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Re:In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts by taneq on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:17AM (#18315765)
It's hard to have a conversation about something important like this when anything but fervent acceptance of the party line is immediately derided as ignorant, backwards and/or deliberately obtuse. The left certainly seems to be a lot more "with us or against us" than they used to.
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Re:In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts by lostlogin on Saturday October 27, 2018 @02:13PM (#18316926)
> with us or against us.

Bush junior’s usage comes to mind immediately.

The linked wiki article shows a fairly even divide in its use though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_either_with_us,_or_...

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Re:In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts by KozmoNau7 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:44AM (#18319567)
>"anything but fervent acceptance of the party line is immediately derided as ignorant, backwards and/or deliberately obtuse."

That's because it is.

We're realizing that we're in much deeper shit climate-wise, than we used to think. It's a literal mass extinction, and yet people continue to squabble about stupid petty nonsense. But there's money to be made by appealing to the ignorant comfortable masses.

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Re:In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts by xapata on Saturday October 27, 2018 @12:16PM (#18316368)
Funny, you could say the same thing about the Right.
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Re:In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts by lurquer on Saturday October 27, 2018 @12:26PM (#18316428)
Plenty of examples.

Every day we read of Professors not receiving tenure because they believe in global warming. Articles that support global warming being rejected from journals. Notable commentators suggesting the belief in global warming should be criminalized.

Whatever.

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Re:In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts by taneq on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:12PM (#18318779)
Oh, definitely. The two seem to be more similar than not, once you look past the window dressing. I don't know if this is new or I'm just more cynical these days.
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