I literally had some yuppie liberals once tell me as I was doing the stakeout for their house working for a Land Surveyor "well, we were going to get solar panels, but honestly who cares we did good for the world and we don't have much time left anyways we aren't going to be around for climate change!", they said this to me after having a conversation about how I was a young person from the area excited about their future.

100% it was the most yuppie liberal thing ever in the sense that they acted completely morally superior to me (they were successful people with a career, I was a glorified day laborer) while spitting in my face like oblivious selfish children and somehow being completely unaware of it even when my face was covered in their vile hacked up nonsense.

"Fuck you I got mine" is the mantra of upper middle class US, and it lulls itself into a warm stupor by telling the lie over and over again that because they care about social issues it must mean the structures around them are as just and functioning despite the fact that people are dying in the streets everywhere, living and not living proof of a devastating lie.

Burn neoliberalism with fire, it is the only way we can survive.

Fellow South Louisiana person on Lemmy!