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[–] li10@feddit.uk 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was some article on my local news site about steps the council is taking to combat climate change.

Meanwhile, some guy in the comments saying “It’s lovely in my garden…”

Thanks, Nigel, you crusty old bastard. Few more years and we’ll be putting you in the cars, you fucking dinosaur.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Few more years and we’ll be putting you in the cars, you fucking dinosaur.

If only they could actually make themselves that useful.

[–] Quik2007@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don’t really like the conspiracy theory of the moon landing being fake next to mass surveillance after 9/11 - which really happened as shown by Snowden.

To deny things like e.g. the mass surveillance after 9/11 does not make us more believable and doesn’t make it more likely to convince climate change deniers.

[–] bdiddy@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

bruh.. You maybe missed the entire part where there are lots of people who think 9/11 was an inside job, false flag, whatever they think. Ever heard the phrase "jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams"

That's the reference here. Not that we went into a crazy surveillance state.

[–] Novman@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the fact is that 9/11 , whatever kind of job was ( inside? External? Mixed? ) , was used to push a surveillance state, as they waited for the right occasion. As covid with lockdowns and cashless society push. The fear that climate change will be used to push other autoritarian measures it is not conspiracy, is a fact.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. -Milton Freidman

See also: Brexit

Joe Biden famously claimed that the PATRIOT Act was based on his legislation, a counter-terrorism omnibus bill that had failed previously.

They always seem to have plenty of unsavory ideas "lying around."

[–] LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

i think it would have worked if it had the word fake before disasters, implying the conspiracy theories that all of those were hoaxes made by the government instead of just being about the reactions to them

[–] Novman@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

The denial of mass surveillance and mass control make climate change as a fake news. You deny mass surveillance, so your theory is fake.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are we gonna ignore the bearded Chad just tanking the raging flood waters in the first panel? Dude don't give a fuck.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lmao damn Jewish space lasers!

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

First comes the fully automated luxury gay space communism. Only then can we build the jewish space lasers.

[–] elouboub@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that a real belief or an exaggeration?

[–] LuckyCharmsNSoyMilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The leading Democratic mischief-maker is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who advocates some left-wing views I consider simplistic and impractical and, in some cases, poll badly. The top example of a conservative mischief-maker, presented in perfect symmetry, is Marjorie Taylor Greene.

This author is like Shrodinger's dumbass: I can't tell whether he's being facetious or if he's actually pulling the BoTh SiDEs card, as if these two reps are even remotely comparable.

Oh, for sure. Just the first thing that came up.

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exaggeration......... buuut, remember when people said Billy Gates put 5G microchips in the vaccine? We're not that far.

[–] argv_minus_one 1 points 1 year ago

Heh. If we had tech like that, a lot of today's diseases wouldn't exist.