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[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, but like, don't. Or at least cover your house with solar. If you need a literal life support system and are dependent on a centralized power grid for that with no backup, you will die.

Sorry gramma, a lemmitor said you shouldn't have been born in the armpit of america, so you're going to have to either die when power shuts down or drop everything and move.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

you’re going to have to either die when power shuts down or drop everything and move.

That's not my opinion, that's a sad fact of life. If you can't move, get a backup electricity supply. Blackouts happen.

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

bootstraps liberalism strikes again

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago

hrrhrrm can we please retain civility and refocus our attention on the 3 vs 5 tits debate at hand lemmitor

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Nah, it's colonial settlers living in a place where they shouldn't, and then capitalists plastering everything with heat-absorbing asphalt because it's more profitable to force people into car-centric hellholes. If you are unfortunate enough to live in a place like that, prepare a backup power source, because it's not feasible to build a power grid which never has blackouts.

Of course, it would be nice to have a government that would provide everyone in such regions with backup electricity sources, but that ain't happening with capitalists in power, and recommending that grandma should lead a communist uprising is not that helpful

[–] axont@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How am I supposed to prepare a backup generator

I rent an apartment because it's what I can afford

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

You just need to take a firm grip on your bootstraps and lift, clearly

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

"it's not that thing you said, it's just that you need to pick yourself up by your bootstraps"

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing says good socialist political instincts quite like leaving a bunch of bunch of working class people to die of heatstroke because they had the audacity to be born in the southeastern US and then whitewashing that by calling them settlers despite a third of them being descended from slaves.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

It is interesting watching someone from outside leftist spaces try to co-opt leftist language. They use the words right, but they don't realise that the meaning behind the words is what is important.

[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

You must be lost. This is hexbear where we shit in the toilet, not on our big balls. We believe in the power of love, but not the power of being a smarmy wpos.

I bet you don't even eat beanis.

I don't think a mostly for-comfort utility should be the last to shut down

I don't think

mostly for for-comfort

should

Pretty sure this entire line which began and summarizes your whole comment is literally 100% opinions, and they're your opinions.