β€œWe prefer your extinction to the loss of our job.”

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism

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Gawd, that is terrible. I had to zoom in to discern what it actually is.
That is a stomach churning sight.

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The 1% is funding fascism to preserve their own wealth at all cost.

They're prepared to let a billion people die of famine.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-climate-changing-human-billion-deaths-century.html

They're prepared to let 1.2 billion climate refugees suffer in misery.
https://www.whatismissing.org/content/1-2-billion-climate-refugees-by-2050

They're prepared to fund fascist movements in every democracy threatening to cut off their gas subsidies or do a fossil fuel phase out.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/andreas-malm-interview/

They're prepared to wage war on the poor, to hoard even more wealth

Climate-changing human activity could lead to 1 billion deaths over the next century, according to new study

If global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, University of Western Ontario's Joshua Pearce says it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century.

Phys.org
@breadandcircuses I remember first reading this and immediately thinking of Spaceballs
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Third panel definitely SpaceBalls. The second panel is the tv movies/show "V".
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Swap out job for private jet and you've got it.
@breadandcircuses he was doing so well until he tried to rhyme "macabre" with "job"
@DrHyde @breadandcircuses It works a bit better when read in an American accent but still not great.
@DrHyde @breadandcircuses Tell me you don't know how to pronounce "macabre" without telling me you don't know how to pronounce "macabre."

@majick @DrHyde @breadandcircuses

The "American" (USA) pronunciation of "macabre" does rhyme with "job." (The "re" at the end is silent.) Calvin and Hobbes is an American comic strip.

The British pronunciation is closer to the original French. (They pronounce the "re" at the end.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOpioH21V94&ab_channel=JulienMiquel

How to Pronounce Macabre (BETTER)

YouTube

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When communists tell me to "read theory", I explain that you'll learn more about human nature from Calvin and Hobbes than you ever will from reading Marx

@CosmickTrigger @breadandcircuses cute. But political economy is not about "human nature" if not tangentially. If you care about that there are other disciplines you can read.
@CosmickTrigger @breadandcircuses marx did not write about human nature, so I suppose it is true.

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I just finished rereading my 4 volume set of "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes".

My inner tiger is fired up.

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Can anyone think who is best represented by Moe, these days?

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I taped this one on my bedroom wall (it came out the year I graduated high school) and it stayed there until we moved.

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1992.... That's... umm... how many years/decades ago? πŸ™„