• Teppichbrand@feddit.org
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    2 hours ago

    I agree so very much.
    People around me fly on holidays by plane like two, three times a year, still eat meat, shower twice a day and buy shit they don’t need from Amazon, because they can. This needs to stop! Will it save us? Of course not, but who else is going to stop the global suicide machine? Trump? The fossil destroyers? Do you want to protest another 70 years or go blow up a pipeline?
    We are billions, we have the power of “No, thanks, I don’t want that” every fucking day but the endless consumption of stuff is too tempting. Instead, we sit at home, comfortably warm, well fed and lonely, in front of our seethrough plexiglas RGB LED computers and point fingers at corporations that are exactly as greedy, selfish and irresponsible as every single one of us.
    NO THANKS! This could be the easiest global movement, no violence, no riots, still corporations would be powerless. But you’d need to change, and you don’t want that.

    Edit: If you downvote, please tell me where I’m wrong and what’s your counter-proposal in this actual situation right now.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Where you are wrong is that the majority of humans don’t have access to those luxuries of choice since around 50% of the world is still below the extreme poverty level. Where else you’re wrong is people like me that have solar panels, and electric transportation and access to mass transit that I use regularly. We also don’t have much of a choice, because we don’t make the markets those companies do.

      Those companies are the only ones that have a choice because they control so much market share that no one else has enough power to make a change.

      I already eliminated my carbon footprint, and it hasn’t done shit, because Starbucks has their own private jet that the CEO is using 3 times a week to fly between San Francisco and Seattle, because fuck the plebes.

      The only solution I see at this point is mass protest and starting to assassinate CEOs, shareholders, and boards of directors, in self defense.