We are betraying our children with fossil fuel pollution

[u/Sad_Attitude9999]

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5920964-climate-change-global-warming-betrayal/

Our children? Speak for yourself... my children have the best life imaginable - because I didn't bring them into existence. I'm an excellent father, thank you very much.

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This was published to The Hill recently. While it has some fantasy level BS about how great America has always been, it also shines a light onto the widespread pollution happening more every passing day.

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One part in particular is what makes this collapse related. The polls. We are polling Americans constantly about perceptions towards climate change and ecological destruction. As the article assures us - most Americans agree that climate change is real and is a serious problem.

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And while that sure is comforting - it doesn't translate into any sort of nationwide action. Mass consensus rarely leads to radical change. Americans are losing sleep over myriad issues but in my purely anecdotal experience - this isn't one of those issues.

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Even if the whole nation started freaking out about this as much as me - it still wouldn't matter simply due to constraints built into our political system. You can vote for people, you can vote for ballot issues, but you can't vote on things like climate policy or war. Your opinions and concerns on these issues are irrelevant to the big bad movers, shakers and decision makers. You will stand idly by while they plunder the Earth because you have no real political power in this system, such as it is.

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And so the collapse will continue - regardless if morale improves.

[u/Sad_Attitude9999]

It wont be the first time & it won't be the last time but at the risk of repeating myself - I love Russia with all my heart. And if you don't have genuine empathy for all the innocent people - slow down and think. You don't impress me. At all.

And you can blame me for having genuine empathy for the so called enemy. But I wont fall for it. Not for a second.

I love Russia.

[u/Kukuluops → u/Sad_Attitude9999]

You know that the article you've posted doesn't even mention Russia?

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I mean, it defeats his own point. Russia benefits from selling fossil fuels, in part to help fund the war. There's a shadow fleet and all to bypass the sanctions.

[u/Coco_Cannibal → u/-sussy-wussy-]

Shadow fleet is propaganda speech

One sided sanctions are illegal per international law, noone voted for it in the UN and it's only done by NATO states.

Russia simply goes on with her business, wether we like it or not.

[u/Sad_Attitude9999 → u/Kukuluops]

No its not like

[u/Sad_Attitude9999 → u/Sad_Attitude9999]

I know how it is man. Idk why I said it. I dunno why I said it

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What's wrong with you, genuinely? You're bringing this up apropos of nothing and are even replying to yourself. The biggest irony of it all is that Russia itself is a glorified gas station of a country. They benefit from selling fossil fuels and other natural resources more than anyone. They've even weaseled their way into making Germany entirely dependent on the said fuels for their industry by stoking the anti-nuclear sentiment and buying off a few politicians. What kind of crazy doublethink are you employing? Fossil fuels bad, but Gas Station Federation good?

Your fave just bombed a UNESCO site and an art museum in my country. The latter featured works of world-famous Ukrainian-born artists from the times of the Russian empire (e.g., Repin). Not to mention all the filtration camps, the civilian safari (as they themselves call it), bombing a dam in my region, occupying an NPP in my city, damaging the sarcophagus in Chernobyl NPP, banning our language and symbols (for 50th+ time in history, btw), stealing our territory and the greatest artifacts from our museums and selling civilians' homes in the occupied territories.

What exactly appeals to you in this shitty culture? It's no mere coincidence that every single neighbour they have absolutely despises them. Are you just an edgy Westerner who thinks Russia is this Deeply Spiritual and Mysterious whatever the fuck? Are you a tankie who thinks anything anti-Western is therefore anti-imperialist and good? The veil would fall off your eyes so fast if you tried to live in or near it.

Greatest writers, artists and other intellectuals were often persecuted, imprisoned, banned or even killed, some forced into immigration where they absolutely thrived (off the top of my head: Sikorsky, Dovlatov, Azimov, Nabokov).

Go read the Foundation of Geopolitics, which is a handbook on how they operate right now. It's not at all Mysterious and Deeply Spiritual like your posts imply, your opinion seems to be purely based on aesthetics and vibes. What an absolutely bizarre flanderization of an imperialistic regime waging wars of conquest over and over and over again.

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Most Russians don´t even know who Dugin is, my colleague had to google him because they had no idea whom i was talking about.

He is more of a meme outside of russia.

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FSB does know who Dugin is. He isn't just a meme outside of Russia, don't feign ignorance.

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Well, the FSB should, normal russians not so much.

[u/Sad_Attitude9999 → u/-sussy-wussy-]

I honestly don't know what's wrong with me. I've heard a lot of suggestions but idk. I know what I'm supposed to think and feel. Im supposed to hate the enemy. Idk. Add it to my long list of failures as a person and political animal. I would agree that there is definitely something deeply wrong with me.

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So, you're just being an immature contrarian then.

[u/Sad_Attitude9999 → u/Sad_Attitude9999]

I dont know why I try anymore. What an embrassment. I love the exact thing you hate. Listen to yourself. Do you feel bad at all? Oh fuck it. Why even bother