Lmao the dude was calling America a hellhole, not discussing global warming.
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This comment has major "God sends hurricanes to punish the gays" vibes
They can be so right that they all collectively drink poisoned Kool-Aid.
Tribal behavior is simultaneously humankind's greatest strength and its greatest threat.
I think you have it backwards. People realize tribalism so intrinsically it doesn't even register.
The beauty of the social justice push we've seen from the 70s to today is that it actively tries to counteract the human tribal instinct to create a more fair and inclusive world. Granted, I'm not sure how successful it's been at removing tribalism... it just seems to have redefined the tribes.
A lot of people move there because they believe Texas is a conservative state, and they want to live in a more conservative state.
It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Texas-born Texans average more liberal than the transplants, and it's because of this self-sorting phenomenon.
Conservatives "would"?
They literally just did. They invented fake rules about when a sitting president should be allowed to appoint justices and as a result our democracy will be completely gone within a decade.
You're not wrong in your assessment, but part of the point of holding your government to account is that you hold the institution to a higher standard than the individuals it governs.
That doesn't show through in your write-up at all.
Your "solution" is the exact sort of thing that led to a bunch of libertarian assholes ruining parts of rural New Hampshire, and much to the chagrin of the preexisting community.
There isn't really any open land anymore. It's all owned, overwhelmingly in private hands.
There didn't even need to be a deliberate cartel for this to happen either.
Amazon realized it could make money and grow the company by offering cloud services and now AWS runs something like 30% of the internet.
Google turned their leading search algorithms into an extensive tracking and advertising platform that integrates with most of the internet.
Apple decided that people don't need to be allowed to tinker with and repair their own devices so that hardware can be locked into a four-year cycle of planned obsolescence.
A whole bunch of profit-maximizing firms did the hard job of controlling everything for the governments.
Have you been living under a rock?
What you're describing is simply the Big Tobacco playbook from the 1950s being adapted into modern communications methods. If we didn't have internet media, I guarantee you we'd still be seeing pandemic misinformation on AM radio and climate change lies on news networks funded by Shell and BP.
Is it bad that I read this and immediately think "my God it's mid September and the Australian cops have only murdered two civilians this year?"
I think the US hits that number within 5 minutes past midnight on the New Year.
It sounds perfect for teenagers for those exact reasons