Spyke
piefed.social

They're all participation trophies, as he can't win anything of real value.

FIFA peace price of "at least you tried". Renewable energy price of "didn't understand the task, but cried when he didn't get a medal".

He's such a weird snowflake

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Apparently the participation trophies are fine when they're the ones getting them.

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Mirshereply
lemmy.world

He's the one kid at your birthday party who's upset they're not getting attention too.

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feddit.nl

Its just so fucking stupid on its face. How anyone thought calling it “clean coal” was anything besides dumb as fuck is beyond me.

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lemmy.world

Then you should visit Colstrip, Montana or similar coal towns. The propaganda works very well when it's taught from before birth and everyone goes along even if they don't agree!

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Cruxifuxreply
feddit.nl

See, I understand that. What I dont understand is why every other non-coal town trump supporter didn’t immediately understand that this was a stupid as fuck grift immediately after hearing it.

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You simply can't criticize your own team.

And that attitude has metastacized into something even worse in the last decade or so.

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Cruxifuxreply
feddit.nl

Its just really frustrating at how easy it is. Like really fucking disheartening.

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IronBirdreply
lemmy.world

3-4 decades of crippling public education can do that

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Cruxifuxreply
feddit.nl

Yeah but I live in Alberta, and I don’t feel like a lot of the things I see have much to do with what I learned in public education. Maybe I’m wrong.

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feddit.org

Can you explain for everybody who doesn't want to fly into the USA to visit a coal town in Montana what one will see there?

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The propaganda works well when it the smog goes into the air and comes down as a natural occurrence beyond our control, especially when it disproportionately affects those eastward in the Jetstream. You know, the north/mid Atlantic coastal elites (just don't mention Appalachian Pennsylvania)

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This was such a comical read! It's like reading a joke made into a serious article:

President Donald Trump has added another shiny award to his cabinet of trophies that have just been invented

"I'm thrilled to welcome to the White House the men and women who light our cities, and you know, you do things that people don't even understand, so much, you do so much. You heat our homes, fuel our factories and turn natural resources into American riches and dreams. Our amazing coal miners.”

“I ended the war on coal,”

It is not the first time Trump has been the “inaugural recipient” of an award presented by those looking to curry his favor.

a bronze statue of a coal miner on the top and was engraved with “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”

Infantino also handed Trump “a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go,”

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At this point I'm convinced they're inventing shiny stuff to keep the drooling senior happy until it's time to replace him.

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Agree! It basically says so in the first sentence of the article!

President Donald Trump has added another shiny award to his cabinet of trophies that have just been invented

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lemmy.world

Meanwhile China is positioning itself as a leader in the energy sectors of the future.

It's depressing to watch these displays, but even more depressing in the knowledge that our nation's power is (as usual) being squandered to make a demented old man feel like a big boy and for keeping a handful of billionaires marginally richer with money they'll never actually live to spend anyway.

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Dremorreply
lemmy.world

Unfortunately one of the advantages of dictatures is that it move fast in one direction. The main problem being if the leader is intelligent enough to chose the right direction, which they rarely do.

On the other hand, democracies moves slowly, but the damages done by bad leaders are often counterbalanced by the good made by better leaders.

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MrFinnbeanreply
lemmy.world

Also dictators rarely focus moving on one direction

Gaddafi for example did good with education and healthcare, but he also many bad things.

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You are right. But I didn't mean that as "doing one thing well", but rather "focussing on a long term objective".

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At this rate, he's a shoe-in for the Never Poopies in His Pants During Meetings Award of 5-Star Excellence.

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ani.social

So ‘Undisputed Champion of Utter Fraud’ then.

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The child rapist has had about 7 decades of practicing fraud to win that award.

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He can put it on the mantle next to Melania's FIFA Oscar for Best performance by a whore in a documentary.

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Someone should offer to present him with "America's most talented child molester" award. At this point he'll probably be dumb enough to accept it, and brag about it

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lemmy.zip

He'll also soon get an award from the foundation that promotes measles and meningitis.

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This reminds me of how I just flew through India, saw pro-coal ads crediting Modi in the airport, and then walked out into all-winter smog that smells like burning hydrocarbons.

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sopuli.xyz

It should be "of beautiful black coal"

Makes for a better acronym

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Donald "Mercury Poisoning" Trump.

Most the mercury in fish comes from fossil fuel burning and mining. Coal is both.

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He should get a medal saying "cleverest and bestest person of the entire universe". Hold that thought. Wondering what the stupidest thing is, which people could bring him pride in accepting

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This is like giving him a participation medal, which is something he and his moronic followers are vehemently against.

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I could pay for naming a star in the past. I wonder if that grift still exists. Imagine what an oil company could get away with if they gave him a certificate showing that a star is named after him.

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lemmy.world

I wonder what the bribees gets in exchange for this made up trophy that means nothing.

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Mihiesreply
programming.dev

Read the news. Extended life for coal power plants, upgrades, department of war signing contracts for buying coal energy etc.

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Not enough propaganda. They should call it 'Beautiful, Clean, Greenest of the Green, Climate Protecting, Bird Saving, Woke Antifa Tears Inducing, All-American, Beef Loving, Lungs Restoring Coal'.

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... and then RFK mandates it in kids breakfast cereal. "Now fortified with kleen koal! Part of this complete breakfast".

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The gas lobbyist will turn it up a notch to destroy their energy competitor, coal. Did Krasnov do anything for the black lung victims? I thought not.

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programming.dev

I read that as 'beautiful clean coat' and wondered why would he accept a trophy for a dog.

Then I remembered that he's a little bitch. TACO.

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