r/collapse is the most insidious fash cesspool on reddit and they're not even hiding it anymore
r/collapse is the most insidious fash cesspool on reddit and they're not even hiding it anymore
Motherfuckers created a rule about how pointing out that overpopulation myths are ecofascistic lobbying is actually "bad faith" somehow so now every post, no matter what it is about, full of "this is why billions must die" bullshit.
There's 500k subscribers btw.
That sub used to be part of the "reddit left" with a decent overlap with latestagecapitalism etc. Bernie era used to be a good time to "educate" people there about socialism, even if just pointing out that collapse is capitalism's fault.
But given the massive overlapping userbase a lot of those old users moved on, as you know the reddit "left" is a shadow now(thats being generous), so this is just another example of the overall trend of the site. Every criticism of capitalism/US is "political" therefore confined within blue vs red MAGA now.
pre-covid, It used to be a fairly chill place for people who had reached the "acceptance" stage of grief to look at graphs of ice sheet coverage and talk about maybe learning to grow potatoes.
I hadn't checked it in years, but it looks like the depressed climate scientists have been replaced by full blown survivalists and scared normies who think that collapse will be something fast, like a disaster movie, instead of the ongoing grind of people watching prices going up as wages stay the same, needing to hang on to clothing longer, no longer being able to see a doctor, or knowing their children will probably be unable to buy homes and start their own families.
It's so stupid because there's such a simple gotchya response. You think there are too many people for the resources we have, and some need to go one way or another? Then it makes sense to start with the people that use the most resources, right?
In fact we probably don't even need to get rid of that many - let's just off the 5000 or so richest people on the planet, expropriate their stuff, and that will free up far more fuel, land, water, energy, money, whatever than you could possibly hope to get from letting millions in the global south perish.
Are they fetishizing the Rust Cohle "humans need to walk hand in hand into extinction" line? Lol. Anyway, Marx helped settle this issue against Malthus and lazy Malthusians by showing how the material level of production sustains whatever the population is at
Wow thanks everyone for keeping our little friend occupied while i was at work, good job everybody.
Pointing out our obvious overpopulation problem, isn't eco fascist, myth lobbying.
Glad they made you peddle your ignorant, bad faith arguments elsewhere.
We've lost 70+% of Earth's biodiversity in the last 50 years.
1.1 billion people live in fucking slums -not counting poor people, just the slum-living people. -iTs jUsT DiSTri buTiOn -is mythical, neo liberal bullshit and ignores point 1.
How many more people do you fuckin want?
Why?