They are using YT shorts. The next video auto populates with something the algorithm thinks you’ll watch for 15 seconds and it’s usually correct. Its like a slot machine. Quick and easy entertainment that people can lose hours in

You’re being downvoted, but a shit tonne of people are justifying the atrocities because it’s againstna people they hate.

You see it with everything from food quality, cigarettes, fuel. The standards set in the West prevent so much random shit we never acknowledge.

Ottawans are used to protests. It’s a capital city, there’s serveral protests going in any given day.

What they weren’t used to was the neverending train horns, the constant street blocking, the assaults, the destruction of property, and the constant threats. They lasted way longer than I would have.

Fuck the convoy and fuck the people like Poilievre who supported them.

Yeah the proposal is for all religious texts

Local anger then forgotten. No one would ever hear about it outside the few people who lived nearby

Cool. And what happens to the company? We can for sure just shut down all oil companies today, and what happens then?

People buy oil. They give these companies money because we want what they have. We need to change our behaviours or the polluting does not stop. It just means our money goes to a new oil company.

Who will you buy your oil from then?

We need to change the way we make energy. Killing oil companies is a secondary consequence of switching to renewables

To a degree that was shown in the hot parts of the Cold War like the Vietnam War or the Congo Crisis where they provided logistical support. Like the US, or more accurately as a counter to them, they fiddled with countries for years to get outcomes that benefited the USSR ideology.

You could argue that it’s easier to shake up someone else than lead a full invasion force, but the US has learned that lesson too and followed that same play book. Invasion is harder than giving someone the tools to destroy themselves.

It is wild to see this. It’s amazing how quickly things change.

Yeah, Russia was incredibly powerful in its heyday, both in global influence and military power. Think about how people are worried about climate change now, then double it. That was the threat of nuclear war that kept people awake at night for decades.

After the time of the collapse we found out how empty a lot of their power was. How much of their achievements were less an unstoppable train and more of a rocket that couldn’t be refueled. They had power but they never figured out how to make it sustainable.

Canadian conservatives saw how locked in American conservative voters are and said gotta get me some of that

Expect Poilievre to start raging about drag queens soon

How sad life must be for you to be so powerless to affect even your own actions. I’m sorry

That is my entire point. Companies only do things that get them money.

Consumers drive markets, companies follow markets. Change how you buy, companies change how they pollute.

Just stop buying oil? Ok, let me go to the no oil store and buy a new car that doesn’t run on gas

You mean an electric car?

There are options for consumers. Some of them cost more right now, others are an investment that pay off later. Buy those and not the polluting option and low and behold the markets change. Why do you think oil companies are starting to diversify more

If you want to kill BP, stop buying oil. The Amazon fleet is about 70,000 vehicles and they’re transitioning to electric right now.

Consumers drive markets. Mega corporations aren’t polluting for the fun of it. They do it because it’s a byproduct of them taking our money. Stop giving them money and they stop polluting. Why else would they stop?

lemmy.ml is a step ahead of you