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      I won’t make any comments for or against it, I’ll just remind people that the wealthiest 10% of people in the US worldwide are responsible for 40% of global warming emissions, and that BP invented the concept of a “carbon footprint” to shift the blame for global warming off of the companies that produce it, and on to the consumers forced into an economy that doesn’t offer good alternatives. Don’t bother turning the lights off when you leave the room. Don’t bother using shitty paper straws. Don’t bother turning the water off while you wash your hands. All of that is immediately undone when a company leaves the lights on 24/7 at every location in an attempt to reduce theft, and wraps everything in tons of plastic for shipping across seas, and that rich guy down the street who waters his lawn at 3:00 AM every single day regardless of whether it’s currently raining or you’re in the middle of a drought.

      Every single thing that every single person in East Palestine Ohio ever did to reduce their impact on the climate was undone and then some by Norfolk Southern back in February, because maintaining the trains that carried fucking WWI era chemical weapons would cost a little bit of money.

      But like

      Don’t get radicalized or anything lol

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        No, 40% of climate change is caused by the wealthiest 10% globally. That’s 800,000,000 people, including according to this 100 million US-Americans. Even the bottom 50% of US Americans cause as much emission (per capita) as the top 10% in Turkey or Argentina.

        Source (2015)

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      I don’t understand why so many people are vehemently against taking up any form of personal responsibility. The idea that everyone can just shit on the environment because corporation’s aren’t doing enough is juvenile bs. It’s a comfort zone that enables these corporations in the first place.

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    Meatless Monday is the most pathetic excuse of trying to change anything in your life. I’m not even a full vegetarian myself but I wouldn’t dream of patting myself on the back for not eating one specific type of food for a single day a week.

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      It’s the social mindset shift that’s important. Start doing things to change, no matter how small, and everything builds from there. Just do something.

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      It’s because it isn’t really something that is supposed to be very impactful on an individual basis.

      The trend to push for people trying to eat less meat instead of no meat is because the majority of the population is unwilling currently to give up meat entirely, and are deciding on no changes to their diet when petitioned to try being vegetarian or vegan. But, if you can get most people to eat just less meat, there is a collective impact to the meat industry, and as a bonus, someone who has already agreed to reduce the meat in their diet is easier to convince to cut more meat than someone who has never agreed to change their diet at all.

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        I stopped eating beef, I don’t eat meat most days, I don’t drive or own a car and I try to keep all consumption to a minimum. I’m definitely far from perfect but I don’t pat myself on the back for turning off the tap while I brush my teeth, because that’s normal. Eating meat everyday is not normal. So as far as I’m concerned nobody gets a medal for being normal.

        Sorry for being so salty btw I was just in a bad mood when I wrote the original comment, oops.

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    Don’t worry, the plutocrats will not slow down the worsening of conditions (and enshittification of services and products) to continue enraging the proletariat. I suspect they take for granted we wouldn’t dare stand against law enforcement (or wage a mischief and sabotage campaign to disrupt them.)

    Vive la résistance!

    Viva la revolución!

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      If you wanted to say the same thing in spanish and french, then it would be “Vive la révolution”, as Vive la résistance refers to the group fighting the nazi occupation of France

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        I was referencing La Résistance, which started by disorganized mischief makers in Paris cutting phone lines, slashing tires and tearing down propaganda and in a matter of months developed into a formidable fighting force.

        The recent Behind the Bastards two-parter podcast on Reinhard Heydrich outlined the rise of the Sicherheitsdienst including the development of concentration camps (detention centers) and what ultimately lead to the genocide machine of the German Reich, and there are a conspicuous number of similarities between the policies and behaviors of the SD and of law enforcement in the US in the 2020s. Of note is how the SD ignored the exceptions that would make certain undesirables exempt from arrest and detention, so they were detained and processed anyway which compares to ICE in the US persecuting undocumented persons when their actions were supposed to be confined to those that had committed felonies. (Deportees also included nonwhite Americans that looked sufficiently foreign.)

        That said, I think we’re moving towards a mischief and sabotage campaign as law enforcement moves to enforce laws criminalizing the existence of marginalized groups like trans folk, or for that matter, enforcing corporate interests, such as when ICE raided repair shops in Florida for repairing Apple products without an Apple license (which informed the movement towards right-to-repair legislation).

        So yes, France has given us more than a little bit of inspirational history.

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    I’m basically on the bottom left just ready to go, why is everyone still not angry enough? Let’s get the grill going so the cooking of the billionaire already, we all take a bite to show commitment to the cause

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      I really don’t know, we’re in the middle of a second gilded age and nobody gives a fuck

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      Some people still have something to lose, I guess. I’m not sure I have much left, though. Just bills I can currently afford to pay, kind of, barely. I mean, I’m looking for a second job so I can have an easier time paying off a massive dentist bill, and literally no free time, so I got that to look forward to.

      But no partner, no kids, it’s just my mom and my dog that keep me from driving my car into someone’s mansion, some days. I’m so tired.

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      If everyone being oppressed is rallied together then it’s an immensely powerful force, but those at the top are always working to keep us divided, uneducated, and poor.

      You can’t unite the people together until you educate them more. You can’t educate them more until you remove them from poverty. You can’t get them out of poverty until you redistribute the wealth. You can’t redistribute the wealth until you forcibly take it from the ruling class. You can’t force my take it until you unite the people together, etc. etc.

      That or you wait until food and water is so scarce that the majority of the population becomes concerned if they can survive in the short term. But that’s a wildcard situation that could go in any direction.

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      Is there a word for women who don’t wear makeup, because they feel they don’t need/want it and don’t listen to advertisement telling them they need to?