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  • See that sounds like a good counter argument on the surface but it is very flawed.

    By just blaming big corporations and pointing the finger, your missing two important factors:

    1. The big corporations do what they do because of consumers like you and me.
    2. by shifting responsibility and effectively saying it’s okay to pass the buck, you’re telling people it’s okay to not have this front and center every day.

    As much as I like blaming big corporations, we got here (and every point in human history before us) because of what the masses did or neglected to do.

    So as inconvenient as it must be, until we pop out of this us vs them, the corporation expected lifespans can be centuries, human’s are finite, and if you keep that whataboutism alive, will get a lot shorter soon.




  • Humans can’t do anything but capitalism due to our need to differentiate from our peers and having massive egos that prevent us from truly sharing wealth. Mine is bigger than yours has been a thing for as long as we have history records.

    We are the virus, because we uphold capitalism as the longest lasting form of “peace”time economy. Yes there are alternatives, but all of them would result in more peace on the one hand and gang-wars and multiple mass genocides on the other.

    Earth is also a virus incubator. Eventually nature does its thing. Like right now, and then we have an extinction level event.

    If we’re not the virus, then why is Gaia acting like it has a fever of at least +1.5ºC likely +3ºC in less than 20 years?

    And that ego is also the reason why accepting responsibility is very hard.

    Best we can do is using capitalism to create better alternatives like the way the cost of solar panels has made solar the cheapest energy faster than any other energy revolution.




  • This is not whataboutism. It’s pointing out hypocrisy of a party that is over the last 8 years have first failed at holding DJT accountable and now are actively collaborating on enabling his authoritarian state by first confirming his incompetent cabinet, then by voting for his bills and now trying to placate voters by “doing an effort” to release the files.

    Not to mention railing against democratic candidates who have popular support in their own party.

    There’s a broader context, but you know that or you wouldn’t start swearing the second someone disagrees with you.