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not something you can just pull out of your arse in order to straw-man someone.
But that describes 98% of your comments. You almost never engage with what somebody has actually said, you just say "It's all so shit that the details of your argument are irrelevant". Endlessly.
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It's all so shit that the details of your argument are irrelevant
Well, if your argument is that things aren't so bad, then yeah, that's my TL;DR. If you want it to be otherwise, then wishing that rearranging deckchairs will cut it, won't cut it.
It's more a matter of, how do we smash enough furniture quickly enough to provide the material for enough lifeboats to minimise the inevitable consequences of our indifference.
Kimmo
Not at all. I wasn't trying to say that 'objectively worse' isn't a thing, but that the assessment criteria for that is probably not something you can just pull out of your arse in order to straw-man someone.
Here in 'the global north', or western civilisation as it was once known, we're somewhat insulated from the reality of human existence; we're the lucky ones who get to pretend our little house of poisonous, blood-soaked cards can just keep on standing without inflicting untold immiseration on the less fortunate humans and all. the. other. life.
Gaza, ultimately because Anglophone hegemony and its perceived need to destabilise the middle east to keep that oil flowing into our tanks at a price we like. A river gets poisoned here because people like a little chrome strip on their shit, a forest gets cut down there because we don't seem to mind busy-ness being about nothing but profit, and government being about little more than corruption.
The routine atrocities are part and parcel of our colonialistic, extractive, zero-sum way of life. We're the one true vermin. It would be nice if we could just learn to stand still and stop breaking shit. Or at least maybe give the neurotypical bum-sniffers some sort of sandbox where they can play their silly status games without making such a mess of that actual reality which is apparently so very secondary in their considerations.