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I think there's a decent and growing chance we get a basically fully technological not social solution to climate change and I think it's kind of funny

from heavily subsidized chinese factories, in which case the social solution was communism with chinese characteristics and xi jinping thought

the only social solution would have been a drastic decline in energy usage and living standards, right? and of course most threats (non-anthropogenic climate change, volcanoes, asteroids) have no social solution at all besides "die".

The social solution side would be a reduction in waste and consumption that doesn’t impact living standards. Eg mass transit, plastic reduction, mass recycling, and probably communizing distribution and availability of many basic consumer goods. You’d have less fashion and no year-round fruit availability, and less meat consumption.

how do you square that with "doesn't impact living standards"

Does your standard of living depend on fashion and bananas?

what a bizarre question! I think most people would consider a reduction in the availability of food and clothing to impact their living standards; you could point out various compensatory factors but in isolation that's absolutely a concern, much like a reduction in the availability of travel or housing or anything else that depends on energy inputs.

I think it’s really insulting that westerners talk about communism. y'all had it too good and now y'all are being spoiled little brats. let me talk to you about the women and men executed and how their bodies were thrown out of trains and the basic food being rationed so harshly that we actually started black markets for fucking sugar and oil and let me talk to you about how they used to spy on everyone, we had mikes in our homes, how they made kids rat on each other and how controlled the education was. lights went out at 7. my parents used to study by a candle. everything. was. controlled. everyone. was. oppressed.

# DESTROY TUMBLR’S UNAPOLOGETIC ROMANTICISING OF COMMUNISM 2K15 TBH

#the fastest way to make me lose all respect for you is if you’re one of the tumblr shitbabies who romanticizes communism #my grandfather was the only member of his family who survived the russian revolution #he hid in the family crypt and had to listen to the sounds of the bolsheviks slaughtering his whole family #women and children too #all shot execution style because they owned a tiny farm in what is now ukraine #the members of his extended family were all sent to gulags and we only know they were even there because we found records of their deaths #so don’t fucking come in here with your pop communism nonsense #not when my family has suffered under it #not when the families of millions #billions of people #have suffered for something you think is a cute and edgy way to rebel #go fuck yourselves honestly you ignorant pieces of shit #i consider myself a socialist but there is a huge fucking difference between socialist policies as implemented today in sweden etc. #and the utter living horror that was life under communism #stay classy tumblr 

A good friend of mine has some stories, man. Her family fled the USSR with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

They live in the greatest nations that Earth has ever seen, live lives wealthier than all of the kings of old, and they feel oppressed because the public and private education program has taught them to hate their own countries and long for a utopia that no one can prove is possible.

Yeah, you don’t fuck around down in Colombia.

God I wish the USA had a similar reputation. It should be well known that in the US the good ol boys will toss your ass in a wood chipper if you’re caught touching kids while the cops all look the other way.

we need to re-criminalize weed i swear this entire country dropped 100 IQ points in the last few years

Being racist and antisemitic is great because you get to be right all the time