There’s a lot of shame being an American these days…
But, like, at least we can spell.
Agent Smith (the Wachowskis) had us dead to rights.
We are a macro cancer of the natural world. You can point to our supposed good works, but from the perspective of most surface life, well… the surface life we haven’t yet exterminated in the name of glorious economic metastasis, we are a fucking plague.
Metastatic tumors refuse to stop too. It’s in their nature.
I find consolation in knowing we aren’t the first macro cancer Earth has survived, see the trees of the carboniferous period, and life will survive our species’ very loud, eager murder suicide.
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wasn’t it called climate change?
global warming is the raising of the global average surface temperature. This causes climates of many regions to change. It wasn’t renamed, it’s just two connected phenomena
I liked yesterday’s picture of the Titanic nosing deeply into the water and somebody up on the stern end saying if we’re supposedly “sinking” how are we up so high? Classic denialist mentality. Unfortunately also typical of the meme-level thinking people do on most issues now.
They voted trump back in to the white house, there’s no hope for them.
As an American trapped inside with these proudly ignorant fuckwits, can confirm.
Good luck when climate change makes us desperate though. There’s literally only one thing we are genuinely very, very good at, to my shame; mass production of the means of mass murder. It’s pathetic how many of my fellow Americans take a perverse pride in this.
I genuinely fear for the rest of the world when the water wars start. We’re idiocracy with a cartoonishly big stick we’re absolutely dumb and petty enough to use.
global warning
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As MAGA/ADL would say it is “pro hamas woke climate alarmists supporting DEI” that make Jewish Space Lazers cause all of this.
You won’t convince people if you use the term “warming” and then present them snow in Texas. Climate change is the right expression.
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Climate change is a GOP/Oil industry invented term to sound less scary than global warming. It doesn’t mean no snow ever again, or every square inch of planet is warmer than last year.
”Climate Crisis“ is a term that has been established in Germany. Pretty fitting and doesn’t mess with people’s expectations (I hope).
Climate catastrophe
I don’t object to that term. With “climate change” we get the opinion “well climate has always been changing so drill baby drill won’t make it stop changing”.
How dare you, have some compassion, now is NOT the time to talk about Global “Warming” or whatever conspiracy you’re hawking today. Our thoughts should be with the people, we should be sending thoughts and prayers, and you just want to make it all “political”.
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OBVIOUSLY THEY DESERVED IT BECAUSE THEY’RE A BUNCH OF HEATHENS
Oh yeah. We’re doing fine as a country. The sad part is we could actually solve this problem, humanity could indeed solve this if we put our minds to it and unified. We’re stupid dumb monkey brained though and can’t think of anything beyond “I got mine”
The sad part is we could actually solve this problem, humanity could indeed solve this if we put our minds to it and unified.
Unified? With those disgusting foreigners? The degenerate leftists? The weird religious wackos? The MAGA chuds? The neoliberal shills? The Tankies? The know-nothing hoy paloy? The Epstein-loving bourgeois? The Hollywood sickos? The losers? The haters? The freaks? And some, of course, who I assume are nice people?
There’s a lot of natural social divides that are difficult to surmount. But more frustrating and complicated than that, we have a certain number of scammers and opportunists who will step in and seize the banner of a popular front for self-promotion.
We saw this during OWS, during BLM, during the Climate marches, and during the Tea Party protests. Lots of would-be celebrities simply rush in and start hawking their brands under anything with serious mass appeal. Whether its a Sanders socialism or a Trump fascism or a Buttigieg radical centrism, I regularly see media jammed up with the same clown car of Hawk Tuah Girl promotionals that quickly drown out any kind of serious organizing.
This, combined with the heavy hand of corporate/political censorship that lands on the back of the more sincere and credible activists, disrupts the organic popular movements and obscures them with layer after layer of scam. AI is supercharging the process.
Case in point, any time I say something positive about Gaza or critical of Israel on Bluesky, my mentions fill up with generic 2-day-old accounts showing vaguely Arab-looking profiles asking for donations to relief organizations I’ve never heard of. Organizing in an environment that’s overflowing with these kinds of scams - and, consequently, cultivating a ton of cynicism in the audience - is very difficult.
BLM is a great example. I remember being so mad, and wanting something to change, and there was a huge, massive cultural shift for it. I remember thinking how if everyone would unify behind one thing, we wanted one systemic thing to change - demilitarization of the police as an example, we could probably have done it. Everyone chanting and demanding the same one thing. Then we move onto the next, and the next, and the next.
Instead we got a list of like, 24 things that random people collected from chat rooms and online forums that they demanded. There was no way anyone was going to see a list that large and just say “Yup okay we’re on it”. But people wouldn’t budge, their thing was the most important, it was all or nothing - and so that’s what we got. Nothing. We could have had some huge systemic change there and instead nothing happened.
Occupy, BLM, protests, they’re all well and good but they depend on people unifying. This here, this is the thing we want. Make it a bill and push it through now. It won’t encompass everything. It won’t be perfect. But it’s progress. Instead we just go back and forth, and they know all they have to do is wait out the outcry until people get bored and they move on, so we can keep the status quo.
Instead we got a list of like, 24 things that random people collected from chat rooms and online forums that they demanded.
I’m less frustrated by the catalog of demands (plenty of them were reasonable on their face). I was more distressed at how a series of local protests, marches, and sit in near St. Louis and Baltimore became a bunch of national talking heads claiming to be leading the organization or in touch with those that were.
As soon as BLM became a clothing brand, it was over. Nevermind how many actual activists were arrested on paper thin charges or straight up murdered, while campaigners in LA and NY just grandstanded in the moment.
This here, this is the thing we want. Make it a bill and push it through now.
You’re talking lobbying which is fine in it’s own right. But it’s expensive and the sort of activity that’s ripe for grifting.
Asking people for money, for free labor, and for donations in kind is necessary for an effective legislative change. But it’s also a great opportunity to get paid self promoting.
Whether it’s Oral Roberts saying he needs a million dollars to save his church or God will call him back to heaven. Or Kamala Harris saying she needs you to donate time/money to her campaign right now or we lose democracy. It’s all a ripe opportunity to play on anxiety in order to commit fraud.
Cultural pollution. We are losing the ability to agree and act, piece by piece.
I dislike misanthropy, so I don’t think there’s no hope left, but climate change shows us how we built claims of self-autonomy, equality and compassion on a foundation of fake-it-till-we-make-it, thus on a foundation that is, simply put, not up to the task of our times.
This isn’t global warming this is just …
But it’s cold where I live! /s
Well, yeah. Hehe. The first image with a plow in the snow is very normal where I live. And there are millions living with this. It doesn’t convey the meaning of snow where it doesn’t normally snow, or bigger snowstorms when they happen, to people living where it snows regularly for a big chunk of the year, but I understand the spirit of the whole anyway.
most recent interesting news i heard was it being attributed to some fancy “DEI” term.
if anybody can give more clarity on what the fancy term is and how, if even, remotely it is to said disasters, i’d appreciate it a lot.
I believe the fancy “DEI term” is the N word, unfortunately.
Theory is that if only white firefighters were hired more, 100mph winds would be trivial conditions to fight fires in.
all these winds would be somehow scared of skin color!
surely not in my 2025 bingo card.
DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion. They are basically saying that the fires are so bad because they hired a bunch of women, black and gay people. If they had only hired MEN ™ to the fire departements, they would have it under control by now!
Thanks for the clarification! Very well explained!
Deregulated weather
Privatize the weather!
IT’S THE LEFT
Drill babbbyyyyy drill.
Evacuation drill?
Ez fix, just get Nuclear Winter to counteract it
