HeavenlyPossumAug 10, 2023

I was thinking to myself, “when will the effects of climate change get so bad that they provoke revolution” but then it occurred to me: they already did. Just in the wrong direction.

Syrians fled a civil war driven by the worst drought in a thousand years and Europe responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Central Americans fled rising temperatures that are killing agricultural workers and the U.S. responded with a wave of reactionary fascism.

Russia just happens to be in a war for control of some of the world’s best farmland.

Sudan is in the middle of a civil war and Niger just had its umpteenth coup.

Reactionaries are *already* at war with us over climate change. It’s only going to get worse as the world gets hotter.

Show threadSans-culottes Aug 11, 2023
@HeavenlyPossum What in the flying fuck happened in here? I'm just going to torch my History degree because, obviously, the whole 20th century in Europe is vastly different than anything I have read or studied. Sweet baby Jesus.
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@Existentialcrisis86

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Show threadSans-culottes Aug 11, 2023
@HeavenlyPossum Ugh I replied to the wrong part of this conversation. This was in response to the Faye Loves Godzilla rant about the Nazis being environmentalists. I don't remember that being discussed at the Wannsee Conference or in Generalplan Ost.
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@Existentialcrisis86

You never know what off-handed comment will trigger someone’s personal obsession

Show threadSans-culottes Aug 11, 2023
@HeavenlyPossum I do feel like this has really ramped up lately. I guess it was just a matter of time for Mastodon to become like this. Especially with large unmoderated instances or openly reactionary ones.
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@Existentialcrisis86

Honestly, a lot of it is from people who self-identify as “leftists” in some way but aggressively hold some weird and not at al predictable grievances

Aug 11, 2023 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadSans-culottes Aug 11, 2023

@HeavenlyPossum Yeah, I'm always skeptical of people like that. Though I definitely run into self-described leftists that have some batshit ideas and knowledge of history. It does make me wonder what cesspits of the internet they are coming from where these ideas were fostered or encountered.

Though I'm skeptical of a lot of online "leftists" in general. Places like Reddit and Revleft really cemented that skepticism for me.