"Bernie can win" - me four years ago.
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The biggest one is just the idea that the climate apocalypse can be meaningfully stopped. Like sorry, no, that window closed probably 20 years ago.
A media-promoted take was about robots dumping ice cubes in the Arctic Ocean like a fucking Futurama bit. 
Greenland's way ahead of them.
Still, there's a fuckton of investment, organisation, and technology we should be working on to slow change and adapt to a different Earth that would save billions of lives. Sadly we're more busy spending billions on Twitter and luxury cars or whatever.
That's everyone, I even see the same stuff here. No one wants to accept how bad the situation is.
Slowing the inevitable ruination so we can live a bit longer is still possible, so at the least I'd push for that instead of "tech will fix it, this is fine" hopium or "nothing can be done, be a selfish asshole and try to shame people for caring, get schwifty" copium.
Yeah I fully believe both “We’re 100% absolutely fucked,” but also every 0.1 degree less warming means millions of deaths that don’t happen
Oh, I absolutely agree with you. But I have seen people saying if we got rid of the rich climate change would end, which just isn't the case. Even if everyone on earth died, there's plenty of change built in.
if we got rid of the rich climate change would end,
I am under no illusion that climate change will end if we got rid of the rich. The feedback loops are fully engaged, the earth has a mechanism for resetting itself and we are experiencing the beginning of that process now. I just want people to realize it is the rich that prevented anything meaningful from being done when we actually had a chance to do something. If there are survivors, they should know who was responsible.
Hillary is light itself was kinda out there. 
As much as I hate when liberals misuse and abuse logical fallacy concepts to try to shut people up, yes I am very sick and tired of naturalist fallacies that claim every last living human being is some
waiting to happen. Yes, I've seen that argument made by pedos claiming everyone would be a pedo given the chance.
The evergreen one in my mind that I got to dunk on the guy for was, "Joe Biden will fix student debt!"
I heard a whopper to top that one, and worse, it's from my own biological family:
"Gay people are just lazy. Men always want to fuck, so the ones that are (nazi slur here) just fuck each other." 
I heard a self professed communist say that BDSM only exists in the west
Every ideology is extremely weird about sex, but it sucks seeing leftists deciding that people's consensual sexual preferences are bad and then dying on that hill. It's so easy to just let people be weird, but so many people want to harass people who enjoy sex differently than they do.
Man I'm not even vegan, but cattle farms in orbit is peak carnist nonsense
You've had a chat with Grimes, sounds like. 
The AI:
"You have food, you have hungry people...??? Is this really the problem I was created to solve?"
Who's this Al guy that everyone keeps talking about? You mean Weird Al Yankovic? He seems pretty cool, but I don't know if he should run everything
We can have fully sustainable cattle farms in orbit producing as much meat as we need
WTF the
take is supposed to be that we'll all live in giant self-sufficient skyscrapers that grow made-to-order beef in bioreactors, not animal agriculture in space! 
we'll all live in giant self-sufficient skyscrapers that grow made-to-order beef in bioreactors
Bazingas have slid rightward on the Overton window to the point that synthetic meat isn't "based" enough and the cruelty's the point to them.
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NATO is a defensive alliance
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Whatever variations on the theme of streamerbros assuring their audience that they don't need to do the reading ("Just watch my streams where I skim Wikipedia and provide a terminally-online westoid hot take instead - you're actually the smart one because you don't even need to read a book; your opinions are always correct by default! Now that you're sufficiently flattered send me a superchat, you filthy little paypiggies!!")
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You can't judge historical figures by today's moral standards (Often used to run defence for slave-owning US politicians oblivious to the fact that there were people, including political philosophers, of the same era who denounced slavery. Also, fuck you, I'm going to judge people by today's moral standards and there's nothing you can do to stop me.)
The "Can't judge history by modern standards" take is asinine because new information frequently alters or outright negates old information. Asbestos was once regarded as safe for use as insulation, for instance, but as time went on it was determined that it caused mesothelioma. As a consequence, asbestos is no longer regarded as safe by most.
North Korea actually doesn't have nukes
After only their first test, which was like a 0.5-2kt yield, I can understand this claim somewhat. They could have faked that as a bluff with lots of conventional explosives. Doesn't make so much sense why they would, but it was a plausible interpretation I guess.
Given that their later tests were something like a hundred times that, it's kinda absurd to still try to make the claim
"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.")
It's really simple.
Once everyone owns a self-driving car then they will be able to rent out their car as a self-driving taxi to everyone else, thus generating a perpetual cycle of passive income for everyone, at which point we will have achieved a post-scarcity future because everyone will be able to afford everything.
Dumb tankies call themselves materialists and they can't even figure this out themselves smh.
Sometimes I zero in on housing, and NIMBY liberals are their own unique brand of annoying:
"Anyone who's white should move out of cities in blue states and StAy AnD fIgHt in the red states they came from. Wait, what's an invisible minority? Why am I not moving to red states?" Well, ummmm....."
"Stop being entitled and stay in your suburb in the boonies, no one owes you a city life!" (The nanosecond they have something, they start doing the whole bootstraps thing)
"We appreciate that you're trying to save the world, but go save the world somewhere else." an actual quote. They know building more housing is the right thing to do, but they're invested in real estate.
"Just move to Texas/the midwest, bro."
"There's plenty of housing, just please PLEASE live in the boring suburbs in bumfuck nowhere far away from me! Sure, I'll call you redneck trash for doing so, but I need you there so I can have someone to feel superior to!" (not an actual quote, obviously. But this is sort of how they think)
A lot of lib NIMBYism boils down to trying to keep blue cities in blue states as exclusive as possible. Yeah, the dems suck ass, but if I could afford to, I would have fucked off to San Francisco a long time ago.
"Tech will save us."
Also:
"AI is the greatest advancement for democracy."
Heard in the wild from a tech guy a few years ago after Elmo had bought some AI language translation firm and announced it makes "information accessible for all". He was hyped, hyped for it.
A few months ago he told me that AI will destroy the world and spesifically his job.
Haven't asked him how he thinks all this is going recently because can't handle the takes anymore.
"Manchin will vote with democrats on important shit." Lib defending his vote to confirm Kavanaugh
Capitalism is good because people from (list of countries the US has either bombed or sanctioned to shit) envy our poor!




moment waiting to happen.
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