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Trans flag hung in protest in Yosemite National Park: 'Trans people are natural'

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But it's a fallacy because the -supposed- naturalness of something doesn't say anything about its righteousness. Petrol is natural, but highly poisonous, and clothes are unnatural but pretty necessary. And the call to nature argument can be pretty dangerous since it's often used in favor of pseudomedical practices. And without talking about the hypocrisy of the argument when it's used against queer people, since the people using it doesn't have any problem form many unnatural things.

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Reminder that there's no "it's too late, its over" for climate change

The post is right, but only on the paper, and not really in a world that is progressively taken over by ecocidal autocrats whose program is to kill every bit of efforts in climate fight, so even the smallest progress we made will soon be distant memories and fighting will be increasingly dangerous and difficult and, ultimately, virtually impossible. And the locked-in catastrophes are now sufficient to collapse our already fragilized geopolitical context.

People saying it's "not too late" are systematically downplaying the current political context, wich make their message pretty unconsistent.

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Populism

This is as old as the democracy itself, and we still don't know how to fix it. People are so easily driven by their emotions and stubborn about their political opinions that you only have to exploit cynically their low instincts to take the power, especially in a crisis context. And once populists are in the power, they hardly give it back.