Like many, I did buy into the idea that big catastrophes would do something to politics,” said Luisa Neubauer from Fridays for Future Germany. “I bought into that – and I’m glad about it – because I was naively believing there was a democratic responsibility that would live through coalition changes and climate changes.”

The 28-year-old activist, who spent three months in the US before the presidential election, said she had been shocked to see the destruction from Hurricane Helene “play into the cards of those denying climate disasters”.

Far-right influencers and conspiracy theorists used the wildfires that ravaged California this month to attack efforts to stop the planet from heating. Similar disinformation was seen in Spain after deadly floods struck Valencia in October.

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    Tyranny is absolutely allowed by the “moderates” who don’t consider themselves aligned with the tyrants but also don’t actively work to resist them. Go read “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” if you need an explanation.

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      the “moderates”

      I don’t know what you’re referring to with this new term you’ve introduced.

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        the “moderates”

        I don’t know what you’re referring to with this new term you’ve introduced.

        What part of

        Go read “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” if you need an explanation.

        did you not understand?

        Here’s the link; go read it: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

        …and if you won’t do that, fine, I’ll spoon-feed you the relevant quote:

        We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country’s antireligious laws.

        I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

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          I don’t understand why you’re telling me this. I said that tyranny isn’t “allowed” by those who suffer under it. Nothing you’ve said contradicts what I said.

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            Do you really think the Venn diagram of “those who suffer under it” and “moderates who comply with the regime” has zero overlap?

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              “those who suffer under it” and “moderates who comply with the regime”

              I haven’t commented on “moderates”.