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TheFuzz3451 posted...

https://x.com/hotgirlhala/status/1785338806096302311?lang=en

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That sentiment right there is the sort of mindset that led to the far right winning the culture war, and not just winning it but using it to successfully take over the US government and lead a fascist takeover.

Making enemies of your cause, well, makes enemies. It's insanely short-sighted and self-destructive to run around being obnoxious and then handing the win by default to your enemies because your strategy sucked and failed to take into account the bigger picture (and how the human mind works).

Let's put it this way. It's all information control at the end of the day, and big corporations and fossil fuel hold all the cards when it comes to information. They control the mainstream media, they control the government, odds are they control the law enforcement to certain degrees as well.

So what do you do when you glue yourself to the road in the middle of ambulance routes to hospitals killing some people by proxy? You give those extremely powerful entities (entities that have damn near already won as it is) even more of a win and even more of an ability to control the narrative than before.

These movements NEED to start understanding how they look in the larger picture. They will never score wins if they don't. (That's assuming they're not actually just funded by fossil fuel corporations to destroy the causes from within to begin with, given how they behave I'd put even odds they all are to certain degrees corrupted from within).

And to be clear I say all of the above as someone who genuinely believes humanity will be extinct by 2100 and that civilization will be over by 2060 at the latest. I walk around each day fully believing that climate change will kill me and damn near every single person I see by 2045.

So none of this is coming from a position of not agreeing with the cause on climate protests. But a lot of them don't know how to effectively protest, and frankly that goes for a lot of the culture war movements the last decade and a half as well.