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There’s a lot of video of Reagan talking about climate change and how it will need to have both side to work on it, that it will be the major 20th century problem, etc. … and the edge fund (fully invested into petroleum) saw it as an attack on their profit and bought the politicians.

There’s so much more profit to be made if you exploit the environment, and the oligarchs plan on the consequences not catching up to them before they die of old age. (At least, not any consequences they can’t buy their way out of.)

Narcissism is a plague

For all of my life, the cons basically coded caring about the environment, about animals, as being gay. I don't think it was ever otherwise.

I've been vegetarian for decades, now, too, and I knew pretty much what to expect, and I can assure you - virtually every omnivore man (and quite a few women, too) more or less eventually gets around to insinuating that I am not quite manly enough because of it.

And not just cons, but yeah, virtually all of the cons do this. Just watch how the likes of Jesse Watters focuses on things like crossing legs, FFS. There are certain types of men (and women, too, unfortunately - they don't get a pass on this either) that will just obsess on this kind of thing, nonstop. They are constantly running their weird version of gaydar on all kinds of behaviors, including caring about the environment.

laissez-faire capitalism doens't actually work if externalities need to be factored in the price

Yeah, but men in women's sports and men in the girl locker room and men in the women's bathroom and transgender for everybody!!!!

a congress full of 'aoc' types? hell yea, bring it.

This has nothing on what folks have done with Kirk

I grew up near a kid that had a lot of very warped and demented views and behaviors, but he really thrived on calling everyone he didn't like "a woman" during a few years in junior/senior high school.

He'd say "don't be such a woman" with extreme disdain.

Okay, so he's a kid of a certain age and upbringing right? And this was the 80s. You know, whatever. However, his mother would say the same shit. And this kid's younger sister.

My mother was doing everything not to scream at this lady, LOL...they were nearly the same age, and old enough to know how much worse things used to be for women. Apparently this other woman did not give a fuck; she wanted to prop up the patriarchy...

One of the first things attacked under the Nazis was trans.

So this is the equivalent of the Nazi attacks on trans.

The famous book burnings? That was a trans thing.

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/i-just-learned-the-nazis-first-book-burning-happened-at-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

So yeah, this round of conservatives are not all that creative; they are following in the steps of their forebears.

Yeah, no kidding. It's such a tired argument they are making.

They found all the bathroom bills brouhaha worked for them, though, as they were losing the gay marriage thing, so they really doubled down on it. They've been harping on the trans thing for ten years now?