u/tomenzgg

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Periodic reminder that overpopulation (which is why, I'm assuming, you say we need to reduce the population; I apologize if that assumption is erroneous) is an ecofascist, classist, and racist myth. It's convenient for systems such as capitalism and conveniently penalizes "Third World" countries but does not address the real causes of the ills that overpopulation purports to solve.

https://greenisthenewblack.com/opinion-the-overpopulation-myth-example-ecofascism/

https://youtu.be/IV20B6bU8Pc

It could be a bit of them all; his base isn't large enough on its own but, together with those who wanted to protest vote and those looking for relief from the economy and those who hated the idea of voting for a black woman, they may've all been enough to get him over the finish line.

He may get a short term gain

He was elected to run the government like a business; this is the CEO *signature* move.

I mean, last insane homeless person I ran into threw his arm around me like we were lifelong buddies and told me all the things he'd seen that day that he found cool/interesting, not tried to assault me.

Thank you; I've felt like I've been hallucinating the past week with Lemmy doubling down on capitalism – but in _our_ backyard – and seemingly neglecting that Europe had its own long, and currently ongoing, history of colonialism and exploration.

The reach for shoring up existing systems – but just, now, in European control – rather than establishing better ones has been massively disappointing.

It's only cold because, if slightly anything goes awry, humanity ceases to exist.