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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Trump receives trophy as he’s named ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’

www.independent.co.uk

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Trump receives trophy as he’s named ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’

www.independent.co.uk

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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“Clean Beautiful coal. We love Clean Beautiful coal, don't we?” the president said, kicking off the event at the White House Wednesday
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  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    Participation trophy ass snowflakes

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
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    Trophy’s are for losers who don’t understand the game.

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    “Clean Coal”

  • Morgan @lemmy.ca
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    oxy-MORON

  • DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org
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    When is he starting to wear those nice, shiny medals like the North Korean generals are wearing?

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      Nobody managed to fill up both pants legs? Pathetic!

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        6 of those are for basket weaving

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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          The pants ones are probably from DLC, that’s why most don’t have them.

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            Can’t wait for the Food That Is Not Rice update

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        Oh he’s going to manage to fill up both pant legs…

    • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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      …and the Goose Step to march like the f’n Russians and Nazis.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    another participation prize for the draft dodging shitbag

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    This guy has one hell of a trophy obsession.

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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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        He’s the one kid at your birthday party who’s upset they’re not getting attention too.

        • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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          And then starts to destroy your stuff because he never learned to cope with frustration.

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        Apparently the participation trophies are fine when they’re the ones getting them.

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    Fascism is a parody of itself.

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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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    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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          You simply can’t criticize your own team.

          And that attitude has metastacized into something even worse in the last decade or so.

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          Cognitive dissonance and cultism.

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            Its just really frustrating at how easy it is. Like really fucking disheartening.

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              3-4 decades of crippling public education can do that

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                Yeah but I live in Alberta, and I don’t feel like a lot of the things I see have much to do with what I learned in public education. Maybe I’m wrong.

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                  Danielle Smith already sorted this for you though, Albertans don’t need public education anymore. All she had to do was label CO2 a "foundational nutrient for all life on Earth” and bam! No longer a pollutant. Easy-peasy.

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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?

        • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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          No, I think you should visit.

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            You’re fooling no one, American coal board tourism tsar, or whatever the crazy fuck.

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          Sure. Give me till after work and I’ll write up my memory and some experiences.

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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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    Watched Inglorious Basterds for the first time the other night

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    He sure does like his minors

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      Eyooooo!

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      I’m just here so I don’t get fired energy

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

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    At this rate, he’s a shoe-in for the Never Poopies in His Pants During Meetings Award of 5-Star Excellence.

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