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  • You’ve already received well-reasoned and logical answers in this thread as to why this topic is not a viable campaign issue amidst the socioeconomic and existential threats. The man with a gun in a burning house metaphor characterized this election’s mood particularly well, as did the surgeon with burning shoes. Your insistence on trying to make this topic relevant right now reinforces my suspicion that climate guilt is a desperate psyop by right wing operatives to undercut Dem candidates.

    Anthropogenic climate change is absolutely a huge issue, but to paraphrase Col. Chris Hadfield, ‘it’s not the thing that’s going to kill you first.’ Clean the house of reactionary fascists, leash the capitalist greed, find steadier economic ground, and then maybe well-reasoned solutions for mitigating climate change can be addressed. Unfortunately, it’s probably all in vain since Gore lost the 2000 election. I wouldn’t be surprised if the instability and grift we’re experiencing currently is only the beginning of the end being wrought by the changing climate. Rifkin’s entropy watershed may already be upon us.


  • Sounds to me like it’s probably safe to say almost all Dem candidates probably care about it, too. An implicit shared understanding of its importance wouldn’t be a stretch. Dem candidates aren’t trying to win only card-carrying Dem votes, there may be other, more on the fence, demographics. If anyone decides to stay at home for the election because climate didn’t get brought up, then I’m sorry but they ultimately deserve the MAGA world they’d be enabling through their inaction.



  • Second time I’ve seen this type of question pop up. Feels like a marginally more sophisticated GOP tactic to try to trick an opponent into bringing it up and then flopping hard when they sound hella tone deaf and out of touch. Only an idiot candidate would make this one of their main running points.

    Climate change mitigation is super important…Just not right now. Right now the goal is to just fucking win so the GOP and corporate demagogues can be reeled in. Remember, the GOP and techbro technofascists actually want end times to hurry up and happen so they can capitalize on the turmoil (they already have a billion mile head start) or meet Jesus and go to heaven or something. Idk, they’re insane sociopaths with absolutely no tender sentiment toward anyone else. It’s absolutely insane to me how many MAGA pieces of shit there are…makes me want to believe there’s been some huge conspiracy to lace everything with lead to create a critical mass of brain damaged broken angry violent racists.