A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years.

On New Year’s Day, only 0.35% of the Great Lakes were covered in ice, the lowest on record for the date, and well below the historical average of nearly 10% for this point in winter, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

This year’s missing ice in the Great Lakes adds to a growing trend of winter ailments plaguing the US, from dwindling snowpacks in the West to an ongoing snow drought in the Northeast, all becoming more common due to warming temperatures from the climate crisis.

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    most of you are too chickenshit to put the heads of those responsible on a stake and that’s why we’re where we’re at.

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        If only these problems could be solved by 1 person.

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            it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.

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              So you spend your time on the internet trying to convince people to meet up with you irl and kill folk?

              How’s that working out for you, any takers?

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                i’m just a problem solver. i don’t see how we can fix anything until the far right is destroyed. they will muddy the waters until it’s too late. i’m genuinely asking you what alternative you see to making lasting change for the better. all we have to do is collectively agree that’s what it’s going to take and people will start figuring out how to organize.

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                  At this point climate collapse and resource depletion is going to take care of us all by the end of the century so imo damage mitigation is our best option.

                  Don’t have kids. Go vegan. Reduce your consumption of items produced by slavery and sweatshops as much as possible.
                  Basically just do as much as you can to lower the amount of suffering you create by existing.

                  Killing people in the name of left wing politics is going to make things worse for everyone.

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          it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.

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        it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.

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      True, I am too ‘chickenshit’ to go on my own to a person who almost definitely has multiple armed security guards to kill them and put their head on a stake. Why haven’t you done it yet? Too ‘chickenshit?

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        it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.

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          Okay, who have you organized so far for this mob? Where and when are they meeting?

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            you keep asking me what i’ve done. what have YOU done? where’s our clandestine communications? it takes cooperation.

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              No, I’m asking you when and where the mob is meeting. You’ve said there has to be a mob. When and where will the mob be? Just give us a time and a date and a place.

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                the point is to keep calling for one until people take it seriously enough to form one. it’s a war. whose side are you on?

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                  We can’t take it seriously enough to form one unless you tell us when and where to form it. It seems like you don’t really want this mob to happen since you aren’t being proactive about it.

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          cowards need mobs. just start and set the trend, since everyone else is too chickenshit.

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        Imagine if that stopped people during the Civil Rights Movement.

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        it takes a mob. this is what the internet is for: so citizens can organize. they can’t stop all of us.

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          Then maybe calling out the people in this thread for something you aren’t doing yourself isn’t a great idea. You’re not calling out a mob, you’re calling out us.

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            Unfortunately, these problems literally cannot be solved alone.

            It takes collective action, which is why the working class never wins.

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      Do you think The Purge is real or something? One day we can just kill people that deserve it?

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        a society can collectively do whatever it wants when it sets its mind to a task. if you don’t do it first, they’re gonna do it to you. don’t be a victim.

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      I bet you’re too chicken shit to go self immolate on the white house lawn, too.

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            So what’s with the original reply then? Not really adding to the conversation. In an existential crisis, people historically choose life over death, but now we’re choosing the slow death.

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              I thought it exemplified the pointlessness of the original comment.