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jaxexpat

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9. Yeah, until somebody screws it all up with renewable energy technology deployed on a massive scale.

Reply to Celerity (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 17, 2020, 07:52 AM

Nov 2020

That's the new "enemy of the people" folks. If fossil fuel loses it's value the cleptocracy becomes unstable. Elections going all directions in a progressive chain reaction which could unseat the powers that be. Billionaires going billion-less. Selling penny stocks on street corners. The only solution is more military spending. Inventing enemies to fight, ginning up outrage at whatever moves. The final solution? Trumpism.

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