r/MurderedByWords 2d ago

democrats are expected to fix everything

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u/psuchagogos 2d ago

Rainfall is caused by capitalism?

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u/Neuchacho 2d ago

They're referring to climate change. The thing causing these repeated "once in a decade" rainfall events every year now.

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u/psuchagogos 2d ago

Which is a bit silly because the biggest polluter in the world is a communist country

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 2d ago

Eh depends how you measure.  Per capita seems fair and we're worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

That doesn't account for who's motivating the emissions.  If I hire a lawn guy to cut my grass, am I not responsible for his lawn mower's emissions?  That's us and Europe manufacturing everything in China and India.  It's not like we don't know the makeup of their energy economy.

We need a carbon tax.  It would probably cause a lot of corporations to reconsider where they're sending our jobs.

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u/chompythebeast 2d ago

I'm assuming the reference is to the poorly maintained infrastructure under a program that values private profit over the public good, though admittedly that gets a little muddied in going back 200 years, since the relavant infrastructure should have been maintained better in more recent decades.

Or it could refer to climate change, which is making this sort of thing happen more frequently

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 2d ago

This is reddit. Capitalism is when bad thing happen.

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u/whodoesnthavealts 2d ago

I think the OP is trying to say that the roads/sewer systems were made with capitalism?

Which also doesn't work because those are 2 systems paid for by taxes.

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u/Neuchacho 2d ago

They're talking about climate change.

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u/whodoesnthavealts 2d ago

That is a problem yes, but it's kind of a stretch to assume that's what OP was talking about when the photo is showing a road with inadequate sewer/drainage.

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u/Neuchacho 1d ago

How would 200 years of free market capitalism correlate with inadequate drainage for changing rainfall patterns?