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Great, now that this one's done they can go back to ignoring: broken housing market, ridiculous inflation measures that just make the rich richer, tax the rich, fix welfare state problems, stop selling public resources to foreign companies, focus on green energy and reducing rampant plastic packaging problems, build more houses, etc.

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I don't get the point of this comment. Was this stopping these issues from being pursued? Is it wrong to pursue other objectives while these (objectively difficult) problems are solved? Or is this just sterile contempt?

It's called ranting. In this political landscape it's a pointless but cathartic exercise.

Yes, it's possible for humans to work on multiple things at one time, but the intrinsic (and terribly sad) joke is that that list of problems will _never_ get fixed, unless the social and political atmosphere experiences incredible change. And, well, humans are resistant to change, it's built into every biological species.

Same political sleight of hand being done in America. “We can’t do anything about the homeless population but look, we banned gas engines!”

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