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Comment Re: Fraud (Score 2) 42

Carbon taxes > Carbon credits. It removes the incentive to fudge carbon reductions for profit in this way, instead only emissions are measured and the closer they get to 0, the less companies pay. The taxes can then be spent on things like doing real atmospheric/oceanic carbon sequestration by a government that doesn't have a profit motive incentivizing them to screw it up in a way that conveniently funnels zillions of dollars into top management's wallets.

Comment Re:Let the idiots track themselves (Score 1) 194

If only the TLAs handled them with the Jihadist-level seriousness they deserve, then their complete lack of opsec would actually threaten their operations...I don't think Jan 6th caused any significant change their sadly. US law enforcement and intellligence agencies still handle domestic right-wing militias with kid gloves.

Comment Re:Who knows.. (Score 1) 187

Like when 1950s doctors were promoting cigarettes, back when an ignorant society didn't know any better.

To be fair those were like the cranks who are saying "CO2 is just plant food" right now. Cigarettes were well-known to be harmful by mainstream medicine well before WW2.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

Marxism doesn't reject democracy at all and could hardly be any more pro-democratic, the only remotely undemocratic thought within Marxism is the concept that a "dictatorship of the proletariat" may be required during a transitional revolutionary period that would exist for the purpose of establishing a highly democratic communal society, and it seems to be only an assumption that this would be supported by the majority. If a majority voted to collectively seize all means of production (not private property, that's a red-scare strawman), you could call that populist or perhaps even authoritarian, but there's nothing undemocratic or anti-democratic about it.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

Do you think having a command economy (a debatable label, but they are certainly closer to one than anywhere in the first world) makes them socialist or communist in some way? They have private ownership of the means of production, undemocratic workplaces, and billionaires that the state treats as royalty like Meng Wanzhou. State capitalism is still very much capitalism.

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