Post #3467397

2026-06-29 09:36 UTC

People in Europe, please don't let your politicians gaslight you like American politicians do to them. After every school shooting is never the time to talk about gun control. Making it political is somehow "disrespectful" to the innocent children shot by mad men who got easy access to deadly weapons. Now is the time to make every heat death political. Make every death count. Scream to the rafters. Hold public funerals for victims of heat deaths. Name the perpetrators. Don't let their deaths become meaningless. Tell their stories. Use the opportunity to tell children about the lies of fossil fuels. Build monuments. Hold vigils. Sue fossil fuel companies for wrongful death. Whatever tools you have, use them loudly and proudly. Don't let this slide. #climatechange

Replies (16)

@chu@climatejustice.social 2026-06-30 07:08

Just saw that France alone is reporting over 1000 heat deaths. For the sake of everyone, please politicize these. Hold public services, memorials, and at every turn say they would still be alive if not for the lies of fossil fuel companies. If anyone gets interviewed, the first thing out of your mouth should be the words "climate change". "Climate change killed ......" "Exxon Mobil lied and we died" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france-deaths-heat-wave-9.7251959 #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

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@pelle@veganism.social 2026-06-29 09:52

@chu@climatejustice.social here in #sweden, 99% of humans eat animals, so it appears that the overwhelming majority would rather have deadly #heatwaves than #vegan hotdogs. sure, blame #politicians for their actions. but a people, who want to eat butchered animals, will obviously elect politicians who allow for #slaughterhouses to exist. it's not like the politicians aren't listening here. https://watchdominion.org

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@vepr_jako_pepr@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 10:07

@chu@climatejustice.social Guns should absolutely not be held by the state, but yes, people should fix the environment and make an economy suitable for it

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@noodlemaz@mstdn.games 2026-06-29 11:28

@chu@climatejustice.social that's not gaslighting (the deliberate and prolonged manipulation of someone's environment and feeding them ideas/narratives counter to reality to make that person doubt their own grasp of reality, and to encourage them to believe only you, the abuser, and nobody else - not even themselves - to make them extremely vulnerable to your manipulation) But yes it is important to call out propaganda and lies from politicians (and generally). Does fit fossil fuel companies etc better. Politicians have swallowed *their* lies.

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@dannychil@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 11:30

@chu@climatejustice.social 😭But are you afraid?

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@numodular@c.im 2026-06-29 12:32

@chu@climatejustice.social Please use the now far more appropriate tag: #ClimateCRISIS Remove the root causes from power.

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@fluttersh@pony.social 2026-06-29 13:11

@chu@climatejustice.social for real we need ACs in the building code here

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@d1@autistics.life 2026-06-29 13:50

@chu@climatejustice.social "politicians gaslight you" ... 'Making it political is somehow "disrespectful" to the innocent children shot' Just saying: that specific, toxic, psychological tactic has a name: "blaming the victim"

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@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot 2026-06-29 14:27

@chu@climatejustice.social drape shell, bp amoco or exxon flags over the coffins.

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@Offbeatmammal@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 14:44

@chu@climatejustice.social using gas to light the misinformation is part of the problem! Jokes aside, politicians need to be held accountable for their (in)actions and those making obscene amounts of money sticking to fossil fuels and pumping out pollution need to be contained (but they have very good PR people and can afford influence).

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@jason@logoff.website 2026-06-29 14:48

@chu@climatejustice.social @theory@xoxo.zone I was confused about this at first because there was a mass shooting this morning in Germany

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@disorderlyf@todon.eu 2026-06-29 15:09

@chu@climatejustice.social Yeah, we gave them the benefit of the doubt and didn't advocate immediately after a shooting...and they just did it anyway, sometimes within minutes of news breaking. My guess if your respective conservative/far-right party will do the same.

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@ErikUden@mastodon.de 2026-06-29 15:12

@chu@climatejustice.social sadly a prophetical post given the shooting in Stade, Germany.

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@pawcelot@meow.social 2026-06-29 22:55

@chu@climatejustice.social If I die in a heat wave someday y’all have full permission to politicize the hell out of my death.

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@CStamp@mastodon.social 2026-06-30 05:04

@chu@climatejustice.social 1) Germany is a country, it's not the whole of Europe. 2) The only country that seems to tolerate mass shootings is the US. Can't speak for Germany, but anytime this happens in Canada, gun regulations tighten to make it more difficult for the next one. Our problem is the @#%$@#%@#%$@ lax gun laws in the US and those guns making it across the border. :( "Germany has very strict gun laws, among the strictest in Europe." https://www.dw.com/en/germany-at-least-6-killed-in-shooting-in-stade/a-77754951

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@lllisha@tech.lgbt 2026-06-30 05:12

@chu@climatejustice.social heat death should be made political, but why american shootings shouldnt? is there some sarcasm i dont get?

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