From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:42:29 +0000, Julian    
   wrote:   
      
   >Across the West, working people are pushing back against the End Times   
   >environmentalism of the ruling class.   
      
   Pogo sez,   
   We have met the enemy and he is us   
      
   https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/   
      
   Funny how that became "environmentalism of the ruling class".   
      
   You can make a reasonable sounding argument for any proposition   
   whatever.  It helps, though, that walt did that strip in1971.  Plenty   
   of time for people to forget what it was really all about.   
      
   We met the enemy, declared victory and ran from the battlefield.   
      
   >   
   >When the history of our times comes to be written, it’s possible the   
   >date of 17 November 2018 will feature prominently. For two extraordinary   
   >events rocked Europe that Saturday. Two of our most populous cities –   
   >London and Paris – were shaken by vast gatherings of citizens making   
   >noisy demands of their ruling classes. And the demands could not have   
   >been more different. One side wanted nothing less than to drag society   
   >back into the benighted hell of pre-modern, pre-industrial existence.   
   >The other demanded the right to drive and work and live well, free from   
   >the onerous eco-rules of the elites. This cross-Channel clash of moral   
   >visions may well have been the first battle in the war of the vibe shift.   
   >   
   >Gathered in London was Extinction Rebellion, the death cult of poshos   
   >convinced Earth’s fiery end is imminent. Gathered in Paris were the   
   >gilets jaunes, that mass uprising of working men and women enraged by   
   >Emmanuel Macron’s hike in fuel taxes in the name of ‘fighting climate   
   >change’. Six thousand of XR’s doom-fearing activists swarmed London and   
   >blocked five of the bridges across the Thames, as they sang and danced   
   >and wailed, medieval-style, about the ‘billions’ of souls who will   
   >perish in the coming ‘collapse of civilisation’. It was the movement’s   
   >first-ever ‘day of rebellion’. In Paris – and more than a thousand other   
   >locations around France – a quarter of a million citizens hit the   
   >streets to slam the punitive eco-policies of their rulers. It was the   
   >gilets jaunes’ first day of rebellion, too.   
   >   
   >That these two movements launched on the same day is a most fortunate   
   >quirk of history, for it allowed us to see with crystal clarity one of   
   >the most cavernous dividing lines in the 21st-century West...   
   >   
   >https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/16/the-great-revolt-against-greenism/   
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