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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 39 points 9 months ago

Yeah ... This how humanity is going to out. Instead of rallying together to save ourselves from a changing environment, wealthy corporate interests will just manipulate everything to get conservative right wing nut jobs in power to avoid having to do anything about changing global behavior.

We're going to sacrifice our future existence to protect the wealth of a few hundred people, who will all last just a little bit longer before all of humanity fizzles out.

This is our great filter ... Human greed ... and it looks like we won't be able to get past it.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

This is exactly how many life forms have extinguished themselves over the millennia both on earth and across the universe. We are an evolutionary dead end, not capable of thinking beyond our individual desires and short term interests.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

and across the universe.

Citation needed spaceman

[-] Argongas@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

Yikes, good luck Argentina.

[-] kingshrubb@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

This is what happens when the current government fails it's people via corruption, high inflation etc: the crazies get elected.

[-] sonori@beehaw.org 9 points 9 months ago

I love that he got elected on the promise of economic shock therapy, becuse it just worked so well in Russia and the other post Soviet states./s

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

It won't work for sure. That said, with the rich continually robbing people left and right by hording the last bits of wealth on this planet, desperate people do desperate things. For the time everyone's mostly still sticking to the Democratic mode of trying to solve that issue, but I wouldn't give it much longer before that option starts running out for some folks.

Milei has a very, very steep hill to climb, a world economic system that's less interested in helping him out, and a Congress that's not exactly weighing in his favor. He is very much two or three steps away from civil unrest in his country. Lots of luck to him, maybe he's thinking he'll be able to fake till he makes it or something.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Big surprise, Argentina electing backwards ass morons again.

Argentina gets what it voted for at this point, enjoy the increased poverty and bullshit

Oooh wow nice move Argentina, now you can ignore the crazy storms that tear up the eastern side of the country because it’s only a “socialist plot”.

Should we tell them?

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

Has Argentina ever functioned as a sensible country because I can't think of a single time in recent history that I've ever heard a positive thing about Argentina.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Their food's fantastic. That's a positive thing.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

They won the last world cup.

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago

They then proceeded to spout racist slurs on social media, so I wouldn't say that it was a good thing

[-] MenKlash@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago
[-] AEMarling@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

Solarpunk needs to assure people we have the technology to make a good life, otherwise people will indulge in denial in the face of climate disasters and elect fascists.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Grab the popcorns

[-] venoft@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

At some point we're just asking for it, aren't we?

[-] bigFab@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Por favor, aprenda a escribir.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 0 points 9 months ago

Lo siento, pero el español no es mi primer idioma.

[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 9 months ago

I agree with him. I mean , like any other subjects that is used for political propaganda. Because to be honest of of politicians don’t give a fuck about climate.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

We're actually starting to see movement on decarbonization in the US and EU right now. Not fast enough, and we need the rest of the world on board.

[-] Guajojo@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

The article does not mention such climate change positions, do you have another source?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago

The article says:

He harshly attacks his critics and the news media, he calls the scientific consensus on climate change a socialist plot, he argues that a shadowy cabal controls the country and he even has an unruly hairdo that has become an online meme.

Other outlets use the same language:

Javier Milei—a far-right admirer of former U.S. President Donald Trump who says that climate change is a "socialist lie" and who pledged to take a "chainsaw" to social programs—will be Argentina's next president after winning a decisive victory in Sunday's runoff.

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 7 points 9 months ago

"Of course climate change is a conspiracy made up by socialist vampires to push policies... a green and fairer world that's our evil plot: free-range organic humans have the most delicious blood!" from Oli Frost's "The Vampire Conspiracy", always relevant.

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