u/jubilationtcornpone

Why try to reach an agreement with someone who is just going to rip it up and throw it in your face in a few years? Backstabbing and broken promises are a byproduct of empires and the US has a long trail of those behind it.

"Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake."

I remember reading that. It was pretty funny. Jihad is easy. Running a country is not. Who would have thought.


Reporters should all just say it was Don Jr.

It's not like they have to work very hard at it at this point.

You got me there.

Saudi Arabia & murdering journalists.

Name a more iconic duo.

Considering they've been murdering Palestinians en masse and the Trump Administration has been perfectly fine with that, I'm sure the Israelis have a pass to do whatever they want. Explicit or not.

Nah. They resent us because we don't have ~~high quality, affordable healthcare~~ sOcIaLiSm.

That really sucks. The generic defect is brutal. I've known people who have had it. It can cause cancer that just keeps coming back over and over. Treatment is just stalling the inevitable.

I don't think it's Paris that people dislike.

America as a country needs to go fuck itself for a _while_ so it can really learn the lesson of how productive that is.

Currently fucking ourselves. Unfortunately, I think it's going to have to get a lot more painful before most of the people who *need* to learn from it actually do.

If they could detain him indefinitely, that would be great.

Canadians: *Burn the White House to the ground*

Me: "Oh no! Anyway..."

I worked at a place where basically every other department would stand in the lobby at 4:58 PM, waiting for accounting (which was on the other side of the building) to leave. If you didn't wait, the CEO would likely see you from his office window and you'd be getting a "talking to" by your supervisor the next day. I have never before or since worked anywhere where I've seen so much collective time wasting, trying to keep up the appearance of being busy.

This was an American company. I don't miss that shit hole in the slightest.

Hamas. It's always Hamas. Even when it's not Hamas, it's Hamas. And they're definitely hiding in an elementary school in Gaza. Oh, and the kids at the elementary school? Also Hamas.

/s


You know what's funnier? I mean, it's not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants.

Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it's less than 20%.

Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years.

So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they'll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.

All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they've been whining about for years.

Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.

Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure.

You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.