The Political Satire/Meme Thread

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No no, governments are in an attempt to prevent it.
Your attempt at satire fell short, like in the sea rather than even close to the runway.
Never saw that picture, but the speech itself was so divisive..,.
Only to fascists.
And he claims to be the uniter.
See Poppers Paradox
Piss poor job. I am not an enemy of our democracy.

We do not live in a democracy, we live in a republic.
Which idiot alt-right talking head made this idiotic claim again, as your now the second fan of authoritarianism to make that claim in 24 hours.
 
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Piss poor job. I am not an enemy of our democracy.
My thoughts on the election, since so many of you seem to be interested. The election was stolen.

My thoughts on the mostly peaceful protest at the capitol building? It is being blown way out of proportion by the press.
Own up to it.




At least then people will know you can actually stick to your convictions instead of just doing so when you think people won't remember.
 
Then you're going to have to explain what it was.
I was saying that the response to climate change is worse than climate change itself. Take your country for example. Thousands of people have died because they cannot heat their own homes, which is due to the governments decision to reduce the number of coal-fired powerplants. I understand the need to reduce pollution and move to renewables but cheap and reliable sources of energy cannot be cut off at a moment's notice. It does more harm than good for the average folk who struggle enough with inflation and the cost of living.
 
I was saying that the response to climate change is worse than climate change itself. Take your country for example. Thousands of people have died because they cannot heat their own homes, which is due to the governments decision to reduce the number of coal-fired powerplants. I understand the need to reduce pollution and move to renewables but cheap and reliable sources of energy cannot be cut off at a moment's notice. It does more harm than good for the average folk who struggle enough with inflation and the cost of living.
Greg Abbott, that you?

One would have to be almost entirely ignorant of the real situation and have a raging hate-boner for environmentalists to partake in the mental gymnastics required to be that wrong. I will give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume it's Fox or similar that's fed you this nonsense.

The real issue is that the UK has a spectacularly broken (and utterly free market capitalism) energy market and system, which is why the rest of Europe, despite being more reliant on Russian gas (the UK's use of Russian gas is circa 3% - most is home produced), and so should be harder hit than the UK if your claim were accurate, yet that's not the case. Not even close.

 
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Greg Abbott, that you?

One would have to be almost entirely ignorant of the real situation and have a raging hate-boner for environmentalists to partake in the mental gymnastics required to be that wrong. I will give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume it's Fox or similar that's fed you this nonsense.

The real issue is that the UK has a spectacularly broken (and utterly free market capitalism) energy market and system, which is why despite being more reliant on Russian gas (the UK's use of Russian gas is circa 3% - most is home produced), and so should be harder hit than the UK if your claim were accurate, yet that's not the case. Not even close.

And this I why I shouldn't repeat what my mum has said about this sort of stuff.
 
which is due to the governments decision to reduce the number of coal-fired powerplants. I understand the need to reduce pollution and move to renewables but cheap and reliable sources of energy cannot be cut off at a moment's notice.
Nothing about moving away from Coal was 'at a moments notice'...

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We replaced it largely with Gas as coal dependency fell...



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What we didn't do was scale up renewables fast enough... but that's somewhat separate from the current crisis, which as @Scaff points out is the result of a different problem.
 
And this I why I shouldn't repeat what my mum has said about this sort of stuff.
Unsolicited advice, but take this as an opportunity to note the importance of doing research on important discussion topics. If you hear someone regurgitate a particular talking point that seems strange to you, or you see a headline that seems a little to good (or bad) to be true, there's no shame in following up that topic with your own research in the matter. It's a major component in battling against misinformation, which is pretty rampant nowadays.
 
I don't see why you lefties aren't hugging up to nuclear. So clean so awesome. Nearly free!
Tell me you don't read the forum...
This is the trouble with faith-based reasoning.
 
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I don't see why you lefties aren't hugging up to nuclear. So clean so awesome. Nearly free!
While I 100% agree with nuclear power, it's not exactly cheap. Nuclear power plants have a capital cost of $6,000/kW. Coal is $3,800/kW and solar can be as low as $900/kW. So while nuclear energy is good, it's not even remotely free.
 
And this I why I shouldn't repeat what my mum has said about this sort of stuff.
Guess I should stop listening to my dad.
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Who are "you lefties"?
Yeah, I don't know how many normal people read this thread, but the leftists are very vocal here as in most of the political threads on gtplanet.
We, the "normal" people, are all in for Trump. Best economy, best everything. Just waiting to see you guys screaming in the streets on November 4th, 2020.
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a raging hate-boner
As a non-english person, this colorful and inspiring expression is new to me. Just curious, is there a female equivalent in the English language?
 
Ya, it's really weird how this part of GTP gets labeled as a "lefty" echo chamber. Like, are we reading the same posts or what? I've been posting here for years, and it's not even remotely an echo chamber for anything.
 
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