@robpike I’ve been a vocal no on many things that still happened. Nuke proliferation. The destruction of society. Trickle-down fantasies. Mechahitler-powered “socials”. Viboslop, way before it wore that skin. The resurrection of nazism (there may be a pattern here). The Macchu Pichu fallacy. “Infinite growth” dogma. Many genocides, including the biggest one of all, the Anthropocene Extinction.

Saying no never stopped anything. “If we just didn’t” is by far less powerful than other mechanisms. Compulsive instant gratification, lazyness in many forms – intellectual, physicsl – and the dishonesty and lack of empathy they carry in win the day.