The former U.S. vice president accused the United Arab Emirates of “abusing the public’s trust” by naming the CEO of its national oil company as president of COP28.

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    Capitalist governments doing capitalism. It’s ridiculous to think that climate change was going to be fixed by consolidating the power of the people who caused it.

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      Yeah classic dictators learned America will let you do whatever you want if you play capitalist ball. You don’t need to be a democracy. Hell, America doesn’t believe in democracy. America is for sale.

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      You can do whatever you want either way, but it’s important people get called out or punished for evil deeds like trying to manipulate others.