cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28131779
In addition to “climate change” and “green,” EERE forbid officials from using “emissions” to avoid the implication that they are a negative. Climate change is caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, which is driven primarily by burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy.
Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”
It doesn’t get any more 1984 than the government banning words they think are icky.
Imagine being so invested in bullshit that you have to censor any and all terms that contradict it.
Really, it’s no wonder that Trump and his cronies and minions are so filled with rage - they’re in a constant state of extreme cognitive dissonance.
And it makes sense in a way that they direct their rage at “woke” people and positions. From their limited, animalistic points of view, all they understand is that when they think of “woke,” they’re filled with rage. They aren’t conscious enough to understand that the source of the rage isn’t the positions or the people, but the cognitive dissonance they experience when they cling to their opposition to simple and obvious truths.
It has to be a miserable way to live, and if they weren’t an existential threat to me, my family and friends, and society as a whole, I’d feel sorry for them.
his cronies and minions are so filled with rage - they’re in a constant state of extreme cognitive dissonance.
And that will be their own undoing. Fascists are fully driven by emotions. They are anti-liberal and anti-intellect after all.
The Trump regime is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such.
The only way they could be more of a threat to us is if they were literally holding guns to our heads. And we may not be far off from that.
They are America’s enemies. They are democracy’s enemies.
Ah yes Free Speech
Free speech (conservative newspeak): Calling black people the N-word and not receiving any social backlash.
It’s odd to me that they even have a banned words list to begin with
I’m not American but I know American academics and they have told me they are being pulled into meetings and given lists of words they must not use. So much for all the “free speech” whining from Republicans.
“Free speech” for republicans is just “I want to say the worst hateful, racist, bigoted shit out loud without repercussions”
“And punish you for daring to think about ‘policing’ me by calling me out.”
Conservatives are, and have always been, about power over others. We kept their more evil nature’s focused externally for a while with cold war, but without an external threat to point them at, they always turn on their neighbors eventually.
The government is owned by billionaires and they ban words that make line go up slower.
Whoever has the biggest bunker wins.
It is, literally, a fascist government. Why is this surprising to anyone?
People who were paying attention warned that they would operate as a fascist government. People still thought it would be cool to vote 3rd party or not vote. Now it’s happening.
Dude I voted for your lady chill out
I’m not sure how they mean it here. But “banned words” aren’t always meaning censorship. In an academic or journalistic sense it can just mean replacing words with more accurate phrasing or more clearly defined words to ensure consistency.
Unfortunately, it’s also used to spin a narrative or outright censor things as well. Like the NYT banning the word “genocide” during an active genocide.
Still can’t believe the government has a banned word list for scientific reports.
They’re just working up to banning science.
You mean banning
scienceliberal shit talk non facts?(how every conversation starts looking next year)
They have morons on both sides already eager to do that for them.
Remember when science could be debated? Now we just have to accept everything as fact without question if it supports the correct agenda.
Questioning science gets you banned, lol. It may as well be religion at that point.
Remember when science could be debated? Now we just have to accept everything as fact without question if it supports the correct agenda.
Questioning science gets you banned, lol. It may as well be religion at that point.
Questioning what science gets you banned from what, by whom? Scientists question science all the time. That’s how it progresses. You’d need to give examples to explain what you’re referring to. And can you give an example when we’re expected to simply “accept everything as fact without question”?
Edit: It has been a day. I guess there are no examples coming.
If one side of a discussion on facts has data and the other has opinions what is there to debate?
I remember a time when hard data was debatable - it was ten minutes ago. We’re trapped in a timeline where data is disregarded in favour of comfortable lies.
Why address climate change if one can instead engage in mass self-deception.
If that is the case, the reports are not scientific.
Because the old “$2.99 looks more like 2 dollars than 3 dollars” works on the masses they discovered that through social fuckery and behaviourism they are able to make us think and do almost anything. Fuck this bullshit. Let’s find the warm sun again and start building a future and leave all of this power crap behind.
LoL, we’re not gonna have anything but the “warm” sun in the near future.
Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”
Can’t wait for press conferences from these officials to be stripped down to Kevin’s level.
It looks like “global warming” and “pollution” are back in the menu, boys!
It was almost 90°F here today. You can’t tell me global warming doesn’t also fucking apply to climate change.
It doesn’t matter what doublespeak they use, it’s still happening
How can you be so obtuse? Do you not recall when a US Senator brought a snowball onto the floor of the senate to completely disprove this hoax?
Climate unaliving
Ecological sewer slide
Don’t you use the word emission quite a bit in nuclear?
Now they’re just immigrant protons.
And aren’t ground wires green?
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Ha ha ha, nice try. This is like trying to convince someone you never fart. Proof of idiocy.
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Assholes have never even heard of a thesaurus. Plus, we now have AI at our backs. Behold, what ChatGPT ginned up for me a second ago:
- Global heating
- Planetary warming
- Atmospheric instability
- Rising planetary temperatures
- Ecological overheating
- Weather system disruption
- Global temperature shift
- Planetary imbalance
- Atmospheric warming trend
- Earth system disturbance
- Heat-driven weather extremes
- Long-term planetary warming
- Rising global heat levels
- Ecological destabilization
- Planet-wide heat surge
- Environmental overheating
- Temperature-driven disruption
- Global heat imbalance
- Accelerated warming of Earth
- Planetary-scale weather disruption
I get that this works as long as they’re willing to play by the rules they set. But if it comes down to getting the word out, and silencing science that could save lives, it’s worth trying.
