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Yes, the idea is to criminalize anything they see as not funneling more money to billionaires.
What they did was impose the foreign-sourced-critical-materials excise tax on wind and solar based on percentages that aren't attainable because they cut off support for US manufacturing of those materials and components (eg: magnets and solar cells)
It's in the bill text, not any article that I've seen.
Unfortunately, we're stuck with having to both beat fascism and solve major social and environmental issues at once. Fortunately, solving each of those makes solving the others easier.
There are a lot of crops that are grown as huge clone monocultures. Potatoes. Garlic. Any given apple, stonefruit, and citrus all come to mind.
I dont bet, but I think they've got at least a 30% chance of success
They might actually. A handful of Republicans in either house being willing to join Democrats and vote down the bill over this will get it removed.
For what its worth, Anthropic posted this in their corporate blog. So if its a joke, its coming out of vetted corporate PR.
The tendency in recent years has been to find that its worse than people realized. Just how much worse is the mystery.
Given its current state, this is a singularly bad idea.
That means actually having 60+ votes or ending the filibuster