This is partly the media's fault but it's also ours as a society. Gossip and drama get more eyeballs than critical but less flashy issues.
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Climate denial will be the official policy of Trumps administration
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This is partly the media's fault but it's also ours as a society. Gossip and drama get more eyeballs than critical but less flashy issues.
ZombiePlatypus
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This senseless shit always makes me laugh. Like, do people who ask "if you're so liberal and tolerant, why don't you tolerate my objectively wrong and hateful stance" think this somehow carries the same weight as pointing out that all self professed Christians should act without hate towards everyone?
Darryl M R
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I don't think you can blame the public for these news stations not reporting news regardless if it is popular.
If TMZ wants to cover drama let them. But why is CNN having these terrible spin casters deflect one issue and another?
Maybe we can just start classifying all of these organizations as entertainment instead.
Yep, something that will change our lives?. Nah most everyone I know won't give a shit. But good news everyone knows more about the next viral meme or celebrity drama.
A Link to the Past
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Isn't that how an Antichrist situation operates? Doesn't the Antichrist sooner try and corrupt the believers and not the agnostics and atheists?
Darryl M R
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This is an argument I hear a lot with Youtubers and podcast hosts that I watch. "Liberals are the least tolerant. They will shut you down and call you a bigot if they do not agree with you."
No one is going to call you a bigot for you saying that you dislike Clinton's aggressive foreign policies or that you think steak is best cooked well done.
Trickster
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Keeping up with the kardashians is important stuff man, how else would i have something to talk about with my friends?
CNN's job is the same as TMZs: to sell ads. If we as a public click more or difficult, important issues, they'll focus on it. The public cares 1000x more about 'scandals' and 'controversy' than they do about these kinds of issues.
Can someone help me find the most effective climate change group to donate to? Googling brings up a bunch of pictures of Leonardo Di Caprio.
I was going to wait until next year to donate any savings from a Trump tax plan but I want to start with this year's bonus.
I was going to wait until next year to donate any savings from a Trump tax plan but I want to start with this year's bonus.
hydragonwarrior
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Although this is also a failure on the media's part to actually make climate change a matter worth worrying about. So long as the US has Fox News, Limbaugh and various Republican outlets absolutely abusing the First Amendment to allow them to say bullshit like climate change is a hoax, then I can't see much changing for Dems or the U.S. in the coming years.
Nikodemos
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Fair enough, since dis/un believers would be much harder to convince/corrupt on account of their general scepticism.
Darryl M R
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Sure it is baffling. Until you consider that many people who accept that climate change is real don't seem to live accordingly. Which might be worse. But conceptually it seems to me there is very little difference.
WeAreStarStuff
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Well maybe the super volcano in Yellowstone will blow; I think we're due.
peteykirch
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Trump is going to save the US Auto industry by making GM remake the Hummer bigger and better.
God save us.
God save us.
The liberal blue areas will be underwater first, so it wouldn't really help anyone.
peanutbutterlatte
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That's great but there's millions of people who will suffer, Trump being last in line.
Millions already are suffering.
Why not go HAM?
I mean, if Trump's going to fuck this up, this means any potential technological disruption to labor is going to fuck everyone else up, too.
Why not two for one? Let the two worst things experience their fullness in America as a sign that this country shouldn't be leading shit?
hydragonwarrior
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No, if anything Repubs are smart. Right before shit hits the fan, they know how to defer the responsibility to Dems to try to clean things up. They barely do, and then Repubs are back again to tell the populace that Dems are the ones who caused the mess they just cleaned up, or are bad for enacting the harsh policies needed to clean up said mess.
Works in Canada, anyway.
SmackAttack
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It's both amazing and frightening how we as the human race see but choose to completely ignore that we are our own worst enemy and refuse to change. Of course, by the time we do, those who've done the most damage and those who ignored all the warnings will blame everyone but themselves.
In my opinion well beyond it, if you add it all together. US media is awful; not just spineless but at times actively damaging.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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We need a new start
Fine Ham Abounds
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Welp, when you think of it that way
I live in a democracy as well, I know that feeling. Sometimes your best is just not good enough, and all you can do is try harder next time and accept the failure.
