If you still have hope that humanity will stop destroying (the human habitability of) our only habitat in the name of short-term private profit for humanity’s most prolific sociopaths, at least share the kind of drugs you’re on.
“LINE MUST GO UP!”
-Homo Sapien, ~200,000 BCE - ~2100 AD
Accelerationists gotta accelerate, I guess. For the longest time it baffled me as to why anyone with intelligence would knowing act to destroy the planet and, with it, society. Then I learned about this shit called accelerationism and it all starts to make sense.
We ARE in a hostage situation like someone commented, except we’re on a bus, speeding toward a cliff, and the rich elite refuse to take their foot off the pedal. They think they’re going to come out of societal collapse alive and poised to shape whatever comes next however they want. It’s literally the game of Monopoly with that fucking speed die version…
Jokes on them, the earth can stay a boiling lava pit for longer than they can stay in their bunkers.
Also, good luck trying to have people service and maintain your bunker system as you dictate their lives without any of them just trying to kill you.
It would be so much easier to just admit they have to work with the poors to keep the earth alive so everyone can live than just wipe out humanity and think they can outlast it
Right? Shortsightedness is a problem everywhere. And their calculations are not gonna work out for them. Sure, raise the price of goods and services today, who’s gonna buy them if no one has any money cause they’re syphoning off and propelling us to the bottom. I’m convinced the ultra wealthy stopped mentally growing at age 7-10.
Take that Ken Griffith guy, the one who had to get bailed out by other ultra wealthy a-holes in 2020 during the GameStop meme-time. He just spent like $44 million on a stegosaurus skeleton that the company was going to try to sell for like $3-$7 million. Dudes atrocious with money and predictions it seems. He’s like a wealthier Tim Poole.
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It’s not about the rich. No one cares, except for a small handful of people. The vast majority of people want to fly away on vacation, own a large home, have a crappy grass lawn, eat meat everyday. They see environmentalism as some sort of odd lifestyle. If you make a law that says they can’t use gas lawn mowers, they’ll scream and go bat shit insane, call you the devil. They are relentless in wanting to pave over anything living.
“Sorry, I’m freeing Palestine this election by posting on Instagram about it and not voting”
yeah it’s not the “fuck everyone else let’s subsidize billionaires and crude oil some more” party that has anything to do with it; it’s definitely the “i think genocide is bad” crowd.
I think that you can think genocide is bad and when given a choice between two viable candidates pick the one that is less likely to double down on genocide. But hey, that’s just someone who has seen third parties in the US never quite achieve what they say they’re doing EVERY election.
never argued for third party candidates; you can check my history. but blaming this bullshit on people who do rather than the party that actively and proudly wants it is also a bit single minded.
it’s one thing to argue not voting or voting third party is the same as voting for republicans (which i always argue that it is) but seeing news like this shouldn’t make your first thought “this is because of third party voters”.
no, it’s republicans first. and democrats second, by the way. depressing voter turnout is something they have done for as long as I’ve been aware of us politics, probably more. it’s their job to turn non-voters into democratic voters, not the republicans’ job.
yet time and time again their best argument has always been “look at these cunts, we promise we’ll be at least 10% better”. that’s dumb. they banked on this message with Hillary and everyone paid for it.
this is one of those rare instances where they haven’t been as patronizing and dismissive of their base. they’ve actually listened, and convinced biden to drop out, and harris picked the VP candidate favored by the voters rather than making cynically strategic plays. i hope they win and learn a lesson from this.
Yeah, fair enough! Thanks for taking the time to share your perspective and help me see other thinking on the issue.
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As conservatives cheer.
Well since there’s nothing I can do then I guess it’s time to kick back and wait for the end of humanity. We had a good run.
You can and you should (and you probably already do).
Kick back and know that you’re doing something, whatever it is.
Nicely said.
And even if we could do a bit more, why should we make more sacrifices, when big corporations are accountable for much of the environment’s issues?
I’ve been doing my best, but we need to be investing money as a society into it.
My neighbor is blasting Tool and singing along, poorly. Let’s go ahead and collapse this already. I’m tired.
One great big festering neon distraction
I’ve a suggestion to keep you all occupied
See you on Arizona Bay!
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Really wish there was a way to block this kind of stuff from all my feeds. I already know this, and there is nothing I can do to stop it from happening, so I really don’t want to see it.
This is wild, the exact same discussion with the exact opposite upvotes would happen in the progressivepolitics community.
But to the point about “not being able to do anything” that’s just not true. Is it singularly enough to reverse or accelerate climate change? No, but that’s not the question is it. Anything is anything. Can you do anything? Yes.
The answer is Yes. So please do. You’re walking instead of driving? Eating less meat? Good. There you go - no need to crawl into a hole and die, you’re doing something. It’s not nothing. It’s good.
Even with appliances or vehicles: if you’re going to buy one anyway, you can choose increased efficiency and you’ve done something, no matter how small.
I can honestly say that I believe, checks notes, that tinfoil hats will help you with this issue!
