Atmospheric warming trend
    10. Earth system disturbance
    11. Heat-driven weather extremes
    12. Long-term planetary warming
    13. Rising global heat levels
    14. Ecological destabilization
    15. Planet-wide heat surge
    16. Environmental overheating
    17. Temperature-driven disruption
    18. Global heat imbalance
    19. Accelerated warming of Earth
    20. Planetary-scale weather disruption

    I get that this works as long as they’re willing to play by the rules they set. But if it comes down to getting the word out, and silencing science that could save lives, it’s worth trying.

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      Free speech (conservative newspeak): Calling black people the N-word and not receiving any social backlash.

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    Ha ha ha, nice try. This is like trying to convince someone you never fart. Proof of idiocy.

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    There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

    • Ezekiel 23:20
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    Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”

    Can’t wait for press conferences from these officials to be stripped down to Kevin’s level.

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    Because the old “$2.99 looks more like 2 dollars than 3 dollars” works on the masses they discovered that through social fuckery and behaviourism they are able to make us think and do almost anything. Fuck this bullshit. Let’s find the warm sun again and start building a future and leave all of this power crap behind.

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      The only way they could be more of a threat to us is if they were literally holding guns to our heads. And we may not be far off from that.

      They are America’s enemies. They are democracy’s enemies.

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      There are very few things more terrifying than a civil war. Americans jumping straight to wishing for one, ignoring millions of less murdery ways to fix their country never stops creeping me out. You guys are deeply fucked in more ways then one.

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        I’d love to legislatively fix all this.

        But fascists aren’t known for allowing fair elections.

        So I think that ship sailed in November 2024 while a bunch of fucking losers were protest voting or not voting at all.

        America was warned. America didn’t listen.

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          Right?! The number of people who stayed home because “Kamila doesn’t support Palestine enough.” was insane. Leave it to us on the left to completely ignore existential problems if we’re given the opportunity to prove to another leftist that they’re not left enough, and only the most extreme left-wing opinions are legitimate.

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        What is your best scenario to avoid civil war in the US? Offer a suggestion instead of just complaining. You seem passionate about this so surely you have some suggestions that absolutely should be attempted first

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        Guillotines don’t mean civil war at all. Guillotines mean that the population at large has decided to act. They are deliberate, not something that suddenly stabs someone in the back or shoots them in the head. It takes time to set up. I wouldn’t call them a weapon at all - they are a consequence.

        (Partially paraphrasing from a post on another platform a long time ago. Only remember it vaguely.)

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        To clarify: Not American

        Soo, how exactly are you planning to fix the shitshow that the states are in rn? A leader heavily leaning to totalitarianism, most of executive power in the hands of his cronies, and you get shit like national guard unlawfully stationed in major cities, while censoring many of new-age issues and executive orders left and right that legalize bribery a remove power in order for him to stay in power.

        And don’t fucking say to “just vote”. Apparently it didn’t work so much last time.

        Don’t even get me started on trying to educate the people. 8 hours work, 1 hour commute, 8 hours sleep, taking care of kids, house, and you are left with like 4. What are you gonna do? Argue with paid trolls online and absolutely waste energy? Slip into people’s DMs to talk about politics? Make videos that probably 10 people will see, at most?

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          Yeah, shit deal. Do you think it will be better if there will be a fucking war? Not “Good guys killed all the bad guys and there is a socialist utopia going on” war, those don’t exist, more like “there is a tank where my living room used to be and all my family died in the last shootout” kind of war.
          I lost my country long ago, we had our authoritarian resurgence a decade and a half ago, everyone was too apathetic to do anything, and those who tried got mocked by the likes of you, with their “ah, what are you gonna do, waste time arguing with people?”. America is going the same route very quickly to the same tune.
          If you want a broad answer to “what should I do”, well, you aren’t american, so nothing, focus on your country. Americans should do anything. It usually starts with building the community and identifying clear local goals, because you’re correct that one person can do shit, a group of people with a political position however can do something.

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          I mean, yes? The system is designed to keep everyone too exhausted/stress/scared to bother trying to do anything. At this point in the US, if you only have 4 hours of your day to educate yourself on the current situtation, talk to others about it, and do something (even if it seems like just a drop in the ocean), yes, abso-fucking-lutely yes, spend those 4 hours doing that!

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            4 hours? You and the person above are overestimating how much free time working parents have each day. I’m lucky to get 30 minutes, and I only get that because I’m hiding in the bathroom.

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              My point is even with only 30 minuntes, yes, when fascism has already taken root those minutes should be spent on fighting back however possible.

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        I already killed the billionaire CEO of a health insurance company.

        The authorities got the wrong guy so I’m going to keep going.

        There’s no point in organizing because that just makes us easier to stop before we begin. Also, there’s a 0% we can trust the people in such an organization because there will always be scumbags and morons eager to support their oppressors.