The Swerve
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The Swerve
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#2It's like a cross between 'The Big Bus'(1976) and 'Snowpiercer'(2013). Grab your pitchforks and torches and let's get to the front of the bus!
Seriously, I agree that this is the only choice, but what is the actual plan?
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#3It's not a bus, it's a train. Best case you can slow it down for a few people to jump off.
Carter told people to wear a sweater and the American people flipped out and elected a ghoulish union-busting zombie. Twice.
There will be no change until it is forced upon us when the treats stop flowing. And even then you just have to hope that the populace has an accurate story in their heads as to why.
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#4It is just me, or is this an open call for a proletariat revolution against the bourgeois? Any successful "plunge past the first-class passengers" will not be a peaceful event.
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#5I like Cory, and I think he's right. But he's preaching to the choir. No one who can get hold of the wheel is listening.
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#6It is just me, or is this an open call for a proletariat revolution against the bourgeois? Any successful "plunge past the first-class passengers" will not be a peaceful event.
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#7Last time we tried, they divided us back-seaters in tribes and fighting each other, window seater vs isle seaters, unpair against even rows, all tackling each other rather than trying to make it through the champagne sipping front rows and the wheel.
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#8Something I read in another comment on HN: "Climate denialists have gone in one smooth move from 'we'll fix it' to 'it's too late to do anything about it anyway'". Which unfortunately rings very true.
The really, really big problem is that people seem to think that they personally are going to be exempt from this, that it will happen to others, but not to them. Waking up from that will be pretty harsh. But if COVID denialism is any indication of how well humanity deals with complex problems on a planetary scale I'm not too optimistic about climate change countermeasures, the problem is much more complex and would require cooperation on a far more massive scale than anything COVID related.
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#9> “Long before we go over the cliff, we’ll have figured out how to put wings on this bus.”
Sounds like something a PM would say in a roundabout fashion
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#10It is just me, or is this an open call for a proletariat revolution against the bourgeois? Any successful "plunge past the first-class passengers" will not be a peaceful event.
damn, if we only had a functional democracy.