What do you call this phenomenon? I think of the kulaks burning their harvest and I think of schools shutting down during desegregation in the US rather than integrate. Are there any other good examples? Why do people do this?

  • reverendz [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Literally why the world is ending due to climate change.

    The wealthy know we're heading off a cliff, but they'd rather keep the system and frantically build bunkers and buy up farmland than change course. Doing so would mean giving up the system protecting their wealth.

    They'd rather let the world burn.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      4 months ago

      The rich know they're vastly outnumbered,
      And endeavor to keep us encumbered
      With onerous debts,
      While their blue piggy pets
      Help the bastards defend what they've plundered.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          4 months ago

          I came across it probably in the early r/CTH days. The 2nd line is the only one I rewrote to flow better.

          • HamManBad [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            Oh that's why I can't find it, they nuked CTH from the Internet. It's honestly a crime against humanity that it wasn't archived better