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eco fascism (quokk.au)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/mop
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[–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

FUCKING YES. Those shitbag corporations will do whatever it takes to take the blame off themselves and push whatever narrative it takes, including the "hUmAn BaD" trope. Specifically board executives of those oil corporations are to blame, not only for the very nature of their business, but the shameless disinformation campaigns they spew everywhere, disingenuous lobbying, straight up bribery, astroturfing, and fomenting fascism worldwide to keep leeching their government handouts for as long as possible. Those energy corporations and the scum that run them in the decision making positions are the fucking enemy of humanity and life on earth.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    As much as I hate oil companies, it's not them driving around in multi-ton dick replacements, or throwing away their consumer electronics every year to replace it with even shittier products. There is a lot of blame to go around, enough for the corporate overlords and the shitty people falling for their shtick.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Welllllll, once again, this is gonna be on the shitbag corporations building/pushing this shit. With the planned obsolescence, pointless annual "tech refreshes", aggressive marketing, and ultimately with the overcharged culture of consumerism, this falls back to the big corporations and the irresponsible perpetuation of an economic machine that is never satisfied. To say that people are stupid or shitty for literally buying into said machine I think greatly underestimates the capacity the average human has to be influenced without knowing/understanding it regardless of how intelligent or wise they are. The social dynamics pushed by these corporations are things that generally fly under the radar and faces little scrutiny. I guess there are probably people out there that genuinely are dipshit bootlickers in terms of perpetuating the system from the bottom, but I would compare their influence to getting angry at one leaf on a tree for creating all the damn shade. Our time and energy are wasted on people like that. Ultimately, it's the system that is to blame. Sure, they participate in the system, but they weren't the ones to mold the system into what it is.

    There's a reason I specifically pointed the blame at the decision makers at these corporations. Because when we recognize that the cause of all these problems is specifically the system, well then the people who are the real problem become quite clear. Who in power is doubling down on the harmful aspects of the system? That right there is your enemy.

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