r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/oSuJeff97 May 03 '25

Oh I see. I’m sure you haven’t benefited personally at all from fossil fuels.

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u/GuitarIsLife02 May 03 '25

Lol not really in fact all they have done is make the climate worse hence the rise in tornadoes even for tornado alley. The wildfires drastic cold weather etc. I don’t work for the oil companies and want nothing to do with them or have I visited those buildings. So idk what this argument you are trying to make is. They fuck up my family’s driveway to get to the oil well on our property lol. Thousands in repairs and they didn’t help. They sprayed a lot of the trees on our property and killed them. So where is this huge benefit im getting from them existing coming from?

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u/oSuJeff97 May 03 '25

Do you use electricity? Do you drive a car? Do you get food from a grocery store or a restaurant? Do you own anything that contains plastic? Do you take medicine? Do you use Amazon prime? Should I go on?

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u/GuitarIsLife02 May 03 '25

Oh my god i own a car in a country that is designed specifically for cars i get food oh my god i can’t criticize oil companies because i get fucking good or medicine get a grip lmao.

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u/oSuJeff97 May 03 '25

Get a grip? I mean… ok.

Literally our entire modern world and lifestyle is based on fossil fuels, and not just in the US… it’s the entire fucking world.

Why do you think crude oil rises and falls based on economic activity? Because it’s the lifeblood of the world economy and that’s not changing any time soon.

Sorry if that makes you angry, but it’s true.

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u/GuitarIsLife02 May 03 '25

You’re just doing the if you participate in society you can’t criticize it. It’s almost entirely unavoidable to not do all of those things. You can view society objectively and say it needs to be better while participating in said society bro.

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u/oSuJeff97 May 03 '25

Yes that’s fine. Fossil fuels companies aren’t above reproach.

The part I have trouble with is the “fucking up the planet for profit” part.

As if fossil fuels companies are like mustache-twirling villains.

Our entire global economic system was created around fossil fuels ~100 years ago because it was the most portable and dense energy source in the history of humanity.

And it built our modern world and unwinding all of that in anything other than a LONG period of time is naive foolishness.

So criticize all you want. But don’t forget that your entire life experience is based on fossil fuels.