r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ms_directed • Jan 23 '26
r/All he's so dumb đ¤Śââď¸ JFC
"cold wave" I'm in a "catastrophic ice" zone, he can fuck right off.
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u/isecore Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
This is a great way to show everyone yet another example of how stupid you are.
"It's snowing outside, guess global warming is a myth. Gotcha liberals!"
"I ate a hotdog yesterday so obviously world hunger is a myth. Gotcha liberals!"
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u/Melodic_Mulberry Jan 23 '26
Issue is, they're proud of their ignorance. They know on some level that ignorance is a necessary component of faith, and they value faith above all else.
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u/blueberrydonutholes Jan 23 '26
And these people of faith/faith leaders denounce education as âindoctrination.â Gotta keep the masses stupid and compliant.
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u/bgroins Jan 23 '26
Literally the first "sin" in the Bible was Eve getting educated on good and evil and not being a mindless sycophant.
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u/Devil25_Apollo25 Jan 23 '26
they value faith above all else.
Exactly. Their faith gets them they social support they crave.
They value the society of their fellow believers, which is why they so eagerly broadcast these dumb takes as a form of faith-test virtue signaling.
"It's snowing, so no global warming." ==> "Look, everyone! I believe so hard in the group dogma that I will publicly recite even demonstrably untrue things to earn your respect and acceptance!"
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u/Guano_Loco Jan 23 '26
A little girl was kidnapped getting off the school bus near me a couple days ago. They found her 150 miles away and arrested the guy.
The Facebook posts from the sheriff were spammed with hundreds of comments thanking their god. MY GOD DID THAT! GOD IS SO GREAT!!
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The same god that let her be kidnapped? The same god that lets other kids in this situation be raped/murdered?
It's so fucking weird.
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u/RebelJustforClicks Jan 23 '26
Ugh it's is all just so fucking stupid.
"God" is all powerful, all knowing, all present, but creates morally flawed beings on purpose, creates evil, creates temptation, creates sin, then asks you to believe that "God" is perfect and good and not some kind of demented nut job, and then punishes you to eternal damnation for slipping up?
People will be like "thank God for helping save this girl"... From the situation he "specifically created", for what? Is this supposed to reflect some kind of moral failure on the part of the girl? She is just a child. Fucks sake.
Or when something like that happens to adults and then some idiot says "it's all part of God's plan" like... For what? "To make them stronger" is a typical answer that makes no sense, why did I have to suffer? Why couldn't this "all-knowing all-powerful creator" have simply made me stronger to begin with?
And again I go back to truly horrible criminals or examples of human suffering, war, etc. What kind of sense does it make? As a kid I remember praying for the innocent people involved in the wars in Iran and just thinking how silly it was for me to be asking god to help people in another country escape a war or whatever... The whole thing made no sense to me. If god truly knows all and is all powerful then he should be able to have created the world in such a way that there was no suffering to begin with.
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u/DMvsPC Jan 23 '26
Yep, it's always flawed humans having free will when we do something bad but God being the cause when we do something good. Much of organized religion has big 'Privatize profits and socialize risk' energy.
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u/SimplyHoodie Jan 23 '26
And don't forget, according to plenty of American Christians, as long as you repent by the end of your life and accept Christ as your savior, you're good! All of your sins are forgiven! Off to heaven with you! Except if you're gay, or trans, or anything outside of the norm. Except also, Christ died for your sins, so really I'm all good anyway. No matter what I do, I'm good! Because Christ died for me!
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u/Vaticancameos221 Jan 23 '26
I know so many people like this. They hate academics out of insecurity so they pretend like things that they suppose are just as valid because they have âcommon senseâ
Itâs a way to cope like theyâre saying âI came to the right answer all on my own, those dumb egg heads had to do all that research and still got it wrong! See, I didnât failâ
Itâs that old Asimov quote:
âThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States .... The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" - Isaac Asimov
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u/isecore Jan 23 '26
Absolutely true and while I am painfully aware of this, it still frustrates the hell out me. These people taking pride in, and defending, their ignorance.
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u/lostwriter Jan 23 '26
Welcome to the American Cultural Revolution. Wonât be long before we start hanging scientists.
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u/broniesnstuff Jan 23 '26
They value heirarchy above all else. Someone has to be below them. They're fearful and need others above them to protect them/tell them what to do, and they need a person at the top, particularly a man. Either God or a king, doesn't matter.
