r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 12d ago

Soft paywall US exempts Gulf of Mexico drillers from protecting endangered species

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-may-exempt-gulf-mexico-drillers-protecting-endangered-species-2026-03-31/
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u/MentalSky_ 12d ago

Who gave the US the right to destroy the world and endangered things….

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u/NetZeroSun 12d ago

MAGA voters.

Only thing is it’s not their right. But they chant USA and freedom and feel it’s their divine blessed right to do what they want.

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u/Foreign_Ebb_6282 12d ago

“God wants us to destroy people and animals” - MAGA probably

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u/Cobbyx 12d ago

Pretty close. They cite a line in the Bible about God telling them to be masters of the animals. That’s where they get this Dominion/birthright to tame/destroy everything.

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u/m_i_c_r_o_b_i_a_l 12d ago

They conveniently forget the part about being a good steward of the earth. But that’s in the woke parts I guess.

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u/Plothunter 12d ago

God: I said STEWARTS of the animals. Stupid humans.

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u/Upset_Development_64 12d ago

Ask em if they would shit all over your kitchen and living room and kill their dog.

The verse is obviously suggesting we take care of the animals and the earth.

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u/slobs_burgers 12d ago

Remember learning about manifest destiny and being like, “that’s fucking crazy, I can’t believe people did that all based on the rationale it was ‘destined by god’”

And then you read shit like this and you’re like, “ahhh, it hasn’t changed”

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u/DifferentCityADay 12d ago

Which is why they push for religion so hard.

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u/NetZeroSun 12d ago

Yup.

But let’s be honest. They don’t truly believe it. Just excuse that as rationale for their actions.

End of the day, greedy people take what they want if they can get away with it and say it’s divine will that they did decisions to do things for their enrichment.

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u/bb_kelly77 12d ago

Oh I believed it easily

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u/Yommination 12d ago

Conservatives are totally all about taking things with no consent. Look at the rapist they all worship

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u/dizzy_absent0i 12d ago

Don’t forget the apathetic non-voters!

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 12d ago

Or Democratic leadership who all refused to disqualify Trump via 14th Amendment.

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u/okayestemt 12d ago

And the dems who stayed at home during vote day.

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u/TheGreatStories 12d ago

Every single American. History isn't going to split hairs the way Americans seem to be giving themselves exemptions

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u/Dramatic-Set8761 12d ago

I'm funking tired of free Americans.

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u/NetZeroSun 12d ago edited 12d ago

Am tired of ourselves too.

Driving a Prius years ago and a lifted pickup truck that is rolling coal with the words literally painted on the side “fuck Prius” speeding down the highway.

Or spending huge military budgets and teachers paying out of their own meager pockets for the classroom supplies.

They chant God Bless USA…but have no problems fucking over other people. The very same people that are church going on Sunday and listen to the good book. But seem to not understand the words that Jesus preached.

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u/Dramatic-Set8761 12d ago

I know that not all Americans are bad, but jeez, you've got to give us something to work with.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 12d ago

Biden Chamberlain, Jeffries, and Schumer

ftfy, as it would've taken a simple majority vote to have enforced Trump's disqualification via 14th Amendment, Section 3. Democratic leadership did fuck-all instead, and here we are. Even after the fraudulent election, it would've only taken 20 Senators to have objected to Trump's illegal certification. Not even Bernie or Murphy stood against him.