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    The reason is right wing billionaires and millionaires have captured most governments and media institutions and are throwing gasoline on the fire to allow them to purchase the all ashes of the societies they burn down.

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      That’s one reason, but there are many. For example some of them are motivated by trying to literally kick off the bliblical end times.

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      If money can buy you power in the apocalypse, then they would rather live as rich fucks in a fallen might-makes-right cinderpile, rather than pump the breaks slightly on their insane lifestyle so that we could all have a future worth living in.

      Sorry about the way I type

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      That and the devastation wrought by half a century of Neoliberal mismanagement has given far right demagogues across the Western world and every country directly affected by it (which is almost 100% of the rest of the world) the perfect opportunity to pretend that they’re the champions of the downtrodden when in reality they’re the ones treading.

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    Thank you, Bo Burnham, for exposing me to the idea that

    🎶Private property’s inherently theft, and neoliberal fascists are destroying the leeeeeft🎶

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    It’s easy to justify any terrible action if you’re convinced it is God’s will*

    * As interpreted by imperfect humans with their own biases and agenda

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      “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

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        I wonder whether when he wrote that, he also imagined the level of destruction we would reach.

        We are so fortunate/s

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    Grifters thrive when people get desperate. The biosphere is dying. Resources are dwindling. We all see it in the periphery, in between distractions.