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Hopefully some people will care and it’ll help get Biden over the line. His main supporters won’t, though. Because to them he’s a patriot; being a tax-dodging, gold-toilet-owning piece of shit is living the American dream.

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As well as a quiet carriage, Chicago have a thick-Michael Fabricant carriage.

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he knows all the loopholes because he’s such a good business man etc etc.

That’s such a bleak proposition. BBC slowly turning into the Daily Mail.

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Aggressive tax ā€œavoidanceā€ like this will be seen as a badge of honour amongst those calling for a small state, ā€œpersonal responsibiltyā€ regarding healthcare costs, militias who love Merkkka but hate their institutions and his partners in crime of big business. If anything, I think it will peversely help his cause.

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Well hopefully all those people were voting for him anyway. There must be some decent Republicans left, surely?

It’s the hope that kills you… :wink:

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I’m setting a pretty low bar when I say decent, I mean just not more or less Nazis.

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I agree with you here, taking personal action is good, but it’s just delaying the inevitable unless big corporations are forced to change.

This article says it better than I could. Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs | The Guardian

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Fun fact: The idea of the personal carbon footprint was invented by BP

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Recall in the late 80s how it was schoolkids pressuring their parents into buying leaded petrol over unleaded or not buying aerosols, etc. with CFCs due to the hole in the ozone layer over the Antartic? That was a big turning point in green politics and widespread environmentalism.

I get where you’re coming from but again, given that mega corps like BP, Shell, etc only care about their immediate profits, starting somewhere and doing something is much better than doing nothing. Still can’t work out why petrochemical companies are not investing in green tech, wind farms, renewable energy, etc. Y’know, long term, joined up thinking.

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Hancock being put under pressure by his own party about the new set of laws that are being introduced without Parliamentary debate or scrutiny.

They’ll likely do it during half term so as to avoid dealing with the schools issue

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saw him chatting some overpopulation bollocks the other day as well the silly old get

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He has a point though. Not that there’s any ethical way to deal with it easily. But it’s not unreasonable to call it out as a problem.

overpopulation is a myth

In what way? Like when animals take over an area, overpopulate and destroy it? That doesn’t happen? It’s all fake? Because you can see the destruction it causes with your own eyes over a very small amount of time. How are they faking that? Are work crews coming in on a night to make the animals look bad?

haha i’m not sure what you actually mean with the point about animals to be honest but he’s been banging on about human overpopulation for years

Just being facetious. You can overpopulate a bit of space for sure but maybe not the whole planet?

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