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i'll start: most "vote blue no matter who" liberals are actually good people (not including terminally online liberals as anyone who is terminally online is a bad person)

  • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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    1 年前

    If your goal is independence, two sources are always better than one.

    Reducing fossil fuel use by increasing costs and funneling profits to America is a neoliberal approach to climate change and doesn't work. All it's going to do is make people poorer and move production of petrochemical-derived and energy-intensice products elsewhere. This is because the market is not able to make a sustainable change away from fossil fuels, especially not for a temporary wars, as these investments have to be amortized over decades. If you want to actually reduce fossil fuel use for heating and electrcity, you need governmental investment into nuclear and renewable energy and programs to install heat pumps. Becoming dependent on American gas is not actually going to help, and neither will changes in prices because it's a non-market solution.

    Unless of course you think America is inherently more ethical than Russia and should be preferred - I'll let you make that argument.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 年前

      Reducing fossil fuel use by increasing costs and funneling profits to America is a neoliberal approach to climate change and doesn't work

      Yes, but I don't know why you'd think I was advocating for that.

      Becoming dependent on American gas is not actually going to help

      It doesn't, but I wasn't saying that either. I was saying that both Russian and American gas dependency are bad - Hexbear only seems to think the latter is bad.

      Unless of course you think America is inherently more ethical than Russia and should be preferred

      michael-laughbugs-no Among the many crimes of the US is being a major reason for still relying on fossil fuels in the first place.