• radix@lemmy.world
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    Covid numbers wouldn’t be so bad if we stop testing, and ocean health won’t get worse if we stop measuring.

    Kill that messenger!

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    It is bad. But its sooooo on fucking brand. If there isn’t some “respected body” to suggest what you did is bad, then you did nothing wrong. He doesn’t hate climate science past it stops him from doing what he wants. But if you can frame it in a way that motivates people against him (less fisheries means less sport fishing, less wild areas means less hunting, no snap benefits means more crime) you nip away at his base, and he doesnt have a ton of support. its marginal vs the voting public, even in midterms.

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      Whoa whoa whoa. “No SNAP == more crime”? 🤬 That’s some self-hate prop BS, but I can understand how it feels factual. 😢

      edit: I apologize, it was very late and I didn’t phrase that well enough. These “crimes” are labeled such by the oppressor class and are not real crime. “Stealing” food to eat? Fuck off ”leaders", not a crime.

      My sleep-deprived intent was to simply point out the perils of simplification in its broadening of interpretation by paring down specificity, TBH

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        No SNAP == more crime"? 🤬 That’s some self-hate prop BS

        On the contrary. The vast majority of crime is the result of poverty and social desperation.

        “Criminals” aren’t a separate breed of contemptible human. They’re mostly regular people doing what they feel they have to in order to make it through the day/week/month/year/life.

        It stands to reason that crimes of desperation such as shoplifting groceries, petty enrichment crimes, and drug use will happen more often when people lose their lifelines to barely being able to feed themselves and their families.

        That’s not a “poor people are criminal scum” thing.

        It’s a “the vast majority of crime is a result of poverty and other social issues putting regular people into difficult situations where they’re more likely to have to/think they have to break the law to get by” thing.

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          “Criminals” aren’t a separate breed of contemptible human. They’re mostly regular people doing what they feel they have to in order to make it through the day/week/month/year/life.

          True, and when politicians say they are “tough on crime” and other shit that suggests some people are just “bad criminals”, all they’re really doing is spouting racist dog whistles.

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      Yep. They cited it as a source of climate panic. Which, like, yeah, knowing what’s actually happening with the climate right now definitely will freak you out, but…

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    Just immensely sad.

    Pollution won’t bring back America’s golden age, empower people to have prosperity and achieve their dreams will.

    And America is thoroughly beaten down and depressed today.

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    He heard “Bouys” and thought they said “Boys” and was like “Bring 'em to me!”

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    A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

    They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

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      25 days ago

      To follow the true traditional method, you should ask a witch for a forecast, and when she gives one you burn her at the stake for witchcraft.

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    “Trump has further eroded America’s ability to know reality in order to create more favourable conditions for his strategy of constantly lying.”

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    I see they heard about the AMOC and thought up a fool proof plan to stop any Day After Tomorrow plot. Get rid of the warning system the scientists used in that movie.

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    Close your eyes tight, clamp your hands over your ears, scream “La-la-la-la-la…”. That is trumps presidential style.

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    personally, I’m rooting for the collapse at this point.

    the best way to defeat an infection is a fever.