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Millsy We’re all fucked. Right wing populism is back and it’s good for no one. People are just comfortable enough to not start a revolution.

nicksneddon Watching the democrats pretend that there’s some normalcy in what’s happening. I mean they’re standing in the same room where the incoming president’s attempted insurrection occurred four years ago. It’s so fucking ludicrous.

    303abuser agreed, right wing populism usually ends one way and one way only. History means nothing in the kingdom of the blind and thick as pig shit.

      Dubman what an utter cunt. 4 more years of tiny tears.

      He’s also rescinded Biden’s Medicare act.

      Millsy Once climate change cause people to start missing meals, the shit will hit the fan. It’ll be too late of course, but that’s what it’ll take.

        benson Certain.

        Yet I mention it and I’m some misguided harbinger of doom.

          Amps perhaps if you posted your comments alongside a pic of some double D dirtbox you’ll get more agreement?

          • Amps replied to this.

            I won’t be missing any meals that is for sure.

            LBD in das haus

            Amps I’m not sure it will be in our lifetime in the western world but it is already happening in the developing world

            Hursty Unless we come up with a tech solution that doesn’t currently exist (and that is possible I’d guess), it’s when, not if. Governments and their corporate overlords are doing nothing to solve the climate problems. AI is going to cause massive economic disruption in the near to medium term, climate refugees are going to be a thing, food shortages will undoubtedly occur, and there’s no plan to mitigate any of it.

            Like I said, we’re fucked. Hopefully not in our lifetimes, but that’s not a guarantee.

              Coronavirus 2 will solve a lot of this

                303abuser Like I said, we’re fucked. Hopefully not in our lifetimes, but that’s not a guarantee.

                Chin up 303!

                  Smallman1 I’d assume most of us here on on the good side of the economic curve, we should mostly be fine. It’s definitely one of the reasons we chose not to have kids though.

                  Do you genuinely believe the world is fucked and we are imminently going to be doomed forever?

                  Does sound like pure hyperbole to scare the masses

                  • Amps replied to this.

                    There are obviously degrees of fucked. I don’t know about doomed forever, but clearly both climate change and AI are potential existential threats. How likely is that? I’m not sure anyone knows.

                    Given how we handled covid from a societal perspective, we don’t exactly seem positioned to deal with either short or long term threats in a coherent manner. Humans do well with immediate consequences, latent impacts just don’t move the needle on our behaviour.