Correct, because Congress is corrupt and is eager to saddle the next generation of Americans with an absolute humongous debt load of $36 trillion in order to pay off their corporate sponsors and lobby groups.

For the past 10 years or so, most climate change activity was, in a large part, a massive subsidy for oligarchs.

For those actually interested in stopping emissions, we know that carbon pricing is efficient and actually raises tax revenue instead of taking government money.

It could have even been introduced slowly enough to allow private capital to efficiently transition without subsidies. And by transferring the proceeds to the public as tax rebates, the public would not be poorer and most would even be richer.

Instead, we got massive tax subsidies for oligarchs. Sure, some of those subsidies were relatively efficient. But in the end, they still saddled the public with debt in order to enrich the few.

So no, I am not surprised that they were faking it all along. It was obvious from the start.

I agree. It also works the other way in terms of censorship.

My original account was on an instance that once censored one of my comments. I don’t remember if they deleted my comment or banned me from the community.

On reddit, I had come to just accept that as a fact of life and every few years I would delete my old account and register a new one.

On Lemmy, I just switched to a different instance which is much more tolerant of free speech and I haven’t had issues since.

The irony is, my comments on the old instance can still be deleted, but only for users from that instance.

I don’t know the full details, but Lemmy definitely has the more 2000-2010 type of culture that allows people to speak their mind freely.