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> What can I as an individual actually do to stop this? Short of becoming the Luigi of the environmental movement, there is nothing an individual can do. You h
by teachrdan 17d ago
> What can I as an individual actually do to stop this?
Short of becoming the Luigi of the environmental movement, there is nothing an individual can do. You have to take part in some kind of ongoing collective action. This can include joining a campaign against the oil and gas industry, going door to door for candidates who will reverse climate change, or engaging in direct action against environmentally destructive projects -- or even all three at the same time.
Trying to go it alone is pointless. At best, you'll go down a rabbit hole of becoming the most virtuous consumer alive. At worst, you'll be spend all your time mad-posting on social media.
- talon8635 17d agoWhat did Luigi accomplish? If nothing, then why the comparison?
- nostromo 17d agoBecause the commenter wanted to call for violence in a clever way that wouldn’t end up being reported and removed.
- mangecoeur 17d agoThere’s an interesting study to be made on whether there was a reduction in insurance claim rejections in the aftermath, and what the morbidity/mortality impact was.
- nostromo 17d agoWe know now that it changed nothing other than ruining two families’ lives forever. https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/health/insurers-prior-authorization-unitedhealthcare-ceo https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/health/insurers-prior-authori...
- talon8635 16d agoYour both admitting you have no evidence and implying there is evidence woolly it were studied properly given your use of “interesting” Of course, such a study could be entirely uninteresting if it turn up no effect at all
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- chneu 17d agoNonsense. This is defeatist talk. This is the logic folks use when they make dozens of small actions that add up, like buying more plastic cuz "it doesn't matter". The honest truth is people who use this logic have made the decision and just don't want to say, "I don't care." Small actions make big differences at scale. 8 billion people all making hundreds of decisions a day make a difference. Once an individual starts to make those decisions they have a sunk cost, which encourages more action. This leads to voting a certain way, making more sacrifice(giving up excess), encouraging others, etc. This whole "I'm a victim and have no recourse" benefits the bad actors. Capitalism has filled our society and expectations with extreme excess. Modern folks eat diets that are insanely luxurious. Giving up our excess is the crux here, and capitalism tries damn hard to give us reasons to justify every little excess. Then those things are accepted and the baseline shifts down, capitalism then gives us more excuses and the baseline drops again. I was watching an old movie from like 1985 the other day. A character in the movie was a horrible person and part of making that character a horrible seeming person was giving her a small dog as a pet, because it added to her aura of extreme excess. It made me and my friends laugh cuz nowadays that's expected of most people, to have a small dog. The character only had one! Nowadays it's normal to have 2 or 4 small dogs. Lol. Did you know cats/dogs in the US consume more meat than the entire nation of france? Good luck getting anyone to forego their emotional support pets nowadays. The baseline drops.
- engineer_22 17d agoCapitalism enables too much material wealth. Astounding.
- dgellow 17d agoIt’s not a novel take, in some ways capitalism trades comfort for externalities. Now that we have to pay for centuries of externalities, nobody wants to give back an ounce of comfort.
- card_zero 16d agoIt's that old dichotomy between capitalism and the alternate system, people being very well behaved.
- micromacrofoot 17d agoLuigi accomplished nothing but folk hero status, United Healthcare premiums increased by double-digit percentages this year. Change requires a pattern not a moment.
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- fywsu 17d agoI didn’t know the Luigi reference. Google has led me to either Luigi Galleani or Luigi Mangione, as strangely similar options from different eras.