The 2024 Enrage FF by Posting Stuff From Bluesky Thread

Seems to me the libertarian position would be that it's their oil, it's on them to defend it, rather than me and my tax dollars.

Republicans: "We're the party of free speech!"

Also Republicans: "I demand that you make it illegal to insult me!"

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1. The oil companies pay for the service from the government (and fuck no, I do not want a private company with enough weapons to defend them against nation-states). ExxonMobil spent nearly $80 billion on stock buybacks last year, so they can fucking afford to compensate the US government for protecting their ships without it significantly impacting their bottom line. And given that there's a couple of other energy companies who's tankers the US government has been protecting for that $80 billion, ExxonMobil wouldn't
2. The government uses that money to subsidize alternative energy sources, like wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear, etc. so our society doesn't have a Single Point of Failure like we do now if fossil fuel sources were to somehow disappear overnight.

No, no. Hear me out. Begun the Oil Cartel Wars have. Cut out the middle man, let them throw their own bodies and cash at the problem.

What makes you think that the oil cartels will fight one another and not attack things like alternative energy power plants? They do, already, control entire nations (both figuratively and literally), so while they couldn't go head-to-head with the US military right away, they could certainly take control of large swaths of Africa. You know, a place where lots of stuff needed to make electric motors is mined.

Arm the power plants, too!

Tell me you live in a state that doesn't have any serious industry without telling me you live in a state without any serious industry. Lots of big manufacturing facilities have their own onsite power generation because in times of peak demand, the available grid can't handle supplying the rest of the community and the load created by just one of the factories.

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I don’t know if it is still the case but 10/15 years ago the private security guards at a Canadian nuclear plant used to regularly win best sniper competitions.

They were a bunch of ex-JTF 2 guys who obviously didn’t deploy (power plants tend to be stationary) and were bored so just focused on preparing for the competitions.

The Scottish do this as well:



Spready Mercury and Icesweeper Willie are my faves, but props to Robert Brrrns for reminding me it's Haggis and Whiskey night soon.

Officially anyway.

I usually have Haggis and Whiskey night twice a month regardless.

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Holy shit the babylon bee made a racist joke. You could knock me over with a large brick after that one. I think it actually stabilized my shitty balance.

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bread, circuses, and mayo

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Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch?

Guy posted a pic of the “life-sized” statue of Watto that he has. You can guess where the conversation went.




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