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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago
[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yep. And not just the GOP and their tiki-torch-weilding fans, either. The fascism is fucking deeply rooted in U.S. politics, and always has been.

ecological and economic catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unsuited to deal with...they're getting everybody else ready intellectually and emotionally for why that's gonna be okay when it happens why they're not really people...when we're putting all this money into more walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away and so that we can watch them die with clear conscience

This is what liberals (Democrats in particular) really mean when they say they want to "treat climate change like a national security issue". People are suckered into thinking it just means they are going to take it seriously and prioritize it. No. It's the same sense in which they have always used the term "national security". It literally means they are going to crack down harder on immigration, make sure that capitalist enterprises close to the security state profit like crazy (e.g. securing them the Arctic trade routes), shoot "looters" when they are just trying to survive after climate disasters, crack down on the climate movement as it demands systemic change, etc. Aviva Chomsky did a really good talk a couple years ago about immigration and went into this very clearly.

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