Political mindset evolution

Never been a democracy

Our government was corrupted the moment the courts accepted the "Corporations are people/ Money is speech" arguments. At that moment, the government stopped representing the needs of ordinary people and only represented the needs of billionaires and their lobbyists.

It's taking a long time to play out but it's going to end badly.

All capitalist countries...

Fixed it for you

Hey if a bunch of scientists say otherwise then, yah, they know better. But I thought we were basically beyond preventing catastrophic climate disaster?

Also this is the first I'm seeing the big Gritty brain meme format and I love it!

I don't know how to get everyone I know to really understand this. Every time I bring it up in conversation, the other person just puts their hands up and explains that they're powerless to address it, so it's not even worth talking about. I don't know how to respond to the apathy.

All first world governments have some degree of corruption from money in politics, but don't kid yourselves: USA is much worse than most

I would usually say this is going too far, but this winter didn't seem nearly as cold as usual, and that was concerning. Feels like in the next two decades the planet might not have winter... And might have a deadly season that was formerly summer.

Huh, some commenters raise a good question. What are the non-capitalist countries doing to fight climate change?

China is building out massive renewables and massive coal.

My list is short, please add to it.

And you know why we’re fucked?

A whole lot of food needs to be pollinated by insects. Those insects have a time when they get out of their eggs in spring. But what if the tree blossoms before the insects are here? No pollination. This means it dies a blossom, never to be turned into food. Continue this for some years and the insects die out, some more and the final plant will die.

It’s always happened, yes, but it’s too fast.

The people will die, the planet recovers.

And what’s a planet if there’s no people to enjoy it.

the meme format doesn't make any sense

Less than 5 probably

20 years? more like 5

The crooked third caption may cause mental distress

The third one is dumb, not everyone is USA

Aka “getting radicalised by bad faith actors on the internet”

I keep clicking this thumbnail because bright colorful fluffy animals.

I keep reading the text and not comprehending anything.