“Heads we live, tails we die.”
When was this? Merkel and her party luckily aren’t in the government anymore.
Boris Johnson was already 2 prime ministers ago.
The rate they burn through them, that could have been last week.
Well the current coalition isnt really doing any better in that regard. All they seem to care about is condemning climate protesters and the usual corrupt behaviour that we know from the CDU…
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If you cared then it wouldn’t matter where they protested
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despise them like we do PETA.
So you are saying you gotten got by yet another lobbying campain?
There would never have been a Deutschlandticket with CDU. Fuck FDP but at least neither Grüne nor SPD is openly fellating the AfD Nazis like the current CDU is doing.
“… in that regard.” I generally prefer our current government, but that does not morally prevent me from critizicing them and shitting on their bad behavior. Better != Good
Deutschlandticket should have been a wake-up call for the desolate state of public transport.
For years and years DB complained that they cannot provide a more broadly available service because there is not enough public interest. Factual statements about the booking process for interstate travel and high fares for short travels were swept aside as hearsay.
Suddenly, public interest piqued because of the Deutschlandticket and it was a disaster with a capital D. Who got the blame? The company that failed to expand even tho they had a monopoly-by-law for over 60 years and that doesn’t pay for the infrastructure they are using to make profit? No, it was the customers of course.
What came of the whole ordeal? Absolutely fucking nothing. Business as usual.
October 2021. Not wishing for “good luck fighting the climate emergency.”
Thanks for the fact-check. I hate that we’ve gotten to ragebait on Lemmy as well.
Can’t hurt or tell the rich what to do for the 99% /s
Words fail.
The money from the fountain gets collected and sent to Caritas, a catholic charity that focuses on health, disaster relief, poverty, and migration. I am a Queer atheist person in Spain that uses their services and they haven’t once made my queerness an issue. Nor have they exposed me to their religious views.
So, shrug, I’m not gonna shit on them doing the tradition that many diplomatic events in Rome do.
+1 for Caritas. My mum, a non-religous person, worked for them for quite some time and I’ve never heard a bad thing from her.
Objectively, it sounds like it’s an innocent tradition and a healthy charity.
Subjectively, it’s tone-deaf af, when the rule-makers perform superstition for such a massive world-changing problem. Basically “thoughts and prayers.”
I can guarantee you that nobody did this with the idea it’d help fight climate change
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Wait what does Jesus have in common with vampires? I’ve always seen him represented more as a Zombie (?)
He’s a reverse-vampire. He makes other people drink his blood.
Holy shit you’re right. And since the Bible was published before 1700, I guess it would be even more accurate to say a vampire is a reverse-Jesus…?
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A friend once applied for a job at Caritas in Germany and got rejected for the reason of not being catholic, but christian. I think you could argue that is okay, but by German law it actually is not.
I realy don’t understand why the church still gets to do so many things that are simply not legal. It seems like the law that they have to follow is an older version.
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I’m always surprised about this ideas. I imagine this happening when the marketing intern comes up with it and somehow it climbs the ladder to a point where the person in charge says “let’s do this”. Amazing.
This is literally worthy of nottheonion material lol. 🤣
Punishing corporations for their misbehavior is too much work
Especially when they barely pay your bills
Right? There’s nothing you defend, these major corporations and billionaires are literally ruining everything and offering no benefit. Most of the best stuff that happens is from publicly funded research or volunteer work.
Just like declining birth rates in the US.
“We need to have more babies! Our population is declining!”
Well we could subsidize child care.
“Fuck you! Oh whatever shall we do?!”
Well we could provide housing programs for people who want to have children.
“Fuck you! Oh we need to think of something.”
Oh, I know, we could subsidize fertility treatments for parents that want children but are having difficulties and can’t afford 10s of thousands of uncovered medical expenses at once!
“Fuck you! Oh, woe is me, there’s nothing anyone can do!”
