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  • CopperC Copper

    Please take a knee when you say climate change.

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    Loki
    wrote on last edited by
    #4

    @copper said in No gas for you...:

    Please take a knee when you say climate change.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

    The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

    You decide election impact.

    HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
    • L Loki

      @copper said in No gas for you...:

      Please take a knee when you say climate change.

      https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

      The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

      You decide election impact.

      HoraceH Offline
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      Horace
      wrote on last edited by
      #5

      @loki said in No gas for you...:

      @copper said in No gas for you...:

      Please take a knee when you say climate change.

      https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

      The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

      You decide election impact.

      You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

      Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

      Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

      Education is extremely important.

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      • HoraceH Horace

        @loki said in No gas for you...:

        @copper said in No gas for you...:

        Please take a knee when you say climate change.

        https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

        The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

        You decide election impact.

        You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

        Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

        Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

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        Loki
        wrote on last edited by
        #6

        @horace said in No gas for you...:

        @loki said in No gas for you...:

        @copper said in No gas for you...:

        Please take a knee when you say climate change.

        https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

        The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

        You decide election impact.

        You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

        Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

        Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

        I think the GOP might get lucky in 2022 and take the House back which would certainly slow much of the cultural indoctrination. That said things as Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small customer base to sell to.

        MikM HoraceH CopperC 3 Replies Last reply
        • L Loki

          You will have completely lost the millennial and gen z vote if you mock climate change, at least in urban and suburban areas.

          All the while boomers are declining as a percent of the electorate.

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          Axtremus
          wrote on last edited by
          #7

          @loki said in No gas for you...:

          All the while boomers are declining as a percent of the electorate.

          Well ... thanks to ObamaCare that Biden helped pass, the boomers should be stick longer than otherwise. But overall the trend you described is definitely there.

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          • L Loki

            @horace said in No gas for you...:

            @loki said in No gas for you...:

            @copper said in No gas for you...:

            Please take a knee when you say climate change.

            https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

            The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

            You decide election impact.

            You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

            Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

            Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

            I think the GOP might get lucky in 2022 and take the House back which would certainly slow much of the cultural indoctrination. That said things as Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small customer base to sell to.

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            Mik
            wrote on last edited by
            #8

            @loki said in No gas for you...:

            @horace said in No gas for you...:

            @loki said in No gas for you...:

            @copper said in No gas for you...:

            Please take a knee when you say climate change.

            https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

            The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

            You decide election impact.

            You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

            Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

            Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

            I think the GOP might get lucky in 2022 and take the House back which would certainly slow much of the cultural indoctrination. That said things as Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small customer base to sell to.

            Very true. It is, however, moderated by the lack of an acceptable alternative.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • L Loki

              @horace said in No gas for you...:

              @loki said in No gas for you...:

              @copper said in No gas for you...:

              Please take a knee when you say climate change.

              https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

              The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

              You decide election impact.

              You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

              Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

              Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

              I think the GOP might get lucky in 2022 and take the House back which would certainly slow much of the cultural indoctrination. That said things as Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small customer base to sell to.

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              Horace
              wrote on last edited by
              #9

              @loki said in No gas for you...:

              @horace said in No gas for you...:

              @loki said in No gas for you...:

              @copper said in No gas for you...:

              Please take a knee when you say climate change.

              https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

              The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

              You decide election impact.

              You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

              Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

              Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

              I think the GOP might get lucky in 2022 and take the House back which would certainly slow much of the cultural indoctrination.

              Why would it?

              That said things as Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small customer base to sell to.

              Well first of all, of course culture moves left over time, I doubt anybody is denying that. (Renauda predicts there will be a hard right turn in the foreseeable future, but that is because a conservative ran over his puppy when he was a kid, and he is a pessimist at heart.)

              All the stupidity you cite of those who identify as on the right is unfortunate, but we also have to understand that the messaging powers that be will hold those examples up as if they are normative for those who identify as being on the right. And people buy that notion. You've apparently largely bought it, Loki. I don't doubt that young people mostly buy it. Such is the power of cultural messaging, especially these days with the messaging being less local and more national. The national messaging is dominated by the left.

              Education is extremely important.

              RenaudaR 1 Reply Last reply
              • L Loki

                You will have completely lost the millennial and gen z vote if you mock climate change, at least in urban and suburban areas.

                All the while boomers are declining as a percent of the electorate.

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                Jolly
                wrote on last edited by
                #10

                @loki said in No gas for you...:

                You will have completely lost the millennial and gen z vote if you mock climate change, at least in urban and suburban areas.

                All the while boomers are declining as a percent of the electorate.

                It's the economy, stupid.

                Bill is certainly right on that point. As Millenials and Gen-Z'ers become older, economic issues will play a larger role in their calculus of life. If "climate change" means they never pay off their student loans, cannot afford to buy a home or cannot afford to marry, I suspect climate change may not get the sacrifices the Left craves.

                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  Loki
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #11

                  I have not changed my politics at all and I hear what Mik, Jolly and Horace are saying. I also understand how important it is to stay on message in a disciplined way and make sure the base continues to vote in high numbers. I also get how Trump needs to be defended until the party comes up with a unifying alternative.