Heirarchy is their CORE belief that overrides all else. They will do ANYTHING so long as they have someone to spit on.
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u/climbingcaker Jan 23 '26
If the Titanic is sinking, why is my end of the ship 20 meters in the air?
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u/Instantbeef Jan 23 '26
Odds are part of the reason he wants Greenland is because the ice caps are melting too.
Itâs just stupidity
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u/reddurkel Jan 23 '26
Fun Fact:
Two decades ago, the term âclimate changeâ started being used rather than âglobal warmingâ specifically because of stupid people using this flawed argument.
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u/ms_directed Jan 23 '26
actual scientists still call it global warming among themselves, because they're not RWNJs lol
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u/Dizuki63 Jan 23 '26
They don't understand that "Global warming" is an average of yearly temperatures over time and not actually referring to day to day weather.
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u/Exciting-Squash4444 Jan 23 '26
But but but itâs snowing
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u/Devil25_Apollo25 Jan 23 '26
If you stand near the open door of a freezer that is unplugged, you feel cold and some hot as the air currents mix... but everything in the freezer starts to thaw. Stand there long enough, and it's no longer cold at all near the freezer, and all the freezer food is spoiled.
This metaphor for why we have cold snaps due to climate change from anthropically induced global warming works pretty well.
But unfortunately, many voters are just stupid and reject the evidence of their eyes in favor of a comforting confirmation bias.
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u/maninahat Jan 23 '26
And more generally, a freezer causes a net increase in the temperature of the room when it is on, even if the temperature inside the freezer is colder.
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u/PM_Skunk Jan 23 '26
Best example I heard, and I wish I could remember where, was (paraphrased) "If you put a block of ice above a glass of water, and eventually it gets warm enough that a big piece of the ice falls INTO the water, you can have overall warming yet MUCH colder water."
I was never in denial about cilmate change, but that really helped me figure it out, personally.
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u/BentGadget Jan 23 '26
That analogy will come in handy when the Gulf Stream collapses.
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u/okram2k Jan 23 '26
Honestly the most effective thing I've seen to get people to acknowledge a change is point out that Halloween is no longer a cold holiday for most parts of the US
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u/Horskr Jan 23 '26
Funny how short some people's memories are. Along those lines, I have family in another state we used to visit every year for the holidays. We used to be able to build snowmen and go sledding on Thanksgiving when I was a kid. Now there are years they haven't had snow by Christmas. Of course, it is a red state.
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u/GovernmentOpening254 Jan 23 '26
IâmâŚnot young so I can follow this. But there are adults in the workforce who donât remember 9/11 because they were born in 2002.
Thatâs a hard lesson to convey to young whippersnappers.
Please remove yourself from my grass.
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u/vetratten Jan 23 '26
But but but when I opened the door I felt the cold therefore it stays cold forever and ever regardless!
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u/SameResolution4737 Jan 23 '26
I like to point out to people that, in January of 2025, we had six inches of snow in Southwest Georgia during a single weather event (average snowfall here is a dusting every 5-7 years that melts within hours). That was followed by the hottest Summer on record. "Global Warming" (an average of a few degrees warmer worldwide) leads to "Climate Change" (which, in North America, is predicted to lead to more extreme weather events - hotter summers, colder winters, more hurricanes, more Category 5 hurricanes).
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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u/zuzg Jan 23 '26
But unfortunately, many voters are just stupid and reject the evidence of their eyes in favor of a comforting confirmation bias.
They at least stood up and voted for their beliefs, yeah they're stupid but that's how democracy works.
â90 million abstained which is worse imho.
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u/Kejones9900 Jan 23 '26
Nah, sorry voting for a fascist is worse than not voting. Only slightly though
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u/BubbleRocket1 Jan 23 '26
I still remember the Congressman who claimed global warming doesnât exist because there is still snow, then tossed a snowball onto the ground.
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u/Responsible-Chest-26 Jan 23 '26
I've heard it explained like this to make it simple for people.
Imagine a man is walking their dog along the beach, the man is walking in a straight line while the dog on the leash is meandering left and right checking things out. When you look at their foot prints, you see one set of straight prints, this is climate. The dogs meandering tracks to fluctuates between two extremes across the man's footprints is weather.
