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Arizona Senate Republicans Pass Bill to Prevent Climate Action (climate.law.columbia.edu)
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[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It’s brain damage. Lead, lack of oxygen, microplastics, what have you. Mix that with fear, anxiety, narcissism, etc and you have the perfect right-wing voter. A “do as your told” voter.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of the water-born microplastics are tire dust. Byproducts of car-dependent modern life.

And, as someone else in the thread quoted, another requirement of the law is a full ban of any policies designed to increase walkability or access to transit, which would be the way to fight back against those microplastics.

The most important rule for conservatives: they do not want to turn over a better world to their children. They want their children to suffer in all the same ways they did. They believe progress is inherently bad and must be resisted. And I mean, of course they do... that's the definition of "conservative".

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago

And I mean, of course they do... that's the definition of "conservative"

That was the definition a long time ago. Nowadays it's not about resisting progress or conserving anything. They actually fight hard now for progression... into the wrong direction.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's not brain damage. That's another form of the perennial "it'll be fine once the oldies are dead" fantasy. It's just regular not-too-smartness plus selfishness and the fear and personality issues you identify. If nothing changes there will be plenty of people like this in the lead-free generations too.

[–] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Brain damage is not limited to the elderly. Also, environmental brain damage is never going to go away. There is no waiting for them to die.