There is a strange, substantive vacuum in this campaign cycle.
Yeah, almost like people are focusing on comparatively piddly bullshit on one side and ignoring mountains of terrible on the other, because ya gotta keep the horse race going, and because you gotta make the worst of one side equal to the best on the other. Even when they’re still leagues apart.
The Republican party is burning political capital in Congress so that Congress doesn’t conduct a 14a3 vote to remove the disqualification from office clouding Trump’s candidacy. The trials are a red herring. Our options are status quo or acceleration and it turns out the fascists have been greasing the wheels of American politicians for years.
It’s not a distraction. We know and we can hold two thoughts in our mind. These “x is a distraction from y” articles/comments/takes in general don’t help. They just tell people who care about x that their concern is secondary and they’re distracted. That’s not right.
Some people just can’t focus on two things, even if you can.
Like, people keep pretending Biden is some climate activist…
He blew straight past Trump’s record fossil fuels production records and set his own.
And sure, less domestic use sounds good, but it would actually be better than shipping coal across the globe using fossil fuels before burning the coal.
I don’t know if it’s long term effects of COVID or what, but these last few years I’m constantly overestimating people.
This is incredibly patronizing of you. You’re one step away from calling everyone else “sheeple“ while holding yourself up as the exception.
I am not going to tell LGBT people they are distracted by Trump and the GOP’s regressive policies towards them because they aren’t giving enough attention to climate issues. I’m not going to tell women they are distracted by Roe’s repeal and the subsequent fallout. I am not going to apologize for caring about project 2025 and the planned dismantling of our entire system in service of a petty manchild. I also care about climate issues, as do many people who care about the issues I listed.
The only critique, as I said earlier, is that outlets have not reported on this enough. But they can report on multiple things. Lack of coverage does not mean we are all distracted by other coverage except for you and WAPO.
It’s not his fault that there is a significant portion of the planet that is, in fact, quite dumb. It doesn’t make them worth less as humans, but it is something that needs to be considered.
Reducing everybody who doesn’t prioritize the same things as you to such lengths is ridiculous. I don’t care what your perception is of “the average person.“ That’s egotistical teenager logic.
Once again, we can call out media outlets for not properly prioritizing this. But to shutdown other people’s priorities and blame them for the lack of coverage in order to elevate it is intellectually dishonest and counterproductive finger pointing.
I wasn’t reducing anyone and I don’t think the person you were responding to was either. Some people have a harder time focusing on many things at once than others. In the same way that many many people have no internal voice in their head with which they think, people’s brains work differently. It’s just a fact. Some are more efficient at parsing large quantities of varied data than others. That is also a fact. I’m not trying to devalue those who cannot do that, but it would be immature and irresponsible to not consider that when looking for the causes of miscommunication or misunderstandings about how society actually functions just because you think it might hurt someone’s feelings if they were told that about themselves.
To be quite honest, prioritizing climate change is the responsible and rational thing to do because if we fuck that up, literally nothing else we have done will have any meaning, whatsoever.
Quit using marginalized people as human shields to defend shitty politics and their shitty policy
What politics am I defending? I agree the coverage by media outlets has been terrible. This is a serious threat to our climate.
You also don’t know the first thing about me. I am not using anyone as a shield. Get fucked. Blocking and moving on I don’t need your brand of disingenuous shit.
The problem isn’t “people think something else is important” — it’s mostly that nobody hears about the big issue in the first place because the press is covering other issues.
So is it our fault or the press’s fault that the thing you want covered isn’t getting enough coverage?
And again, that doesn’t change the point. They can still write about this. It doesn’t mean other things people care about are a needless distraction. They are important to you. And I’m sure someone could point at this article and go “this is a distraction, while you were arguing about this, you should’ve actually cared about z issue.”
It’s a race to the bottom. The lack of coverage of this issue does not mean we have to say everyone else has bad priorities. It’s not a zero sum game. The press can cover multiple things. The only critique should be that the press has not covered this adequately.
It not one or the other — there’s a relationship between the lack of coverage, and people not being concerned.
If you’re calling it a distraction, then yes, it is literally one or the other. One is distracting from the other. It is saying that the things we care about do not actually matter, they are a distraction from what matters. So yeah I’m going to take a little issue with that.
You can lament the lack of coverage without tearing down other causes and concerns.
It seems like news also used to cover issues that were important, that people should care more about, even if they don’t.
Then we had Jon Stewart to cover (in the context of comedy) important news that News didn’t bother with
Now we have nothing
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump sat down with oil executives and told them that if he wins, he’ll scrap a slew of President Biden’s clean energy and other environmental regulations they don’t like — as long as they raise $1 billion for him.
The response?
Crickets.
Trump’s pay-for-play move was frequently described as “transactional.” The right word is “corrupt.”
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There is a big block for ads or an image or something right after that point IIRC so it just have detected that as end of the article unfortunately
There are so many things to finish “corrupt anti-_______ agenda” phrase. It’s about time Americans stop voting for single issues.
Exactly. Unfortunately even with that being all the republican party has the Dems can’t seem to care enough to beat it.
Americans just need to vote. Low turnout historically results in Republican Presidents.
Inaction is action.
just heard a blurb from him about ending electric car subsidies on day one and his crowd cheered.
Bunch of zombies
They only cheer for things that cause harm. The louder a conservative cheers, the more deadly the news.
Conservatism is a cancer that will kill us all if it is not stopped.
Haven’t ev makers just raised prices by whatever the subsidy amount is? So not like that actually affects the masses.
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I rabidly disagree that there is any more important topic than climate change. If you have read the actual studies and data about it, you would agree with me. If it is not addressed in a timely manner (read: a decade ago, but better late than never) there will be billions dead WITHIN YOUR LIFETIME.
good thing neither US party wants to deal with it quickly! :(
I figured it was a given. If Trump gets elected, climate change accelerates. Does anyone think any different?
The US military is one of the worlds largest polluters. Biden has spent 10x more money on the military than climate change initiatives. Speaking concern about climate change, than doing little to mitigate it sounds anti climate to me.
Except Biden has been decreasing the size of the military and growing the C.C.C.
And is also beginning the conversion of the military to green energy.
Try again, I’m sure you can make better anti-biden propaganda than this.
Sure, shrinking the Army with an ever expanding military budget.
This is 1 location out of nearly 1000 military bases and facilities, all of which still remain to be the worlds largest polluter.