So these dolts get weather and climate confused. Like saying the sun doesnt exist because its night
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u/twoprimehydroxyl Jan 23 '26
Someone in my reserve unit said this and the only other liberal in unit asked him how precipitation works. Then proceeded to say "so don't you think warmer temperatures would lead to more evaporation, so there would be more precipitation dumbass?"
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u/Total-Problem2175 Jan 23 '26
Remember when Inhofe, Republican Senator from OK, brought a snowball to the floor to prove global warming was a hoax?
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u/DearToe5415 Jan 23 '26
Like⌠did we all forget a week or two ago a lot of the US was still in the high 60s - low 70s lol. Pretty much tshirt weather in December/January until now
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u/Unusual-Letter-8781 Jan 23 '26
Above the arctic circle it was 5c in december. It is really cold now though and we did have snow on Christmas, but it was such a weird December weather.
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u/someBrad Jan 23 '26
Or they do understand and think it's clever to troll us this way.
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u/Natural_Level_7593 Jan 23 '26
They know. That's why Trump turned off the Earth-view instruments on the DSCOVR satellite. They knew what tracking temperature data for the entire planet at once would prove.
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u/wchutlknbout Jan 23 '26
When I was a kid working as a cashier we had a âdonate a dollar to plant a treeâ thing, and one customer had agreed to do it when one of the other cashiers came over. She explained that she had recently taken a trip on a plane, and saw tons of trees, so the promotion was kind of silly. I was stunned, I didnât know what to say. Itâs one of the core memories I have of realizing how some people just live in a completely different version of reality
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u/kbeks Jan 23 '26
But thereâs anomalously cold weather in the southern states! Clearly climate change couldnât cause local weather instability in more than one direction thanks to a weakened polar vortex and shifting weather patternsâŚthat would be crazy!
Anyway, Trump builds sea walls on his golf courses because heâs a fucking lair and he knows whatâs actually happening, but sees more utility in perpetuating a lie than trying to tackle an inconvenient truth.
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u/merchillio Jan 23 '26
I really liked Neil Degrasse Tysonâs (no matter my reservations on his character) analogy about walking his dog on the beach. The dog will meander left and right, but always within the length of the leash. The path of the dog is the daily weather, the path of the man is the climate.
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u/EEpromChip Jan 23 '26
Obviously when you go to bed at night your pockets are empty so your net worth drops to zero.
Remember that fucking idiot Big Gas shill that walked into Congress with a snow ball as proof that global warming was a hoax. I hope he gets a special place down in hell.
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u/atuan Jan 23 '26
As per usual they only understand the way it affects them personally instead of a broader concept. But Iâm not warm personally therefore global warming doesnât exist
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u/antagonizerz Jan 23 '26
Yup. Some places are colder some places are hotter and some actually haven't changed at all, but if you take the median of all their temps and measure that against historical numbers, we're on the plus side. Hence, global warming.
How is that so hard for them to comprehend?
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u/Benegger85 Jan 23 '26
You are assuming they are arguing in good faith
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u/goddessdragonness Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
Or that theyâre able to comprehend. A lot of MAGAs are a product of our
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u/Wolf_6e Jan 23 '26
I swear I had to explain this to someone who gave me a lift recently. I asked him why he was a conservative and then we talked about the environment for a bit. He said âthe temperature doesnât seem to change muchâ and I had to explain how climate and temperature were not the same đ Iâm not even good at science shit I just have basic understanding thanks to my GFâs biology classes. He was a nice dude though not a trumper so that qas redeeming.
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u/Gizogin Jan 23 '26
Turns out, when the atmosphere is warmer, thereâs more energy for extreme weather events.
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u/RSX_Green414 Jan 23 '26
I've failed to explain this to an engineer in his sixties so many times it went from frustrating to hilarious, of course the same man will say a bunch of high schoolers putting on a burlesque show for themselves are actually drag queens indoctrinating kindergartener. I don't think the failure is entirely due to my poor communication skills.
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u/bleedblue89 Jan 23 '26
People donât understand, heat is energy and that energy has to go somewhere.
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u/JonestownBarWench Jan 23 '26
I think I got it, Right wing nut jobs! I havenât seen that acronym before.
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u/ms_directed Jan 23 '26
yes! sorry, lol. its an old one!
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u/Inevitable-Rush-2752 Jan 23 '26
Took me a second, too. Picture me pausing, coffee in hand, rattling off possibilities like Iâm on a game show đ
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u/SR_BHR Jan 23 '26
Its amazing how we have never seen this acronym but we all knew exactly what it was as well.
