Green New Deal

[_EAllusion]

I know exactly where this is going. Do you? ; )

In fairness, we already have ample evidence he wasn't reading what he was plagiarizing all that carefully.

[_subgenius]

I know exactly where this is going. Do you? ; )

Enjoy your hair fire, in the meantime.

Ah, now i see your confusion... check with your local community college, good luck.

Probably some of your struggle comes from your reliance on wishy washy sources:

“One way that the Right does try to mischaracterize what we’re doing as though it’s like some kind of massive government takeover,”
-AoC Thursday

[Are you prepared to put on the table that yes, they’re actually right, what this requires is massive government intervention?]
“It does. Yeah, I have no problem saying that.”
-AoC Friday

[_canpakes]

OK, so you’re made yourself look foolish a few times now, and you think that the solution for that is for everyone else to go to a community college. Noted.

Please, continue with your hair fire and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez obsession. : )

[_subgenius]

OK, so you’re made yourself look foolish a few times now, and you think that the solution for that is for everyone else to go to a community college. Noted.

Please, continue with your hair fire and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez obsession. : )

No, not everyone. But on this topic, and some other topics, i believe some community college programs would be a benefit to you.
Or you could just continue to insist that this or that is definitely gonna get Trump impeached this time, for sure... for an additional 24 months.....(just thought you could DP something better with the next +/-104 weeks until you suffer another dismal November).

[_subgenius]

[_canpakes]

No, not everyone. But on this topic, and some other topics, i believe some community college programs would be a benefit to you.
Or you could just continue to insist that this or that is definitely gonna get Trump impeached this time, for sure... for an additional 24 months.....(just thought you could DP something better with the next +/-104 weeks until you suffer another dismal November).

Wow. : D

Language has never been your strong suit, but I think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hair fire has been putting a bit too much heat on whatever is left of your grey matter.

[_Gunnar]

Having read the proposals and goals of the Green New Deal, I find it impossible to believe that any truly scientifically literate, rational and fair minded person could be opposed to it. To not see or accept the wisdom and benefits of the environmental and economic benefits that would result and the enormous potential for creating new and lucrative entrepreneurial opportunities and jobs and a better quality of life for everyone, one would either have to be ignorant as a stump or incurably misanthropic!

What rational person could be opposed to living in a cleaner, healthier environment and more efficient use of energy and other resources, making it possible to achieve more with what we have? To adamantly oppose the goals and potential of the Green New Deal borders on insanity, as does reelecting an incurably corrupt, incompetent, pathologically dishonest and self-serving idiot like Donald J. Trump!

[Guest]

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understandable respnse from one who has the most to gain from the "unable or unwilling" clause.

Will you please stop it!!
That was obviously a typo! Nothing in the actual Green New Deal proposal states or implies that is to insure jobs for the "unable or unwilling!" Why do insist on being such an incorrigibly dishonest troll!

[_EAllusion]

Having read the proposals and goals of the Green New Deal, I find it impossible to believe that any truly scientifically literate, rational and fair minded person could be opposed to it.

The proposal is a lot more "new deal" than it is "green." As an environmental bill, there are much more direct, efficient ways to go about addressing climate change than this. Further, the proposal does zero to address or even really acknowledge that broad redistribution policies significantly increase consumer activity (that's the goal!) which has substantial negative environmental impacts.

Now you might like the new deal aspect of this, but just because it addresses environmental issues that doesn't mean only a scientifically illiterate person would oppose it. Being scientifically literate doesn't mean every single piece of legislation that addresses climate change and other environmental issues in some capacity is automatically good. That mentality is exactly what a lot of global warming denialists fear - that global warming is a means to pressure collectivist policy.

If I proposed instead to have a very large carbon tax that paid for an increase in military spending, I think it would be inappropriate to say that only a scientifically illiterate and unfair person would oppose it. What, don't you believe in global warming? Don't want national security? There's lots of room to disagree with how to address environmental issues or combine them with other policy goals while still believing there is a problem.

[_ajax18]

That mentality is exactly what a lot of global warming denialists fear - that global warming is a means to pressure collectivist policy.