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Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language" by johnnyworker on Sunday October 22, 2023 @01:28PM (#37977332)
> a coordinated agenda

... of making me have empathy with sentient beings suffering? Joke's on them, I already had that.

Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language" by pauldenton on Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:08PM (#37978150)
Or selling you products Impossible burgers Tofu. It's like a coordinated agenda to stigmatize the internal combustion engine and promote renewable energy sources like solar and wind. You might just be in the prime demographics for both but a majority of the population isn't.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language" by jabradoodle on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:54PM (#37979007)
Nobody has stigmatized engines, people are trying to reduce emissions because the greatest body of knowledge we have access to (science) suggests we should.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language" by pauldenton on Monday October 23, 2023 @04:02AM (#37982762)
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language" by jabradoodle on Monday October 23, 2023 @05:10PM (#37991632)
It's an inanimate object, it's not being stigmatised, it's being phased out.