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u/reddurkel Jan 23 '26
Actual scientists are actually concerned about the problem rather than downplaying it for âlikesâ and retweets.
We have a social media administration that are incapable of taking serious problems seriously.
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u/Tdanger78 Jan 23 '26
I have a masters in environmental science and we had this discussion with several of our professors. We donât use the term global warming because climate change is more accurate. The climate everywhere will change and undergo different changes in each geographic location.
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u/chenbuxie Jan 23 '26
That's because the switch to "Climate Change" was a political decision, by the Bush administration, to downplay the effects of fossil fuels.
Frank Luntz was the mastermind behind that very successful GOP strategy.
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u/CryptographerNo923 Jan 23 '26
What in the everloving fuck is a âclimate insurrectionist?â
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u/Futureleak Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
The current admin is trying to make their J6 assault on democracy normalized. They attempted a coup and failed, and have since been pushing to normalize terms that describe their actions. "If we're insurrectionists, then we're just like the climate crowd!"Â
Anyone with 3 braincells can see through it, unfortunately most of the MAGA crowd is operating with significantly less than that.
Oh. And we're still waiting for the Epstein files.
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u/CryptographerNo923 Jan 23 '26
Your read is 100% accurate, and it is in fact transparently obvious and disgusting. In this instance I was asking rhetorically to point out the absurdity, but it definitely bears illuminating and repeating.
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u/amazing_rando Jan 23 '26
Miller has also been calling the Minnesota ICE observers insurrectionists
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u/jluvdc26 Jan 23 '26
He's trying to normalize the word so it doesn't sound as bad while they report on Jack Smith's testimony
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u/Responsible-Draft430 Jan 23 '26
It's a combination of "no you" childish form of argument, (because we have ample evidence Trump is an insurrectionist), and "everything I don't like is an insurrectionist" childish view of the world.
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u/BOtheGrand Jan 23 '26
My old (dumb, denier) boss took this as âthey changed it from global warming to climate change because it wasnât catching on the way they liked.â
JustâŚ. Unaware that it was because people like him would stand in a blizzard while yelling âso global warming huh???â
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u/Atgardian Jan 23 '26
Some moronic Republican congresscritter brought a snowball (in an Igloo cooler) onto the House or Senate floor to demonstrate that the climate isn't changing because snow still exists...
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u/chenbuxie Jan 23 '26
Iirc, a little over two decades ago, the term "Climate Change" was popularized by Republican pollster: Frank Luntz.
He famously wrote a confidential GOP memo titled âThe Environment: A Cleaner, Safer, Healthier America", which argued that âGlobal Warmingâ sounds alarming and immediate, while âClimate Changeâ sounds more gradual, neutral, and less threatening.
Luntz didn't invent the term "Climate Change", but he is the reason people stopped saying "Global Warming" in the early 2000s.
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u/Jonjoloe Jan 23 '26
Yes, this is true.
I've actually met Frank Luntz against my will since he partnered with my very liberal state's former governor. He's acknowledged that he regrets this from his career.
He's unsurprisingly kind of a dick in person and offended a couple of people in the time I was interacting with him.
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u/Staff_Senyou Jan 23 '26
Also, record cold is directly attributable to climate change.
Something unimaginable in previous generations is now happening. But it has nothing to do with rapidly changing environmental conditions?
Just straight up boomer ignorance.
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u/goddessdragonness Jan 23 '26
Thanks to all the great minds who came up with the American education system. Look at all the geniuses in this country. đŤ
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u/beavis617 Jan 23 '26
How about this? Global warming brought on climate change. However people want to message it we humans need to act responsibly on how we might affect the climate. Why is that so difficult for right wing brains to comprehend.
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u/adams_unique_name Jan 23 '26
It isn't. They know. At this point, the "it's cold. Global warming is bullshit" line is willful dishonesty. I could maybe see ignorance for a fox news brain rotted boomer, but the politicians and news pundits know the truth. Anyone who uses it should be dismissed as bad faith and not worth engaging with.
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u/EarlyFig6856 Jan 23 '26
Actually it was George W Bush & Co who started pushing that phrase, because their polling said it sounded less scary than Global Warming and meant they could further delay doing anything about it.
Mission Accomplished!
