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@Becky McDonald
also the fact that a lot of 'green' policies are blatantly contradicting their stated goals.
if fighting climate change through reduction of fossil fuel consumption was really their main objective, then they would be enthusiastic supporters of large scale nuclear power, because that's the only power source that can actually outcompete and replace fossil fuels in the short and medium term.

but, the polar opposite is the case. the exact same people who made 'fighting climate change' their life mission are also the biggest opponents of nuclear power. this makes me think that fighting climate change isn't their actual goal, it's not the real motivation behind their agenda.

 

[AnOminous]

The idea of not wanting people you don't like to suffer and die is foreign to Redditors.

Everyone does to some extent. What's so insufferable about redditors is they think this makes them noble somehow instead of just run-of-the-mill assholes.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Hope you don’t mind me posting this old joke about Reddit from years back.

 

[DoubleD]

@Becky McDonald
also the fact that a lot of 'green' policies are blatantly contradicting their stated goals.
if fighting climate change through reduction of fossil fuel consumption was really their main objective, then they would be enthusiastic supporters of large scale nuclear power, because that's the only power source that can actually outcompete and replace fossil fuels in the short and medium term.

but, the polar opposite is the case. the exact same people who made 'fighting climate change' their life mission are also the biggest opponents of nuclear power. this makes me think that fighting climate change isn't their actual goal, it's not the real motivation behind their agenda.

If fighting climate change through reduction of fossil fuel consumption was really their main objective, they would probably not be such socialists.

Wealth is probably the biggest single factor for someone's ability to pollute. Obviously a rich vegan Tesla driver is going to have a bigger carbon footprint than a broke-arse wagie who eats meat all the time and never recycles. Remember that it would include the carbon footprint of products you buy.

If socialism really did what the socialists say it does (making poor people richer), then the CO2 emissions of the world's poor would dramatically increase with the adoption of socialism, as they too gain the means to afford things beyond the bare essentials, which I'm sure would more than compensate for the drop in CO2 emissions from the rich people who have their assets seized.

And yet, I've seen people claiming that wealth redistribution is the answer to climate change. Apparently rich people will stop polluting if you redistribute their wealth and poor people won't start polluting.

Anyone who seriously believe in the climate emergency would be against anything that raises people out of poverty. Actually that might prove to be shockingly accurate, given the likely possibility that socialism just makes everyone poorer.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

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Found the full video.

 

[Crex Crex]

@Becky McDonald
also the fact that a lot of 'green' policies are blatantly contradicting their stated goals.
if fighting climate change through reduction of fossil fuel consumption was really their main objective, then they would be enthusiastic supporters of large scale nuclear power, because that's the only power source that can actually outcompete and replace fossil fuels in the short and medium term.

but, the polar opposite is the case. the exact same people who made 'fighting climate change' their life mission are also the biggest opponents of nuclear power. this makes me think that fighting climate change isn't their actual goal, it's not the real motivation behind their agenda.

People blindly support renewables because they naively think that there isn't a massive lobby around them and that the renewable industry can't lie or manipulate public perception of itself, all because it's "durr environmentally friendly". Redditors are prime examples of this sort of mentality: they doompost and babble about socialism and communism when talking about the oil and coal industry, but will throw themselves in promoting and consooming any and all "futuristic and eco-friendly" expensive novelties that get advertised on that site.

 

[Becky McDonald]

People blindly support renewables because they naively think that there isn't a massive lobby around them and that the renewable industry can't lie or manipulate public perception of itself, all because it's "durr environmentally friendly". Redditors are prime examples of this sort of mentality: they doompost and babble about socialism and communism when talking about the oil and coal industry, but will throw themselves in promoting and consooming any and all "futuristic and eco-friendly" expensive novelties that get advertised on that site.

I do find it funny how their two favourite types of electricity generation, solar and wind, require the most space. You need miles and miles of the fucking things to equal one traditional power plant, ruining the natural view of the area in the process.

Oh, and wind turbines are only now starting to be recognised as "bird/bat blenders", when most people with common sense saw this obvious problem years or even decades ago. Slaughter an endangered species to own the oil barons.

 

[scallion]

BP coined the term carbon footprint

 

[gmax alcremie]

Wandered into R/science and immediately left:



Nope nope nope nope I don't even care what the study is, the title is creepy as fuck.

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@Pointless Pedant, re: climate change

From what I've read of the literature, there's a lot of evidence that humans have been fucking up the Earth ever since the advent of agriculture, but accelerated since the Industrial Revolution. The idea that adverse weather events are caused by climate change defined as an increase in the global temperature since 1750 caused by an increase in the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide is a plausible. The most convincing evidence I've seen to link climate change with weather extremes are the models of how excess heat energy changes the jet stream, from warming in the air and water (very simplified and broad explanation from a person who isn't really all that educated on it besides looking at some fancy graphs). On the other hand though . . .

Collapse subreddit Wiki is a well thought out explanation of the sort of window the Official Opinions of that particular subreddit should be, i.e. these are our echo chamber parameters. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's stating up front that it isn't meant to be a debate forum but a forum to discuss and document. No matter how you think about the opinions, it's transparency. Theoretically it could be a good sub if the actual posters weren't insane The reason I'm linking it though is this section:




Which has a source! When to Doubt a Scientific Consensus

I find it entertaining that the R/collapse sub that will delete any posts that use these arguments to go against the Official Opinion. It's older (published in 2010) but worth a read.

 

[AnOminous]

I do find it funny how their two favourite types of electricity generation, solar and wind, require the most space. You need miles and miles of the fucking things to equal one traditional power plant, ruining the natural view of the area in the process.

