It's 2021. If you still think coal is a good business plan for America's future, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell ya.

"In April 2020, Bloomberg New Energy Finance found Solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build generation for at least two-thirds of the global population." https://t.co/LHjkhtXCBg.
The @nytimes reports that Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) are likely to be the most vociferous objectors to Biden's climate plan. I'd like to point out that supporting coal is going to lead their states to ruin. https://t.co/TTE77Zz9dt
Coal is already one of the most expensive forms of energy generation. It's actually cheaper to produce *new* solar power plants than to keep existing coal plants running. https://t.co/PsUfVPAJdj.
Supporting coal in this rapid-growth renewable market is like the people at Kodak who thought digital photography was a fad, or the folks at Sears who thought their "tried and true" brick and mortar stores could weather in the Amazon instant-buy age. IOW, terribly short-sighted.
Investing in renewable energy will actually cause a net job *creation*. The coal industry currently employs ~160,000 workers, compared to ~800,000 workers in the renewable sector. Coal jobs will rapidly shrink while renewable jobs will rapidly grow. https://t.co/qa8xHY8CUb
Yes, there will need to be job retraining programs for those people in the coal, oil, and gas sectors, but this is included in Biden's energy plan: https://t.co/mrCYNxpDwU
And even if Biden's aspirations don't match reality, those coal jobs are *still* going away. The market is rapidly shifting towards renewable energy whether Kentucky and West Virginia like it or not. https://t.co/Gft85KBFGH
Senators McConnell and Manchin can dig their heels in and make nonsense claims about jobs and American energy independence, but what they're really doing is poisoning their states' economies by refusing to accept the inevitable economic shift to renewables.

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Act of 1871
This is VERY Long but it will end with a MEGA BOOM!
Bookmark it and read it in small bits to digest it all.

This info, comes from some reputable anons and my own digging, compiled together as a superthread!
InevitableET, IPOT... to name a few.

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The TL; DR version is they, by military force, and illegitimate legislature, amended the constitution against the will of The People and legally tricked us into becoming unwitting indentured slaves of human capital and resources to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA the corporation)

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Republic vs Democracy
-They needed to get away from the Republic and create a Democracy in order to drive us towards socialism and inevitably a dictatorship (National Socialist Party aka NAZI)


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If you're curious what Trump's defense will look like, all you have to do is turn on Fox News. My latest at @mmfa

The tl;dr is that for years right-wing media have been excusing Trump's violent rhetoric by going, "Yes, but THE DEMOCRATS..." and then bending themselves into knots to pretend that Dems were calling for violence when they very, very clearly weren't.

And in fact, this predates Trump.

In 2008, Obama was talking about not backing down in the face of an ugly campaign. He said "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

https://t.co/i5YaQJsKop


That quote was from the movie The Untouchables. And there's no way anybody reading that quote in good faith could conclude that he was talking about actual guns and knives. But it became a big talking point on the

In 2018, Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder was speaking to a group of Georgia Democrats about GOP voter suppression. He riffed on Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" line from the 2016 DNC.

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THREAD: 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ

1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE


2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n


3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)


4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.

For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3


5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)