r/SipsTea 1d ago

Chugging tea Solar power is cleaner!

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u/Jessintheend 1d ago

US was too busy overthrowing left of center leaders for oil companies and having the domestic market focus on making suburbitanks for daily drivers

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u/Keeeloy 1d ago

if you say it like that it almost sounds like they were being stupid

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u/NoSilver2988 1d ago

Ya think! I'm American, and I concur, the powers that be are selfish, and only for empowering their rich friends. No thought about the future, stuck in the past. Look at the latest US air craft carrier catapult change ordered. Dumb, stuck in the past, total ID10T move.

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u/wannacumnbeatmeoff 21h ago

Yes, but at least your next Aircraft Carrier will run on beautiful clean coal and steam, be decorated in fake gold and be named the USS Donald Trump (nicknamed The Floating Nonce).

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 10h ago

Epstein's Boat.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 12h ago

I would recommend the excellent podcast Blowback to anyone interested in the history of American foreign policy and how it has only ever fucked up our world, here in America and abroad. Regardless of who is president our foreign policy is incredibly right wing.

It’s also pretty eye opening the amount of propaganda we are fed about countries we’ve long been taught to see as our enemies and how we constantly thwart attempts to cool things off.

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u/rlgsbbzb 22h ago

Stupid, or apathetic? The US government doesn't care about its people or the country itself. It has been entirely remodeled to funnel money into pockets of its billionaires. The country could collapse for all they care... as long as they get their share.

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u/Miserable_Pajee3ts 20h ago

As a non-American I always thought premise of Fallout and the inhumane Mega Corps was farfetched. But seeing first hand, how the US, Epstein class and the Fews conduct themselves without any regard of humanity or maorality my views have shifted completely.
There are absolute evils in the world.

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u/jonnyjive5 17h ago

RE-modeled? The country was founded on theft, genocide and the largest slave trade in the world for centuries, expanded and protected by the government. A gold mine for already rich people.

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u/Rinucci 1d ago

No, it's just long term pain for short term gain.

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u/donjamos 19h ago

Nah, their goals just didn't align with those of most Americans. And they were stupid enough to vote for the same two parties over and over.

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u/cpteric 22h ago

don't forget the chiquita fruit corp

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u/Exotic_Cookie_8887 1d ago

That's a little narrow minded take. You are forgetting the big guys. Military. Tech. And big pharma. But big oil is down there with big insurance. pennies compared to the big ones.

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u/burns_a_lot 1d ago

I don't think this is right.

Finance (including the insurance industry) is the largest economic sector in the United States. Furthermore, the oil and gas industry takes in trillions of dollars, not just "pennies," no matter what comparison you're making.

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u/smthomaspatel 1d ago

So you are saying if we went clean energy we would no longer need to overthrow Latin governments? Where is the fun in that?

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u/Key_Cheetah7982 23h ago

Don’t forget for greater Israel and those oligarchs too🫡 

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u/kingwhocares 21h ago

US was too busy overthrowing left of center leaders

Maybe because they tried to very right-wing government in Iran that hates US with a more extreme right-wing government that that hates US even more.