• @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    I play the “I told you so” card whenever I can, with a proactive and self-reliant spin.

    We were hit with a climate intensified storm and lost our home, We moved and were hit again, but less severely, thanks to storm hardening our new home.

    This summer, I put in a tornado/hurricane shelter on our small plot. When I showed the FEMA plans to the code enforcers, showing how I was hardening all of our home, garage, and shed, the entire department came to look at the plans. I’m enough of a nerd to appreciate the group of engineers is ooohing and ahhing a common sense solution.

    I harden and storm proof, and have put in solar, and drive electric. It does not happen in a day, but step by step, can get better. I cannot change my state and their politics. (they are MAGA), but that does not mean that I have to roll over. I can lead by example, and I can make sure that my family can thrive after the storm

  • Jo Miran
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    I am writing this in a camper in an RV park as I monitor the cameras in my house and wonder if and when my shit will get wrecked. The truth is that WE did this through inaction. Yes the political class is to blame but so is most of the rest of the human race. We have destroyed our own home. We are a plague.

  • @[email protected]
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    1210 months ago

    In my experience, groups of people will ignore inconvenient but correct answers until the problem explodes into their collective faces.

    “The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” – George Orwell

  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    What the heck is a “political class?” I get what it’s trying to say, but people just use the word class to refer to any group of people, and not what it’s meant to be used for (relations to production).

  • @[email protected]
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    “We need to dismantle the fossil fuel industry!!!”

    They scream across the network built on plastics from their plastic phones while eating plastic foods and living in plastic houses.

    You want to dismantle the industry? Stop using shit!

    “But Awesomo, that’s too hard!!”

  • @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    No. I’m angry at, I guess the Dems or Jews, for using their space lasers to create a hurricane to attack the poor, peaceful, MAGA people of Florida.

  • @[email protected]
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    Reduce emissions all you want, India, and China out pollute us. Ain’t gonna mean a damn thing when other countries pollute more than first world stopped.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    5910 months ago

    I’m more angry at the low-information / single-issue voters who keep voting that political class in.

    Example: When I was waiting in line during the primaries this year, I overheard some guy behind me saying that he didn’t care about any of the policies; he’s just voting for whoever’s against abortion. I heard a few “uh-huhs” of agreement and then I cranked up my headphones to keep my blood pressure under control.

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 months ago

      As frustrating as propaganda victims are to deal with, they’re still victims, not perpetrators.

      • @[email protected]
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        910 months ago

        FUUCK that, they victimize other people on orders from their talking heads and Facebook rumors.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      I dunno if I can be mad at a stupid person for being stupid. It is their nature. I just hope I can make the generation that supersedes them can be a little smarter.

      But I can damn sure be mad at the person manipulating stupid people to enrich themselves at the expense of us all. They’re smart enough to know what they’re doing, and callous enough to not care.

    • @[email protected]
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      For the last year we’ve been cleaning the same thing from low info single issue liberals. Overlook genocide so their team can win. Overlook the environmental impact of 2 huge wars funded by the US so their team doesn’t lose. Their single issue is ‘not Trump’ despite on paper they look exactly like Trump

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        The game theory here should be painfully obvious to you! But it’s not obvious to my candidate, it’s under their radar. /s

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    910 months ago

    If I got furious every time the political class did something stupid I’d never stop being furious, and that’s no way to live.

  • @[email protected]
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    There is so much to be furious about, even as bad as climate issues are, it’s just one more goddamn thing to be pissed off about our politics.