Left out “we could just let more people move here”
100%
Definitely not that simple. Immigration is good, but you need the physical and social infrastructure to manage it.
Why would we need new infrastructure? We’ve had high immigration rates in the past, we could just do that again.
I don’t realy see how it’s more expensive to keep a few immigrants alive, who are willing to work and often already have good education, than raising and educating a child for years to come.
But then
our society wouldn’t be white dominated anymore!our culture! Oh our culture! Demographics! Crime! Ahhhh! Be afraid!This is Japan too. Very much so right now
th japanese stance on the rapid population decline is so fucked lol
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I actually agree for the sake of the Earth and humanity long term, if there is such a thing anymore.
I acknowledge though, that it will be very painful for humanity to adjust to downsizing, and in sociopolitical discourse, short medium term humanity is all most ever consider relevant. But yes, I agree with the long game position that humanity should strive to shrink and find equilibrium with our world.
It’s sad to me that we live in a system where growth is the only goal. If the economy only grows by one percent its a crisis. Like what the fuck. I think you don’t have to be a genius to see that infinite growth with finite resources is somehow impossible.
Infinite growth is the ideology of a cancer cell
No no no, don’t you see? The growth MUST continue… Or else
They did NOT toss coins for “good luck fighting the climate emergency.” Maybe some did, who knows. It was not a collective wish for something, just a stage for a nice group photo.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/made-wish-g20-leaders-toss-113600490.html?guccounter=1
From the Yahoo article: “Of course the wishes can’t be revealed to anyone if they are to become true - so who knows what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel wished for.”
Maybe instead of tossing coins they could sign binding agreements that actually accomplish something
“I wish I didn’t have to let the peasants elect me. I wish I could just have power so I could enrich myself! I wish I didn’t have to stand here for this damn photo!”
We know what they wished for whether they tell us or not lol
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They are literally the people who can enact change, the fuck do they need luck for?
Don’t be too hard on them… I’d be wishing for luck too, if I had problems and refused to solve them
It’s not that they refuse to do anything, they just refuse to do anything that would challenge the power of the capitalist class.
So called “communists” are also contributing massively to the problem. Though one could argue they’re really just capitalist too.
How are communists contributing to the problem?
China doesn’t contribute to the climate crisis or pollution etc? Hahahahahah
Hahahaha
If the rest of the first world had the same per capita consumption of China, we wouldn’t be barrelling towards the point of no return in the way we are now. A large majority of pollution in China comes from manufacturing goods for the Global North.
Yes so “communist” China is a willing participant in the destruction of our planet. And seeks to benefit directly and operate in full compliance with the hyper consumerism that is getting us further and further into global disrepair. Got it. Glad we agree.
Change they to we.
Whether the goal is political action or direct action; Get organized.
Local organizations become regional, regional become national.
If “They” are not going to save us, “We” have to do it.
Organize, vote, act.
“We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.”
Career politicians are a cancer.
Hoping that the situation solves itself without having to make hard decisions or, Gott bewahre, sacrifices.
There are Rules for Rulers. In the background there are always nobels, clergy, bankers, businessmen, military and the common folk each with their own demands and reasons to pressure or remove the ruler of their demands are not met.
There are a enough examples of leaders trying to change too much and being assassinated. Although these days that’s more killed in the media.
Due to reports of misinformation from users I’ll post this comment here.
No. They were not actually tossing coins backwards for good luck fighting climate change. No one knows exactly what the people in this picture were actually wishing good luck for.
I don’t want to come down too hard on people but one of my jobs as moderator is to prevent the spread of misinformation.
Is it possible to pin comments on Lemmy? This one’s kind of buried, it seems a bunch of people missed it.
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Good mod
Look at the average age of the people in that picture. You think they care for climate change? They know they’ll be dead soon enough.
I despise Modi but there’s not one single Indian who doesn’t care about climate change. It’s at least one thing literally all politicians and people of all classes get behind here.
