• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
    392·
    19 days ago

    Why the fuck is anyone using twitter still?

    At this point if you’re on twitter you support Nazis, plain and simple. The line was drawn and crossed.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      19 days ago

      Social media platform addiction is a helluva drug.

      Apparently, for quite a lot of people, its hard to quit when you’re so used to getting your fix, no matter how bad it fucks up your head, ruins your relationships with other peoole, no matter how much of a shitbag your dealer is.

      Err… I mean…

      -insert babbling infantilizing corpospeak about network effect and broad market trends-

  • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
    32·
    19 days ago

    We saved em just in time to see them die off again in the great Anthropocene. Drill baby drill, until we can’t support life in the Oceans or on the entire planet!

    • BalderSion@real.lemmy.fanEnglish
      5·
      18 days ago

      In the 80’s and 90’s there was strong undercurrent that activism couldn’t actually change anything. It was the end of history, all outcomes are and always were inevitable, voting with dollars was the only vote that really matters. Hippy punching was in it’s full flower. Environmentalism was seen as self indulgent and meaningless. “Save the whales,” was spit out as a sort of, ‘go waste someone else’s time,’ dismissal.

      The 4th Dilbert collection from 94’ was Shave the Whales, which already struck me as a passe gesture at hippy punching at the time, though I couldn’t tell if Scott Adams was engaging in hippy punching or mocking the hippy punchers.

      • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        17 days ago

        Seeing how Scott Adams seems to have fallen off the deep end of the far right in recent years, I would have to say it’s likely the former.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      18 days ago

      I definitely did, maybe think of it in context like a sneering “don’t you have some whales to save?” kind of way.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    17 days ago

    I remember saving the whales. When I was a kid in the early 90s they had several cartoons that at least had one episode where they needed to save some whales, and they did. The first that comes to mind is Widget the World Watcher.

    Just like saving the ozone layer. That was another great success. Due to banning CFCs and other ozone destroying chemicals, the hole in the ozone layer has been repairing itself for around 10 years now. It’ll take a while to fully close up, but it is a success.