HOW MUCH WORSE DOES CLIMATE CHANGE HAVE TO GET FOR LEAD BRAINS TO ACCEPT IT? elmofire

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    Bro back in the 90s my car would be blanketed in dead bug guts even from a short drive. Now its pristine after a long trip. We are devastating everything

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    They want it because they think when society collapses they’ll get to commit violence against climate refugees from the walls of fortress America

    To them climate change is fascist rapture


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    Who even is convinced by this now? Even the most fox news addled freaks at my work have been talking about how unseasonably hot it’s been.

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      The greenwashing techbros with their le epic EVs want to build many more data centers for their treat printers. It’s climate denial with Singularity™ characteristics.

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        It really is amazing that the tech scene as a whole is devoid of intellectualism, even though the whole idea of tech was built on that in the first place.

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          Capitalism once again destroying everything it touches. The techbros think money = success = personal worth because capitalism ties a person’s value to how much profit they generate. Because the techbros have six figure salaries and college educations, they think they’re the pinnacle of intellectualism. Teachers get looked down on because they don’t make money, therefore the techbro is smarter than teachers.

          And once you’re the smartest person that can exist, why do anything more? Why bother reading or making art? Why bother understanding philosophy or people who led political movements? You’re inherently superior and therefore an expert on those subjects because (again) you make more money than the people involved in that stuff.

          It’s especially comforting to subpar failsons who were dipshits growing up and finally found something they were good at. But rather than having some humility, they gloat about how everyone who doubted them was wrong.

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          Techbros are deeply set in their ways and the ruling class techbros haven’t had a truly new idea since the 90s, instead just demanding their workers come up with new ways to try to chase that 90s invincibility high.

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            Tech is finally expected to actually turn a profit for the first time in almost 40 years. Which means everything is rapidly reverting to automated financial instruments.

  • dustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    once we stop having seasons that get below room temperature, they’ll finally accept that climate change is real

    it has to stop getting “a bit cool” entirely

    pretty sure we will all be dead by then

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      The whole death drive angle baffles me. If you’re a right winger with clout and you aren’t trying to rules lawyer the Rapture, you’re trying to become a post-apocalypse feudal lord. Pisses me off, seeing as I’m one of the people who’d be left holding the bag and having to live with the world their doomed prophecy and/or delusions of grandeur would produce

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    Acceptance is meaningless.

    Democrats accept it yet they also are trapped within the confines of what is possible in a liberal capitalist empire which means nothing is done. So they protest, they ensure that the fact it is an issue is /SEEN/ and that they are /seen/ being on the right side of it but do nothing or enact plans that were supposed to be enacted 30 years ago to actually work and are far too little, too late now.

    So yes eventually even reactionaries will accept it but then they’ll pull the Google CEO move which is to say well it’s too late now so might as well double down on AI and other pollution and hope some technology of ours magics up a solution for us and then when that doesn’t work in 20-25 years and the worst of it is hitting they’ll say we had no way of knowing and blame China and various bad guys and a few token dead white people who are beyond the reach of any justice.

    We’re heading over the cliff, we’re over the cliff and one of the drivers insists it’s just a dip in the road while the other horrified is scolding them for driving off the cliff but insisting they needed to take that turn they missed when they headed over the cliff, they’re insistent that they take it at the next opportunity despite that option of course being long past.

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    what he’s saying is stupid bullshit but I cannot help but respect it more than hand-wringing liberals who claim to care and then work against any attempt to confront capital

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      I’m exhausted of “brutal honesty” and don’t give it any additional consideration if it’s the same result, just with brute flavor.

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        I think you can make an argument that pig-headed open climate science denial like that Trump spews is less dangerous than the more sophisticated and deceptive climate science denial that western liberals promote, where they claim to “believe the science” but all they do is to give a few handouts to the EV sector and maybe fund a few bazinga carbon capture projects in the hope that they can do green capitalism.

        With the former it is easy to see that it is complete bullshit and that you have to look elsewhere for a sensible answer but the latter looks superficially sensible and convinces a lot of people who genuinely care about climate change that the adults in the room are stepping up and that a bazinga wizard will fix it.

      • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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        best I can do is “gets put after the other major candidate in the post-revolutionary line for the gallows”