next time I hear “there is just too many (brown) people” i swear

  • Don_alForno@feddit.org
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    I said nothing of the sort. But I ask once again: If we execute these 90 people, will that make us stop burning oil? Is it at least a helpful step down the path of stopping to burn oil?

    If not, then please just don’t act as though these 90 people are all we have to overcome to save the planet.

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      It costs 7.5% of GDP to halt climate change.

      But each 12.5% of GDP is lost per +1°C

      The problem is that the people who need to pay are not the people who will be most affected.

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      Soon you are ready to realise that no, they are sock puppets of what is essentially a giant demonic entity that is Immortal and Controls human and replaces these humans when they misbehave or malfunction

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          I call it Mammon and it lives inside the minds of every capitalist. Every worker who believes in markets, in states, in police, in corporations. We must kill the capitalist in the heads of every worker.

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            I specifically refer to megachurches and “prosperity” Christians as Mammonites.

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            From Wikipedia “Mammon (Aramaic: מָמוֹנָא, māmōnā) in the New Testament is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain.”

            More or less the same thing, I reckon, but Mammon sounds cooler, so I’ll defer to your’s.

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      IMO killing them is the only way to have any real change. It’s the very first step in any plan. We must get rid of the existing filth, before we can build anything new.

      No, it’s not the only step, but it’s the biggest and most difficult and most impactful.

      As the saying goes “you can’t polish a turd”.

      Billionaires are turds.