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Australias response to oil shortages really hammers home that you can't and shouldn't ever expect imperialists and their stooges to ever learn from their mistakes (hexbear.net)

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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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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

certainly some of them are implementable yes. And as you gain social capital from improving things somewhat you can use that to convince people of more of the program.

one way to get treatlers off of their habits is to present them with something they think is better, like slowly making public transit trips faster than driving.

Another is regulating the treat out of market viability so that it doesn't look like it's your fault, just a business failing and people would move on to whatever alternatives were available.

these aren't communist organizing and methods, but we're supposing a secret communist got into a bourgeoise position of power somehow and the tools at your disposal under those circumstances aren't a vanguard or organized masses so we shouldn't expect it to look like the revolution.

you'll get shit on from the left while doing it because it won't be fast enough and you'll look and sound like a socdem in the process but executive power or enough seats in parliament to make demands of a coalition government can make material improvements to peoples' lives.