• few things have battered my faith in the US and the west in general like the institutional response to climate science. we have known for decades that a transition is required, but not only that: that the transition would not be some descent into drudgery and discomfort. that it could improve our day to day lives, increase comfort and convenience. we had the resources to make the transition smoothly.

    the problem is it would marginally decrease the political power and wealth of the already powerful elite minority, so instead we’re going to commit to the path that social murders billions of people and trillions of organisms we share this planet with. it’s so banal, lazy, and cruel.

    much of my hope for the future comes from the PRC’s attempt to build socialism and hopefully drag the remnants of this shitty empire and its vassals into a better world.

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      The conspiracy-brained part of me thinks there’s a sizable number of billionaires in key sectors who know what’s going on and want billions to suffer in the belief that they will somehow weather the storm and inherit a depopulated earth.

      On the other hand it could just be the bourgeoisie being that out to lunch after conquering the world that they just lost all their instincts for self-preservation. They certainly don’t have any progressive role in history anymore.

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        they will somehow weather the storm and inherit a depopulated earth.

        Given all the articles on their various bunker projects and the continued anti-immigrant drumbeat, it seems like that’s exactly what they want. Fiends in human shape, all of 'em.

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        Yeah stuff like this is what could make me believe in Satanist cabals running the west. It’s so obviously blood hungry. What makes it suck is that it’s not even some rad shit like that, it’s just people like Jeff, Tim and Bill who enjoy being billionaires.

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          I’m not even talking about those guys who we hear so much, I’m talking about the vast majority of the Bourgeoisie who got their money from older industries and who’s names we never hear. This many generations out, they don’t need to take any helm or even make an occasional trip to the bridge like the tech guys do. They just have other people manage their money for them. It kinda sounds like the self-perpetuating process folks like Matt talk about when I put it like that. And that’s just as scary a thought: Capitalism running on autopilot and destroying the planet for the great great grandchildren of Henry Ford.