• @mindbleach
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        31 year ago

        I am not describing the aftermath of a storm; I am describing a storm.

          • @mindbleach
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            21 year ago

            … violence. It ends in violence. Not all against the bastards responsible, and not necessarily great for anyone in the near term. Stop reading in some feel-good “nothing bad can come of this!” if you’re so goddamn tired of hearing it, because I said nothing of the sort.

            Who the fuck do you think is pointing to World War II as some just and fair sequence of events?

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        01 year ago

        How has shortsighted thinking worked for us? Guess we shouldn’t worry about climate change cause in the long run we are all dead.

        • @Mrkawfee
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          21 year ago

          Most likely Keynes wasn’t thinking of existential threats to our civilization when he came up with that quote.

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            11 year ago

            Right. Not like there was a rise of genocidal fascism going on at the time that threatened the entire continent of Europe, Russia, China, North Africa, the Middle East, and a belt from India to the Philippines. Meanwhile there was an aborted coup in the US, and labor riots with terrorist attacks so awful they should be classified as small revolutions. Plus a failure of economic/agricultural policy that left the majority of the US (by land) covered in a dust bowl sending refugees from Oklahoma to the rest.

            Nope, none of this was happening. Let’s keep with the short term thinking.