Yeah, some forums used to have a "on probation" tag for people that were causing trouble but hadn't been permabanned yet that used to help a bit by hurting their reputation. I wonder if some functionality like that could be implemented as an add-on to Lemmy like that using functionality like the reddit masstagger but crowdsourced. For now I'm always assuming bad faith or reddit behaviour from dotworld accounts by default. Blocking them as an individual doesn't work because them they just get to harass the people who didn't block them yet without being noticed.
Friendly reminder to build from source and not execute unknown .exes if you're a windows user. It is very common for a program to be "open source" in theory but add unwanted stuff in their official executables. Those programs look alright, but never hurts to be careful.
Users are attributing climate change to “capitalism” with no evidence or reasoning to back it up.
Have one (very liberal capitalist) brief source presenting some evidence to how capitalism is to blame. Then have a very short summary write-up on how China has been the world leader in combating climate change. Happy?
At least they won't be suffering under the burden of being both unemployed and in tuition debt. It baffles me that Western universities still demand so much money for what has become a basic employment requirement, and even worse that lots of them are more expensive to foreigners.
The United States has double China's emissions per capita, and China actually is the world leader in the production of sustainable development products like solar panels even though the USA had a 150 year head start in its industrialisation. Despite whatever criticisms you may have against China, looking only at total emissions is definitely misleading. China's renewable power has gone up fivefold in the past 15 years in absolute numbers and double in percentage of total production. The USA hasn't even been building hydro dams since the 80s, while China has built some 15 in the past 20 years. Since one is explicitly the most capitalist country and the other is """capitalist actually""", I think it is fair to say that capitalism has a negative correlation with fighting climate change.
Though I have no idea why you included the Russian Federation there, since it is a capitalist oligarchy created by and modelled after the USA. Do you believe that Russia is communist by any chance?
Not sure what you're talking about on "sect or religion" when referring to different cultures doing things differently. The link is not some "gotcha" Reddit moment, it is a good source for you and others to start questioning this notion of "human nature" given that lots of humans have been questioning this very same "human nature" dogma since it was imposed on them by Europeans starting 500 years ago and continuing to this day. Notably you shifted the discussion to talk about the Soviet Union, which has nothing to do with my point and doesn't even exist anymore. Just because nameless "previous civilisations" caused uncited "environmental collapses", doesn't mean that every civilization works by the same rule. Specially considering this current environmental catastrophe is on a whole different level and we have current day civilizations that would love to prevent it, if only they got their Land Back.
Mind telling me what this One Goal of yours might be and how it could be possible within capitalism? The ones who have the most to sacrifice are those at the top, ghettoised minorities will go mostly unharmed in most actually practical solutions.
Looking at the world while compartmentalising the overarching mode of production will only get you solutions from that overarching mode of production. You were quick to dismiss it as the wrong tool, but what is the right tool then?
You can always link that shaun 2 hour video on it, that'll save you some time from arguing with wilfully ignorant people. It's an alright video for his stuff and liberals only believe it if it is on "breadtube".
The EU-CEPAL summit is starting today, probably some fun headlines about the Third World being "unreasonable" to the North inbound.
MPs? We don't have those, it is a Congress like the USA not a Parliament and they're called deputies.
Either way, this is part of campaign older than the Bolsonaro presidency where mildly left minority elected officials have been threatened, derided, impeached on nonsense charges, murdered, murdered again, or forced to flee the country. Since the last election in which the world has only focused on Bolsonaro losing the presidency the Congress actually got filled to the brim with deputies and senators aligned with his ideology. They are just continuing their age old purge of leftists and "deviants" that started during the USA-backed '64 dictatorship with the means that they have now. There is even some reason to believe [1] [2] [3] that the USA has ramped up their meddling ever since 2014, possibly due to Brazil's quick rise in the global power landscape and building alliances with other USA rival countries such as China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and others to oppose USA global hegemony and embrace multipolarity. Now that Brazil is building even stronger ties with both the EU, other third world countries and China, the right-wingers are on the back foot and have to lash out. Don't be surprised if we get another murdered politician soon, with all suspects mysteriously disappearing to Miami.
I'd recommend looking into how indigenous people have historically dealt and wish to deal with climate change before claiming much about "human nature". A lot of so-called "human nature" is just the universalisation of European capitalist values. I suggest starting by reading about the Red Deal, specially if you're from the USA.
Yeah, dotworld has attracted a lot of those "witty" single-sentence reply guys from Reddit. They're indiscernible from bots sometimes, just sort any reddit thread on r/all by new.
Some of their founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton (yes that guy) and Aaron Burr (that other guy) who wrote a lot of the guiding material to interpreting the constitution later went on to profiteer a lot from lawyering for wealthy dudes, including the very first murderer on trial of the country who killed his female servant after getting rejected and got acquitted. It's like this by design.