Just Stop Oil and other philanthropy funded climate protest groups are just a clever outlet to give the most distressed people a harmless way to feel like they are doing something. The organizers get to make money off donations and the members get to feel like they are actually doing something. The most die hard members will get themselves arrested and locked up for taking illegal but ultimately low impact actions, which is also useful to those who fear things actually escalating.
I'm honestly expecting within the next decade an iconic moment of "mr president a second plane has hit the offshore oil rig". It is only a matter of time before this starts happening, we already have people setting themselves on fire in protest (in the US of all places) and the logical next step is one of those people wanting to die making a statement decides to truly escalate. Once it happens a couple times and the perpetrators manifestos somehow don't get suppressed, it will start happening regularly because that is how it always works with this kind of thing. There will also be the US and European government response that will be as brutal and escalatory as the war on drugs, war on terror, and every other counter insurgency that only ever causes even more of what they're fighting by hurting millions of uninvolved people.
edit: yes, I know that this is a borderline fed post and maybe I'm just too cynical
Theres really nothing fed at all about this post, its just solid analysis that I have also pretty much reached. Its really weird how we in america at least keep having these huge moments of distilled crystalized political crises like George Floyd and Uvalde, and they are constantly foundered and writhe in powerlessness before dissipating back into the ether before the masses can act politically to abolish the conditions that cause these crises.
If anything the perceived nature of the state being an unstoppable and omnipotent controller of violence will be its downfall. It really is much more fragile than any of us really know, and that will make the time after it collapses to be insanely important for the rest of the future of humanity.
Just Stop Oil and other philanthropy funded climate protest groups are just a clever outlet to give the most distressed people a harmless way to feel like they are doing something. The organizers get to make money off donations and the members get to feel like they are actually doing something. The most die hard members will get themselves arrested and locked up for taking illegal but ultimately low impact actions, which is also useful to those who fear things actually escalating.
I'm honestly expecting within the next decade an iconic moment of "mr president a second plane has hit the offshore oil rig". It is only a matter of time before this starts happening, we already have people setting themselves on fire in protest (in the US of all places) and the logical next step is one of those people wanting to die making a statement decides to truly escalate. Once it happens a couple times and the perpetrators manifestos somehow don't get suppressed, it will start happening regularly because that is how it always works with this kind of thing. There will also be the US and European government response that will be as brutal and escalatory as the war on drugs, war on terror, and every other counter insurgency that only ever causes even more of what they're fighting by hurting millions of uninvolved people.
edit: yes, I know that this is a borderline fed post and maybe I'm just too cynical
Theres really nothing fed at all about this post, its just solid analysis that I have also pretty much reached. Its really weird how we in america at least keep having these huge moments of distilled crystalized political crises like George Floyd and Uvalde, and they are constantly foundered and writhe in powerlessness before dissipating back into the ether before the masses can act politically to abolish the conditions that cause these crises.
If anything the perceived nature of the state being an unstoppable and omnipotent controller of violence will be its downfall. It really is much more fragile than any of us really know, and that will make the time after it collapses to be insanely important for the rest of the future of humanity.