I expect that's some people, yeah. Accepting that climate change is real means accepting uncomfortable ideas. Like that they're responsible, at least a little.
Some people can't accept that they're everything less than a saint. You tell them that walking to the store is better for them and the environment than driving and they go berserk. Can't handle the implication that they're not perfectly faultless.
Trying to date someone who's not interested in me sounds miserable.
Dating someone that I'm not into sounds cruel to them. Unless it's clearly a, like, casual or otherwise non-invested situation, and they're aware, but that also sounds hazardous.
My cat will go under the blankets in bed when it's cold out. He figured this out after many years of living here. Some nights it still takes him a while to figure it out. He'll jump on the bed. I'll lift the blankets. He'll peer under there like he's never seen this scenario before in his life. After several cautious minutes he'll usually settle down. If I try to speed up the process by putting the blankets on him, he'll run out of the room
Not to overly repeat myself, but as discussed in the book "dying of whiteness", there's a lot of people that would rather their kid go hungry than a black kid get a meal.
Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.
But if I've learned anything from history, it's that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.
Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don't exist.
Right. Conservatism is about hierarchy. Hierarchy is good and natural. You get shit on by your betters, and you get to shit on your lessers. Trying to change that is horrifying. It's going to mess up the world! And if hierarchy isn't good and natural, then all the suffering I experienced was unjust, and all the cruelty I inflicted was mere cruelty. Can't have that. I'm a good person who deserves my lot in life. Even if it's not royalty. There have to be royals.
It's a shit world view built on cruelty and cowardice.
Well, yeah. Conservatives will say anything to advance their goals. Doesn't need to be true or consistent with previous statements. They're bad people.
I expect that's some people, yeah. Accepting that climate change is real means accepting uncomfortable ideas. Like that they're responsible, at least a little.
Some people can't accept that they're everything less than a saint. You tell them that walking to the store is better for them and the environment than driving and they go berserk. Can't handle the implication that they're not perfectly faultless.