• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    This was such a comical read! It’s like reading a joke made into a serious article:

    President Donald Trump has added another shiny award to his cabinet of trophies that have just been invented

    "I’m thrilled to welcome to the White House the men and women who light our cities, and you know, you do things that people don’t even understand, so much, you do so much. You heat our homes, fuel our factories and turn natural resources into American riches and dreams. Our amazing coal miners.”

    “I ended the war on coal,”

    It is not the first time Trump has been the “inaugural recipient” of an award presented by those looking to curry his favor.

    a bronze statue of a coal miner on the top and was engraved with “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”

    Infantino also handed Trump “a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go,”

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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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    He can put it on the mantle next to Melania’s FIFA Oscar for Best performance by a whore in a documentary.

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    This reminds me of how I just flew through India, saw pro-coal ads crediting Modi in the airport, and then walked out into all-winter smog that smells like burning hydrocarbons.

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    Donald “Mercury Poisoning” Trump.

    Most the mercury in fish comes from fossil fuel burning and mining. Coal is both.