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applegrove

(125,410 posts) Wed Apr 2, 2025, 09:13 PM Wednesday

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

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Naomi Klein:

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

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As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. (Original Post) applegrove Wednesday OP

Science cuts into their profit margins. Irish_Dem Wednesday #1

Irish_Dem

(67,214 posts)

1. Science cuts into their profit margins.

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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 09:21 PM

Wednesday

Science must be destroyed.

Destroying the planet and the humans on it does not matter.

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