• Dryad@lemmy.world
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    31 minutes ago

    The American people care much more about climate than either political party and the Green Party got co-opted by Russia. Americans don’t vote on climate because both political parties serve capitalist billionaires.

    And before I get the “both sides” blow back, absolutely vote blue on account of the democrats not being fascist at this point in time, but don’t be deceived that they actually represent the American people.

  • buzz86us@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Because we have to deal with the rubes in the flyover states. I don’t know who could be so dumb to vote for Trump in 2024. How do tariffs lower prices? Can someone explain this leap in logic. How does pursuing an energy profile that is mostly fossil fuels lower prices?

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Because too many people would rather sit on a high horse and sneer, while thinking that their inaction (ie. refusal to vote dem) makes them morally superior

    They’re cunts who are more interested in saying than doing

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    because the system is set up not to. it’s not a real democracy.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    They probably let idiots/bots convince them not to vote over some culture war bullshit or wedge issue designed specifically to keep them away from the polls.

  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Because no current system has offered a viable path. Sustainability, which includes climate and all the other factors, will require everyone to live with less to ensure everyone has enough of what matters.

    Our politics, our economics our sociology consider asking the rights questions as radical, precicely because it threatens the wealth, power and prestige of those who have it. The elite would rather the poor who can’t cope, die in order to bring consumption to sustainable levels. Case in point, Bill Gates will write a book on what other people should do about climate change, yet live the hipocrisy of owning a small private fleet of jets and helicopters amd a leasing company for his slightly less elite customers.

    Ecological economics calls this malinvestment. Not misallocation (suboptimal) but malallocation (actively hurts our goals) The resources of those jets could have built passivehouses, sustainable farms, sufficiency across countless domains. His communications could have been virtual. I think he is smart enough to know how to use Teams. But hypocrisy is not a mistake for these people.

    The democratic choices of bad and worse don’t reflect viable paths. Worse will build autocracy that means profligacy for the ingroup, then doom for the vile and faster doom for everyone else. Cutting the outgroups down as the definition of sustainable shrinks and then cutting potential in group rivals.

    The bad choice is to do the same thing, but instead of an in group and outgroups, we’ll have an in, an out and a middle class. The 2/3 will make the same decisions, but trim with a few select sacrifices across the three groups as the pie shrinks.

    Bad and worse is not a viable choice. Even the greens where they exist, haven’t communicated a viable return to sustainable for all. They only hint at a portion of the changes required.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org
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    13 hours ago

    If so many Americans cared about democracy and their way of life, THEN WHY THE FUCK DID THEY VOTE FOR THE ORANGE FACED CRIMINAL?

    Fucking lemmings… that’s why. They’ve been programmed. And the programs are still running. It may be too late.

  • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I am only commenting because 11.2 is the upper limit of an age range from Lolita and is the number that pedophiles use as a call sign in quite a number of ways, and now you will see it in unfortunate ways, too.

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    22 hours ago

    I mean, they don’t even care enough about their warmongering, lying, felonious child rapist of a president. French students are legit protesting harder than Muricans against their pedophile leader. Make it make sense.

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    14 hours ago

    Do they care about climate? Do they drice smaller cars, use renewable energy and eat less meat? Or do they just care with thoughts and prayers?

  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    In the USA, citizens aged 65 and older are 15% of the population, but 50% of the vote.

    As it stands, the future is decided by people who won’t be there to suffer it.

  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Because many teeming legions of people (mostly on the internet) convinced them Rs are exactly the same as Ds (so they may as well not bother voting).