• pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    These political figures need to play some modded tech Minecraft and learn that unless you have a nether lava ocean, renewable energies are just better. Also, don’t we have a nether lava ocean?

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    Mark Waters says sales at his Odessa, Texas, tools business, which he describes as a “Home Depot for the oilfields,” are down about 10 percent. He does not regret voting for Trump, saying he is willing to take a personal hit to support the president’s agenda. But he said it is ironic that over the decades he has made a lot more money when the party he despises is in power. “The oil business has thrived under Democratic leadership despite them being true haters of all things fossil,” Waters said. “For whatever reason, I made millions of dollars under Clinton. Then I made even more under Obama and Biden. I have never had a solid explanation.” His business outlook for the coming months under Trump? “Hopefully it won’t be catastrophic,” Waters said.

    Almost some self-awareness there. Almost.

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      Fascinating, isn’t it? Does he think the Democrats just “hate all things fossil” so much that there’s some kind of integer overflow and it flips negative, and oil businesses do just fine entirely by accident?

      It’s truly astounding how well right wing propaganda gets folks to believe things that are so completely at odds with his own lived experience. None of us are immune to propaganda, I know, but that whole statement is just…fascinating

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      … He does not regret voting for Trump, saying he is willing to take a personal hit to support the president’s agenda …

      the personal hit is Donald’s agenda