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vantexan

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I saw a preview somewhere for this documentary a few days ago. It really looked like a boring, hot mess. I wondered who would want to waste their time and money watching it. Weekend box office tally shows that very few did. Lol. Then I read this comment on the article, and it all made sense.

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Might be that a large percentage of attendees were movie critics paid to review it.
 

100%

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im creating a new post on climate catastrophe because it more accurately reflects the environmental situation the elites have created for us

this is an unreal article about how power works (democracy) and stopping mass extinction:

Extinction Rebellion

If we do not shake off our lethargy, our anomie, and resist, our misery, despondency and feelings of helplessness will mount. We will become paralyzed. Resistance, especially given the bleakness before us, is about more than winning. It is about a life of meaning. It is about empowerment. It is a public declaration that we will no longer live according to the dominant lie. It is a message to the elites: YOU DO NOT OWN US. It is about defending our dignity, agency and self-respect. The more we free ourselves from the bondage of fear to throw up barriers along the forced march toward ecocide the more we will be enveloped by a strange kind of euphoria, one I often felt as a war correspondent documenting horrific suffering and atrocities to shame the killers. We obliterate despair in our acts of defiance, even if our victories are Pyrrhic. We reach out to those around us. Courage is contagious. It is the spark that ignites mass revolt. And we should, even if we fail, at least choose how we will die. Resistance is the only action left that will allow us to remain psychologically whole. And it is the only action left that has any hope of halting the wholesale extinction of the human race, not to mention most other species.

There’s a fundamental difference between breaking the law and not breaking the law,” he went on. “It’s a binary difference. When you break the law, then you’re massively more effective in terms of material and psychological influence as well as media interest. The more dramatic the civil disobedience, the better. It’s a numbers game. You want people blocking the streets, but you need ten, twenty, thirty thousand. You don’t need 3 million. You need enough for the state to have to decide whether to use repression on a mass scale or invite you into the room. The gambit, of course, particularly in the U.K., is that the state is weak. It’s been hollowed out by neoliberalism. They’re going to find themselves overwhelmed. We will get in the room.”

Do we allow these people to continue blocking the center of a global city, or do we arrest thousands of people?’ If they opt for arresting thousands of people, lots of things are going to happen. They will be overwhelmed. The police force in the U.K. is underfunded, like most of the public sector. There’s massive disaffection amongst the police. I won’t be surprised if they form a union and say, ‘We’re not doing this anymore.’ I’ve been arrested 10, 12 times in the last two years. Every time, police come up to me going, ‘Keep it up, mate. What you’re doing is great.’ We’re disciplined, nonviolent people. They’re not going to get pissed off at us. They also know it’s over.

“You’re basically holding the economy of a city to ransom,” he said of the shutdowns. “It’s the same dynamic as a labor strike. You want to get into the room and have a negotiation. Extinction Rebellion hasn’t quite decided what that negotiation is going to be. We’ve got three demands—the government tells the truth, the carbon emissions go to zero by 2025, which is a proxy for transformation of the economy and the society, and we have a national assembly which will sort out what the British people want to do about it.

We simply cannot maintain these levels of consumption. They haven’t reckoned with that. One of the main reasons the climate debate has not gotten into a serious mode over the last 30 years is because people who are in charge of informing the public are terrified of telling the public that they can’t have the high consumer lifestyle anymore. It’s a taboo. But like any addiction, there comes a moment of truth. We’re there now.”

Add climate Hoax to the list. Got it.
 

oldngray

nowhere special

I saw a preview somewhere for this documentary a few days ago. It really looked like a boring, hot mess. I wondered who would want to waste their time and money watching it. Weekend box office tally shows that very few did. Lol. Then I read this comment on the article, and it all made sense.

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Thebrownblob

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He’s a noted conservative who is a friend of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk.
Just got let back on Twitter.
He’s noted? I don’t have a clue who he is but ok. And oh my God he’s friends with some people? Back on Twitter? Lol.

So what you really mean is he’s a loosely affiliated person with people you don’t like with opinions, you disagree with? Who also maybe some sort of sex predator? Sounds about like every other person left or right talked about on here most the time.🤷‍♂️
 
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