@TonyStark most of the people who feel nostalgic for the great glory of US manufacturing also raised their children to believe that there too valuable, special and entitled to do such menial work. But they’re also deporting the people that will do that work. #CognitiveDissonance is the tagline of all MAGA pursuits. Cognitive dissonance is such a diplomatic way to say #Hypocrisy
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/04/05/coalition-climate-vandals
I've long liked Tim, albeit sometimes his incurable optimism irritates me. In his article he rightfully excoriates the Liebs & Nuts, but IMO he is far too lenient on Lab, whose current term has deeply disappointed & frustrated those of us who want climate, environment, & biodiversity prioritised.
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@ajsadauskas @jaystephens Ta, interesting. I vaguely recall some of that, but your helpful toot defo provided more info than i knew.
I think something like this is why i feel, & tbh remain, so archly cynical... If Straya, & frankly the rest of the world, was genuinely honestly doing all the serious shit needed NOW to decarbonise & ameliorate, then seeking engineering solutions in flood zones like this would be ok. Knowing though that we & most others are totes NOT seriously addressing the crisis, fuels [boom tish] my severe pessimism, coz eg, engineering designs need engineering assumptions [in this case including expected heights & frequency of floods]. Such assumptions necessarily must be predicated on a certain "steady state" belief [plus safety margins thrown in]. That's all fine, IF we had reason to trust such assumptions. I do NOT trust them, simply coz there IS no steady state; humans are continuing to add more & more CO2 & CH4 to Gaia's atmosphere, thus more & more raising the enthalpy, ergo the heating energy, ergo... yada yada.
@MichaelTBacon @futurebird @PeterLG @TobyBartels Reminds me of the case of Roy Cohn. Helping Joe McCarthy pass vicious anti-gay legislation by day, getting blowjobs in every men's room in DC by night. #hypocrisy #CognitiveDissonance #CompensatoryBigotry #SelfUnawareness
BBC offers video taken near Gounsa Temple, a large and historic Buddhist temple built in 618 AD, which they report as having "burned down" among raging wildfires in South Korea.
For some of us, our minds race, imagining ourselves there, what would we do? Measure the distance probably, decide if we're safe. We hope no action is required. If we're far enough away, we hope to decide we can go about our lives. This is not about us.
That a static measuring tool reassures us about a kinetic event is a hint about the kind of denial we're in. Too many people unconcerned about walls that are closing in, preferring to see it is a problem only for those closer to the walls. It fuels in our society a love of politicians willing to tell us that this will not affect us. No wonder alternative facts are so appealing.
If we can just be left alone to get through our own lives, surely it can be seen to be someone else's problem.
I talk a lot about #cognitivedissonance (doubling down on your identity when faced by contradiction) on my personal blog. This incredibly sad news story is perhaps the perfect example. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/measles-outbreak-texas-child-dead-parents-anti-vax-b2718899.html
Eichorn allegedly attempted to solicit sex from someone he believed to be a 17-year-old girl, who was actually an undercover officer. He was arrested on March 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, and is now facing charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. #value #maga #gop #republicans #news#crime #education #hypocrisy #psychology #cognitivedissonance
What kind of peep, called for sake of example, oh i dunno, maybe Anthony, Tanya & Madeleine, can read reports like these https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/climate-change-science-and-future-tropical-cyclones-in-australia/105051372 yet still continue approving new & expanded fossilfool projects? 
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Their profit, our cost: Should fossil fuel companies pay for climate disasters?
Ofc, obvs.
https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/114134168821003916 So many online & other media reports of all the damage & dislocation caused by #TCAlfred, even though the actual cyclonic aspect, wrt sheer wind speeds, had greatly diminished by the time of the eventual landfall.
Ergo, can we grasp the immensity of the damage & carnage that will result, next time the luck runs the other way, & direct hits on high-population centres arises with rating still at 2, 3... or higher?
Do we keep sticking our heads in the sand & denying / ignoring all this, so that we can continue being climate criminals??
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https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114123803376124701 I'm so utterly disinterested in this. I shan't even bother trying to watch His Maj Antony Green's wizardry on Aunty tonight. Whilst tis obvs that Lab will win again, i feel no positive passion at all about that. WA is totes state-captured by the abominable gas industry, & WA Lab have zero ethical superiority over their Liebs-Nats opponents. They're all climate-criminal arseholes.
Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News
‘More frequent, intense’: PM puts climate front and centre for election
Gaaaah, we know all this, you dweeb. We've known it for decades. We also know that you keep funding fossilfools via undeserved obscene tax breaks, & doing their work by approving new fossilfool projects & expansions, plus demonising protesters instead of the actual climate criminals. You simply have NO credibility in this space, dear PM.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/seadragon-offshore-wind-farm-application-rejected/104909234
Yep, yep, all good, we don't want no pesky clean green renewable energy, pfffft.
In unrelated news, a few days ago yet another fossilfool exploratory licence was granted in Bass Strait. Gotta look after them donors, ahem, owners.
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#vystopia #carnism #veganism #cognitivedissonance #psychology
When something comes along revealing that maybe our choices cause suffering, we feel uncomfortable and struggle to accept that we’ve been lied to, duped and say, “It’s just bad practice, a few bad apples and not the norm”.
Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News
Liberal candidate says the party would withdraw from Paris climate agreement
Hypocrisy & duplicity. 
Never vote for Liebs & Nuts! 
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