• Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The conservative brain has now become an engine of pure reaction. A lib could propose prayer in schools and cutting taxes on the rich and they’d :frothingfash:

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Austin banned them and the Texas legislature made it illegal to ban plastic bags

          • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Yeah I think they are adding electric vehicle taxes

            • serveranim [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              Didn't California almost do that? Gas taxes pay for highways, and they were righteously angry that wealthy people who got electric car subsidies wouldn't be paying their fair share of the roads.

            • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              I think one of the midwestern petrostates implemented an EV Sin Tax. Like, it got through their legislature not as a a replacement for the gas tax, but as punishment for any gotdang libruls who would buy an EV instead of doing their patriotic duty to support the petroleum industry. Maybe one of the dakotas?

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Plastic bag bans are just recuperation and greenwashing. Plastic bags are not the problem, capitalism is.

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            1 year ago

            what'd actually work is taxing stores for single-use plastics but noooo only the consumer can eat the costs of going green

            • Nakoichi [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              Instead they just banned plastic bags outright and let the stores charge for paper bags as compensation for enforcing the mandate.

              Now that I think about it that is a perfect encapsulation of neoliberalism.

            • flan [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              yea that plays into it too but i think theres a deeper pathology at play here. Owning the libs is a fun treat but it’s not mother’s milk.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          They're sorta handy though

          Paper bags are nice and all but they will rip if you put too much heavy stuff in them. Also, better hope there's no rain or your paper bag is gonna dissolve on you

          • fox [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Just use a tote or carry it all in your arms like a real sigma

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          :I-was-saying: I always forget the reusable bags at home and I don't trust paper bags

        • Bjork_shhh [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          CFLs were Al Gore nerd bullshit made from mercury with weird color spectrums, but LEDs seem pretty great, fuck reactionaries lol

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      They have. But its typically "prayer for everyone without respect to denomination" and "tax cuts for Californians and New Yorkers" so its easy to spin that as "Brainwashing our good Christian children!" and "Giving money to blue-haired communists!"