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I'm in a very very privileged position to be able to say this, but I am more than happy to pay a little bit extra at the pump and on my gas bill, just for that colossal fuckwomble to be shown up on the world stage for being a weapons grade tosser.
Is it childish? Yes. Does it make me feel slightly better about the world? Also yes.
How long do you think that position will last?
If energy infrastructure is destroyed, then "paying a little bit extra at the pump" is just the beginning. You will need to reduce your overall consumption by 15-20%.
Remember the worst month of Covid? That's the last time consumption was reduced so heavily. Now imagine that Covid lifestyle for 5 years as energy infrastructure is rebuilt.
The joy of Trump's downfall will not be enough to mask the real economic pain, unfortunately.
I also recognize my privileged position when I say this: I'm pretty sure I can tolerate it longer than the American Oligarchs will tolerate the loss of profit and start using those politicians they've purchased to put an end to it.
I feel like this would be a net win for the world. Everyone in the old empire is shooting themselves in the dick right now. If Iran stops the flow of oil, countries are going to be forced to very, very, very quickly invest heavily in renewables more than they already are.
This idiot may have single handedly put a dent in global warming.
You say that as if I haven't already been doing that.
Yeah nah probably about a day or two.
Shit. Maybe the Alberta oil sands will finally be profitable! Haha, nah just kidding. They wont.
I read they are profitable above 60 a barrel, like 15 years back.
They've been profitable for some time.
A lot of people say they're profitable at $60/barrel, but it's more like between $50 and $80, depending on a bunch different factors, such as location and extraction method.
But that's only considering profitability in the terms of the current political system.
If a new system came along that factored in harms to the environment, global warming, etc., they could go back to being unprofitable.
Counterpoint: Eat me.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint : Go rim a goat.
So the tens of millions that are going to suffer famine across the global south, and the tens of thousands that will die in the third world hospitals without power, are price you're willing to pay?
Good to know.
No you illiterate fuck, I said I'd pay a little more at the pump to see one of the most narcissistic and dangerous world leaders get knocked down a peg or two on the world stage.
It's soul destroying seeing the human cost of such a conflict, but your virtue signalling is both misplaced and ineffective.
You don't get one without the other. You don't get to choose.
~~I don't disagree with you. It's desperately sad~~.
edit: I'd made the erroneous assumption this was a reply to a higher level comment.
What is it that you're suggesting here?
You're literally cheering for what you view as set if political upsides to war, and when I point out the rest of it, you get defensive.
I wonder why.
I think this wondering you're doing is the root cause of your problem.
You've come up with an idea that I think there's any political upsides to war based on some assumption that I haven't quite figured out yet.
You've come up with an entire "rest of it" which doesn't really follow anything presented in the original post.
Your "gotcha" moment doesn't exist and is aimed at someone deeply saddened and angered by this pointless war.
I appreciate you think that you have a point, and that it's coherent, but you don't, and it's not.
If they don't have a point then what the fuck have you been going on about?