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And then they go and put another human being on the tracks.

You all started saving up your mouldy bread yet? With enough mould some of it is going to have to be the right strain to get you better.

It shouldn’t bother me as much as it does that despite everything visibly getting worse in real time around us, and fascism literally being on the rise everywhere, there’s still people pushing dangerously stupid propaganda like this thread claiming the earth can support billions more people and that perfect communism is possible.

The mental gymnastics involved here require an ice pick to the brain.

Like what? Catastrophic climate collapse is imminent and will happen in our lifetimes, 4+c warming = billions of people will die.

Do you have any suggestions? What could we do? Hmmmm.

Maybe physics defying magic time travel boots could save us all? Nah, this seems unfeasible in the timescale we have, we should probably broaden our hopes a bit to include the hippy god aliens coming to save us with communist space magic.

Or maybe we should be more realistic and instead, be going around telling people to “have faith in the good of humanity cooperating together to fix this”, and while they get on with that, everyone else should buy lots of electric cars, pretend recycling works and maybe think about possibly eating less meat occasionally.

Yeah, that should do it. Maybe let’s throw in a community garden too, let’s see how long that lasts before people fuck it up for each other.

Lmao, we might as well go fucking protest for all the good it will do.

The protests against the Iraq war were massive and yet completely ignored in favour of lies, millions of pointless deaths, and a fuck ton of very profitable resources to extract.

The Iraq war protests happened when I was a young teen and it broke my belief in the power of showing up and protesting being able to change anything.

Corruption isn’t swayed by protests, only by money. If you can’t buy government backing for your cause, it’s dead in the water. Protesting against corruption is just going to get you arrested and/or put on a list of dissidents.

Nah the logical conclusion is to assume the person who likes cheese also likes that billions of cows are being raped and forcibly separated from their calves, so the milk they produce can be mechanically extracted and sold for human consumption.

You like cheese? Wow bro, that’s fucked up.