Pitchforks! Get ya pitchforks here! Torches, prelit or pretarred! Free to all those in need!
One pitchfork - do you have a blue one? - and a torch please. Preferably lavender scented.
Lightning bolts or flames on that blue pitchfork? Might I interest you in a lovely rainbow torch handle?
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Against tanks, riot shields, and bombs. Sure buddy, sure. Grab your pitchfork, I’ll grab popcorn. 🙄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Bangladesh_quota_reform_movement
now that I’ve had my fun maybe you’d be interested in this very recent example
Thanks for proving my point I guess…?
the movement expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government when hundreds of protestors and civilians, most of whom were students, were killed.[f] The majority of the fatalities were caused by gunshots fired by the police and other government forces, using lethal and deadly weapons,[89] against unarmed protestors and non-protesting civilians, including children and pedestrians
Meaning it’s literal suicide.
Edit because you’re sure to bring this up: sure you might bring about change, but each individual in that protest holding a proverbial pitchfork is just yet another practice target for the cops.
A revolution will never happen and if it did we would just end up with some lunatic in charge. A power vacuum always attracts the people you do not want at the top. We’d just end up with some fascist system again.
Then remove the larger thing that creates the vacuum area. Don’t have positions of power.
Wow! You just solved everything! /S
No one likes cancer, therefore remove all cancer. What a genius take!
What about not liking work, surely we can just abolish it 🙄.
That’s actually how you treat cancer though. You remove all of it. And it hurts you while you do it but if you survive you get to keep going a lot longer.
Its like literally a fine analogy.
Democracy went away for 1500 years, then France tried it and reverted to Empire.
Now most people live in democracies.
How exactly did that happen? Educate us
You don’t keep up with climate related news, do you?
You mean save humans? Life in general doesn’t need saving, it’ll keep trucking regardless of whether we’re here or not
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone
-Sara Teasdale
Go back to beehaw lmao. Even democracies struggle to vote for people actually working towards a greener future. Surely this time a revolution will bring a solution
I’m not speaking about the U.S. with its screwed electoral college and first-past the post system. I’m speaking out of the perspective of a German where we have a strong representative democracy with rampant populist parties having major influence in politics due to the amount of people that vote for them.
rampant populism is a symptom of capitalists controlling the process through money. my country is exactly the same through us influence.
of course different countries different circunstances, but changing around the players of the game barely changes anything if we don’t strive to change the game.
“even democracies” as if China isn’t pretty much kicking every western democracy’s ass at going green right now…
I don’t support China’s authoritarian state but being in a liberal democracy is exactly why we’re having a hard time, corporations buy and sell political will in a liberal democracy.
End capitalism
China’s per capita carbon output is lower than the US and Canada and their solar and battery technology is looking like the best in the world right now. It’s part of why the US is taking protectionist measures against Chinese green technologies.
This while still being a manufacturing economy for the most part, i.e. making things for the rest of the world to consume. It’s easier to go green in a service economy.
It’s not controversial to say China is doing a lot more and moving faster towards their environmental goals. We have people all over the world studying and writing about this.
Where’s your info from? Gut?
This would be me, except I don’t like to stand in the tick fields.
