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Pastaguini [he/him] @ Pastaguini @hexbear.net
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The US and China must unite to fight climate change, not each other | Bernie Sanders [ The guardian Bernie op-ed]

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  • I never knew that, so thanks for letting me know, but be that as it may, there exists far less car dependent infrastructure in China. In America, that giant car is your only option. In China, you usually have way more sustainable options, which we see reflected in their lower carbon emissions per capita.

    • The US and China must unite to fight climate change, not each other | Bernie Sanders [ The guardian Bernie op-ed]

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  • Yes, it is true - if you look at the numbers as a whole, China does emit more carbon than America. But what constantly goes artfully elided in these statements is that their carbon emissions PER CAPITA is WAY lower than America’s. Of course they emit more carbon, like four times as many people live there. But what China doesn’t have are single individuals driving military grade gas guzzling SUVs two blocks to buy groceries twice a week. Also, most of their emissions come from industrial plants that produce all of the goods whose production WE OUTSOURCE TO THEM. The only reason their carbon emissions are so high is because western capitalists realized it’d be cheaper to move production there than keep them in the first world. Also, Bernie, who is making a massive investment in green energy? I’ll give you a hint, it’s only one of these countries. So it should be less about “America and China need to put aside their differences and work together”, a statement that tacitly implies that there’s something China isn’t doing that they need to start, and more about “America needs to catch the fuck up to China’s massive pivot toward green energy”.

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  • Pornography is one of the areas that you see capitalism in its most pure, unfettered form. I don’t want to sound like one of these r/nofap freaks, but there is an entire industry dedicated to highjacking people’s natural sex drives to steer them toward websites where they’re absolutely assaulted with advertisements. I think this is a bigger issue than a lot of people give it credit for because the people who are talking about it are either insane, completely puritanical, totally credulous when it comes to pseudoscience, or some combination, but we’re looking at a generation of young people whose concept of sex will be impacted by this phenomenon.