Biden pushing to cancel Keystone XL pipeline as soon as he takes
thehill.com
President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly planning on canceling the permit for the $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office.

Let's be fair, if we only get this, $10k in loan forgiveness and $1,400 Biden will be a better president than Obama, for folks in the US, anyways.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    This is all theatre to make it look like Biden is “tough on climate”. I guaran fucking tee people like AOC and the Sunrise Movement will be coming out absolutely GUSHING over his bold actions to make you think that everything is smooth sailing.

    I doubt it. But AOC and other succ orgs have become lightening rods and punching bags for the terminally online. Americans love self-induced apathy. So much easier to heckle from the sidelines than do anything of substance.

    • KantNeverCould [any]
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      4 years ago

      Climate activism is for people who are 15-25 in 2020 what LGBT rights were for people who were 15-25 in 2008. It's an issue the Left has been agitating for years, that Democrats have ignored or merely paid lip service to for years, and has reached a tipping point of popular support, especially with young people. Now that it's overwhelmingly popular and the "political calculus" makes sense, the Dems will make sweeping gestures that actually fall massively short, and then they'll tell you to shut up and go away. Those activist groups will applaud the moves and just be absorbed into the Democratic Party.

      • femboi [they/them, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Makes you wonder what happened to all of those gay advocacy groups once they got bought off by the Democratic Party

        • BigTittyTrotsky [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I, a Lib, gave Human Rights Campaign $25 one time NINE YEARS AGO, and to this day I still get mail with those bumper stickers asking for money. They've tracked me across multiple addresses and send me letters every 3 months or so.

          So many of these orgs are "make work" programs for people living in D.C.

          • happybadger [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Charity for the children of the rich so that they can recycle 1% of the wealth of the rich into the problem caused by the existence of the rich.

            oh noes please don't go to the capitol again patriots please no you'll trigger me no please did I mention I'm a Marxist oh noes you'd trigger an actual Marxist no please no stop

        • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          They kinda went away when same-sex marriage was legalized (which, to be fair, was not just a small gesture).

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        Climate activism is for people who are 15-25 in 2020 what LGBT rights were for people who were 15-25 in 2008.

        The US underwent significant improvements in LGBT civil rights in the '00s, so I'd take this as a good sign.

        Now that it’s overwhelmingly popular and the “political calculus” makes sense, the Dems will make sweeping gestures that actually fall massively short, and then they’ll tell you to shut up and go away.

        The US is moving on climate change in the wake of nearly every other country on earth, and the Dems will likely fall far short of what's necessary. But good news! We've outsources so much of our industrial capital to other countries that our policies are fading in terms of relevance.