When will the lunacy end? How is this a hill to die on? Its well known and documented we do not have the basic materials required to do something like this and why is the government telling us what we can and cant do when it comes to basic stupid things like buying a car?!
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18 Dec
Like the medieval Catholic Church, the climate cult has become a carnival of charlatans and sharks using the language and symbols virtue to accumulate wealth and power to themselves.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 OP 18 Dec
Couldn't agree more. I mean the LPO office at DOE just announced a loan for California's P&G to INCREASE natural gas usage in the state. The state that demonizes it and claims it wants to not touch fossil fuels but then bam does this.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18 Dec
It's all about money, always has been, always will be. What changes by era is the virtue that they try to disguise their greed with.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 18 Dec
You asked :)
Politicians work under an incentive structure that rewards promising things they cannot deliver. Even things that are not possible. Their only accountability is the voters and donars. The donars get what they want and the voters usually are to uninformed or dumb to realize what is going on. When they do realize it the other team is so demonized they either stick with their team or just don't vote.
The longer I look at democracy and the modern state the more absurd it appears to me. It's not that the men are bad or the government in power is bad. It's the whole incentive structure. There are almost no negative consequences pushing against this nonsense.
I have heard it said that the default view of political figures should be that of the tobacco executives. Today I think it should be the view of the medical insurance CEOs. The default view. There are exceptions but they are rare and work in spite of the system.
The solution is freedom and voluntary interaction. Removing the monopoly state. Remove the monopoly on violence. It would not be a utopia but IMO the incentives would be better.
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 OP 18 Dec
To me, as someone who works for Congress, there is an issue as well with just how freaking big it is. The size I think helps facilitate or allow this reward structure to really take place. Everyone can pass off the blame to others due to the size if that makes sense.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 19 Dec
100%. These things aren't perfect at a smaller scale but they would be far better. You can see many of the same issues in large companies vs small ones.
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