Comment Re: Oh Brave New World with such people in it (Score 1) 124
Never forget! Life was just peachy under Biden! Thank you for your honesty!
Never forget! Life was just peachy under Biden! Thank you for your honesty!
EXACTLY! Do NOT believe the conspiracy theorists! The laptop was a Russian plant, the Steele Report is gospel, the lab leak theory has zero credibility, and Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
The list is “opinion”? No they’re all FACTS!
Don’t you read the New York Times?
Or are you on the side of uneducated deplorables?
There's already a name for this phenomenon. MAGA
You are 100% correct sir! As proof, let’s consult the early 2020s MAGA Misinformation Guide:
* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.
* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.
* Biden is fully mentally competent.
* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic.
* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.
* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.
* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.
* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.
* The GF riots were “peaceful”.
* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.
* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.
* The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.
* It is “fake news” that Kamala was a border czar, donated to free GF rioters, and was rated the most liberal Senator.
* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
* Mississippi is fascist, and isn’t measurably doing a far better job teaching Black American children than progressive California.
Bring back Artemis space shuttle technology! VAX/VMS forever!
> It is however entirely sensible...
This is a very slippery slope.
Indeed. A pragmatic government decision is exactly equivalent to Nazi level thinking. There’s no other possible result.
Think logically. If “ The LCOE calculations are readily done, and it's absolutely blindingly obvious that not having to pay the costs of supplying fuel means renewables are substantially cheaper than fossil fuels.” then there’d be zero fossil usage, and your would be far less sanguine about painting Swastikas on Teslas and attacking Tesla dealerships.
People aren’t being forced to use fossil fuel at gunpoint.
The current situation is so stupid that Hochul is forcing many upstate New Yorkers to burn coal and wood to affordably heat their homes.
Seems that Germany regrets shutting down its nukes, and the EU has reversed its recommendations - including a top EU leader that came out of Germany, while France is happy.
They’re not stupid. You just think you’re smarter than them.
What a mysterious coincidence.
You deliberately failed to account for percentages.
You deliberately failed to accede natural gas is better than oil and coal. Shutting down PennEast and other NG pipelines, for example, was sheer short-sighted stupidity that increases pollution, increases CO2, and increases costs.
You deliberately assumed we can always instantly replace fossil fuel with green.
Silly.
That still doesn’t abrogate the disproportionate amount of subsidies. We see the net result - higher net energy costs passed onto consumers (essentially a very regressive tax) plus, in the name of politically short-sighted pandering, steering the regional economic engine away from more practical environmentally better options (nuclear, allowing the replacing of dirtier fossil fuels with cheaper and cleaner natural gas, more power lines down from Canadian hydro).
If true, then of-shore shouldn’t need significant subsidies. Right? And before you shout “oil subsidies!”, stop and think: those, unlike wind, are a tiny fraction of the tax revenues from that same energy source.
Correct, offshore wind energy is far more expensive than onshore wind, although it does have a slightly higher capacity factor. Floating offshore wind is a factor of two (at least) more expensive again.
Interesting. You were just down-modded for a purely factual statement.
In theory, it's universal theft. In practice, it's dictatorship and widespread poverty.
It’s rather telling that someone bothered to mod you down for that. Ironically proving your point that that particular ideology requires dictatorship - here in the form of censorship- to thrive.
Oh. Such genius. So “Musk is a Nazi” is a right wing thing? And someone’s FCC license was removed by Trump? I didn’t know that. I’ve never seen someone get back on the air so fast after baldly and falsely claiming a lead Republican was assassinated by another Republican. That’s brief interlude was certainly horrific though! It’s absolutely comparable to repeated instances of censorship of major news and major thought leaders across virtually all mainstream media and major social media. Sometimes for years. Sure. That’s fine. Cause Republicans are bigoted uneducated religious gun clingers, right? Right? And Bari is a fig leaf for secret cabal, right? Smart!
Instead of sarcasm, insults, and strawmen,
I think a general audience is plenty smart enough to see why sarcasm is warranted here. And obviously you think you’re smarter than them, as you clumsily sidestepped the point in full view. No official action was taken, and criticism of the FCC head’s comments was almost as heavy from the right as the left (one suspects you probably aren’t informed enough to know that). and the actual thing you labeled “censorship” was independently decided by Kimmel’s own sponsors - who were understandably aghast at someone in their employ making light of a motivated assassination. The point: the massive assymetry of the situation is key, as is the culpability of a culture that winks at mass censorship and assassination.
it might help to read what people write, and when they give a link click through it. Do you want to go and read the link about Trump's FCC threatening to remove broadcast liscences?
That article is exactly why I know you’re making a mountain out of a molehill, then using it to deflect. Your claiming otherwise is obviously a rhetorical deflection intended to self justify deliberately missing the point.
But no worries, there’s quite a bit of desperate mod activity going on to try censor my point. That’s a meta confirmation of that very point, but I’m pretty sure you support it, despite claiming to be against censorship.
Oh. Such genius. So “Musk is a Nazi” is a right wing thing? And someone’s FCC license was removed by Trump? I didn’t know that. I’ve never seen someone get back on the air so fast after baldly and falsely claiming a lead Republican was assassinated by another Republican. That’s brief interlude was certainly horrific though! It’s absolutely comparable to repeated instances of censorship of major news and major thought leaders across virtually all mainstream media and major social media. Sometimes for years. Sure. That’s fine. Cause Republicans are bigoted uneducated religious gun clingers, right? Right? And Bari is a fig leaf for secret cabal, right? Smart!
Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick.