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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 day ago

The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. | Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up.

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The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't. | Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then “Coalie” showed up.

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The US government is trying to make coal seem cute. It isn't.
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Trump complained that coal needed better PR. Then "Coalie" showed up.
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      “You’re the worst character ever, Coalie.”

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        “I know.”

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    75 years of social progress…gone.

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    AI abomination

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    Fuck you coalie!

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      I say we burn him!

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        No wait don’t that’s what they want! Bury him. Alive.

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    Politicians being “pro coal” has reached the point of being comical to me

    Coal is dead

    We are never going to build another coal power plant in the US. Everything politicians do, and say, around coal is nothing but pandering

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      coal is literally obsolete, they’re just subsidizing some rich guys and giving false hope to dead towns

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    This is straight out of a Fallout game.

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      Could be another scene from Idiocracy too

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        It’s got what your lungs crave!

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    They had to make it seem cute, because anything else would point to the long history of coal mining unions.

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      Chernobyl (which I believe this image is from) was such a damn good miniseries.

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        The Soviets going in naked to shut down the reactor went hard as hell

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    “Hi, everyone! I’m Coalie. Just shove a lump of me up a republicans ass and I’ll be a diamond in no time at all.”

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    Coalie’s right arm is as black as his lungs!

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    I did not expect to wake up in a Simpson’s episode this morning.
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      Thing is nuclear is way safer than coal.

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        But nuclear waste is stored in scary looking barrels, while coal waste is safely disposed into our lungs

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    In the past I warmed myself with a coal fire, now I warm myself with a heat pump. I will stick with the heat pump because I am not a fucking moron.

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    This is so god-damned sad and funny

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    Coalie says “You wanna get high?”

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      He has one hell of a smoker’s lung.

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    So your telling me the dingusus came up with a “coalsona” lolol

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    Worst PR firm ever: “I know! We’ll put big eyes a chunk of coal, and it will be cute. Y’know, for the kids! That will save our entire dying industry!”

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