@munecat

2 years ago

First of all I just want to thank everyone for the lovely comments. I’m so lucky to have been able to build a 100k strong community on this platform this year - you've all helped me be able to leave my day job and talk about politics and scams and make dick jokes full time which is absolute madness. Thank you. Clarifications, comments & corrections: There have been a few comments questioning my decision to criticise Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain, but then call on people to join them later on in the video. I understand where the concern comes from so I just wanted to address why I made the video in this way. XR and IB are basing their current actions on the belief that civil disobedience will work. No doubt this has worked in the past. When Emily Davison threw herself in front of that horse in 1913, we understand why she did that now. Back then, all anyone probably cared about was their precious horse race that got ruined. But in 2021 we’re playing an entirely different game. Capitalism is stronger than its ever been. We’re up against billions and billions of dollars of corporate lobbying. This is why I believe it’s only people in their millions who can beat this system. A few people blocking roads are too easy to ignore (and the UK government have already passed new laws recently which allow them to legally arrest you even if you LOOK a little “protesty” in response to IB's actions). The relatively small amount of people I might be able to convince to join XR/IB by pretending that I think they’ve been doing a good job up until now will barely make a dent. This is why I wanted to use this small platform I have to add something different to the conversation - that I believe movements like XR need to heavily rethink the way they market themselves. And this isn’t just the climate movement. This is all leftist movements. Appearing overly emotional on TV does not get you the millions you need. Appearing on TV as a character a reactionary can easily call a ‘crusty’ will not get you the millions you need. Yes, they’ve also done some other protests that did not appear this way, but the media doesn’t care about those ones because there’s not enough people who care in general yet. The first thing people think now when they think of XR is dancing hippies in the street and people crying or storming off on TV. XR groups will consistently ‘disown’ certain actions of their fellow members in other splinter groups. This should never have happened from the beginning. The right are consistently winning the culture war because their messaging is strong, simple and appears united. The left needs to really take this into consideration if they ever want to get anywhere. Re: Australia's Carbon Tax - a few people from Aus have pointed out that rather than the rise in bills it was the demonisation of the carbon tax in the Murdoch owned press that successfully killed it off in the end. I guess my original point that it didn't work in the end still stands, but my Aussie viewers pointed that out so I stand corrected there thank you. Re: voting green - I understand this will not be plausible in many places in the world, that's why I said 'if you can'. Where I live Labour have a very strong hold on the constituency so I can safely give the greens a vote. Not that I love Labour, but the Tories are not getting in. Many people see this as 'throwing your vote away' but it can actually go towards pressuring the 2 main parties to be more 'green' if they see they're losing votes to the green party. And even if you don't intend on voting green, you can say so in the polls if you want to pressure parties to become more green. There's also a lot of 'voting won't work' and very pessimistic energy, and I get it, honestly I feel the same way a lot of the time. But I'd rather die knowing that I at least did something, than watched the world burn down around me.

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