• GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
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    1 month ago

    This handily establishes that the government sanctions their actions, so the government is responsible for the harm to the environment or the harm those fossil fuel companies cause people.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Good thing we now know the next president can label the executives that follow through a national security threat, freeze their accounts, sanction them and force the sale of any company needed to another American company of choice then revoke their families citizenship and deport them to a country they have never been to or speak the language. (Or just a prison camp)

    Or are those just legal acts when done by Trump?

    Oh wait I forgot he already set Republican support of the U.S. government buying stake in the company as well. I suppose that means they can just take majority stake and assign someone in their cabinet to run it like Rubio’s supposedly doing Venezuelas oil deals.

    All of these things show this government system can’t continue as it is or it will guarantee a constant rise of the population being accosted and mistreated until there truly is a collapse.

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      Or are those just legal acts when done by Trump?

      Wilhoit’s Law applies:

      "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

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        Or to put it in other terms, Conservatism says:

        • I get to do what I want.
        • You have to do what I say
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      wow I want some of whatever psychedelic you’re on. That shit would never happen. Any Democrat that the oligarchs allowed to get elected would never do anything that actually threatens their economic interest.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        I agree with you to a point, but the reason Trump’s administration has had to try to roll back restrictions placed against such companies during both his administrations is because those regulations were indeed signed in.

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          When were the regulations signed in though? In an era different from today. Without major reform or minor revolution we wouldn’t be able to get back to that era.

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    1 month ago

    I don’t know why I’m even surprised anymore. Of course they would try this shit. Fucking Cruz and every single Republican needs to go to prison. Also most establishment Democrats too.