02-17-2021, 08:20 PM
(02-17-2021, 06:14 AM)Freija Wrote:ABNARTY Wrote:Pausing new oil and gas leases. That one is some serious bloviating. Section 208 is the pertinent area. Basically the Feds want to shake down producers. Adjust royalties to account for climate costs. And those costs are what the they say it is. Handy.
Rah Rah Big Oil! We could just let them have their way in everything they want. Who would that be good for?
My gas tank. My gas tank would love that.
Quote:ABNARTY Wrote:Combat discrimination? I thought this was the default position. Discrimination bad. Now we have to combat it? Could they have used a more vague term? Is there any shooting involved?
size=large]Extend protection to LBGTQ people around the world. I guess instead of injecting freedom, the US military will now be injecting protection. Have a resource in your country K Street is all ga-ga for? BAM! LBGTQ discrimination going on, send in the Marines. Think I am joking? "Swift and meaningful" is the language used. [/size]
Be careful, your straight white cishet privilege is showing!
Not everything is a cis-trans argument. I took him to mean that foreign interference and adventurism by governments is a BAD thing.
So you think using LBGTQ rights as a pretext for raping other nations of their resources is a GOOD thing?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’