cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28131779

In addition to “climate change” and “green,” EERE forbid officials from using “emissions” to avoid the implication that they are a negative. Climate change is caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, which is driven primarily by burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy.

Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”

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      The only way they could be more of a threat to us is if they were literally holding guns to our heads. And we may not be far off from that.

      They are America’s enemies. They are democracy’s enemies.

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      Free speech (conservative newspeak): Calling black people the N-word and not receiving any social backlash.

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    Because the old “$2.99 looks more like 2 dollars than 3 dollars” works on the masses they discovered that through social fuckery and behaviourism they are able to make us think and do almost anything. Fuck this bullshit. Let’s find the warm sun again and start building a future and leave all of this power crap behind.

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    Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”

    Can’t wait for press conferences from these officials to be stripped down to Kevin’s level.

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    There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

    • Ezekiel 23:20
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    Assholes have never even heard of a thesaurus. Plus, we now have AI at our backs. Behold, what ChatGPT ginned up for me a second ago:

    1. Global heating
    2. Planetary warming
    3. Atmospheric instability
    4. Rising planetary temperatures
    5. Ecological overheating
    6. Weather system disruption
    7. Global temperature shift
    8. Planetary imbalance
    9. Atmospheric warming trend
    10. Earth system disturbance
    11. Heat-driven weather extremes
    12. Long-term planetary warming
    13. Rising global heat levels
    14. Ecological destabilization
    15. Planet-wide heat surge
    16. Environmental overheating
    17. Temperature-driven disruption
    18. Global heat imbalance
    19. Accelerated warming of Earth
    20. Planetary-scale weather disruption

    I get that this works as long as they’re willing to play by the rules they set. But if it comes down to getting the word out, and silencing science that could save lives, it’s worth trying.

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    Ha ha ha, nice try. This is like trying to convince someone you never fart. Proof of idiocy.

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    Imagine being so invested in bullshit that you have to censor any and all terms that contradict it.

    Really, it’s no wonder that Trump and his cronies and minions are so filled with rage - they’re in a constant state of extreme cognitive dissonance.

    And it makes sense in a way that they direct their rage at “woke” people and positions. From their limited, animalistic points of view, all they understand is that when they think of “woke,” they’re filled with rage. They aren’t conscious enough to understand that the source of the rage isn’t the positions or the people, but the cognitive dissonance they experience when they cling to their opposition to simple and obvious truths.

    It has to be a miserable way to live, and if they weren’t an existential threat to me, my family and friends, and society as a whole, I’d feel sorry for them.

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      his cronies and minions are so filled with rage - they’re in a constant state of extreme cognitive dissonance.

      And that will be their own undoing. Fascists are fully driven by emotions. They are anti-liberal and anti-intellect after all.