                  I’ll also note that with demographic changes if you are continuing to lose your young you are slated for extinction..
                  Laughing at climate change people or saying I got my rights not get a vaccine just accelerate alienation among the young. They are literally non starters and you won’t even get an argument, it’s like ok boomer, past your bedtime…

                  HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
                  • L Loki

                    @horace said in No gas for you...:

                    @loki said in No gas for you...:

                    @copper said in No gas for you...:

                    Please take a knee when you say climate change.

                    https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

                    The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

                    You decide election impact.

                    You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

                    Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

                    Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

                    I think the GOP might get lucky in 2022 and take the House back which would certainly slow much of the cultural indoctrination. That said things as Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small customer base to sell to.

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                    Copper
                    wrote on last edited by Copper
                    #12

                    @loki said in No gas for you...:

                    Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small

                    Yes, religious conviction is strong.

                    Over time the truth will become obvious and we will all have a good laugh about the 2020s' myths.

                    And, of course, the war will bring a lot of people down to earth.

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                    • L Loki

                      I have not changed my politics at all and I hear what Mik, Jolly and Horace are saying. I also understand how important it is to stay on message in a disciplined way and make sure the base continues to vote in high numbers. I also get how Trump needs to be defended until the party comes up with a unifying alternative.

                      I’ll also note that with demographic changes if you are continuing to lose your young you are slated for extinction..
                      Laughing at climate change people or saying I got my rights not get a vaccine just accelerate alienation among the young. They are literally non starters and you won’t even get an argument, it’s like ok boomer, past your bedtime…

                      HoraceH Offline
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                      Horace
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #13

                      @loki said in No gas for you...:

                      I have not changed my politics at all and I hear what Mik, Jolly and Horace are saying. I also understand how important it is to stay on message in a disciplined way and make sure the base continues to vote in high numbers. I also get how Trump needs to be defended until the party comes up with a unifying alternative.

                      I’ll also note that with demographic changes if you are continuing to lose your young you are slated for extinction..
                      Laughing at climate change people or saying I got my rights not get a vaccine just accelerate alienation among the young. They are literally non starters and you won’t even get an argument, it’s like ok boomer, past your bedtime…

                      We'll all go to our graves being essentially helpless against the cultural tides. I'm not too concerned about whether I am optimal for convincing young people that much of what they've been indoctrinated into is wrong.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • HoraceH Horace

                        @loki said in No gas for you...:

                        @horace said in No gas for you...:

                        @loki said in No gas for you...:

                        @copper said in No gas for you...:

                        Please take a knee when you say climate change.

                        https://news.gallup.com/poll/343025/global-warming-attitudes-frozen-2016.aspx

                        The 18-34 are, 84% in fact say impact is either now or a few years. Boomers are 25% less worried.

                        You decide election impact.

                        You decide the importance and effectiveness of the current forces of cultural indoctrination.

                        Because last I checked, it was still a debatable point whether our culture was dominated in its messaging by the left.

                        Both sides are equal, as many here are careful to point out. ("Here" already being a right-leaning place, relative to most other online communities.)

                        I think the GOP might get lucky in 2022 and take the House back which would certainly slow much of the cultural indoctrination.

                        Why would it?

                        That said things as Covid and vax denial, climate change denial, what happened at the Capitol as currently interpreted by the GOP is going to result in an increasingly small customer base to sell to.

                        Well first of all, of course culture moves left over time, I doubt anybody is denying that. (Renauda predicts there will be a hard right turn in the foreseeable future, but that is because a conservative ran over his puppy when he was a kid, and he is a pessimist at heart.)

                        All the stupidity you cite of those who identify as on the right is unfortunate, but we also have to understand that the messaging powers that be will hold those examples up as if they are normative for those who identify as being on the right. And people buy that notion. You've apparently largely bought it, Loki. I don't doubt that young people mostly buy it. Such is the power of cultural messaging, especially these days with the messaging being less local and more national. The national messaging is dominated by the left.

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                        Renauda
                        wrote on last edited by Renauda
                        #14

                        @horace said in No gas for you...:

                        (Renauda predicts there will be a hard right turn in the foreseeable future, but that is because a conservative ran over his puppy when he was a kid, and he is a pessimist at heart.)

                        False about the dog and what is in my heart is none of your damn concern. Besides, I have no issue with conservatives or conservatism. My issue is what some of them have become as of late particularly in your neck of the woods.

                        Elbows up!

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                          Doctor Phibes
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                          A lot of American liberals aren't liberals, and a lot American conservatives aren't conservatives.

                          What can we expect from a country that doesn't know how to spell 'colour' and yet is obsessed with race?

                          I was only joking

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                            I would agree, current American liberalism is something other and is pretty disdainful. It doesn't even qualify as socialism. Unfortunately it is being picked up on this side of the border and is being championed by populists and careerist politicians of all stripes.

                            Elbows up!

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                              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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