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[–] odioLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You said it yourself

They lobby for everything they can get to benefit their business, and often get it. A lot of citizens want a better alternative but can't get it because Oil industry has corrupted our officials. They lie about the dangers of climate change. This and their lobbying makes it so that many citizens didn't (and still don't) know what kind of problem they are part of. Oil lobbies corrupted scientists, media and politicians so the uneducated and the not-so-uneducated thought that climate change was not real. Many of them now have realized their lies and we are all in our 100% legitimate right to blame them and fight them.

The reason so many suburbanites complain about bike lanes it's because oil companies pay and spread propaganda that has convinced them that it will affect their lives negatively.

A lot of people have to buy that metal box because there is no reasonable alternative, when your politicians, bought by oil lobbies, don't invest or even work against public transportation.

And then there's people like you that, when people try to do better, criticize them because they have a infinitesimal part of the guilt.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago

Just because they lobby for things doesn't mean that people no longer have any choices.

The corn lobby lobbies for, and gets, all kinds of subsidies. That doesn't mean you're required to eat corn.

that has convinced them that it will affect their lives negatively.

Boohoo. They believed the propaganda, it's not their fault!

A lot of people have to buy that metal box because there is no reasonable alternative

Because their definition of "reasonable" is too narrow. It's slightly less convenient, therefore unreasonable.

And then there's people like you that, when people try to do better, criticize them because they have a infinitesimal part of the guilt.

When have I criticized anyone for trying to do better. What I criticize is people trying to feel less guilty about their selfish decisions by trying to heap all the blame on oil companies instead, like you do.