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Patented Dort_Owl unhinged rant that goes way off track incoming:

Australias response to the country potentially being fucked by oil prices? Is it "man we should have invested in clean energy more"?

Nope! It's "We should have produced more fossil fuels at home! We need more oil and coal plants here in Australia!"

These people are a lost cause, they will never ever stop. They are trained in the hustle grind art of not changing their minds even after they're beaten over the head with reality

So when people do their little song and dance of trying to reason or compromise with these mindless sharks it doesn't work. It will never work. No amount of begging with your peaceful protests and your pleading to be rational will change their minds. Nothing will ever change their minds. I'm not even sure they have minds. They're more like dumb animals responding to social dominance stimuli than anyone capable of rational thought. No wonder peaceful protests don't work. When a dominant male lion starts acting like an asshole the lionesses don't ask him nicely to come around to their way of thinking, they chase that fucker out of the pride and if he doesn't leave, they kill him

This is why we shouldn't have systems that reward this type of "I got where I am by being a big dog because I like power" lizard brained types. Because humans should know better by now. We don't have the luxury of letting some mindless sharks in control of things like fossil fuels and nukes

Save your reasoning skills for when we have reasonable people in control of things

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[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's a bit of a digression but I was recently discussing the state of labor relations in the US with someone and in every single workplace it's basically devolved into management just refusing to ever admit any wrongdoing. Even in nonprofit institutions with long standing contracts you'll have ice cold HR people who won't give an inch on blatant violations until there's a credible threat of labor action or arbitration. Also US labor law either implicitly or explicitly requires management and labor to cooperate so management is usually just flagrantly violating the law.

Capital has figured out they don't have to offer the carrot anymore and they certainly don't have to apologize. It's just the stick now. Until the masses figure that out we're fucked.