ericvanaerde.bsky.social
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in not fairness, that does sound like the kind of thing Dems would say unprompted
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in fairness, the man has been talking for nearly 23 hours straight
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True, but I think he’s even dumber than that. All that’s to say let’s hope he goes down the forever K-hole real soon
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“It’s not plausible as a coincidence” yes it is. The guy is stupid.
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Yeah, because he’s a petulant idiot who thinks the letter X is cool and mysterious, and happens to be a Nazi too.
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No one is arguing that Elon isn’t a nazi POS, but with him just assume the dumbest and least clever reason to do something and that’s the most likely explanation
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That would assume he actually knows anything about ASCII. Real answer is probably just 90s brain thinking the letter X is Xtreme and cool.
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Just a little more ketamine…
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So, in summary:
1. Signal is the most secure messaging option available to most people. Use it every day.
2. From a policy perspective, the US gov should not be discussing top secret info in a group chat... on any messaging app
3. Criticize the US government, don't spread misinfo about Signal
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The strategy post-Harper seems to be have the CPC run up the score high enough in AB/SK/non-YVR BC they unlock some secret overflow seats like a video game achievement
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It’s not corruption, it’s massive incompetence, but the kind of IT incompetence that leaders in governments and corporations are all guilty of. To be clear, I’m saying this a very bad thing!
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I’m not defending them in the slightest, I’m saying this rot goes so deep across government and corporate worlds.
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Bro I’ve got bad news for you about how literally everyone does this
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"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
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Honestly that would probably be the best case scenario here
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You know who some of the biggest advocates for consumer carbon pricing are? Oil and gas companies.
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Finally, someone else who gets it. If the marquee climate change policy is announced standing alongside CEOs from oil and gas companies, I think the climate policy has fundamentally missed the mark.
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It is an economically sensible solution at a macro level *for industry*, not so much at the individual level. It also kicks the can on actual meaningful policies that actually lower emissions (which we desperately need).
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I’ll disagree on the consumer pricing, but your head’s in the right place.
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Apologies if it came off like I was arguing, god forbid, the CPC/UCP case against the carbon tax, which is dishonest at best, and actively harmful at worst.
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If a marquee climate policy is announced standing alongside O&G CEOs, it’s not doing what you think it is. I say this as someone thinks the carbon tax burned political capital that should have been used to curtail industrial emissions far more stringently.
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Redistribution of wealth is absolutely something we need to be doing. But the tax has not meaningfully lowered emissions. It wasted political capital that should have been used for command and control policies rather than watered down market-based solutions like this
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Right, but did it lower emissions? Ostensibly the thing the policy was meant to achieve? The carbon pricing sucked not because it was a progressive idea, but because it is literally a right wing market-based one (it’s economically efficient, doesn’t necessarily solve the actual problem)
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Carbon pricing is inherently a right wing, market-based approach to dealing with something that requires much more effective tools like industrial policy to fix.
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Is it working though?
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It was a policy failure as it was a *conservative* market-based approach. Good riddance.
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Elon, the solace you seek can be found in taking OVER the normal DOSE of ketamine you typically consume
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