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  1. 33 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:

    I don't think this is mutually exclusive. There are lots of ideas that impose restrictions on big companies and certain industries that I fully support. Interestingly those ideas affect younger generations the most. Prohibit cheap flights immediately. There should be no flights within Europe less than 150 EUR one way. Have people pay for their returns when they bought stuff (especially clothes) online.  These things can be easily implemented and will help to reduce carbon emmissions big time. Have railroads reactivated or invest in new ones for transporting goods, get the goods of the road. Everything that is delivered from further away than 50 or 100 kilometres must be transported by trains, not by trucks. There are other things, not limited to carbon emmissions. Only have glass bottles, no plastic, no cans.Those glass bottles must be returned to supermarkets and from there on recycled. Works already perfectly fine with water bottles, beer bottles in Germany. Why not extend this system to all beverages. And while we are at it. Why do we need to have dairy products in plastic? Put it in glass. Prohibit all those paper/plastic mugs you get at Starbucks etc. People can easily bring their porcelain or stainless steel mugs to be filled up. All of the aformentioned things can be easily implemented (except reactivating and building new reailroads) and from my perspective it something people will absolutely support (well, of course not the people who are used to fly 10 times a year to Mallorca for EUR 19.00 just to get drunk and of course the people who are used to buy the same pair of trousers in 5 different sizes just to send 4 or all of them back for free). I think all those things are common sense and in result resistance from the general population will be minimal. Let's start with those things, not with the most controversial thing like prohibiting cars. 

    I agree with all of those things. My point was that it's funny that we tend to want to find the flaw in those who do mostly good, rather than in those who blatantly do bad. Greta rode a train first class - shock horror - I mean really...does this supersede the massive urgency she's brought to climate change in the past year? No. It's a part of human psychology though, but I'd leave it someone more knowledgeable than me to explain why. :fag: It's the same reason people picked apart Hillary when Donald was much worse. The same reason people who make $50K a year cry about refugees and strong social welfare systems but not Jeff Bezos, the Panama Papers revealing how the incredibly wealthy are part of an enormous criminal conspiracy to dodge taxes and hoard their wealth in offshore accounts, or Budweiser spending $5 million on a commercial to brag about how they donated $100K worth of water.

  2. On 12/1/2019 at 1:41 PM, Kelmadfan said:

    Yes. It’s distract, divide, & dumbed-down. . That’s how “they” roll. They want us poor, stupid and sick. That’s how the corporate profits roll. And the politicians are with those who have the cash. They only care about their constituents during an election. Then it’s back to serving the corporate machine. 

    Wonderfully said.

  3. On 11/30/2019 at 12:05 PM, Kelmadfan said:

    I’ll bet! Carry on. 💨 

    It's just another non issue they engender to distract everyone from the real problems at hand. They do it every time; for the last election it was undocumented Mexican immigrants. Who honestly cares?

    The way I see it, the two elephants in the room are climate change, and the obscenely wealthy continuing to fuck over the middle and lower classes through healthcare, education, and jobs. If I could waive a magic wand every American would vote with this top of mind.

  4. Good. You never want innocent bystanders to get hurt, like that guy in the Hong Kong airport, but I love when people protest their governments en masse. They are there to serve the people, not the other way around. We should never forget that. Sadly we're mostly utterly docile and accept whatever bullshit we get, but there's always a straw that breaks the camel's back and this is one of those instances.

  5. 4 hours ago, Monsieur X said:

    thanks to that awful exercise and "diet" programme she was on by that charlatan Tracey Anderson (who also happened to be a thief and embezzler actually).

     

    4 hours ago, Monsieur X said:

    and the charlatan fitness trainer Tracey Anderson

    I'm in a giddy mood today and laughing like crazy at this. :lmao: 

  6. 6 hours ago, Toni said:

    That brat is actively stumping the growth of the GC video. People will read her comments, and take her at value and assume she's telling the truth and Madonna is a cunt. And then they wont watch the video!

    No way. It's human nature. They'll watch it to see what all the fuss is about.

  7. 23 hours ago, I Don’t Search I Find said:

    Emma Gonzalez is getting schooled a lot on Twitter not only by Madonna fans but also gun control groups that applaud Madonna’s video.

    Good. She's not smart and a literalist, two things Madonna can't stand. And yes, of Gen Z who expect apologies and retractions when they feel personally offended by something. That's not how it works.

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