They afe literally the people who can enact change, the fuckndo they need luck for?
we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas
Submitted 1 year ago by Moc@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Moc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t be too hard on them… I’d be wishing for luck too, if I had problems and refused to solve them
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not that they refuse to do anything, they just refuse to do anything that would challenge the power of the capitalist class.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Hoping that the situation solves itself without having to make hard decisions or, Gott bewahre, sacrifices.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
“We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.”
Career politicians are a cancer.
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
There are Rules for Rulers. In the background there are always nobels, clergy, bankers, businessmen, military and the common folk each with their own demands and reasons to pressure or remove the ruler of their demands are not met.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just like declining birth rates in the US.
“We need to have more babies! Our population is declining!”
Well we could subsidize child care.
“Fuck you! Oh whatever shall we do?!”
Well we could provide housing programs for people who want to have children.
“Fuck you! Oh we need to think of something.”
Oh, I know, we could subsidize fertility treatments for parents that want children but are having difficulty!
“Fuck you! Oh, woe is me, there’s nothing anyone can do!”
explodicle@local106.com 1 year ago
Left out “we could just let more people move here”
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
But then
our society wouldn’t be white dominated anymore!our culture! Oh our culture! Demographics! Crime! Ahhhh! Be afraid!AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
100%
mayo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Definitely not that simple. Immigration is good, but you need the physical and social infrastructure to manage it.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think declining birth rates are good and should be encouraged.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I actually agree for the sake of the Earth and humanity long term, if there is such a thing anymore.
I acknowledge though, that it will be very painful for humanity to adjust to downsizing, and in sociopolitical discourse, short medium term humanity is all most ever consider relevant. But yes, I agree with the long game position that humanity should strive to shrink and find equilibrium with our world.
itstoowet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No no no, don’t you see? The growth MUST continue… Or else
DandomRude@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is that Angela Merkel in the middle? If so this must be at least an old photo. She is not the German chancellor anymore. Not that that would make thing any better…
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- So yeah, somewhat old photo.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just wanted to make sure. Not sure if any US representatives are in this picture though. But it kinda looks a bit like Merkel and Martin Schulz (2nd from the right, also a German politician and at the time probably President of the European Parliament - this guy looks like him) are on the lookout to see if our friends from America (on maps to the left/west from europe) would like to flip a coin as well.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
And Boris from the UK.
I guess it didn’t work. Any other lucky rivers or wishing wells around?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Punishing corporations for their misbehavior is too much work
PilferJynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Especially when they barely pay your bills
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Right? There’s nothing you defend, these major corporations and billionaires are literally ruining everything and offering no benefit. Most of the best stuff that happens is from publicly funded research or volunteer work.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 1 year ago
When was this? Merkel and her party luckily aren’t in the government anymore.
spamspeicher@feddit.de 1 year ago
October 2021. Not wishing for “good luck fighting the climate emergency.”
Syrc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks for the fact-check. I hate that we’ve gotten to ragebait on Lemmy as well.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Well the current coalition isnt really doing any better in that regard. All they seem to care about is condemning climate protesters and the usual corrupt behaviour that we know from the CDU…
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 1 year ago
There would never have been a Deutschlansticket with CDU. Fuck FDP but at least neither Grüne nor SPD is openly fellating the AfD Nazis like the current CDU is doing.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Condemning climate protesters isn’t anything unique to politicians. We would all be behind them if they blockaded billionaire homes but sitting on highways only makes us despise them like we do PETA.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Boris Johnson was already 2 prime ministers ago.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
The rate they burn through them, that could have been last week.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Boris looks confused at the idea of throwing money at anything other than his mates.
formergijoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m surprised there isn’t a follow up photo of him falling into the fountain somehow.
spamspeicher@feddit.de 1 year ago
They did NOT toss coins for “good luck fighting the climate emergency.” Maybe some did, who knows. It was not a collective wish for something, just a stage for a nice group photo.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/made-wish-g20-leaders-toss-113600490.html?guccounter=1
From the Yahoo article: “Of course the wishes can’t be revealed to anyone if they are to become true - so who knows what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel wished for.”
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
“I wish I didn’t have to let the peasants elect me. I wish I could just have power so I could enrich myself! I wish I didn’t have to stand here for this damn photo!”
We know what they wished for whether they tell us or not lol
thann@lemmy.world 1 year ago
well toss a coin for good luck while we let corporations rape the planet
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Due to reports of misinformation from users I’ll post this comment here.
No. They were not actually tossing coins backwards for good luck fighting climate change. No one knows exactly what the people in this picture were actually wishing good luck for.
I don’t want to come down too hard on people but one of my jobs as moderator is to prevent the spread of misinformation.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You could just link to the story :)
MBM@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Is it possible to pin comments on Lemmy? This one’s kind of buried, it seems a bunch of people missed it.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As long as they’re having fun.
Not like they’d do anything about the many global crises anyway, that would involve inconveniencing the owners.
MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Oceans 111°
PixeIOrange@feddit.de 1 year ago
Would like to know how many fetch back their coin afterwards…
Niggling__Niggard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You think these fuckers used one of their own coins? They were just props that was handed to them. They probably haven’t touched an actual coin themselves in years.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Look at the average age of the people in that picture. You think they care for climate change? They know they’ll be dead soon enough.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I despise Modi but there’s not one single Indian who doesn’t care about climate change. It’s at least one thing literally all politicians and people of all classes get behind here.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is literally worthy of nottheonion material lol. 🤣
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Words fail.
paddirn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Heads we live, tails we die.”
sachamato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m always surprised about this ideas. I imagine this happening when the marketing intern comes up with it and somehow it climbs the ladder to a point where the person in charge says “let’s do this”. Amazing.
AmyCupcake@lib.lgbt 1 year ago
The money from the fountain gets collected and sent to Caritas, a catholic charity that focuses on health, disaster relief, poverty, and migration. I am a Queer atheist person in Spain that uses their services and they haven’t once made my queerness an issue. Nor have they exposed me to their religious views.
So, shrug, I’m not gonna shit on them doing the tradition that many diplomatic events in Rome do.
DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Objectively, it sounds like it’s an innocent tradition and a healthy charity.
Subjectively, it’s tone-deaf af, when the rule-makers perform superstition for such a massive world-changing problem. Basically “thoughts and prayers.”
MBM@lemmings.world 1 year ago
I can guarantee you that nobody did this with the idea it’d help fight climate change
ehrenschwan@feddit.de 1 year ago
+1 for Caritas. My mum, a non-religous person, worked for them for quite some time and I’ve never heard a bad thing from her.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My aunt works for Caritas in Germany. They do seem like they do good work, even if they believe in the whole resurrected vampire man who was birthed by a virgin and impregnated by a dude who flooded the world for fun.
Syrc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait what does Jesus have in common with vampires? I’ve always seen him represented more as a Zombie (?)
Pantoffel@feddit.de 1 year ago
A friend once applied for a job at Caritas in Germany and got rejected for the reason of not being catholic, but christian. I think you could argue that is okay, but by German law it actually is not.