America makes up bullshit to justify invading other countries for oil, but Bolsonaro is literally kickstarting human extinction and we won't lift a finger. Is it illegal to crowdfund a bounty on a foreign head of state? Can we pay somebody to garrote his ass?
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When the Declaration of Independence was signed, there were slightly less people in the entirety of the new United States than there are in the city of Chicago in 2019. It took a month for the document to appear in England - the first King George heard of it was from broadsheets.
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Do you think that the people who wrote it anticipated what the US would look like in 2019, much less the entire world? Do you think they might have thought differently about things if they were drafting such a document today? One hopes so; otherwise they'd have been idiots.
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Can you imagine trying to explain fossil fuel emissions and the purpose of the Amazon rainforest as a global air filter to the signatories of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648? Nuclear bombs? Global financial markets that transfer capital in a nanosecond?
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Warren Zevon said it, man: the shit that used to work, well, it don't work now, like capitalism predicated on infinite growth and sovereign nation-states held unaccountable for the global consequences of their actions. That shit just does not work anymore.
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We either recognize that and start rethinking it, or the byproducts of our inability to keep up with our own technological innovation kills us, flat out. There is no way we keep going the way we have for the past few hundred years. Zero possibility of that.
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If some halfwit fascist fuck in Brasilia (or Washington or Beijing or Moscow) is making bad choices that will ultimately kill me and everyone I love, you best goddamn believe I feel a right to determine whether that son of a bitch is allowed to keep making those choices.
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