I understand the need for hyperbolic, bombastic titles to trick the algorithm into giving views to YouTube videos.

However, if I see one more video titled, "TRUMP DESTROYED AS GOP COLLAPSES!!!!!11!" and it turns out one Republican state senator from Idaho said, "hey, that president guy is kind of wrong on this one farm funding bill" I'm going to go NUTS.

#USPol #FalseHope

You may have guessed it already: Sea curtains in #Antarctica cannot be a long-term solution to prevent loss & damage caused by ice melt and sea-level rise. Only curbing emissions can be! It's like taking an aspirin for tooth cavities—it won't save you from seeing a dentist, nor does it fix the cause.

📄 “Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects”

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full

#Geoengineering #FalseHope

False Hope: Exposing Modern Christianity’s Deception

Is modern Christian eschatology a counterfeit? Many believe in a physical return of Jesus, but this view may misinterpret scripture. Is the focus on earthly rule a denial of the true Gospel? Discover the true hope of the apostles. #ChristianEschatology #FalseHope #BiblicalTruth #EndTimesDeception #TrueGospel from Christic Academy

https://christicacademy.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/false-hope-exposing-modern-christianitys-deception-2/

#PostCapitalism

For decades leftists have cheerfully called some especially troublesome developments in our society #LateStageCapitalism or post capitalism - acting like those developments were a sign that capitalism has run its course and we'd be freed from it soon.

I never understood that, as the natural successor to (hyper) capitalism is fascism, not socialism.
I wish I had been wrong.

#capitalism #SurveillanceFascism #HyperCapitalism #FalseHope

Mr Sycamore is molting today. Lots of papery bark at his feet as he sheds last year’s coat.

Sun rises golden yellow as we look from a new vantage point outside the fence. Rocky was eating while I schlepped the bins.

The third image looks down the side street from our gate. We’re looking just to the south of the sunrise.

The fourth image looks down the street toward the west. The rising sun is illuminating the clouds from the side giving the image shown here.

#FalseHope

"Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence."

Jules Feiffer

#quote #quoteoftheday #rising #confidence #Falsehope #BeingHuman

I sometimes hear or read, the claim that doomerism is a problem (especially related to climate change). I partially agree that it is a sentiment that can lead some people to do be less engaged in making meaningfull change. But I think it is more important to be careful when claiming another person's statement is doomerism, because things that can seems like doomerism, are often the antidote of a sentiment that is a far bigger problem than doomerism, namely false hope or false optimism.

What I mean by false hope, is the belief that everything is going to be alright, even without significant change to the structures that are causing the problems. An example of this is Green Growth, the belief that the best way to solve climate change is continuous economic growth (as measure by GDP), while directing the production and infrastructure to more sustainable technologies (e.i. renewable energy and electrical vehicles). Green Growth is a false hope, since it is unrealistic that maintaining the global growth based economic system can lead to a sustainable economy fast enough to limit climate change to a level that will not lead to a global economic and social colapse.

Dismissing a false hope, is not that same a dismissing hope. On the contrary, what gives me hope is that more and more people is lossing hope in our current system. In order for radical change to happen, more people need to be motivate to have radical change. False hopes are what allowing people to feel save and contented with the current system, and dismiss the need for radical change. Therefore I say, let us lose false hope so the future can be hopefull.

And next time see something that seems like doomerism, ask if they are lossing hope in the current system, or lossing hope in general.

#degrowth #ClimateCrisis #FalseHope #doomer #doomerism