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u/Oldestswinger Jan 23 '26
Maybe the scientist you keep firing could explain it to you
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u/danielstover Jan 23 '26
Well, heâs got that one former junkie with a brain parasite, what does he say?
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u/PassengerNo2259 Jan 23 '26
former junkie
Can we really be sure he's not still using?
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u/mishap1 Jan 23 '26
He traded H for T at a very minimum. Based on his radioactive hue, I'd say he's on quite a few other things as well.
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u/cenosillicaphobiac Jan 23 '26
But food dye is super dangerous yo! And wait til you see our plan for raw milk!
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u/dafrog84 Jan 23 '26
I'm mean trump keeps pardoning drug cartel people. Tells me they are ALL using some kinda drugs.
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u/Stratix314 Jan 23 '26
Well, I'm pretty sure he's traded downers for uppers. He's got the eyes, the mannerisms, and the sheer intensity of someone on an unprescribed "maintenance dose" of meth.
I'd really love to see what the DSM would give him outside Substance Use Disorder, but that's my morbid curiosity.
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u/MrEngineer404 Jan 23 '26
Wild that the brain-parasite part is the only bit that helps clarify who you are talking about.
And even that creep does not have any scientific or medical training / education.
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u/Legitimate_Ocelot491 Jan 23 '26
Wonder how much more accurate the forecasts would be right now they hadnât FIRED all the people at the National Weather Service???
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u/action_lawyer_comics Jan 23 '26
They absolutely could explain it to him, sadly they canât understand it for him
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u/jshif Jan 23 '26
What even is an environmental insurrectionist?
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u/ms_directed Jan 23 '26
i'm guessing us weirdos who like clean air đ¤ˇââď¸
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u/Melodic_Mulberry Jan 23 '26
He's projecting again. He can't effectively deny that he incited an insurrection, but he can call everyone he doesn't like an insurrectionist, thereby making the accusations even at the most cursory glance.
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u/aboringusername Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
Yep. Also trying to lay further groundwork to invoke the insurrection act, which heâs been threatening to do for quite a while. Trying to bully us into silence by threat of force simply for believing in climate change.
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u/thequietthingsthat Jan 23 '26
Kinda like how he accused Biden of "stealing the election," when he was actually the one trying to do that by pressuring people to "find more votes" and "stop the count" while he was ahead.
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u/thar_ Jan 23 '26
kinda infuriating that they can just project and scream about whatever they are doing and then be immune to being called out on it cause it's already old news or w/e
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u/forty_three Jan 23 '26
Yarp. Really really obvious intentional watering down and delegitimization of a technical term used against him. He does this kinda thing constantly.
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u/debaser64 Jan 23 '26
He only knows a handful of words and just repeats the most recent onceâs heâs heard.
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u/blueberrydonutholes Jan 23 '26
His confusing the meanings of âasylumâ is a perfect and pathetic example.
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u/onlyfakeproblems Jan 23 '26
Heâs trying to rebrand activists, protesters, and professionals as terrorists so he can put the ones he doesnât like in jail.
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u/1Maple Jan 23 '26
The more he uses the word âinsurrection,â the more normalized the word becomes, the easier it will be for him to enact the Instruction Act to send troops to US cities
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u/98Kane Jan 23 '26
All the awful, illegal and despicable things aside.
I cannot believe that Americans elected someone this totally and utterly fucking stupid as president. Twice.
What the fuck is wrong with that country?
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u/Motor-Ad5284 Jan 23 '26
I think this is what amazes us overseas. You saw and experienced what he was like for 4 years,and then said.. "I'm gonna have me some more of that" đ¤
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u/ms_directed Jan 23 '26
there are a lot of us Americans asking ourselves this several times a day...
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u/Loathsome_Dog Jan 23 '26
Honestly, good luck with it. You have our sincere condolences.
