• Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    2 年前

    The conservative brain has now become an engine of pure reaction. A lib could propose prayer in schools and cutting taxes on the rich and they’d :frothingfash:

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        2 年前

        Austin banned them and the Texas legislature made it illegal to ban plastic bags

          • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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            2 年前

            Yeah I think they are adding electric vehicle taxes

            • serveranim [none/use name]
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              2 年前

              Didn't California almost do that? Gas taxes pay for highways, and they were righteously angry that wealthy people who got electric car subsidies wouldn't be paying their fair share of the roads.

            • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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              2 年前

              I think one of the midwestern petrostates implemented an EV Sin Tax. Like, it got through their legislature not as a a replacement for the gas tax, but as punishment for any gotdang libruls who would buy an EV instead of doing their patriotic duty to support the petroleum industry. Maybe one of the dakotas?

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          2 年前

          Plastic bag bans are just recuperation and greenwashing. Plastic bags are not the problem, capitalism is.

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            2 年前

            what'd actually work is taxing stores for single-use plastics but noooo only the consumer can eat the costs of going green

            • Nakoichi [they/them]
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              2 年前

              Instead they just banned plastic bags outright and let the stores charge for paper bags as compensation for enforcing the mandate.

              Now that I think about it that is a perfect encapsulation of neoliberalism.

            • flan [they/them]
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              2 年前

              yea that plays into it too but i think theres a deeper pathology at play here. Owning the libs is a fun treat but it’s not mother’s milk.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          2 年前

          They're sorta handy though

          Paper bags are nice and all but they will rip if you put too much heavy stuff in them. Also, better hope there's no rain or your paper bag is gonna dissolve on you

          • fox [comrade/them]
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            2 年前

            Just use a tote or carry it all in your arms like a real sigma

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 年前

          :I-was-saying: I always forget the reusable bags at home and I don't trust paper bags

        • Bjork_shhh [none/use name]
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          2 年前

          CFLs were Al Gore nerd bullshit made from mercury with weird color spectrums, but LEDs seem pretty great, fuck reactionaries lol

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 年前

      They have. But its typically "prayer for everyone without respect to denomination" and "tax cuts for Californians and New Yorkers" so its easy to spin that as "Brainwashing our good Christian children!" and "Giving money to blue-haired communists!"