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Environment & Energy

eppur_se_muova

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4. The "undue burden", as defined by the GOP and their corporate masters, is ANY burden, perceived or real.

Reply to kerouac2 (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 30, 2025, 10:25 AM

Jan 30

The GOP constantly uses common language to mean things completely different from actual common usage. "Undue" or "inappropriate" or even "unfair" are just meta-syntactical synonyms for "costs us some slightly greater amount of profit we could have if we were only allowed to wreck the world without restraint".

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