stabby_cicada

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stabby_cicada , to Science in Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence

You might be interested in this climate misinformation chart.

Hint: you're at the top of the "climate delay" section.

stabby_cicada , to Science in Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence

Environmental groups are considered more dangerous now than they were in the 90s/00s when Earth First and ELF were burning down homes, Sea Shepherds were sinking whaling ships, and there was this guy named Ted in a cabin in Montana you may have heard of?

Citation fucking needed.

stabby_cicada , to collapse of the old society in Farmers ‘at war’ with rural crime gangs

what is normal folk supposed to do? Turn into serfs again?

That's the goal of the 1%, yes.

stabby_cicada , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in There are better ways to protest climate change than spray painting Stonehenge [with easily removed corn starch] | Just Stop Oil activists could take a page from the civil rights movement, experts say

So here's the thing. Just Stop Oil is performing symbolic disruption and vandalism. And they are doing it to exactly the targets you say they should - for example, Taylor Swift's private jet.

And they are also performing symbolic vandalism against works of art and history.

And I submit the way you feel about them targeting Stonehenge is very similar to the way a wealthy conservative feels about them targeting private jets - it offends you even though it does no actual harm because it's an attack on something you value and something you feel should be respected, which makes you feel like it's an attack on you personally.

Just Stop Oil has been very clear about why they symbolically vandalize works of art - because every dollar you spent on preserving human art and history is meaningless if the human species drives itself to extinction, and anyone who cares about art and history needs to get off their asses and demand political change. They do it because people who care more about art than the environment are the people they're trying to shake up and motivate.

Preserving art is a bourgeois luxury. If we as a species don't get off our asses and fight climate change we won't have any art left to preserve or any human beings left to appreciate it.

stabby_cicada OP , to solarpunk memes in seed the means of production

The essence of white Berkeley liberalism.

stabby_cicada OP , (edited ) to Land Back in Shasta Indian Nation to get homeland back in largest land return in California history

AITA for feeling torn between justice for mistreated people, a desire for diversity, but also a dislike for spiritism of any sort albeit Abrahamic or otherwise?

I mean, since you posed the question like that, I respond in kind: yes, YTA.

You're welcome to disagree with religion. You're welcome to dislike spirituality. That's fine and cool and reasonable.

What you should not do is look at an injustice perpetrated on a group of people and think "well, I disagree with those people's beliefs, and therefore I don't care if they suffer injustice". People you disagree with deserve justice. Stupid people deserve justice. Bad people deserve justice. Just treatment is not a privilege you earn by having the right beliefs and views.

Really, justice is as much a duty as it is a right. If you hold power, you have a duty to use that power in a just fashion, to treat others justly, to oppose injustice as it occurs, and to do recompense for past injustice you have done to others. It shouldn't matter whether the victim of injustice is a sinner or a saint. It is your duty to treat them justly either way.

And when it comes to restoring land to Native American tribes, it doesn't matter if members of those tribes are good people or bad people, rationalists or superstitious, saints or sinners - it matters that their ancestors were victims of injustice at the hands of the United States government, and we the people have a duty to right that injustice.

So you can hold those beliefs simultaneously: a dislike for spirituality and a desire for justice for mistreated people. But if you are torn by those two beliefs - if you believe a particular group of mistreated people is less worthy of justice because you disagree with their spiritual beliefs - I think your dislike for spirituality is becoming prejudice against spiritual people, and that's not good at all.

stabby_cicada , (edited ) to solarpunk memes in Dumb fucks

How naive. True change doesn't come from offending moderates - true change comes from making moderates comfortable, so they feel secure and confident that the change you won't harm them. Any protest that makes people uncomfortable about society or their own actions is counterproductive and just makes things worse.

Take Colin Kaepernick. Taking a knee during the national anthem before a football game was exactly the wrong way to protest racism, because it angered people who loved football and loved America, who should have been his natural allies. What Colin should have done was been even more patriotic and sung the anthem even louder, to express how much he loved America and how he wanted to see it become better. That would have inspired people who supported his cause, without offending people who disagreed with him, and there would have been no controversy.

That's the way white moderates want to see people protest. Being conformist and forgettable is how we make change.

Am I still being too subtle?

stabby_cicada , to solarpunk memes in Dumb fucks

You don't understand. That protest provoked an emotional reaction in me and I didn't like it. Responsible protests don't hurt people's feelings. They went too far.

stabby_cicada , to solarpunk memes in Move Stonehenge to Tuvalu to Protect it from the Effects of Climate Change Activism

Wait, do you really expect British citizens to fly to the US or China in order to commit vandalism?

What do you think they'd put on their visa application? "Purpose of travel: throw paint on the Statue of Liberty"?

In a world full of bad faith "I support your cause but not your methods" attacks on environmental activism, this is one of the most ridiculous ones I've ever heard.

stabby_cicada , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC News

We only discuss their tactics briefly when they do something dramatic and get on the news.

When people hear about their tactics, ask why they're going so far, and look into environmental issues as a result, I think that can have a much longer lasting impact.

stabby_cicada OP , to solarpunk memes in praxis

The fact you think "off brand" is garbage is painful. And telling.

stabby_cicada OP , to No Lawns in fuck lawns (fuck lawns) fuck them very very much

Global insect biomass has declined 75% since I was born. And a big part of it is people who don't want insects on their property - reasonably, as the person you're responding to points out - and manage their lawns to deprive insects of habitat. And there's so many more people in the world now than when I was born, and correspondingly less habitat for insects. And everything else.

stabby_cicada OP , to solarpunk memes in praxis

I didn't find one, someone else might have better luck.

stabby_cicada OP , to No Lawns in fuck lawns (fuck lawns) fuck them very very much

To be fair, I do love mockingbirds, and mockingbirds love mowed lawns :)

stabby_cicada OP , to solarpunk memes in someone mentioned tattoo parties?

Libraries have free books. That takes profit from Amazon.

Libraries have free Internet. That takes profit from ISPs.

Libraries have free research tools and expert guidance from librarians. That takes profit from all sorts of companies that profit off your ignorance.

And worst of all, that stuff is all publicly funded, so when you look at a library you see government helping people. And there's nothing conservatives hate more than government that helps people.

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