The current system is so accountable
We have pipelines exploding, oil companies buying reweable companies to shelf them so oil usage doesn't take a hit, pedestrian hostile infrastructure
Didn't the USA military lose a nuke? And like billions a year of the pentagon budget is unexplained? No no it's the Soviets that are unaccountable
34 11 ReplyThe virgin "there are only two genders" vs the chad "there are only two economic systems"
26 1 ReplyOh yes let's just switch to the "accountable" economic system. It's not the current one and it's not the soviet one, that much we have figured out
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I don't know where you got the idea that I was saying that capitalism was accountable?
19 0 ReplyHow many guesses do you think you'd need to figure it out
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It's not "lost". They're safely storing it in a NC swamp. It's so secure that even they can't find it.
8 0 ReplyImagine defending a failed authoritarian state that repressed and killed 10s of millions of its own people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Union
9 2 ReplyYou're right I do have to imagine it because I didn't do that
Edit I should have gone with a "you're just telling me this right now for the first time" meme
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USA losing one nuke is nothing compared to the amount the Soviets lost over the years
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one nukesix nukes is nothing compared to the amount the Soviets lost over the years.FTFY.
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Starving population, healthcare access, nuclear meltdown in the 80s, nuclear testing on (unknowing) humans, all the deregulation causing mass pollution, etc.
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You’ve just reserved your place in the gulag after the Revolution
15 1 ReplyThree people are sitting in GULAG.
One says to the other, "I am in here for supporting PugJesus. What about you?"
The other says, "I am in here for opposing PugJesus."
They both turn to the third and ask him what he's in for.
PugJesus sighs.
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To be fair, the Soviet Union did all those things long before the climate was a concern.
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Climate concerns have been around in academia since at least the turn of the century, but have been in the public consciousness in the West since the 60s.
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"Oops I drained an entire sea to grow cotton" probably has a common sense component to it that would suggest "Maybe this is a bad thing to do in the long term for the people living here"
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Major governments caring about climate is a recent development and politics often ignores academia until issues become critical.
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Learning these things often happens in hindsight. They almost certainly thought it would work out in the long run.
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Dumb it down for us in the back seats pls
2 0 Reply"Bad environmental things happen when the people in charge of industry don't have to answer to the people who are actually going to get screwed."
6 0 ReplyMerci!
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There's a saying in Russia - If a man from Norilsk gets sick put his head next to a car exhaust (to fix him)'.
1 1 ReplyOk so first of all how dare you
4 6 ReplyIt's cute that you think the current system is accountable.
1 7 ReplyMan, I think nothing of the sort. Hence the ongoing environmental catastrophes we're all focused on.
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