BotoxAgent
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that's good news. Hopefully we can smarten up and elect a Democrat in 2020 before this fuckery is really really really too late
LookAtMeGo
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So thats his plan, eh?
Fallout-NL
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brochiller
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Wouldn't be surprised. Just another way to suppress votes.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
It's a cycle
It's all according to God's will
God will fix it
It snows in the winter
Oil companies
That's the point of it not existing. That's why they refuse it.
To give some rich dude, his company and their stockholders some extra $$$. Literally the only reason you'd be anti global warming is if you're willfully ignorant or being paid off by someone.
A lot of religions ask that you do good to the earth, nature, etc.
Global warming denial is about greed.
Many (Most? All?) climate-change denying politicians are in the back-pockets of the oil companies.
Excepting global warming = excepting that we're causing it = excepting that we're causing it because of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions = excepting that the big oil companies (who write you big checks when you're up for re-election) are going to lose money as we embrace alternative sources of energy such as electric and solar.
Chie Satonaka
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Heh heh heh
The Hermit
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welp
Nice knowing you all
Nice knowing you all
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I actually think doubling down on this stuff will be good for the earth in the long run, since it will get rid of this human virus that has been plaguing it so much quicker, and it can get on with things after we're gone.
crazepharmacist
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What do you mean by orange shit?
Obliterator
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The future generations are going to look back at our stances on Climate in horror. We should all be embarrassed
Which God, and thus which will, is canon?
I'm sure the same one that is the deity of the monied interest market making the world worse as it draws blood from the stone.
sechsterangriff
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Well, fuck you too USA. I hope there's a way for the rest of the world to sanction you.
Morrigan Stark
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You are correct but I must say, the repeated misspelling of "accepting" is making me cringe.
Mr. Poolman
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How comes such a small amount of (ignorant) US citizens can take a decision that puts on risk the very survival of the species on the planet???
This isn't right.
This isn't right.
Obliterator
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As fucked up as current Trump / USA stance is, its not even kind of just the US fault. China, India, Russia and many 1st world nations are responsible and have been responsible for emissions and climate change for decades.
Many countries are slowly smartening up, and the US is regressing, but the blame isn't on one country. Frankly there have been warnings for a long time coming and most of the world chose to ignore it until very recently
Trump is basically Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor.
“As far as this issue on climate change — the only thing he [Trump] was saying after being asked a few questions about it is, look, he’ll have an open mind about it but he has his default position, which most of it is a bunch of bunk, but he’ll have an open mind and listen to people.”
#1) Why isn't this part of the OP, since it's from the article, other than to rile people up?
#2) Him having an open mind is mentioned twice in the same quote by Priebus
#3) How is "straight from the horse's mouth" Priebus when it should be from Trump?
#4) It doesn't appear that a site like "thinkprogress.org" is bipartisan.
Hey, Trump has his default views. He made that stupid "Global Warming is made up by China" remark before running. Yet, a more honest article title may be "Trump now has an open mind regarding climate change." But that wouldn't rile people up and get the clicks, I guess. We need to stop with the dissonance for the sake of spite. Sure, his mind may not be very open after all (and I tend to doubt it) but what was said vs what was reported seems quite different.
#1) Why isn't this part of the OP, since it's from the article, other than to rile people up?
#2) Him having an open mind is mentioned twice in the same quote by Priebus
#3) How is "straight from the horse's mouth" Priebus when it should be from Trump?
#4) It doesn't appear that a site like "thinkprogress.org" is bipartisan.
Hey, Trump has his default views. He made that stupid "Global Warming is made up by China" remark before running. Yet, a more honest article title may be "Trump now has an open mind regarding climate change." But that wouldn't rile people up and get the clicks, I guess. We need to stop with the dissonance for the sake of spite. Sure, his mind may not be very open after all (and I tend to doubt it) but what was said vs what was reported seems quite different.
The only silver lining I see is the more stupid shit like this that happens over the next 4 years increases the chance these assholes get voted out in 4 years. Lets just hope its salvageable at least. The average person has no idea how badly we are going to fuck up the earth, and it won't matter to the earth, it will keep going. We will be the ones fucked. Drought, no food supply, bad air quality.
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