• 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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      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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    Ahh ignoring it and demanding the world change to match what you want to be true… A tale as old as Americans.

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      I’d imagine it would’ve been difficult to get funding for a competing program previously when the NSF previously was quite cooperative internationally…

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      The oligarchs know full well what’s happening, course. Before their strategy was in buying the narrative - e.g. scientists don’t all agree on this (cos we funded and amplified two crackpots), or “we’re actually still in an Ice Age”, or “how to reduce your personal carbon footprint” - but they also know there’s going to be a tremendous amount of anger and upheaval when critical systems of human society start to break down and they don’t want any of that righteous ire directed at themselves.

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      If I had to guess I’d say some corporations specialized in fucking up ecosystems bribed him. As a result they will enjoy a short term increase in profits (or at least in stock market valuation) from being able to conduct business unchecked.

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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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    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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    And when we convict this motherfucker and his family and his administration of pedophile billionaires, it damn well better be THEIR money paying to rebuild and not the taxpayers. Hold the scum accountable.

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      you will have to fight him for it like last time, i fear he’ll do a better job as well

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    Yeah because why do the fishermen deserve to know what the weather is going to be like. How could that possibly be useful.

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        I’m 36. I fully expect to be dead before things begin improving for the working class in north America as the result of this regime.

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          I wonder if a 9 yo will see brighter days. I won’t be surprised if we all have to love underground before I die

          • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.social
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            Better start digging that bunker now yo.

            The upcoming el nino and blue ocean event/s are going to seriously start moving the timelines up for all this collapsey apocalypse shit, and we’re already well into ‘faster than expected’ territory as it is.

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          Problem is that we share the same world. Even if left alone, Americans kill our common world with their consumption habits and outdated energy sources.

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        Well helping running the way and the Marshall plan after that was what laid the basis for the ‘America as a role model’ and subsequent decades of televised and movie propaganda was what consolidated it.

        It was already eroding under Bush, but this dipshit has spent all the goodwill there was.

        So at least 85 years, I’ll say