“Pig” cannot be a better animal motif for the American capitalist.
Not only as a ever-consuming hedonistic glutton, but also in the phrase pig-headed.
Solar panels were fucking INVENTED in the US and we’re not using them for some sentimental ideological reason that you’re “supposed” to use fossil fuels. Alberta became a fucking one-trick pony in its economy because of that and is stuck doing so despite its massive solar potential.
Fuck porky full and full. Even other, possibly even well-meaning capitalists get burned by the porks.
I always think of a particular scene from The West Wing when I imagine America’s stubborn refusal to go green, where a couple of solar energy lobbyists/activists try to convince Bartlet to build a big solar plant and it’s basically played for laughs because their idea is so silly. Bear in mind this was the lib show about the lib president and even in their wildest fantasies libs couldn’t imagine a president signing on to a project that would achieve full energy independence and create ten thousand well paying jobs.
(then a decade later China startsled investing in green energy at a massive scale and hey what do you know two decades later they make 80% of the world’s solar cells and it’s a sector that employs hundreds of thousands of Chinese people)
I remember hearing “it’s a pig country with pig culture and pig people” when describing america and I could not find any better explanation with respect to America and its lust for destructive capitalism.
In our defense, there are so many people here who are cool as shit and don’t deserve this as well. That being said, the porks of the American ruling class are the porkiest porks to ever pork.
“Pig” cannot be a better animal motif for the American capitalist.
Not only as a ever-consuming hedonistic glutton, but also in the phrase pig-headed.
Solar panels were fucking INVENTED in the US and we’re not using them for some sentimental ideological reason that you’re “supposed” to use fossil fuels. Alberta became a fucking one-trick pony in its economy because of that and is stuck doing so despite its massive solar potential.
Fuck porky full and full. Even other, possibly even well-meaning capitalists get burned by the porks.
I wish we had a better comparison than pig. Those little guys are so cute 🐖🐷
On the flipside, the pejorative ‘hog’ is way too funny for me to ever give up.
I always think of a particular scene from The West Wing when I imagine America’s stubborn refusal to go green, where a couple of solar energy lobbyists/activists try to convince Bartlet to build a big solar plant and it’s basically played for laughs because their idea is so silly. Bear in mind this was the lib show about the lib president and even in their wildest fantasies libs couldn’t imagine a president signing on to a project that would achieve full energy independence and create ten thousand well paying jobs.
(then a decade later China startsled investing in green energy at a massive scale and hey what do you know two decades later they make 80% of the world’s solar cells and it’s a sector that employs hundreds of thousands of Chinese people)
I remember hearing “it’s a pig country with pig culture and pig people” when describing america and I could not find any better explanation with respect to America and its lust for destructive capitalism.
In our defense, there are so many people here who are cool as shit and don’t deserve this as well. That being said, the porks of the American ruling class are the porkiest porks to ever pork.