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"Bernie can win" - me four years ago.

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.

Hillary is light itself was kinda out there.

The evergreen one in my mind that I got to dunk on the guy for was, "Joe Biden will fix student debt!"

Man I'm not even vegan, but cattle farms in orbit is peak carnist nonsense

"Gay people only exist in the west"

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!

• NATO is a defensive alliance

• 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!!")

• 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.)

North Korea actually doesn't have nukes

"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."

"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!