• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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          6 months ago

          It not one or the other — there’s a relationship between the lack of coverage, and people not being concerned.

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            It seems like news also used to cover issues that were important, that people should care more about, even if they don’t.

            Then we had Jon Stewart to cover (in the context of comedy) important news that News didn’t bother with

            Now we have nothing

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      6 months ago

      Some people just can’t focus on two things, even if you can.

      Like, people keep pretending Biden is some climate activist…

      He blew straight past Trump’s record fossil fuels production records and set his own.

      And sure, less domestic use sounds good, but it would actually be better than shipping coal across the globe using fossil fuels before burning the coal.

      I don’t know if it’s long term effects of COVID or what, but these last few years I’m constantly overestimating people.

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          It’s not his fault that there is a significant portion of the planet that is, in fact, quite dumb. It doesn’t make them worth less as humans, but it is something that needs to be considered.

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              I wasn’t reducing anyone and I don’t think the person you were responding to was either. Some people have a harder time focusing on many things at once than others. In the same way that many many people have no internal voice in their head with which they think, people’s brains work differently. It’s just a fact. Some are more efficient at parsing large quantities of varied data than others. That is also a fact. I’m not trying to devalue those who cannot do that, but it would be immature and irresponsible to not consider that when looking for the causes of miscommunication or misunderstandings about how society actually functions just because you think it might hurt someone’s feelings if they were told that about themselves.

              To be quite honest, prioritizing climate change is the responsible and rational thing to do because if we fuck that up, literally nothing else we have done will have any meaning, whatsoever.