JT going over the fine details on why Capitalism isn't going to make climate change better, even green capitalism (like anyone here really needed to know)
JT going over the fine details on why Capitalism isn't going to make climate change better, even green capitalism (like anyone here really needed to know)
meanwhile: AOC meets with Bolivian fascists to help the coup for her rare earth mineral "solarpunk" utopia
Solarpunk is so annoying. You never see solar breeders , the solar envelope or solar process heat. It's just mysteriously powered old buildings and over the top greenery with ruthless exploitation thousands of kilometers away.
Woah that stuff is neat, thank you comrade
Did she actually do that though?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/14/ocasio-cortez-to-constituents-on-bolivian-coup-drop-dead/
I get the frustration and annoyance over a candidate refusing to personally meet with constituents. I've been to a few Dan Crenshaw events where I raised a question and got heckled by a bunch of out of town fanbois, and that man's consistent services were non-fucking-existent.
The Celebrity Congressperson really puts a stake through the idea of democratic representation.
At the same time... I have no idea how you influence any of these assholes to do anything anymore. If Crowley were still in office, does anyone think he'd be shy about glad handing some mooks from Bolivia over their coup? Does anyone think the coup would have failed sooner based on the actions of a coalition of Queens anti-war activists' attentive congressman?
The love letter to Crowley for just kinda shaking their hands is what's really off-putting about this article. You don't change anything. You just got to "feel seen". If AOC had shaken your hand, what then? Would you be writing a love letter to her as well?
Strikes me as the exemplar of liberal idealist activism (though they are in theory on the correct side of the issue). They wanted a photo op and to be able to say they'd met with AOC, and they're mad they didn't get it.
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But I'm actually curious. I wouldn't put it past her, I just didn't see it
Yeah I got no idea
Damn, dude
It was a :bad-joke:
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