From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/17/2026 11:27 AM, dart200 wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> 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 👠  
   ðŸ‘   
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   What work? The price of fuel to get to work is out of control. This is   
   not going to end well for folks trying to get to work. Seriously?   
      
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