StarmanMBA said:
inv0ke-epipen said:
Meanwhile, California surpasses U.K. to become the worlds 5th largest economy, driven largely by the liberal coastal areas.
Liberal millennial's (sic) like myself (sic) are advancing the U.S's aerospace capabilities, pushing the capabilities of AI, working on deploying sustainable energy capture and storage, protecting U.S. companies and strategic assets in a hostile cyber-security environment, and developing the code that increasingly runs our economy.
Please explain how left-wing politics impacts technology.
Then explain how, if liberalism is so peachy keen, Hillary Clinton LOST THE ELECTION.
"Elections have consequences. We won. You lost. Get over it." - Barack Obama
Divisiveness in America was at 46% in 2009, according to a Pew Research Poll.
It increased to 86% in 2016, after eight incompetent, divisive years under Obama.
You are running it up beyond 86%, with hatred, intolerance, and lies. Disgraceful.
Meanwhile the right is content to go mine coal and get outraged over the manufactured outrage of SJWs. Your black lung isn't going to make america great again. Fighting with teenagers over race relations issues isn't going to make america great again. But that's ok, sit back and relax, get back to watching berkely students acting like fools on Fox news. We're already taking care of the real work that needs to be done, please stay out of the way.
Millenials overwhelmingly tilt to the extreme left. According to one poll, millenials preferred socialism over capitalism. Here and now you crow over your capitalist ambitions. Your inconsistency is glaring.
Incidentally, America has more coal than the Muslims have oil. And you want to leave it in the ground? And continue subsidizing their terrorism and violence? While China and India build thousands more coal-fired electrical power plants, rendering our efforts trivial? Don't you read anything?
Left wing politics encourages technology through policies that support scientific consensus rather than defy it.
China may not be such a great example of coal burners; they have an ambitious push towards carbon free energy (including massive investment in nuclear) and are poised to become leaders in the energy transition. The new coal plants are a blip that makes a few nice headlines. You really want our boys mining coal while the Chinese get rich supplying solar, nuclear, and batteries? Personally I like being in, and enjoying the benefits of, the high tech economy.
Let's break down those coal numbers a bit more, I'll be using the NBS as my source:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/14/c_137038670.htm
"Coal output increased 5.7 percent to 520 million tonnes, compared to the 1.7 percent year-on-year decline in the first two months last year." Ok so coal is up a bit, built some new plants. This source does appear biased as it conspicuously calls out previous declines. The data from NBS it references should be solid, however.
"In the January-February period, power production rose 11 percent, 4.7 percentage points faster than the same period in 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said." Ok power as a whole rose 11, percent, with a 5%rise in coal contributing to that rise.
Let's see where the rest of the rise came from: "
Electricity from thermal power plants, which accounts for 77 percent of all the power generation, jumped 9.8 percent, 2.8 percentage points higher than the same period last year.
Electricity from hydropower plants rose 5.9 percent, compared to a 4.7-percent decrease registered for the first two month of last year.
Nuclear, wind, and solar power production surged by 17.9 percent, 34.7 percent, and 36 percent respectively, said the NBS.
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So yeah, as you know, building new coal plants in China doesn't tell the whole story.
India is building coal plants, yes, unfortunately. Luckily U.S. is the leader of the free world, not India, and so we don't have to wait for them to show the way. Unless India is your role model, then yeah go ahead build Coal mines. Hey maybe we can start pooing on the street too.
"According to one poll, millenials preferred socialism over capitalism." OK, first off what does that mean? They want socialized healthcare? They want to seize the means of production? They like the word? Secondly, unlike you, I don't pay much attention to what random kids think about politics. Easy to tell that you watch Fox news. They love to show dumb kids getting mad over genders or other nonsense issues to rile guys like you up. Similarly, NBC does the same thing in the other way, trying to make an outrage over anything Trump says. You want to see a source of division just look at cable news. If you are really serious about avoiding division not starting topics called "Destructive Liberalism" might be a good first step.
I said I'm a liberal, not a socialist. I crow about California's powerful industries thriving in liberal coastal areas. I crow about the liberal millennials, including me, that are working long days in those industries to power not just our economy, but also the future prospects of the U.S./humanity. I crow about liberals pushing science first policies. Another way to phrase that: policies based on our best understanding of reality.
But like I said, go mine coal, or start a coal mining company if you are that into it. Let's see how you do. I'll bet that I come out on top in 10 years with Solar and storage, and you'll go bankrupt. It's not just cleaner it's better. Oh, and like coal, no imports from the Saudis, but let's be real, fracking solves that issue way better than coal does or solar/nuclear in the near term.