This is a function of your personal media diet: when you spend time consuming rationalizations funded by the fossil fuel industry, it’s easy to deride people who were right as “screamers” and the longer you do so the easier it is to project your intellectual failure onto nebulous “other” people you don’t know. It’s not your fault that climate change is costing lives and billions of dollars, the people who tried to stop it were engaged in hyperbole. It’s not your fault that people are being illegally killed, assaulted, or detained, it’s their fault for allowing you to ignore the clear evidence that this was going to happen.

"many people are saying my comments are the greatest on all of hacker News. Maybe the whole Internet. Who knows, but people are saying it"

Imagine being so in love with a reality TV clown that you end up talking and thinking like a toddler for the rest of your life just to imitate him.

ok so this has to be a bot or propaganda account.

The US is checking a new box every day in the quest to parallel Nazi Germany.

Immigrant Concentration camps? Check

Elimination of public education in favor of religious private school? Check

Remove all free press in the government? Check

Remove all free press in the military? Check

Embrace "Unitary Executive Theory"? (Sure sounds a lot like when Hitler removed the legislature to me) Check.

Create an army of brown-shirts? Sorry i mean ICE Agents... Check

Fuck literal children and suppress all evidence? Check

Like... what EXACTLY is normal about this??????

More or less normal? Look around you. Look outside of your community. Does this seem normal?

> the world would end the day Trump became president

Have you been reading the news lately? Things are not going well.

In my social circle of liberal people, the reason is despondence.

Climate change has been known for decades now, and despite the alarms and concerns, the current administration is cheerfully, maliciously removing all initiatives in the US to combat it. Attempting to destroy the solar industry and wind power. Rolling back the most common sense environmental controls for public health.

Meanwhile our country has had its place in the world destroyed irrevocably (for at least a generation) and is turning further and further away from a country that cares for its citizens and its freedoms.

People are losing hope, not interest, because climate change and fascism are are more alarming than ever and our government is complicit.

Long standing problems are not being solved.