Change is slowwwww, my brother. It's rare that an actual upheaval happens and things shift noticably overnight.
It is and always has been a long, long struggle, and there is no final victory, only temporary triumphs that must be vigorously defended, because the enemy will never stop trying to take back every inch.
To what end? You think a user comment on Lemmy is going to change emissions policies? Direct your ire somewhere it might actually make a single bit of difference instead of just perpetuating the infighting that gets nothing done. If you're going to waste your time on the subject, spend your thumb-taps on an email to your congressman instead.
I feel like if you're subbed to a meme community you ought to know what you're in for. Memes are typically low effort both to make and to consume, which means there will be more of them created and upvoted in the same period of time as other posts. They will ALWAYS overwhelm other content. This is why many sufficiently large communities either split and create meme-only spaces contain them or limit them to specific days of the week.
On reddit I had a separate account for meme subs, because otherwise it was all I saw in my feed.
You know why they think that. They believe, truly, that God made the world for man to exploit and use up, and anyone who says otherwise is spouting the Devil's lies.
Some will claim to believe that it doesn't matter one way or the other, that this is the only life we have, and that there's no point in sacrificing our own joy for the future of others. This apathetic stance is held by many, but it is wielded as a shield and reinforced by those who believe that Earth is just a toy for us to have fun with and break, but won't say it openly.
Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, this conflict is a religious one, and anyone who denies that is only enabling the wingnuts destroying this planet.
Don't worry, Jesus will save you from the crippling diarrhea you might get because we require workers to come in sick and don't let them cover their mouths.
And don't worry, the dracula sneeze has been BANNED. Our employees let their snot spray proudly and free. No wicked vampire posturing at In-N-Out Burger.
I don't know a single person who wears a mask as a political statement. Even during the pandemic, it wasn't common to think that way, no matter what the propaganda of the time said. People who wore them did it out of courtesy for those around them. I don't imagine that has changed.
People who wear masks are usually wearing them because they don't want to spread illness. Either they're ill themselves or they have or know someone with an immunodeficiency that puts them at risk.
I'm no old-school cinephile, but I've listened to enough of them to understand that if you're really into the nitty gritty details and love soaking in every corner of a filmed image, there is no substitute for a large print screening. But YMMV.
He clarified his words after some people naturally started to take it a little too literally, but I don't think he needed to.
Whoever that "anonymous exec" was who said they wouldn't even start to negotiate until strikers started losing their homes deserves to be pilloried.