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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

That’s unfortunate because I have been trying really hard to participate in society.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

societal collapse

Ah yes, that thing that has us laboring to chase meaningless plastic crap we're brainwashed into needing instead of growing our own food and maintaining our own shelters as small, purposeful communities, all so the owners of this society can siphon our energy while poisoning the earth, all to live like wannabe gods above us.

No more penis Space tourist rockets? What a loss...

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Humanity is fucked. My sympathy lies with the animals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

They’ll be fine 100 years after we’re extinct.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I sympathize with the children that had nothing to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (9 children)

It’s why I’m not having kids.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

That's all of us unless you're an executive in a multinational corp, or work for the oil and gas industry.

We've all been ramrodded into this reality by a handful of giant Corporations, over the last 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

time to make them pay. even if it doesn't solve anything. fuck them.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 day ago (8 children)

We can't even figure out how to not have half our society be rasict, how the hell are we gonna save a whole planet from our fuckery?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We cant even figure out how to make recycling work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Recycling was never supposed to work alone. It was literally the last ditch effort after Reduce and Reuse.

Also, we already figured out how to make it work, but it isn't profitable when it works, so obviously we have to use the less effective methods so that a small handful of big wigs can milk the process for personal gain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

We could but it's not profitable enough for corporations.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We're not gonna be able to combat climate change under capitalism anyway. The number one thing we need to do is to produce less but that goes directly against what capitalism needs to function. Not to mention that governments are bribed by companies to make laws in their favour.

But hey, what's the point of saving our planet anyway if we can't maximize profits anymore?

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