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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by sanderjd on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:13PM (#24748725)
A big problem I have with things like "the green new deal" is that they are buzzwords onto which many different policies can be mapped. I think to lots of people it implies no nuclear, and to some others it doesn't. Both are "right" because the buzzword has no implicit meaning.
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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by pwinnski on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:31PM (#24749278)
I'm not sure how that can be true, given that it's a written proposal[0]. Not many have read it, and certainly both opponents and proponents have made up things that are or are not in it, but it's not just a buzzword.

https://docsend.com/view/8gxh826

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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by JumpCrisscross on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:41PM (#24749756)
A lot of the text describes the goals of, and route to, a plan. It is not, itself, actual policy.
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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by sanderjd on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:33PM (#24760724)
Its existence as a buzzword predates that proposal, and thus inevitably the proposal is not the final word on how the term is defined.
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