"I want people to die because they live within the same boundaries as Republicans. Allow me to rub it in while I'm at it"

  • Saint [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Someone who believes in climate change", not "Somebody who would do anything about climate change". Libs literally wishing death on people because they didn't elect somebody to do the right virtue signalling

    • anikiUK [he/him, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Libs really need to understand that it doesn't matter what Biden the man believes in, Biden the president believes in whatever his donors tell him to because that's his job (this applies to all other US politicians as well of course)

      • shitstorm [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Understanding that would make them not libs. Liberals fundamentally believe that the system just needs the right people in power and things will run smoothly. Therefor Biden simply believing in climate change is enough, because it is outside the liberal's conceptual framework that an intelligent, "well intentioned" bureaucrat could do nefarious shit.

          • shitstorm [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I am working on a small piece about Iron Man and the Great Man Theory of the modern era.

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              capeshit loves the idea of waiting for a superhuman to save you instead of organizing

              • shitstorm [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Iron Man 2 literally has the line "I privatized world peace" and is met with applause. The first one is slightly more subtle, but essentially hammers the point home that billionaires will save you.

    • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      This implies that they might be aware that centrist Dems aren't doing anything about climate change. Are they that cynical or do they naively believe that caring/believing = doing? 🤔 I can't tell

      • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I'm coming to the belief that many liberals don't think things can really get much better, so stuff like acknowledgement and "feeling bad in the right way" are important to them because they think that's the best you can do with many of these issues.

        I think it's related to the general political impotence people feel all over, the same impulse that makes people post political shit as though it's praxis. If you feel powerless, you maybe need to read more meaning into ultimately insignificant gestures to feel hope or whatever.

        • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          So like a genuinely stupid alienation without an outright commitment to ill will? Yeah i hope so

      • Saint [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I think it's subconscious. For them politics is disconnected from material change so it's all about the identity/ personality/ opinions/ whatever of the politician, rather than what they actually do