People bringing up the 100 corporations are usually calling for regulations on them, and the "you're the ones buying the goods" people are usually calling for Personal Responsibility and Voting With Your Wallet.

[–] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s possible to both think those companies should be regulated and that people are doing almost nothing personally to help, including electing people to enact those policies. For most people I talk to the “but 100 corps” is a total deflection of personal responsibility. This crisis will not be solved without a good heaping helping of both personal responsibility and aggressive government regulation. If nothing else because that aggressive regulation will never pass into law unless people acknowledge their personal responsibility and are willing to accept the sacrifices that will come with it.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the US, unless you are willing to vote third party, you don't get the choice to vote for Anti-Capitalist politicians. And there are millions of liberals waiting in line to scold you for not voting for the parties of Capital.

[–] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Primaries
Politicians don’t care because the general population doesn’t care. Guarantee if it was on the top of the list of peoples concerns even the corporate shills of the main parties would give it more than just lip service. but climate change didn’t even crack the top 10 voter issue concerns in 2022 midterms (it was 14th)

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

In the US, 3rd parties effectively don't exist and you're throwing away your vote.

Vote blue. Remember that Joe Manchin of all people epically played the GOP to get us the IRA. Even corpo shills can advance our cause. Throwaway votes cannot.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This crisis will not be solved without a good heaping helping of both personal responsibility and aggressive government regulation.

100%. People usually argue for one to the exclusion of the other but we need both.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only one actually works.

You can do personal responsibility alone all you want. Nobody will join you. Government regulation affects everyone.

Selling people on personal responsibility is what the oil companies want, because they know it doesn't work. It gives you the chance to be high and mighty, while nobody else reduces their consumption, so their profits stay the same.

Definitely consume less if you can, but don't delude yourself into thinking that individual actions in reducing personal consumption achieve anything. Go out there and vote for politicians who propose better climate policies, maybe assassinate some oil, gas and coal company execs, etc.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Did you just completely not read the context of the conversation that prompted my comment? At all? You seriously just pulled my comment out of context, made a straw man out of it, and started arguing. What the actual tittyfucking Christ.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately your comment was wrong.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow

And you're still refusing to read the context. Impressive pigheadedness

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did, you're just wrong. Personal responsibility stops working at large scales and can not, MUST not be depended upon. The more people you need to be responsible, the smaller the percentage that will be.

That's why we have laws and need to have better laws regarding pollution and consumption.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

And now you're LYING about it, that's hilarious!

I'll let you off the hook.

DreamerOfImprobableDreams started it with the "don't @ me about 100 corporations". At which point I called him out by saying the exact same shit you're saying to me now. That's how I know you didn't read the context.

Embarrassed yet?

When I brought up that "personal responsibility" is a propaganda point from corpos, he clarified that he was talking in the context of "policy driven changes that force companies to decarbonize will have a negative effect on people's lives", ie gas prices will go up, oil riggers will lose their jobs, etc. Market friction. It will suck a little bit.

As hh93 said, and I agreed to,

No - the ones calling them out are just telling them to be prepared to change their lifestyle after those measurements are taken because it sure as hell won’t go on how it has all the time if those companies just stop.

That's "personal responsibility" in the context we were all talking about.

So clearly you didn't read a damn thing from the comment thread prior to my comment, and then you DOUBLED DOWN on refusing to read and lied about reading.

That was bad, and you should feel foolish.

[–] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'm so used to hanging out in left-of-center places I make the mistake of assuming everyone understands how BS the whole "personal responsibilty" shtick is and is onboard with strict regulations to fight climate change. So I tend not to explicitly call it out in my posts, assuming it goes unsaid. Which might be a bad assumption to make in more centrist / non-explicitly-liberal spaces.

Will try to be clearer in the future :)