cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49031299
It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country.
The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees. Republicans like Ted Cruz (who has famously fled severe weather in his home state), Nikki Haley, and Representative Nancy Mace (South Carolina) quickly pounced, framing the request as socialism and an act of war on women in menopause (the Republican Party is notoriously friendly to women’s health).
Of course, this is pretty standard advice during a heatwave. It was the official stance of the Department of Energy that Americans should set their thermostats between 75 and 78 degrees, and Republican governors in deep red states like Texas have issued the same advice in the past — including current governor Greg Abbott.
8 Comments
Blibly@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 53d
Right wingers don't deserve internet access
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 53d
Right wingers don't deserve to live.
ruekk@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 53d
Agreed. Plague on society
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 53d
They literally hate you, and they literally want you to die.
pirate2377@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 53d
Genetic fallacy taken its logical extreme. Mamdani should express how much he loves breathing and watch as the right stops breathing out of spite
raman_klogius@ani.social · 4 pts · 52d
"I love not setting myself on fire and not drinking arsenic" - Mamdani 😁
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 51d
lol, brilliant
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 53d
Honestly it is pretty outageous when so many companies are just wasting power.