[–] 172 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

I don't think he is insane at all. He went to MIT. He owns an oil company.

In 2011, he founded Liberty Energy, then known as Liberty Oilfield Services. As of February 2023, the company was valued at $2.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. As the CEO of Liberty Energy, Wright earned $5.6 million in 2023.

In 2019 Wright drank fracking fluid to demonstrate that it was not dangerous. In a video posted to LinkedIn in January 2023, he said, "There is no climate crisis and we're not in the midst of an energy transition either".

On November 16, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Wright to serve as U.S. secretary of energy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright#cite_note-LibertyLeadership-14

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-names-chris-wright-fossil-fuel-ceo-and-campaign-donor-as-energy-secretary

The insane people are the ones who voted for this.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Regardless the reasoning for them doing this, you cannot smash someone with a sledgehammer and lie to yourself that you are still the good guy.

    The disturbing thing is that the people who damaged property got almost the same sentence as the guy who attacked a woman

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    The single most influential individual in UK Politics is actually a foreigner.

    Sir John said he was advised before the election that he “ought to try to make some effort to get closer to the Murdoch press and I agreed that I would write Mr Murdoch to dinner”.

    He added: “In the dinner it became apparent in discussion that Mr Murdoch said that he really didn’t like our European policies… and he wished me to change our European policies.

    “It is not very often someone sits in front of a prime minister and says, ‘I would like you to change your policy and if you do not change your policy our organisation cannot support you’.”

    https://www.channel4.com/news/major-denies-sun-editor-abused-him-after-black-wednesday

    This was the headline of Murdoch's Sun right before the Brexit Referendum :

    (She never said any of this).

    To quote UKIP's leader Nigel Farage:

    "Without Rupert Murdoch, there would have been no Brexit"

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q01pMCUmQxQ

    This dude is openly threatening the Prime Minister and spreading fake news.

    People are concerned about russian, indian, saudi, chinese influence depending on their politics. Foreign interference is actually happening right under their nose.

    It's just that no one cares because Rupert Murdoch is Australian.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    1. Ranjeet Brar is not just a random doctor. He is a politician. He is the general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

    2. He is not a peace activist. His party praised Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He is also not against Genocide. He publically said that he is fine with Genocide, as long as Israelis are the targets.

    3. The Middle East Monitor is an extremely controversial media organization

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

    They regularly publish absolute non-sense.

    For instance, they said Israel flooded Gaza by open dam gates:

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20221227-israel-floods-gaza-after-opening-dam-gates/

    Except there is no dam at all in Gaza or Southern Israel.

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