kitMar 27

You know that idea of a White Christmas, yeah?

That really comes from the Little Ice Age (1600 - 1800) ? Hmmm? (And Dickens remembering once upon a time.)

Well it turns out that *that* was due to the way we genocided (fancy word for murdered a whole lot of people) on both sides of the Atlantic.

So many that we decarbonised the atmosphere and triggered the cold.

We have not been good stewards of the planet

https://globalnews.ca/news/4924534/little-ice-age-death-55-million-indigenous-people-colonization-study/

h/t @jonesmurphy

‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: study

Colonization of the Americas at the end of the 15th century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate, according to a new study.

Global News
Show threadcwicseolforMar 27
@hypostase @jonesmurphy The billionaires only see a blueprint here. We have to reckon with how anyone could have sided with this, and we have to do it fast because the culture that did so is still the one in greatest power with greatest wealth today, they’re still at it in North and especially South America, in Australasia, and the rest of the world is open for another round if it means the yacht club can keep burning 300,000 to 500,000 times as much carbon as the average human alive.
Show threadJones MurphyMar 27
@cwicseolfor @hypostase the problem isn't billionaires. It's the group that massively enriched billionaires ever since Civil Rights: Nazis aka #MAGA. That's the most dangerous group, behaving like their ancestors.
Show threadcwicseolforMar 27
@jonesmurphy @hypostase Hence "how anyone could have sided with this" and "the culture that did so is still the one in greatest power with greatest wealth" - the billionaires call the shots, but the shots are carried out by dutiful little footsoldiers all hoping for their turn at the trough. The "this" being "sided with" is an ongoing, unfolding event. The culture of reified dominance, of the right to exploit the dehumanized, is UTTERLY continuous.
Show threadJones Murphy
@cwicseolfor @hypostase that's false. Billionaires lost a huge percentage of the pie from FDR till Civil Rights. Billionaires do not call the shots in America, and never have. Racist voters turned against the New Deal when it was desegregated by Civil. They incessantly cut taxes on billionaires and corporations, and busted unions. The number and wealth of billionaires soared, and is now overwhelmingly produced by racist voters since Civil Rights.
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Show threadcwicseolforMar 27
@jonesmurphy @hypostase The *CULTURE* didn't change, and the racist voters you indicate are the proof - we're talking about a gap of thirty years from the New Deal to the racist rank-closing (the Southern Strategy) in response to the Civil Rights movement, fifty years until it really completed that process, something that occurred within the span of a lifetime and even within the span of single careers. Certainly we had periods of progress; "the culture" of which I'm speaking had some eras of greater temperance in the face of opposition. But we've not had much other, in the European diaspora, but the Anglophone world especially, and nowhere more than in the US, than a culture of violent, colonial, racist patriarchy the whole time.