From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:43:19 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >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 ???   
   >>   
   >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?   
      
   There is a serious concern for people concerned about ecological   
   collapse.  The cost of getting to work.   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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