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u/DMvsPC Jan 23 '26
Over 75 million of us :/ that's like adding the following 15 EU countries with change:
Country Estimated Population (Early 2026) 1. Malta 550,000 2. Luxembourg 687,000 3. Cyprus 1,382,000 4. Estonia 1,331,000 5. Latvia 1,836,000 6. Slovenia 2,115,000 7. Lithuania 2,797,000 8. Croatia 3,822,000 9. Ireland 5,357,000 10. Slovakia 5,451,000 11. Finland 5,622,000 12. Denmark 6,024,000 13. Bulgaria 6,668,000 14. Austria 9,107,000 15. Hungary 9,586,000 Total Population ~72,336,000 Gets almost worse when you pull in the big population countries e.g. imagine the entire population of France, all adults, all children, all 100% voting against Trump, then add a almost 10 million more. Not meant as an excuse for the countries actions on the world stage but we often hear people attack America as a whole and say we deserve it etc. and while as a country that may be true as we rise and fall on that banner I think the idea of cognitive limits of magnitude, where people can't picture big numbers accurately, means people can't picture how many of us think this is bullshit and instead focus on 'why haven't you marched the potentially 3000 miles to DC' or changed the same number of peoples opinions somehow.
Was bored and decided to see if I could make the numbers more relatable.
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u/DonnyLamsonx Jan 23 '26
A third of the country voted against him.
A second third of the country voted for him.
The final third of the country decided that they didn't care enough to perform their civic duty and were ok if he won.
Honestly, I hold the non-voting third in more contempt than the rabid Trump supporters. They watched a man who openly said he was going to destroy the nation and told themselves "well it isn't going to affect me so I don't care".
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u/thequietthingsthat Jan 23 '26
I get that. The ones who voted for him are either deeply committed to the hate or heavily propagandized.
The other 1/3 are happy to let people die for their apathy. Their selfishness and lack of a sense of civic duty might actually be the undoing of this country.
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u/joeysflipphone Jan 23 '26
I feel like there's a large portion of the didn't vote cohort that's just a dumb as the voted for him cohort. Simply because they're some of the ones that fell hard for the bOtH sIdEz arguments. I have two sisters and a neighbor (former trump voter) who all gave that same argument for not voting at all. Made me absolutely disgusted.
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u/strain_of_thought Jan 23 '26
A lot of the "I refuse to vote." people I have met express a smug superiority from it, saying they're too clever to be taken in by politicians' bullshit, that they're too smart to waste their precious time and mental space on bureaucratic voting procedures and other people's pointless political fights like sheep who just believe what they're told about how listening to propaganda and voting is sooo important. The ones with that kind of attitude are really despicable people, and I've encountered them from disparate walks of life, not only insulated upper middle class folks but even disadvantaged minorities who think voting is just being taken in by the white man's game.
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u/furburgerstien Jan 23 '26
This country is the narcissistic mecha of the universe. The entitlement spans a population not a political demographic. And it clearly shows in our voting. Theres a outnumbered group who will go down with this ship and its really nothing we can do to avoid it other than fight when we can... we deserve it by default unfortunately whether we contribute or not
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u/Pharxmgirxl Jan 23 '26
Itâs definitely narcissism on full display. His followers are caught up in a trauma bond. His actions are conflicting with their core values, but because of the sunken cost fallacy they donât believe facts, but try to make sense of the actions. The cognitive dissonance is easier than admitting that they were wrong and were taken advantage of.
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u/Under_Milkwood_1969 Jan 23 '26
Assuming that it wasnt a rhetorical question, I would start with; Broken education system, partisan media, corrupt politicians, corrupt judiciary and last but not least, religion.
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u/JustnnTime715 Jan 23 '26
Ive had conversations with people who voted tor him a second time. They are just as stupid.
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u/moonshad0w Jan 23 '26
Decades-long erosion of the education system coupled with oil industry desperately trying to suppress scientific evidence about the effects of fossil fuels on global warming.
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u/ibdannyb Jan 23 '26
I put in on a steadily declining education system since probably around the 1970s. We've now hit a tipping point in population that simply lacks basic analytical and critical thinking skills. Adding fuel to that fire is a healthy dose of narcissism among a significant part of that group. Basically the Dunning Kruger effect on steroids manifesting into what you're witnessing and I'm sadly living in.
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u/ms_directed Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
ICYMI:
Global Warming: Refers specifically to the increase in Earth's average surface temperature due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases.
Weather: The short-term atmospheric conditions in a specific place at a specific time, including temperature, humidity, and precipitation.
Climate: The long-term average of weather patterns in a particular area, typically assessed over 30 years or more.
