• Masterblaster420@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    and that’s why the real enemy is ‘everyone’, or at least around 38% of the population. democracy still works. the problem is that close to half the american population has been brainwashed by religion and the corporotacracy to vote exactly how the owners want them to. the ugly truth is that we need a rwandan style conservative genocide if we really want to fix things.

    it sucks as a solution but i don’t see any other way to fix this shit in time to prevent a truly devastating ecological dystopia. we are living in a massive trolley dilemma, but i think the worst possible outcome is that we leave a broken planet for endless future generations to suffer. i know which way i’d pull the switch.

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      8 months ago

      Slow it down there Thanos, just because you can’t personally see a solution to our current predicament doesn’t mean that genocide is the solution. Do you honestly believe that would fix things? Are you a comic book villain?

      You decrie brainwashing by the media and assume that you are unaffected, but you are clearly and dangerously mislead into losing all hope for a better world. The latest shift in climate disinformation is away from denialism and towards doomerism, and you seem to have fallen for it hard.

      It is not too late. There are attainable solutions. Political change is possible, perhaps even inevitable. There will be consequences for what has already been done, but we can survive them and we will. What might not survive are the institutions that got us to this point, but we can build a better world in their absence. Don’t lose hope, that’s what the oligarchs want.

      I know it’s hard to sympathize with those who refused to see reason and allowed the powers that be to bring us to the point of crisis, but it’s important to remember that they too are victims.

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        8 months ago

        I agree with you on almost every point, but I don’t believe we have enough time left to sort it out without removing the obstacles to democratic change - idiot conservatives. I agree that they’re victims too, but this isn’t about grace or forgiveness. This is about problem solving. I don’t think we can achieve any kind of lasting solution as long as there is a significant portion of the American population that want to see other people suffer.