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What's the most wild and out-there hopium/copium take you've ever heard from a liberal? The more absurd, the better. Give me your biggest whoppers. (hexbear.net)

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Mine's a tie between a near future and a not so near future sci-fantasy bazinga take:

so-true "Self-driving cars are the key to a post-scarcity future!" (when asked how the fuck that conclusion was drawn, I was told "do the research.")

so-true "Even if climate change is proven to actually be a problem, climate doesn't matter in space. We can have fully sustainable cattle farms in orbit producing as much meat as we need. Elon Musk." (yes, that bazinga fuck actually said "Elon Musk" at the end of that claim like it somehow stamped a seal upon the rest of the take)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

They insisted that being enslaved actually helped those people, and that, had they been emancipated when Amerika revolted it would have caused mass famines and more death and suffering than the enslavement itself caused. They told me they could prove this with, and I quote: "spreadsheets, baby!"

That's a modernized version of the insufferably smug and grating "it's the economy, stupid!" slogan that the media pushed everywhere in the 90s. billdawg