• Parafaragaramus
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    Should have called it Big Blue Coal. Because BBC is something Trump deserves.

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    Meanwhile China is positioning itself as a leader in the energy sectors of the future.

    It’s depressing to watch these displays, but even more depressing in the knowledge that our nation’s power is (as usual) being squandered to make a demented old man feel like a big boy and for keeping a handful of billionaires marginally richer with money they’ll never actually live to spend anyway.

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      Unfortunately one of the advantages of dictatures is that it move fast in one direction. The main problem being if the leader is intelligent enough to chose the right direction, which they rarely do.

      On the other hand, democracies moves slowly, but the damages done by bad leaders are often counterbalanced by the good made by better leaders.

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        Also dictators rarely focus moving on one direction

        Gaddafi for example did good with education and healthcare, but he also many bad things.

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          You are right. But I didn’t mean that as “doing one thing well”, but rather “focussing on a long term objective”.

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    Donald “Mercury Poisoning” Trump.

    Most the mercury in fish comes from fossil fuel burning and mining. Coal is both.

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      They’re all participation trophies, as he can’t win anything of real value.

      FIFA peace price of “at least you tried”. Renewable energy price of “didn’t understand the task, but cried when he didn’t get a medal”.

      He’s such a weird snowflake

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    Its just so fucking stupid on its face. How anyone thought calling it “clean coal” was anything besides dumb as fuck is beyond me.

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      Then you should visit Colstrip, Montana or similar coal towns. The propaganda works very well when it’s taught from before birth and everyone goes along even if they don’t agree!

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        See, I understand that. What I dont understand is why every other non-coal town trump supporter didn’t immediately understand that this was a stupid as fuck grift immediately after hearing it.

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        The propaganda works well when it the smog goes into the air and comes down as a natural occurrence beyond our control, especially when it disproportionately affects those eastward in the Jetstream. You know, the north/mid Atlantic coastal elites (just don’t mention Appalachian Pennsylvania)

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        Can you explain for everybody who doesn’t want to fly into the USA to visit a coal town in Montana what one will see there?