Reminds me of Dianne’s line from Bojack Horseman: “I can’t believe this country hates women more than it loves guns”
In an episode where there’s a huge uptick in women carrying firearms, instead of helping to make society a better place for women, they just decide to ban guns instead.
God I love that episode and that line. It’s so sad how that observation somehow became even more relevant today than it was back when that episode released.
That doesn’t account for population increases, but that still looks like per-capita increase nevertheless, which is embarrassing in a developed country. Especially if you compare that with other similarly developed countries with comparable populations, which mostly have a line declining to double digit totals.
EDIT: Here’s data looking at the maternal mortality rate, over the same period, with a few comparable countries.
I drive a Civic and we give away all our cans and bottles to the local peeps that collect them for the $0.05. I stopped recycling because I know it’s completely bullshit.
Instead, we burn almost every scrap of paper and cardboard when we have a fire pit.
That’s it. Let the actual Corp/wealthy fuckers do something.
Yeah that’s never not been the case. It’s been forty years of people obviously voting against their interests. Which has obviously been spreading around the world as propaganda machines have become so lightweight, portable, affordable, ubiquitous, and shiny.
Yeah if I give 1% of my income, good luck with that. But have you considered taking 99,999% of those who are rich (leaving them with still easily enough they’ll never have to work again), and getting actual amounts of money that way.
Or, you know, we could force the gold-hoarding-dragon class, and the governments, to devote significant funding and policy to addressing this catastrophic problem. And those of us who have no money because the dragons keep price gouging us, can hold on to what little currency we have left.
That would only work if the governments are independent of the capitalists, but that isn't the case, which is why waiting for either of those groups to act in favour of any interests that aren't their own and in favour of their bottom line, is an exercise in futility.
…and it won’t matter a bit until we come together and topple the oil companies, the car companies, the pipeline companies, and the government that bends over backwards to support them.
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