I find it funny they ignore the one truly carbon-neutral form of electricity generation that is currently available to us and even fanatically attack it. That is, obviously, nuclear. There is no path to a carbon-neutral future that does not go through nuclear.

You can tell they're not really interested in solving problems when they reflexively reject any actual solution in favor of just continuing to be mad and scream HOW DARE YOU like an autistic child.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Don't know if this was shared already

r/molested is a heckin wholesome community that describes itself as "a safe place for survivors of molestation to share their stories, discuss how it has affected their lives, and support each other"

In peak reddit fashion what the sub is a safe space for is pedos larping as little girls and sharing erotic fanfiction of children being raped to get off.

Some primer examples of r/molested's collective efforts in creative writing below. And remember, this sub is not even quarantined or even marked as 18plus.. This is the same reddit that banned big chungus because it was too problematic.

Spoiler: Big Yikes

 

[Crex Crex]

I do find it funny how their two favourite types of electricity generation, solar and wind, require the most space. You need miles and miles of the fucking things to equal one traditional power plant, ruining the natural view of the area in the process.

Oh, and wind turbines are only now starting to be recognised as "bird/bat blenders", when most people with common sense saw this obvious problem years or even decades ago. Slaughter an endangered species to own the oil barons.

"We have to butcher the environment to save it!!!"... Tgeir bugbrains are THIS dysfunctional, I remember seeing threads of people saying that wind turbines littering the landscape actually look good "BECAUSE IT'S LIKE FUTURISTIC WINDMILLS BRO"

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

"We have to butcher the environment to save it!!!"... Tgeir bugbrains are THIS dysfunctional, I remember seeing threads of people saying that wind turbines littering the landscape actually look good "BECAUSE IT'S LIKE FUTURISTIC WINDMILLS BRO"

trust the science and eat the bugs, otherwise climate god will kill us all.

 

[Lady Rackets Ass]

Don't know if this was shared already

r/molested is a heckin wholesome community that describes itself as "a safe place for survivors of molestation to share their stories, discuss how it has affected their lives, and support each other"

In peak reddit fashion what the sub is a safe space for is pedos larping as little girls and sharing erotic fanfiction of children being raped to get off.

Some primer examples of r/molested's collective efforts in creative writing below. And remember, this sub is not even quarantined or even marked as 18plus.. This is the same reddit that banned big chungus because it was too problematic.

Spoiler: Big Yikes

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Thank you for posting something actually relevant.
I didn’t know that sub existed but I’m not surprised a lot of the nsfw subs are overrun with pedos pretending to be children or talking about children in sexual situations it’s crazy and when you report it Reddit sends you a message that it doesn’t violate their policies

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Thank you for posting something actually relevant.
I didn’t know that sub existed but I’m not surprised a lot of the nsfw subs are overrun with pedos pretending to be children or talking about children in sexual situations it’s crazy and when you report it Reddit sends you a message that it doesn’t violate their policies

All they have to do is put a stupid disclaimer about how its totally fine and safe and cute and valid place for victims of abuse and they are scott free. Whats more disturbing about this one is that unlike all those other creepy incest subs this doesn't even itself as a coomer sub and it encourages framing it as real abuse, they don't ban underages either, so someone saying that they are 14 and love fucking their dads is ok.

 

[Lady Rackets Ass]

All they have to do is put a stupid disclaimer about how its totally fine and safe and cute and valid place for victims of abuse and they are scott free. Whats more disturbing about this one is that unlike all those other creepy incest subs this doesn't even itself as a coomer sub and it encourages framing it as real abuse, they don't ban underages either, so someone saying that they are 14 and love fucking their dads is ok.

remember when r/teenagers banned like half their sub for being middle aged creepy dudes? I want off this clown world

 

[Markass the Worst]

remember when r/teenagers banned like half their sub for being middle aged creepy dudes? I want off this clown world

Are you talking about r/Drama banning all r/teenagers posters which revealed half of them to be middle aged creepy dudes? As far as I can find r/teenagers did nothing about it.

 

[Lady Rackets Ass]

Are you talking about r/Drama banning all r/teenagers posters which revealed half of them to be middle aged creepy dudes? As far as I can find r/teenagers did nothing about it.

Oh yeah it was the drama sub my bad and then everyone just forgot about it.

 

[Toolbox]

I did used to have a small amount of sympathy for r/science because of how infuriating it was when right wing idiots think global warming is a giant hoax when temperature records are being set, but it's reddit so they quickly burned all sympathy and turned into a pathetic circlejerk.

The pushback from "right wing idiots" is purely because the left leaning core of the current scientific community is insane. Climate doomerism is stupid and they have gotten doomsday predictions wrong repeatedly. You can see with your own eyes in satnav that the sea levels haven't risen in a meaningful way in 40 years. It's a problem but acting like it's going to be 2012 in (Current year) is why so many on the right deny it.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

The pushback from "right wing idiots" is purely because the left leaning core of the current scientific community is insane. Climate doomerism is stupid and they have gotten doomsday predictions wrong repeatedly. You can see with your own eyes in satnav that the sea levels haven't risen in a meaningful way in 40 years. It's a problem but acting like it's going to be 2012 in (Current year) is why so many on the right deny it.

Don't forget they never are willing to acknowledge that anyone other than western countries pollute. They never want to address the major problems, aka india and china. They ignore the 1/3rd of the world's population who are the primary polluters and expect western citizens (not the elite they need their private jets lmfao) to bare the entire burden. They just want to make you suffer without ever accomplishing anything.