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  • Except that you’re blindly believing those leaders when they tell you they’re there to help the working class when they clearly have distinct material interests as professional politicians. It’s a complete failure to understand Marxist materialism.

    You’re no different than working class MAGA followers. Just a different flavor of the same phenomenon.

    I don’t really hate anyone. I just acknowledge the obvious fact that Joe Biden or Xi Jinping have different and obviously competing interests compared to me or a random Chinese citizen.








  • I think the reason people have lost interest is that most of the predictions from this movement proved to be very wrong. New technology opened up huge new oil reserves that weren’t accounted for in some of these amateur peak oil calculations. And, my understanding is that this, along with melting ice continue to allow access to new reserves today, unless I’ve missed some major change in trajectory.

    The reality is there is no peak oil supply for the foreseeable future and we need to aggressively transition away from oil long before we’ll run out. This matters because I think the idea of peak oil did lead to some complacency for some people in thinking that collapse would come without a need for political change. There are other similar narratives today that people fall for–for people with extreme climate anxiety, it’s somewhat comforting. But the reality is there’s no future but the one that we fight for. We can’t rely on some prophesized collapse to stop capitalism, we need to do it ourselves.