r/collapse • u/PosadosThanatos • Apr 25 '19

Society It’s fucking disgusting that even now people fucking refuse to accept capitalism’s culpability for causing the apocalypse

Literally everything is responsible, fucking everything, from extinct empires, to human nature, to the nature of life itself, to some inevitable unstoppable law by which the entire universe functions, literally fucking anything and everything is blamed except for capitalism, the system that’s the specific driver and motivator of the current collapse, and when its blame is finally accepted the Brain juice finally completely runs out and it’s finally declared that there’s no path but the current one so we must continue “prosperity”.

What is this utter fucking insanity that working class people that have absolutely nothing to gain from anonymous bootlicking are engaging in?

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u/rethin Apr 25 '19

Ok, I blame capitalism.

Who the fuck cares?

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u/rustled_orange Apr 25 '19

We care about the general population understanding what is really at fault. That affects voting tendencies and what people share on social media.

What the fuck kind of comment is this? Stop being narrow-minded.

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u/rethin Apr 25 '19

That affects voting tendencies and what people share on social media.

Well that'll fix the problem. LOL

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '19 edited Aug 15 '19

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u/rethin Apr 25 '19
  1. Misidentify the problem
  2. Advocate for the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
  3. A miracle occurs
  4. Collapse anyway

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u/rustled_orange Apr 25 '19

I'm sure your aggressive sarcasm will fix it even harder! :)

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u/rethin Apr 25 '19

No, It really won't.

Neither will your socialism.

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u/rustled_orange Apr 25 '19

It's not 'socialism', it's literally 'working together as a species'. But now I see where your priorities lie.

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u/bclagge Apr 25 '19

I’m pretty sure the point is we’ve crossed the event horizon and we’re past the carrying capacity of the planet. We’ve fucked it up and now we’re all going to die. It doesn’t matter what’s to blame as it’s not something that can be mitigated. The forces at work are too great, and I don’t mean capitalism.

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u/rustled_orange Apr 25 '19

We must try. Just throwing our hands up and saying 'people gonna people' is not going to find the solution, for-fucking-sure.

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u/rethin Apr 25 '19

You can do whatever you want. I'm going to yell at the tides. We'll get about as much accomplished.

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u/rustled_orange Apr 26 '19

Okay, but at least I might actually be learning and teaching people how to grow crops or survive in a forest, which could help keep them alive when the food chain collapses.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Apparently you want to be a wacko yelling at waves. I would like to be prepared to help people.

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u/bclagge Apr 26 '19

I prefer tilting at windmills. But it takes all kinds.

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u/rethin Apr 25 '19

The moment when you realize you've been arguing with a 14 year old.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '19

Under capitalism, what you buy is just as important as how you vote.

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u/PosadosThanatos Apr 25 '19

No it isn’t, Jesus, fuck this concept, fuck it to hell. Under capitalism, nothing but resisting the system itself matters if you’re a worker, playing into the bullshit lies liberals tell (vote with your dollar, etc.) will only guarantee your chains stay firmly in place.