Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will recommend […]

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    8 months ago

    Jfc already. Why don’t the cons just stop sending their kids to regular school already, so the rest of America can educate future citizens in all facets of knowledge.

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      8 months ago

      This is the solution to the fermi paradox: why the universe is otherwise apparently devoid of intelligent life. Every planet with intelligent life on it develops conservatism and every planet with conservatives on it invariably destroys itself through some form of stupidity. eg. Nuclear war, global ecosystem collapse etc.

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          8 months ago

          The true horror is that life is constantly on a knife’s edge. Life requires enough energy for chemistry, but not so much energy that complex molecules wiggle apart or get blasted apart. Any drastic change results in death.

          Good thing we’re not making any drastic changes to our environment, eh?

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      8 months ago

      People, as a whole, have always been this stupid. The only thing that’s changed is that the ceiling has raised on what it means to be smart.

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    8 months ago

    Nearly every act of bigotry, oppression or domestic terrorism ever committed in the U.S. has been committed by conservatives.

    There is simply no place in a modern society for conservatives. They are a toxic plague long overdue for a cure.