• LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Wonder why a Republican might want to do this in a midterm election year

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    She's really overestimating Americans willingness to sacrifice anything for anything.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Seriously, how can anyone think Americans will sacrifice anything at all when a solid half the damn country lost their minds over a piece of cloth?

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Americans are more than willing to sacrifice, as long as they personally don't have to sacrifice anything. If they think / know that they won't be impacted, they are more than willing to ask OTHER people to sacrifice everything.

  • Commander_Data [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Gee, I wonder why they don't mention what state she represents. Surely not because Alaska is a huge oil state.

    • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I expect the senators from North Dakota to also follow this line, restarting the oil extraction there will be great for their donors. Also terrible for the planet and the stolen native land it will be taken from.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So how do these two imagine this'd go. The US is a country basically built entirely around petroleum and from what I gather prices have already been rising.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Simple. We poison more indigenous land so Robert can drive his pickup truck to McDonald’s

    • Mother [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Manchin and Murkowski are both from oil states

      Blocking Russian imports is great for domestic producers because it artificially constrains supply

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Does WV have oil? I thought it was all coal mountains and bears down there. honestly expected the dakotas to be more aggressively pushing for sanctions, as well as Oklahoma and Texas, since those are the big oil states.

        • Mother [any]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          WV is a big frack state, one of the larger producers of natural gas and natural gas liquids, the heavier of which can compete with the lighter end of the oil barrel. Also, many of the companies that frack gas in WV also frack oil in other places

        • Mother [any]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          I’m sure the demons from those other chud states are pushing too but in this case our iron jawed angel is unique in that he’s a democrat, thus demonstrating oil sanctions are bipartisan 🥰

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    1 month after this “Biden made gas more expensive when he cut us off from trade partners “.

  • Mother [any]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    I am in favor of blocking all oil, but thought this headline was funny

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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    3 years ago

    Huh, I guess she's thinking strategically over Alaska's resource export potential.

  • UlyssesT
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    3 days ago

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