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  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I was having a conversationg with some red necks a few years ago. They were all talking about winter’s not the same here anymore, above freezing half the winter, not as much snow, summer is weird is goes right through October now and we don’t really get an autumn anymore.

    “Weather’s not like it used to be,” one of thems said, and I said, “yep the climate is changing.” They stared at me with their mouths open.

    These retards are literally watching it happen with their own eyes and they still won’t believe it. It’s insane.

    • Lev_Astov@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      While it may be arrogant to insist it’s all mankind’s doing, it’s foolish to assume it isn’t.

      • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        My conservative family loves to use the arrogance argument. What I hear is that they don’t want to believe humans can change the climate, because they’re scared of humanity being responsible or accountable for their actions.

      • Techmaster@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The biggest problem with politics these days is there can’t be ANY overlap between the parties. They can’t agree on ANYTHING. If a democrat says “I like breathing oxygen,” a republican will say he prefers breathing something else. There’s so much that people in both parties agree on in principle, but they can never say it. I think the left is more willing to agree with the right, because the left is more principled, but a republican is simply incapable of telling someone on the left “you’re right and I agree with you.” They instead have to be contrarian about everything. Whatever the left says, never agree with it, and make a statement of complete opposition, no matter what. When the left starts supporting a war against Russia, the right starts supporting Russia. It’s sickening.