FWIW I think also a non-trivial amount also getting mad at folks who are making the world better in small steps because it reminds them that raging about it online isn't making the world better /at all/
They just fall back to “the system is broken” as an excuse to not do any actual thing, even ineffective things. I’ve spoken to many recent college grads who talk like this on any conceivable issue.
I was trying to tell one recently this congestion pricing thing in NYC is a real fight and if you want to try some political involvement, you should try it. “The system is broken” and refused to support it even though it’s a massive scale climate policy plus would directly help them living in NYC.
It’s so enormously frustrating honestly. These are people who claim to care about the climate a lot, but won’t learn and won’t support any of the things the real people doing the work are recommending. Drives me up the wall.
lol some pedantic asshole was going to do it and I am that pedantic asshole.
In all seriousness, the Navy/Marine rivalry is real and I learned it from my father (Navy LT).
