I’ll be honest, I don’t really care. None of these laws mean anything if the government is completely rebuilt from the ground up. Every single thing this admin does will be worth so much burned toilet paper. All the grifts ill gotten gains will be liquidated and confiscated by whoever the fuck hangs them all in the streets, as is most likely to happen. All the bills that say shit like “no regulations on AI evar!! Lol” or “Donald Trumps name on everything, including mt Kilimanjaro for some reason” will be meaningless.
An interesting movie:
They framed it as a way to “protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.”
Aren’t lawful actions already protected by, you know, the law? By definition, the only legal punishments that could happen are for illegal actions. This doesn’t even make the slightest bit of sense as reasoning. They didn’t even try to manufacture justification.
Anyway, when the justice system no longer can be relied on to provide justice, extra-legal methods must be taken to ensure a just society. Them doing this could be either of two things, or both. It’s them actually protecting dirty energy companies, as it sounds, or it’s them requiring vigilantism to stop it, which gives them justification to crack down on “the left” and anyone else who stands against them.
Edit: Also, they consistently say that climate change isn’t real, and yet they feel the need to pass a law that explicitly is there to protect against the harms of climate change. Either it’s real, and they should pay (especially since they knew about it and mislead the public, which this also explicitly protects), or it isn’t real, and this law is pointless.
the actual way to solve “leftist legal crusades” (if they exist): anti-SLAPP laws that punish frivolous lawsuits… but that would hurt them more than “leftists”
You sound as if you think the democrats are a progressive party
aside from like only 2 dems in congress, almost every other one is complicit.
You mean progressives? Because Dems as a party are not against carbon
They will express greatly concerning concerns, and send a moderately worded letter.
Do they realize that this will lead to more physical sabotage against oil infrastructure? If they get rid of any non-violent means of mitigating concerns, they leave only one option.
After what the americans have mustered against a fascist takeover I don’t think the rich are very scared about someone trying to “sabotage” the oil infrastructure…
Right wing violence (which includes neo Nazis, fundamentalist Christians bombing abortion clinics, etc) and fundamentalist Islam attacks make up the overwhelming majority of political violence in the USA but left wing violence exists. And of that left wing violence the majority is what they call “ecoterrorism”
It’s not obscenely common (tbf no political violence is “extremely common” in America, statistically still very unlikely) but it does happen. It’s just far less publicized because “some people bombed an oil transport line/hummer dealership at night/etc” is not nearly as clickbaity as “weird scumbag with a manifesto about great replacement theory posted to 8chan shot 35 people”
Another unpopular move by the party of pedophile supporters
Frankly? The United States is not a two parties country. It’s a no party country. Ever thought about why monopoly laws from the eighties no longer exist?
There is a communist party. And a green party. And like 10 more, depending where you live.
The problem is not that there are not progressive parties. The problem is that the US is not a democracy, and it’s designed so only one party can win elections
Reagan was an antichrist, yes
They should be making people aware of this, but those stupid laws can be repealed just as easy as they are made.
Such a shame your media is bought up by the wealthy!
But who will repeal them and why would they?
Oil burns a little too readily for them to be taking non-violent options off the table. A paper warehouse is nothing compared to this potential.
Conservatives. The comic book villains that came to life and terrorize an entire planet.
If they remove our legal recourse, do they think we’ll just shrug and be like “guess we have no options”?
That seems to be exactly what Americans are doing right now about everything. So yeah.
You’re right. No one is throwing molotovs at techbro houses or burning down warehouses or anything.
Makes it easy to call us all “terrorists” before they drug us and send us to “wellness farms”
That’s exactly why you all need to stop acting like sheeple and start a revolution.
I mean you’re preaching to the choir but the seething mass of liberals don’t even know what liberal means
Why? Most democratic officials are closeted republicans.
This isn’t really true, though some are. It’s just that both Democrats and Republicans are almost all owned by the owner class, so support any corporate protections. That isn’t anything that Republicans own. It’s both parties.
and funded by big oil, gillibrand is the most blatant one, she even received an "award from them.
Right. How else is Jeffries and Chuck going to afford their beach front property in Gaza if they don’t receive million from the fossil fuel lobby.
they just ask aipac for more dollars, which is basically us tax money.
Don’t know about that part. It’s just rooting for a team to stand up literally and it ain’t happening as much, preventing unnecessary spending, marginalizing communities, is been the rapport for either parties. Like this is a hot take but all party motto/slogan is tip toeing too much. Some real change or something needs to happen to garter my favor.
Do you think chuck cares about Palestinian people. Dude spear headed so many weapon sales to Isreal. He wants every Palestinian dead. Jeffries is doing it for the money.
no why would he, he made it clear he only supports israel above all else.
