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flandishIts a slow burn. Itll just get worse and worse until we doing something about the ruling class or fade into a cold dark oblivion made of our own hubris.
UnderpantsWeevilIts a slow burn.
“The world is ending” is easier to accept than “The world has always been a hard place and also I’m not getting any younger”.
Easier to believe you’ll live to see the end of the world than that the world will keep spinning without you.
You have definitely misunderstood. Most of us will probably not live to see the end. But things are about to get a whole hell of a lot worse if we dont reverse course yesterday and we will make earth unlivable for humans and any other non-extremophiles for thousands of years minimum.
Most of us will probably not live to see the end.
There is no “end” to live to see.
things are about to get a whole hell of a lot worse
I get this line every fucking day on here. It really seems to deny the reality of the post-industrial era. One of shrinking poverty, enormous surpluses, and a backbone of infrastructure that benefits the entire planet.
Like Kromptkin recognized over a century ago, we have already won as a society and a species. We just need to recognize it and dole out the winnings equitably. What Westerners see as a terrifying decline arrives just as much of the Eastern Bloc and the Global South are finally cashing in. And much of what Westerners dread is this equanimity - this international muscle enjoyed by nations not in the privileged Early Adopter group taking a slice of the pie they thought was always going to be theirs.
And even then it isn’t really bad news for Westerners in the aggregate, because so much of that pie was going to an elite plutocracy in their own backyards.
What people in the US and the UK and Germany and Japan are coming to terms with is the dead-weight loss of their own monarchies. Whether they choose to carry this baggage into the 22nd century will determine how they end up living. But the days of colonial extraction are closing. The Free Lunches paid for with the surplus labor of East Asia and West Africa are coming to an end.
If you’ve stepped outside the US, you’ve seen a very different picture
Funny, the climate and human rights watch reports that im basing my beliefs on are not american. In fact, the american reports would have you thinking everything is dandy.
RozaŭtunoWe are on this ride with them. The poor folks that sank with the titanic boarded on account of their own hubris. I get we didnt build the ship designs, had little to do with the advertising, and cant control who any rescue mission saves, but we are still on board and shovelling coal into the engines and very likely are the hands that built it. Unless we throw our bodies upon the very gears that make it run, we are just as culpable of the destruction it brings.
We are on this ride with them. The poor folks that sank with the titanic boarded on account of their own hubris. I get we didnt build the ship, had nothing to do with the advertising, and cant control who any rescue mission saves, but we are still on board and shovelling coal into the engines. Unless we throw our bodies upon the very gears that make it run, we are just as culpable of the destruction it brings.
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ֆᎮ⊰◜◟⋎◞◝⊱ֆᎮAlways. Now and Forever :).
Me just trying to survive long enough to see a girl in the mirror
bdonvrThis needs to be a ladybeard meme.
The ultimate victory is living well.
It got easier to deal with after accepting that we’re all essentially just background characters in a cyberpunk dystopia
Them average 90s clothes (that we wore 10 years ago … right?) tho …
Dont forget the trans panic, they always need an issue to pit everyone against.
Remember that Rest is Resistance
☂️-I’m sure my mum has that shellsuit.
“We have monetized your enjoyment of life, and your past due account has been sent to collections.”
“Molotov cocktail, the local drink; and all she wants to do is dance, dance.”