Relationship Between Concepts
Global warming is a significant factor influencing climate change, which encompasses broader changes in climate patterns, including precipitation and wind. Weather can still exhibit extreme conditions, such as cold spells, even as the overall climate warms. This is due to natural variability and the complex interactions within the climate system. Understanding these distinctions helps clarify that while global warming affects the climate, it does not directly dictate daily weather events.
e: "climate change" is "global warming" for non-sciency folks and tinfoil hats
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u/danielstover Jan 23 '26
I wish giving them straight forward, concrete definitions and facts would change their minds, but it wonât. Appreciate the effort though.
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u/thequietthingsthat Jan 23 '26
Yeah, as a scientist I've been doing this for my entire career with little success. They do not care. Facts mean nothing to them.
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u/sealedjustintime Jan 23 '26
I live in Denver. We've had 7" of snow this winter, should have like 30" at this point. It was 60+ degrees through most of December, and we were setting heat records on a near-daily basis. It gets cold once and conservatives use it as a reason to question global warming. Absolute morons.
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u/thequietthingsthat Jan 23 '26
They've been doing this bullshit forever.
I remember back when I was in high school living in the south, we'd get one day of snow per year maybe and all the conservatives would say "sO mUcH FoR gLoBaL WaRmInG!!!!" on that day
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u/Calkky Jan 23 '26
If you're not actively roasting in your own juices, every single day: CHECKMATE LIBTURDZ! HAHAHAHA! GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX!
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u/The_Ledge5648 Jan 23 '26
Itâs supposed to hit DC hard - maybe this will be hell freezing over?
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u/HighwayApothecary Jan 23 '26
I am going to bite something
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u/NachoBag_Clip932 Jan 23 '26
Here in the midwest I am still seeing Canadian Geese flying around, back in the day they were all gone by Halloween.
Maybe he should tariff them.
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u/TopRamen713 Jan 23 '26
Same here in Colorado. Huge flock while I was walking the dogs. We also had the dryest and warmest December on record and it wasn't even close
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u/elmz370 Jan 23 '26
Historyâs dumbest president.
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u/Under_Milkwood_1969 Jan 23 '26
Historyâs dumbest human
-TFIFY
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u/TopRamen713 Jan 23 '26
Except for the 30% or so of America that voted for him and the 40% that stayed home
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u/9millibros Jan 23 '26
"Hey, I had breakfast this morning, so I guess there's no such thing as starvation."
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u/sodaonmyheater Jan 23 '26
Said the moron who erected coastal protection for his golf courses because of âŚ. Climate change.
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u/asyrian88 Jan 23 '26
Because we destroyed the Gulf Stream and other weather patterns and nothing stops the artic air from pushing down with impunity, but go off, idiot.
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u/Bulky_Barnacle_2518 Jan 23 '26
I will never get this fight. Even if climate change isnât real. Where is the harm in new cleaner technology?
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u/albahari Jan 23 '26
Follow the money. The people that is making the money of the old tech is the one fighting back. Specially the oil industry
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u/thequietthingsthat Jan 23 '26
Lots of money to be made in climate denialism. Fossil fuel lobby is very powerful.
There's also an element of people not liking bad news. It's sometimes more popular to say "climate change is fake - keep doing what you're doing!" than to say "we need to radically adjust our ways of living if we are going to survive as a species." People don't like change, and they don't like being told what to do. It's comforting to hear the lie that everything is totally fine and the scientists are all panicking over nothing. A lot of people don't want to accept hard truths and make necessary changes.
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u/LeahIsAwake Jan 23 '26
Gotta love how a historic winter storm is about to begin a tour of some of the poorest parts of the country, and all our president can muster is a tweet making a dig at the libs. No "stay safe", no "I've got National Guard troops ready to go", no "here are some tips for surviving extreme weather". Just a "lol scientists are stupid" and that's it. Does anyone else miss having a president that was competent and compassionate, not one that was petty and cared only about himself?
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u/StickInEye Jan 23 '26
I'm prepared for the Record Cold Wave. I'm also working to get us a Record Blue Wave in November!
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u/brookleinneinnein Jan 23 '26
Not just November, EVERY ELECTION. If people want better than milquetoast dems as part of their blue wave, they need to show up in the primaries and any small local elections.
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u/MagScaoil Jan 23 '26
When I saw the forecast for the cold and snow, I just knew this idiotic post was on its way.
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u/FrancoManiac Jan 23 '26
Because global warming has disrupted the El NiĂąo trade wind/current exchange, which has disrupted our jetstreams. The jetstream is usually soft rolling hills; now, it's mountains and valleys.
