https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/us/colorado-river-water-cuts-lake-mead-negotiations-climate/index.html

  • Kuori [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    there would probably be large-scale treat riots within the day, though

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It's amazing some of these chuds want to kill fbi agents or overthrow the government in favor of their flavor christian nationalism, but giving up steak and watering their lawns so they don't lose their hydroelectricity or just die of thirst is a step too far. Peoples sense of what constitutes a sacrifice is completely out of whack.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        but giving up steak

        they don't even have to give up steak, they just have to not gorge on it like subhuman fucking fatasses

        average amerishart eats 55 lbs of beef a year

        I tracked my own consumption and it came to 15 lbs a year

        Chinese consumption is about 15 lbs a year
        Europena consumption is 30 lbs a year

        How the fuck do you even crave a pound of beef every week? Like, in addition to the other meat/fish/poultry that you eat? What the fuck?

          • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            the funniest part is that 55 lbs figure is not at all equally distributed, so it's more like half of us eat 20 lbs a year and the other half eats 90 lbs

            people really be out here eating 2 pounds of beef every week, which is equivalent to 1.1 burgers a day--every single day

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I don't think most of them can really imagine and internalize the reality of consequences. They're still locked in to just world fantasies where nothing bad will happen to them and they'll always come out on top somehow. Just not having water is too big in scale for them to cope with.

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        pretty sure they just flatly don't believe that's going to happen, despite all available evidence.

        my guess would be they internalize it as "evil commie democrats trying to destroy [their] way of life"