like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

  • pensivepangolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    11 个月前

    Yep! And their short-sighted greed is going to drive us right to the brink of annihilation. We’re staring down the barrel of environmental collapse and our leaders are generally either old enough they assume they’ll die before it gets “that bad,” and the others stupidly think money makes them immune to the destruction of the biosphere. Anyone under 50 right now is going to live through some incredibly dark times. We are all dogs in a car with the windows closed and the heater on in a Texas parking lot. Business as usual is going to get really ugly, really quickly, really soon.

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      19·
      11 个月前

      The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel

      And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides

      And a dark wind blows

      The government is corrupt

      And we’re on so many drugs

      With the radio on and the curtains drawn

      We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

      And the machine is bleeding to death

      The sun has fallen down

      And the billboards are all leering

      And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

      It went like this:

      The buildings tumbled in on themselves

      Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble

      And pulled out their hair

      The skyline was beautiful on fire

      All twisted metal stretching upwards

      Everything washed in a thin orange haze

      I said: "kiss me, you’re beautiful -

      These are truly the last days"

      You grabbed my hand and we fell into it

      Like a daydream or a fever

      We woke up one morning and fell a little further down -

      For sure it’s the valley of death

      I open up my wallet

      And it’s full of blood

    • cloud@lazysoci.al
      2·
      11 个月前

      We are all dogs in a car with the windows closed and the heater on in a Texas parking lot.

      except you are human and not a dog and you could take care of the problem with any kind of weapon but you chose not to do anything out of convenience

          • Sciaphobia@lemm.ee
            2·
            11 个月前

            Sure, but that’s not the end stage of the thought experiment. It’s not really even the start. How exactly is this larger group of people supposed to enact any viable change? I think we could agree that seems unlikely to be possible in an unorganized/uncoordinated manner. The solution to that is to get organized and coordinate, right?

            Well what does that look like? That could take nearly as many forms as people you ask to agree - so you’d need an idea that enough people would fall behind to still out number. Once that is achieved… What? If the goal of the burgeoning group is violent revolution, they won’t get very far into the planning phase before being scooped up by security forces in some form or another. If the goal is nonviolent revolution, such as refusal to work, the system is constructed in such a way that those you would need to participate have a lot to lose, and little ability to withstand a protected protest/encounter/whatever, vs, presumably, a group that could easily outlast all of those things, as well as their children, and their children’s children.

            That’s not to say nothing can work, but I think it might be just a bit reductive to suggest that things are as simple as suggesting it is total apathy in those who would need to unite to accomplish these goals that explains why the goals aren’t striven towards.