Conservative pundits and right-wing Christian media figures have rejected the scientific consensus that human activity is fueling the warming climate and exacerbating extreme weather events, instead claiming that God controls the weather and attributing natural disasters to “demonic attack,” biblical prophecy, or a supposed sign of the End Times. TikTok influencers and accounts with tens of thousands of followers have also adopted End Times rhetoric to explain natural disasters.

Conservative pundits and right-wing Christian media figures have rejected the scientific consensus that human activity is fueling the warming climate and exacerbating extreme weather events, instead claiming that God controls the weather and attributing natural disasters to “demonic attack,” biblical prophecy, or a supposed sign of the End Times. TikTok influencers and accounts with tens of thousands of followers have also adopted End Times rhetoric to explain natural disasters.

  • @shalafiEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    Thank you! I’ve gathered quite a collection of downvotes for saying the conservative brain came from our evolution. Far more useful in the past than now, just as you outlined.

    I still argue that sort of brain is needed. I’m liberal on almost every political subject, yet I don’t want liberals to have total and complete control. Road to hell, good intentions and such. The left needs a slight brake on it for best results.

    But, power. Our leaders know how to tap those brains for political points. Seems humanity is doomed to fall in and out of fascism, over and over again. FFS, “I hate Illinois Nazis.” was a joke back in 1980. Because the idea of a modern American Nazi was fucking ludicrous. And here we are.