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Liberals Can't Address the Climate Crisis Because It Means Confronting Capitalism (www.currentaffairs.org)
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[–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

It's so frustrating how left will literally blame themselves before they blame conservatives.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Crazy how liberals will always point to their political partners (conservatives) as the cause of all society's ills yet are incapable of materially unwinding those ills: and if anyone amongst their ranks makes a sincere demand to unpick these structures they leave no stone unturned to politically assassinate them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    The right is exactly who has been begging the liberals for a pipeline, to remove carbon taxes and EV mandates, and who is threatening to break Canada apart in support of fossil fuel combustion.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    No, everybody with a brain blames conservatives. It's just that it literally goes without saying, in the sense that they're a lost cause and so it isn't worth discussing.

    Leftists talk about liberals because they're the ones that have the capacity to be persuaded.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago*

    Let me put it this way: If someone believes that a person who has voted conservative lacks individual agency then the person making that judgement does not actually hold liberal/leftist values.

    They are dividing and othering.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I won’t blame the left before I’ll blame conservatives, but those on the left have at least a little bit of blame… All this infighting and finger-pointing and factional divisiveness? How is that helping? It’s exactly what the conservatives want: infighting amongst ourselves rather than focusing on the real problems that the conservatives are causing.

    Sure, we didn’t cause the problems, but a bunch of internal bickering sure isn’t going to fix any of them. And we are well past figuring out who is to blame for all of it. It’s time to start working on long lasting solutions.

    But I don’t see a lot of that going on. Just a bunch of grievances and more people looking for more people to blame.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    You could say that about any political group. Even MAGA is fracturing, as well as Alberta, Canada separatists. The Canadian conservatives have fractured and joined forces again so. Many. Times.

    So why blame the left for things literally anywhere?

    Also, before you pull out purity tests, whenever someone complains about purity tests, its usually a disgarmeent that human rights belong to everyone. Thats usually what they mean.

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