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Today in ‘right-wingers parroting Rationalist talking points..’ (https://i.redd.it/xbs0t5kikah31.jpg)
posted on August 18, 2019 11:27 PM by u/TheSpaceYoteReturns
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u/DELETED 30 points at 1566171622.000000

This…is a joke…right?

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u/BoojumG 30 points at 1566172054.000000
I looked at the twitter account and the website by the same name. He's serious. They're both utterly devoted to climate change denial and it doesn't have any of the fun whimsy of satire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy If he's not actually serious, it's only because he's spreading things he knows are false for money.
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u/Snugglerific 8 points at 1566239529.000000
He's been around since the tobacco strategy days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advancement_of_Sound_Science_Center
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u/PetrichorMemories 5 points at 1566202783.000000
He was a GW denier before it was cool. I used to read his site at www.junkscience.com when I was in my edgy libertarian phase.
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 4 points at 1566182208.000000
Satire of this form would fall prey to Poe’s law anyway
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 12 points at 1566182168.000000
I’ve seen rationalists making the exact same argument that climate change isn’t ‘existential risk’ because it won’t literally destroy Earth
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u/PMMeYourJerkyRecipes 11 points at 1566212424.000000
IIRC, a few months back we were sneering at a post from Ozy (who is usually one of the saner Rationalists) where they said that because estimated casualties of global warming were "only" in the 200-400 million range, it wasn't an existential risk and therefore Effective Altruists should ignore it and focus on stopping the evil robots Skynet keeps sending to murder Sarah Connor.
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 8 points at 1566227737.000000
Broke: Give money to climate change prevention Woke: Give money to buying mosquito nets Bespoke: Give money to Eliezer Yudkowsky
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u/deadcelebrities 43 points at 1566172583.000000

Okay…okay, let’s say the temperature rises to an average of 600 degrees. Let’s say it rises to 800 degrees! You think that people aren’t just going to…sell their houses and move? Trapped with logic!

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u/OwlsParliament 14 points at 1566202344.000000
Sell their houses to who? The Human Torch?!
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u/noactuallyitspoptart 5 points at 1566241322.000000
Dude's fuckin' loaded, he can handle it
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u/BoojumG 13 points at 1566172768.000000
DESTROYED by Ben Shapiro's facts and logic!
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 2 points at 1566182034.000000
Libtard destroyed
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 10 points at 1566182018.000000
*Noise of wall being smashed*
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u/DELETED 13 points at 1566196553.000000

[deleted]

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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 4 points at 1566227629.000000
What the fuck
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u/BoojumG 6 points at 1566258331.000000
Just look up "snowball senate", it's amazing. Happened in early 2015. An actual senator did this.
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 4 points at 1566265748.000000
Jesus
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u/vistandsforwaifu 8 points at 1566211125.000000

“thermonuclear war would be horrible”

Insanity. If not for fusion energy, the Solar system would not even exist.

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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 3 points at 1566227667.000000
I’ve seen people unironically make arguments of this type
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u/Edmund-Nelson 6 points at 1566207091.000000

and 0 life forms live in venus…

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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 2 points at 1566227640.000000
We think
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u/DivineIntent 12 points at 1566171606.000000

Someone please make this man science.

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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 10 points at 1566182111.000000
Like, produce science for him or turn him into science?
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u/DivineIntent 8 points at 1566223662.000000
Either is acceptable.
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 6 points at 1566227750.000000
That’s fair
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u/MrPezevenk 3 points at 1567084035.000000
Convert him into pure scientific knowledge.
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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 2 points at 1567136778.000000
Apotheosis
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u/bobbiewickham 5 points at 1566226544.000000

In fairness, he’s not wrong: Earth will continue to exist! Whether human beings do, in what numbers, and whether it will just be the global elite living in tolerable comfort while the serfs toil while boiling or pound at the gates to be let in from the flood, is another question…

…which I suppose he doesn’t care about, because he thinks he’ll be one of the elite.

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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 3 points at 1566227883.000000
They forget the masses will rise up and kill them all
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u/jedfpp 3 points at 1566295499.000000

What the fuck

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u/TheSpaceYoteReturns 2 points at 1566317584.000000
Yep
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