I once assumed that small incremental environmentally conscious steps in how people lived, worked, and played were inevitable. I'm talking smaller, more energy efficient, and safer vehicles, vegetable protein substitutes in place of industrialized meat products becoming generally accepted and even the norm, and I even had naive presumptions about some imminent expansion of mass transportation because it simply made more economic sense.

But that was all before I learned the power of the-republican solidarity grillman solidarity the-democrat

  • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    At first I thought it was going to be nothing, but my final pre-invasion prediction was that there was going to be an escalation in the Donbas (Russia annexes the republics, maybe goes for complete control of their respective oblasts, but overall that it would remain localised... and then Russia just did a mad dash for Kiev and I knew I'd been completely wrong