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103°F in Los Angeles all week (europe.pub)
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[–] 15 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Tbf they voted for them

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago* (12 children)

    If you can vote for politician A and politician B, and both of them are bought by the fossil fuel companies, to what extent are you to blame?

    And if citizens can be held accountable for the actions and choices that their goverment has made, even if they have no real say in them, and that government has committed war crime after war crime abroad, killing literal millions, does that mean citizens are a legitimate target for retaliatory attacks? Was the Dresden firebombing justified? Was 9/11 justified? Were the atomic bombs dropped on Japan justified?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

    Your options are much greater than voting for politician A or politician B

    Dont let your political program be handed down to you.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

    I was responding to

    Tbf they voted for them

    hence my focus on voting, because that's what he was talking about. But also your broader comment is not a good argument for ageism. Plenty of members of the boomer generation exercised other political options than voting. They were not successful, but many of them did try. At any rate, blaming an entire generation for policy failures is about as valid as blaming Trump's policy failures on folks who voted for Harris.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Sure, but I dont think they as a generation did nearly enough regarding climate change specifically.

    And as far as voting goes, they pretty regularly made up the core voter base of administrations which denied or ignored climate change

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Have you considered directing your ire at the folks who've bought our politicians to advocate for pro-fossil fuel policies, and the folks who bought our media to popularize pro-fossil fuel positions instead of at their victims?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    Democrats have a better record on climate change than Republicans do

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Not everyone is an American

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I figured people could extrapolate, but here goes for your benefit:

    If you can vote for politicians P1 through PN where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and all of them are bought by the fossil fuel companies, to what extent are you to blame?

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