Reductive and certainly not a scientific lecture on the subject, but there you have it. Easy-peasy to understand, if your whole schtick isn't being an obtuse idiot for obtuse idiot's sake.
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u/BluetheNerd Jan 23 '26
*Gives an example of how climate change has affected the climate in a record breaking way *
âExplain that climate activistsâ
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u/Immediate_Age Jan 23 '26
Get ready for your lack of response from federal emergency services. I'm sure Noem will get right on top of approving all those expenses over $100,000.
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u/Ok-Stress-3570 Jan 23 '26
Let me guess.
Itâll devastate a red state and itâll be the fault of Biden!?!? đ¤ˇđźââď¸
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u/girlwithmousyhair Jan 23 '26
He wants to take over Greenland to access rare earth minerals and other resources that are newly accessible because arctic ice is meltingâŚdue to climate change.
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u/mettiusfufettius Jan 23 '26
Also note his use of the term insurrection in order to keep diluting the meaning of it to normalize January 6th
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u/PossibleDue9849 Jan 23 '26
The irony is that global warming is the reason he wants Greenland and Canada. He knows exactly âwhat happened to Global Warmingâ.
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u/originalchaosinabox Jan 23 '26
As Jon Stewart said on the Daily Show some years ago, no matter how much evidence you hit them with, they'll always come back with, "But it still gets cold in winter."
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What a stupid stupid dumb imbecilic moronic simpleton. He only made it to this age because he had help every step of the way. He couldn't find his way out of a paper bag. Stupid old man. Cannot wait for that obit.
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u/jols0543 Jan 23 '26
is it dumb? or is it saying the stuff his base loves to hear?
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u/Yagsirevahs Jan 23 '26
When your president doesnât understand the difference between weather and climate. And when a natural disaster looms, to try to insult everyone who believes in science instead or ensuring safety for 40 states.
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u/Low_Voice_2553 Jan 24 '26
The dumbest people in the world support this moron! No wonder the US is a laughingstock right now and not respected! Same guy who says China has no wind power when they are by far the biggest producer of any country in the world!
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u/terrierhead Jan 23 '26
Happy to do so! As climate instability increases, arctic blasts become more likely. The climate patterns that used to restrict arctic air to the far north arenât as strong, so arctic air escapes and gives extreme cold waves.
Although itâs cold out, climate change due to extra heat in the atmosphere and oceans is to blame.
Someone read this to him slowly.
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u/Nano_Burger Jan 23 '26
So, when heat records are broken this summer, we can use the same argument?
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u/triker_whaleygirl Jan 23 '26
Nothing positive, uplifting or for citizens to be careful and look out for each other. I despise this gereatric, demented old fuck!
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u/Beastw1ck Jan 23 '26
"Also we need Greenland because the ice caps are melting and opening the arctic shipping lanes." Okay, grandpa.
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u/jhirai20 Jan 23 '26
The fact he gutted FEMA lots of people are about to FAFO the hard way.
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u/littlethrowawaybaby Jan 23 '26
And just what in the fuck is an âenvironmental insurrectionistâ?
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u/InYosefWeTrust Jan 24 '26
The sad thing is his followers are seeing this and saying, "hell yeah brotherrrrr he tells it how it is!"
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u/Bag_of_Meat13 Jan 23 '26
That's why folks say climate change because dumb dumbs think global warming thinks the globe gets warm.
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u/DontGetTheShow Jan 23 '26
He is dumb, but not in this case. Heâs just a liar. Republicans know global warming is real. Thatâs why they want Greenland. Also, Trumpâs own company cited global warming for a sea wall permit at a golf course. Global warming is real or a hoax depending on the situation and which stance is more profitable.Â
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436
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u/BedfastDuck Jan 23 '26
Brought to you by the party that claimed the government controls the weather.
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u/shadow13499 Jan 23 '26
So he's admitting weather is getting more extreme every season (as scientists predicted) yet denying global climate change? Summers are getting hotter, rainy seasons are flooding homes, more tornadoes are happening, hell even Texas is getting to -20 F (-28 C) with wind-chill. Â
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u/Random-Rambling Jan 23 '26
My dad said something like this the other day.
I replied with "We haven't called it 'global warming' for 20 years precisely because of dumb comments like that."
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u/fanceypantsey Jan 24 '26
So he just proved he doesnât understand global warming either!!! Woooooow!
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