• @[email protected]
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    514 months ago

    Just refer to it as “stimulus for American manufacturing”. Convincing people is all about how you present things. If you’re the senator from CA, you’re going to present things differently than a presidential candidate. Even if the proposal is exactly the same.

    • finley
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      74 months ago

      Like, what would it take to begin transitioning a substantial amount of our meat production to lab grown meat? It would massively reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses we produce from industrial farming, but the public is kinda terrified of new things they don’t understand, and there’s an awful lot of money in industrial meat production.

      We can’t call that the Kill Meat Act, despite how tempting the irony. It would have to be called something friendly and enticing that everyone would want. The Happy Cows Act or something.

      • @[email protected]
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        84 months ago

        That’s not anything that’s going to happen now. No presidential candidate is going to care about that.

        • finley
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          104 months ago

          That’s not what I was saying. I was just agreeing with your point about how bills need attractive names to get passed.

    • @digredior
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      Second, they need to strip out anything not related to climate change.

      Then it goes nowhere. It’s just more political posturing. Absolutely 100% entirely dead in the water. The Senate and House are both so split down the middle by both parties, it’ll require bipartisan support. It necessarily will have to have riders associated, otherwise it won’t receive the support it needs.

      Yes… this is exactly how wasteful legislation gets passed, but it’s entirely outside the realm of possibility in the real world

  • @[email protected]
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    14 months ago

    This kind of pandering is beyond irritating. The Republicans are literally planning to ram project 2025 down our throats if they win. Voters should be rewarded with the Green New Deal I’d we can defeat them.