But it snowed this winter! Once!
I’m a school bus driver and I have a coworker who is an avid climate-change denier. Here is an example of how stupid she is: she needed to borrow my bus for a run and I had it chocked. Since the chock was wedged solid under my front wheel, she decided she needed to use the crowbar to get it loose and tore the fuck out of it (and my front tire) in the process. It never occurred to her to start the bus and back up to free the chock.
She also 1) hates immigrants because they’re unvaccinated and “spread disease”, and 2) is anti-vax. I could never make this shit up in a million years. If you have children, consider that a lot of the people driving them to and from school are exactly this fucking stupid.
jorymo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s been interesting over the years seeing my father go from “global warming isn’t real” to “it’s real, but not man-made,” to “it’s all China’s fault and we shouldn’t do anything about it”
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The very classic four stage program.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Then we follow the four-stage strategy.
Bernard Woolley: What’s that?
Sir Richard Wharton: Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Sir Richard Wharton: In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You have to add something after spoiler to hide it, e.g.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The fucking South Park episode with MAn Bear Pig as a standin is fucking hilarious with this
wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
That episode is commonly misunderstood. I too had always thought they were lampooning climate change deniers, but Matt and Trey were actually poking fun of Al Gore and An Inconvient Truth as alarmist. They’ve since apologized for the episode, but it’s wild that it’s so often confused for satirizing the very thing it was mocking. For me I just assumed that Matt and Trey wouldn’t be deniers so it never occured to me until I found out their true intention and now it’s pretty cringy to watch that episode since it’s a lot more obvious. Here’s an article about it:
esquire.com/…/south-park-climate-change-manbearpi…
KnowledgeableNip@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Despite all their Gadsden flags they are obedient.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
the ‘dont step on me’ is just a part of their non-con kink.