cross-posted from: https://lemmy.librarysocialism.social/post/61306
The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.
Well said and I agree.
The whole defensive weapons package argument is not a good excuse to keep delivering bombs to our genocidal maniac of an “ally”. If you give weapons to a bully that can blow up anyone that retaliates against their aggression, that in itself becomes an offensive tool. I can’t stand them trying to manipulate our empathy like that.
I’ve since checked out Ossof’s voting record and wonder why I even considered him nominally progressive.
“The Empire and the Death Star have a right to a tax funded missile defense system to defend itself from Rebel attacks”