It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.

The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country.

The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees. Republicans like Ted Cruz (who has famously fled severe weather in his home state), Nikki Haley, and Representative Nancy Mace (South Carolina) quickly pounced, framing the request as socialism and an act of war on women in menopause (the Republican Party is notoriously friendly to women’s health).

Of course, this is pretty standard advice during a heatwave. It was the official stance of the Department of Energy that Americans should set their thermostats between 75 and 78 degrees, and Republican governors in deep red states like Texas have issued the same advice in the past — including current governor Greg Abbott.

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[–] 24 points 3 months ago (32 children)

Whats important is that we kept the Democrats from taking the presidency. Right kids?!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    You can do your lesser evil shit all you want, that candidate won’t change the future of America any further than a Republican can undo it in 4-6 years. Real change isn’t this pretend, small-game shit. Democrats have won time and time again since Bush Sr, and we’ve had war after war after war with bipartisan support for laws that give less than they take for the benefit of billionares. The current Democratic party isn’t a separate choice, it’s a choice to lock Republican rhetoric in a box until they inevitably get out again. Your party is no more effective at ridding the world of fascism than Ash Ketchum is at defeating Team Rocket. Maybe we all need a firm reminder that Trump and Bush didn’t actually win their elections, yet were calmly allowed to move right on in anyway. Who opened the door? Biden opened one of them, and he had six months of Presidential immunity leading up to it. Hillary was pushing spyware campaigns, Obama was drone-striking and Bernie wants Ai in your 401k. Who do they work for? You? Doesn’t sound like it.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Vote blue no matter who! Fix everything!

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  • [+] -11 points 3 months ago (27 children)

    How’s winning over those voters your party lost last election going?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (26 children)

    Look around! Clearly everyone made the right decision!

    And i’ll tell ya this for nothin’ - they’ll do it again! Yeah! And get all this glorious fascism for free. Enjoy!

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (25 children)

    Seems like democrats should run a candidate that's worthwhile and isn't a female Reagan.

    Seems like, if democrats didn't want this, they shouldn't have run a Republican campaign.

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  • [+] 16 points 3 months ago (22 children)
  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (21 children)

    I did. It sucks the rest of the US didn't agree with PSL's platform enough to get out and vote for the obvious better choice, but that's just another example of the tragic consequences of the US being so far behind the rest the world in education I guess.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    In the general election, there were only two choices. That's how the game theory of our election works. You can talk about making the obvious better choice in the Democratic primary all you want and that's fine, but if you bitch about voting third party in the general election you are objectively a fucking moron who doesn't have a goddamn clue.

    Either that or a pro-fascist concern troll spreading disinformation on purpose. One or the other.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    Incorrect, the first party to get 51% of electoral college votes win. That is the system Americans choose to continue to live under. Not the made up system you described.

    If 31% of the US population voted third party, a third party would win the white house.

    Actually it's as low 21%, but that's a theoretical low and unlikely to happen.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    If 31% of the US population voted third party, a third party would win the white house.

    And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle. So fucking what?

    Actually it’s as low 21%, but that’s a theoretical low and unlikely to happen.

    So is the shit you're spewing!

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle. So fucking what?

    So what, if you would use your brain to think instead of letting your owners' propaganda handle all of your thoughts, liberal scum, is that literally all of the propaganda around "oh but you gotta vote for this single party rule! and no that's totally not fascism! Despite us calling all single party states fascist!" is wrong. Just vote for your interests and encourage everyone to vote for their interests and congrats, a third party will win.

    Yes that requires getting off your lazy liberal ass. Going outside. And organizing for once in your fucking life. And that's hard and oh but you don't have the time and oh but what if people don't want to vote and but who blah blah blah.

    Just vote and encourage others to vote for their interests. You will increase voter participation, which more than handles the "but where are these voters going to come from" argument your owners taught you to spew.

    So is the shit you’re spewing!

    Yes, I'm glad you agree it's unlikely Americans learn basic fucking math and politics. Now that you recognize the problem, instead of lazily letting your owners set the terms of your existence, go fucking solve the problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Blah, blah, blah. That's a lot of words for "I don't fucking understand math." Or apparently the difference between a primary and a general election, for that matter. Or basic reading comprehension!

    For example:

    Yes that requires getting off your lazy liberal ass. Going outside. And organizing for once in your fucking life. And that’s hard and oh but you don’t have the time and oh but what if people don’t want to vote and but who blah blah blah.

    Just vote and encourage others to vote for their interests. You will increase voter participation, which more than handles the “but where are these voters going to come from” argument your owners taught you to spew.

    THAT'S ALL STUFF THAT HAPPENS IN THE PRIMARY!

    Also, you're a goddamn liar who is assuming a fuckton of stuff about me that isn't true.

    Maybe you should get off your ass and get some goddamn education about what's actually effective in our political system instead of CARRYING WATER FOR THE FASCISTS BY MISLEADING PEOPLE TO DO USELESS SHIT!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (14 children)

    Well, I hope you enjoy the fascism you helped cause with that stupid move.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (13 children)

    Incorrect, Third Party voters did not cause Harris' loss.

    What did was Democrats running Kamala Harris without a primary, after trying to pretend Biden was mentally and physically stable enough to actually be president again. That and the whole endorsing and explicitly materially supporting a genocide. And Harris' extensive history of anti-black racism. And Harris exclusively catering to the far-right despite every single retired democratic strategist telling the DNC for over a decade now that going right will not win a single vote as Trump supporters do not change their voting habits.

    And people like you. Trying to shame people into voting for a genocidal racist far-right fascist with a blue tie.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    And because of your failure to vote usefully, and your encouraging others to do the same, we have Trump. No matter what mental gymnastics you try to use convince yourself otherwise, you know it's your fault.

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  • [+] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's you're fault if you were given the choice of bad vs very bad and you chose very bad. But we can't fix stupid, I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    You find one headline that's an opinion that confirms your idiotic contention and you're fixated on that. Maybe try critical thinking?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You should try critical thinking kiddo. How did the number of Third party voters, which was lower than the difference between Trump and Harris Voters, make Harris lose the election, kiddo?

    If every single third party voter voted for Harris not only would she not have won, she would not have gotten a single additional electoral college vote.

    The people that didn't vote for Harris, and thus lost Harris the election, were democratic voters that failed to turn out for a genocidal far-right monster.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's the non voters too. And it doesn't matter if you call yourself a Democrat or a 3rd party or apolitical. If you didn't vote for Harris, you helped Trump. And you are responsible for Trump. Suck it up and take responsibility for your own actions already. If you really think Harris would have been as bad as Trump then you can say that and be ridiculed for that ignorance instead. But basic logic of how votes work in the U.S. isn't up for argument.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "Non-voters" didn't lose the election. Democrats lost the election. Democrats failed to draw voters that voted for fucking Joe Biden, because Harris went further right than Joe Fucking Biden. In a competition against Donald Trump.

    Democrats that voted for Biden, did not vote for Harris. That is the sole reason Harris lost. Not the third party voters. Not these made up non-voters. You. Your party. People that voted for your candidate before did not this time. They believed that Biden 2020 was not better than Trump 2016 and decided Harris, running on Biden's platform, would not do better than either because of her campaign.

    Harris lost voters that were guaranteed. It does not matter who else did what. Harris is responsible for losing the democrat voters that voted for Biden. You are arguing with your own party and your own voters, and you do not have the majority view.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    No we lost the election because Trump won and we are all fucked over by that choice because it was a much worse choice than the only other viable choice at the time. I'm not a Democrat, I'd prefer a much more progressive government. But given one of the other it was fucking crazy not to do everything possible to avoid Trump.

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