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[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

This stance is called doomerism. I'm not a fan. I sympathize with where you're coming from, but I won't co-sign mass suicide. Let's instead take direct action and start doing things that slows down the machine of capital. Let's illegally occupy airport tarmacs. Let's protest genocides even when presidential nominees call us pro-terrorism. A little bit, if they're gonna say we're pro-terrorism, let's consider the possibility of doing some terrorism. We're gonna get blamed for it either way. Let's realize the LA riots were a political uprising. Let's also realize just how effective the LA riots were, and how much more effective they coulda been if everyone got in on the action

[-] in4aPenny@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm sorry but people are already doing that and it's not working. Billionaires get richer, temperatures get hotter, people get poorer. The masses will tolerate literal shock collar enslavement so long as it "pays the bills" and keeps them alive, otherwise we'd actually be doing something by now. Never underestimate how much people will tolerate things getting horrible, and being that we've blown past the 1.5C limit this year we're basically already fucked. Anything short of a viral trend to burn down gated communities and humiliating public executions for any and every CEO or billionaire until they get the message, to get people to understand that society functions better without them (because we do all the work), anything short of that is not enough. I'd we can't do that to save our species and countless others, so be it.

We tolerated the dust bowl when they poisoned fruit with kerosene and the ones responsible faced zero justice. It'll only get worse.