• CoolerOpposide [she/her]@hexbear.netM
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    Lovely that the actual explanation for this is that the record cold air is over the united states and canada because all of the warm air that is supposed to be there is actually above the arctic circle.

    It is currently 32 degrees fahrenheit (0 celsius) in the farthest northern point in Alaska. It’s above freezing in Nuuk, Greenland too.

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    My local ski resort is 5 feet of snow behind same time last year.

    There are people walking around in t-shirts in Colorado in January.

    But one collapsing jetstream and polar vortex later and suddenly it’s “WhAt HaPpEnEd To GlObAl WaRmInG” shit as if local weather were the same as global climate.

    But hey, shame on me for expecting the PRESIDENT OF THE (allegedly) UNITED STATES to understand something as basic as “the world is big and connected and changing.”

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Things being connected at all seems way too complex for people to understand.

      Everyone is twelve now and our systems-based thinking has suffered as a result. I hate it here and I hate the Antichrist.

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      I have never seen anything like this

      therefore there’s no climate CHANGE.

      Literal unthinking zombies. God I wish I was stupid like all the popular folk, must be nice being so happy all the time.

      EDIT: misread it I’m dumb and my dunk is ruined

        • idk if most democrat voters believe that, the Dems as a party tend to ignore the opinion of upwards of 80% of their constituents on almost any subject and i bet refusal to do anything about climate change is no different there than supporting the genocide in Gaza or funding ICE

      • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I like how 10% of republicans believe Climate Change will lead to the extinction of the human race, yet they keep supporting for the “drill baby drill” petrofascists.

        Are they anarcho-primitivist accelerationists? Are they death cultists who worship the sentient oil?

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          Maybe they just got too excited when they saw extinction and race together in a sentence

          Some of them also said it’s likely cities will be lost to the sea but there won’t be any serious damage to the economy lol

          • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            Losing cities to the sea actually will help the economy, funny enough. It’s destruction of fixed capital and will cause intense demand for replacement housing and amenities. This will increase the rate of profit and stall its fall, as well as create a short-term stimulus in spending. Hell, if climate change wreaks enough havoc on infrastructure the capitalists won’t even need to go into World War every time they have a profit crisis - nature will do the destruction for them.

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            I’d say that’s a bit less funny because most rank-and-file Democrats either believe the “lesser evil” narrative or are kind of ignorant and credulous and think their representatives are actually fighting for the environment.

            Not one rank-and-file Republican is under the delusion that their representatives are helping the environment in any way, nor do any of them think the GOP is the “lesser evil” for the environment. These 10% just straight up believe that Climate Change will eradicate humanity and their response is “pedal to the metal”

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      Since woke is over they’re back to denying it outright or, more commonly, saying that it’s natural for the climate to change because it’s done so in the past before humans even existed (they might be selectively believing in evolution to say this, or just pretending).

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        Not to get the r/atheists going in here, but I also tend to get a few people who have a strange apathy because something on that scale can’t possibly be done by humans, so it’s clearly divine in some capacity.

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          Or they believe the end of the world / 2nd coming is nigh anyway, and thus we can rip through all our finite resources as fast as we want without any need to think of long term sustainability. This is often just a cover for their actual beliefs, which is just pure selfish nihilism and not caring about anyone else and what happens after they die.

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      The year is 2030.

      ICE is still terrorizing neighborhoods and killing innocent civilians.

      Democrats are giving ten Pinocchios to anyone saying ICE is still the Yankee Gestapo because president Newsom appointed a gay Jewish woman as Secretary of Homeland Security.

      • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Not sure exactly, but the oil industry was originally suppressing all info about the phenomena entirely and denying it completely. Despite internally oil companies knew water levels would rise (they spent billions building their oil platforms at sea with the ability to rise with the sea levels), externally they spread propaganda and suppressed research for decades before finally admitting it was real

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          Everyone in the room making decisions that would kill hundreds of millions of people so they could keep poisoning the air and water should be shot, and everyone who’s already dead should have their graves defiled and made into monuments to their most humiliating personal moments in life

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    I hate people that think and talk like this. If you genuinely believe this, you should not be allowed to vote, talk, or use the internet until you learn better. (At minimum)

    Fuckers have the object perminance of a baby. Can’t even claim to want to retvrn to the 50s where this level of snowfall would be common. Can’t be nostalgic or anything if you can’t see the massive change that occured during YOUR fucking lifetime. Or the fact that last year was a joke of a winter.

    The fact we let shitheads like this control things is an abomination. Truly a crime to everyone and everything.

  • https://redsails.org/sartre-reason-falsely/

    Jean-Paul Sartre How can one choose to reason falsely? (1944) 3 minutes | English Español Français हिंदी

    From Reflections on the Jewish Question (Part I of Antisemite and Jew).

    How can one choose to reason falsely? It is because of a longing for impenetrability.

    The rational man groans as he gropes for the truth; he knows that his reasoning is no more than tentative, that other considerations may supervene to cast doubt on it. He never sees very clearly where he is going; he is “open”; he may even appear to be hesitant. But there are people who are attracted by the durability of a stone. They wish to be massive and impenetrable; they wish not to change. Where, indeed, would change take them? We have here a basic fear of oneself and of truth. What frightens them is not the content of truth, of which they have no conception, but the form itself of truth, that thing of indefinite approximation. It is as if their own existence were in continual suspension.

    But they wish to exist all at once and right away. They do not want any acquired opinions; they want them to be innate. Since they are afraid of reasoning, they wish to lead the kind of life wherein reasoning and research play only a subordinate role, wherein one seeks only what he has already found, wherein one becomes only what he already was. This is nothing but passion. Only a strong emotional bias can give a lightning‐like certainty; it alone can hold reason in leash; it alone can remain impervious to experience and last for a whole lifetime.

    The antisemite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussions about the rights of the Jew appear to him. He has placed himself on other ground from the beginning. If out of courtesy he consents for a moment to defend his point of view, he lends himself but does not give himself. He tries simply to project his intuitive certainty onto the plane of discourse. I mentioned awhile back some remarks by antisemites, all of them absurd: “I hate Jews because they make servants insubordinate, because a Jewish furrier robbed me, etc.”

    Never believe that antisemites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The antisemites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.

    If the antisemite is impervious to reason and to experience, it is not because his conviction is strong. Rather, his conviction is strong because he has chosen first of all to be impervious.