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    Looks like coal’s back on the menu, boys! (Ugh.)

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      Ha ha, but for real. They’ll just turn people’s power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.

      Team Orange let’s no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.

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        It’s interesting to see that the circle of profiteers gets smaller and smaller each iteration, since everybody else is losing footing in the process.

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            capitalism as predicted by Jack Lennon in the book that inspired 1984

            The Iron Heel

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              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel

              The main premise of the book is the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States – strong enough to have a real chance of winning national elections, getting to power, and implementing a radical socialist regime. Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal dictatorship in order to avert it.

              It also inspired the national socialist party of Germany to “redefine socialism” as fascist oligarchism.