• whatisallthis@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s honestly like someone comes up to you and tells you that you have to win class president for the local kindergarten.

    You’d love to talk about stuff like human rights or healthcare but you know that if you want to win the election you need to promise them longer naps and candy every Monday.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t bury the lede! One outright called it a hoax.

    “I’m the only candidate on stage who isn’t bought and paid for, so I can say this,” Ramaswamy said, though he caught some shade. “Climate change is a hoax … The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”

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        1 year ago

        Because accepting the truth means accepting that unless we take radical, almost certainly financially painful action, we’re all fucked. It’s easier to pretend that everything is ok. At least until we start starving.

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          I said much the same earlier today on another thread. Lib or con, too many are not willing to sacrifice to prevent what is coming. It’s easy to pawn this off on just the cons, but take a close look at your own surroundings and your lib friends and see who is walking the walk.

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            Paper straws and bicycles won’t solve the climate crisis. What my lib friends and I are doing doesn’t really matter when just a handful of entities make up so much more of the environmental impact.

            We could stop those entities…if it weren’t for the cons constantly blocking any attempt to help the greater good.

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    1 year ago

    To be fair, Desantis immediately interrupted and said they weren’t going to raise their hands “like children”. No candidate would raise their hand after a comment like that. All their specific answers were certainly not climate friendly, but they are at least a little bit more nuanced than the title implies