868 sats \ 15 replies \ @tomlaies 5 Feb \ on: Edmonton Lays Out Plan For ''15 Minutes Cities'' news
The conspiracy theories about 15 min cities are the dumbest kind of conspiracies.
Suburbs with only a highway access and 1 road out are easier to shut people in. Only 1 walmart to starve people in this prison. Cookie cutter houses with 10m^2 are stuffy prison cells.
I actually live in a 15-minute city. So far no WEF members have wrestled me to the ground and forced me to gargle bugs.
In fact it's just like a regular city except you trade the annoying cars hurtling through the town centre with slightly less annoying cyclists who at least don't give me lung cancer.
Yeah yeah I don't care for the environmental larp either and Klaus can go suck on a big fat commie turd for all I care. Doesn't change the fact that it's nice here and that I think living amongst cars is a colossal ballache.
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Bug eating optional… phew.. Reduced meat consumption in favour of insect protein, pod living, 15-minute cities and ‘own nothing, be happy’ … these things do seem to get presented together in some quarters.
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I can only recommend everyone here to study the Davos conference, the documents they publish and the homepage intensively if there is time. they reveal the entire concept of a thoroughly planned centralized society, whose power nucleus will of course be the wise green climate philosopher who destroys any individual romanticism with the Net Zero lever.
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We cannot beat them, as some believe, by just ranting (plenty of ‘influencers’ do that already) we need to take steps to protect ourselves and engage our communities on the issues as they become apparent.
There are some who, in response to the ‘you’ll own nothing and be happy’ essay sent death threats to the author; Danish politician Ida Auken. Regardless of her politics, her personal views or visions of the future we must be better than merely screaming at these people. They will match threats of violence with increased control and further violence. We have to engage and confront their arguments IMHO.
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that is absolutely correct. so far we are playing the cards of media work, which we should not underestimate, because the mood is created by the media. quite well. the protests are the beginning, if a spicy economic crisis is added, the whole thing can of course escalate, how it then goes on the devil knows
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yes, but that is precisely the point: a population that has to ask permission from its elected representatives is in no way sovereign. we finance this society and a booming, prosperous society needs personal responsibility, which must find itself without a top-down command
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So what You say is that this is nonsense? Why don't You read it right from Klaus' homepage, buddy?
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And a degenerate desire to control the people. In my opinion, as an amateur psychologist, these dubious figures that Klaus Schwab gathers around him and then sends out into the world exhibit the most severe behavioral abnormalities and mental disorders, otherwise this apocalypticism that is being spread can no longer be explained
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Idk if you take the other extreme of this, corporations and governments have been totally fine letting people live unbalanced lives in the other direction for decades -- living in ring cities around main cities with poor infrastructure, commuting hours each way to work. This is common in Ontario, Canada for example.
I have no problem believing that they're willing to lean hard the other way if it is to the benefit of corporations and tax revenue, now that larger scale monetary trends are coming home to roost.
Since people can't afford fuel/energy and service debt due to garbage fiat currency and poor capital investment, the government prints more funny money and "invests in infrastructure" where fewer and fewer people have the capability to own their own vehicles, but the wealth extraction gets more concentrated into fewer companies. It doesn't seem like a conspiracy theory, it seems like a logical conclusion.
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i have no idea where you all suddenly got the feeling that the state can regulate urban planning, commercial settlements, retail, housing better than the free market. for god's sake, let people, investors, traders and entrepreneurs decide where to settle in a decentralized manner in the free play of forces. i have lived my whole life in big cities in southern europe in central europe and have never had the feeling that i lacked anything spatially or materially. the state has never prescribed a concept here, it has merely made areas available on which people could then develop relatively freely. please never forget this: when such projects appear, state actors are only interested in imposing more control, more power, perhaps higher taxation.
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reading comprehension jfc