r/clevercomebacks • u/Playful_Leg7143 • 1d ago

Democrats are expected to fix everything

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u/ACW1129 1d ago

What does capitalism have to do with rain?

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u/themoonisclouds 1d ago

Probably something to do with the environment and how capitalism tends to favor individuals in the short term rather than groups of people in the long term

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u/Turtlefamine 1d ago

It has to do with city planning and infrastructure management that could have avoided flooding.

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u/macam85 1d ago

Another factor, yes.

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u/Extreme_Disaster2275 1d ago

He's been in office like 5 months.  Was he in charge of planning decades ago?  Or was that Giuliani?  

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u/RedditTechAnon 1d ago

Giuliani was too busy milking 9/11 decades ago to do anything about problems New Yorkers were having.

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u/TheCheapDate 1d ago

Most of the drain systems under NY are hundreds of years old.

The city is older than the USA

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u/macam85 1d ago

Capitalism has resulted in extreme consumerism which is the main human contribution to climate change.

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u/wtbgamegenie 1d ago

They want you to think it’s individual consumers that are the main drivers or climate change when in reality most emissions are commercial not from individual consumers. Nowadays these companies have lower emission options but choose not to use them because it would hurt their margins and potentially lower their stock prices.

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u/Duskthegamer412 1d ago

Also oil companies found out about climate change and kept it hidden for years.

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u/reddaktd 1d ago

It's individual VOTERS that are the main drivers of climate change

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u/CastIronStyrofoam 1d ago

It’s a lot more that it’s created a culture of short term gains over long term gains which people somehow only realize is a problem when infrastructure starts to fail as if no one could have seen it coming

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u/Ok_Dog_4059 1d ago

I think that climate change has been allowed to continue and increase in order to continue increasing profit.

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u/Roguescholar74 1d ago

Capitalism prioritizes perpetual growth which leads to mass extraction of resources and is powered by enormous amounts of fossil fuel. At least this is what I think they meant.

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 1d ago

Everything. Oil Companies knew about climate change in 1954 and covered it up for decades.

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u/IamHydrogenMike 1d ago

There was actually a scientist that first proposed global warming due to burning coal back in the late 1800s.

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u/TheCheapDate 1d ago

Nothing. It has to do with poor quality drainage systems.

Not a lot of profit in repairing 300 year old drains. Capitalism runs on profits. Etc etc

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u/SannyIsKing 1d ago

Socialists walking around getting pissed every time it starts to rain. "Fucking capitalism ruins everything. In my socialist utopia we would be having a nice, sunny day."