From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 2/17/26 9:42 AM, Julian wrote:   
   > Across the West, working people are pushing back against the End Times   
   > environmentalism of the ruling class.   
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   >   
   > 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/   
      
   as a climate change accelerationist: keep up the good work 👠  
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