Forum Overview :: Gamergate :: Every thread that mentions climate change turns into a climate change thread =(

[quote name="blackwater"]Here we go again, I guess. [quote name="Roop"][quote name="Vidinfox"]Everyone realized the mods on reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction were cancer, so someone created kotakuinaction2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/b2vanh/contrary_to_the_blatant_lies_by_kia_mods_patrick/">Where there are climate change deniers. </a> Yes, they deny that climate change is real. And none of the posts have anything to do with games. They may have won some battles, but holy fuck did gamergate lose the war.[/quote] Gamergate never ended or started. It was just the current culture war [/quote] Yeah, the Blue Tribe versus Red Tribe thing is annoying. Quick! Everyone line up into two camps and start chanting slogans at each other! [quote name="Roop"] At first I thought it was only about Zoë Quinn sucking cock, but she didn't fucking stop and today I've heard multiple sane people claim things are getting so bad everywhere with multiple <i>gates</i> there could be open civil war. Can you believe this? With guns. I live in the only southern state in the north, and I'm thinking the fighting should be contained to the coasts so I should be safe. [/quote] I doubt it. None of this stuff is new in the United States. The war of 1812 was very unpopular in New England. A lot of people hated the Mexican-American war. There was once a huge culture war over "soft money" versus "hard money." We'll probably just continue to be dysfunctional for a while until everyone gets old and dies, and our kids argue over something new. Trump will be just a distant memory, like how people vaguely remember that William Jennings Bryan liked silver money, or something? [quote name="Roop"] Anyway, in this country they have framed the argument whether or not climate change is real to obfuscate, I think. It should really be do you want carbon tax and carbon credits, and what that really means. Man-made climate change is real, absolutely. But you know what? Ten years ago when Katrina hit, story after story how the coming years would have "superstorms" just like Katrina which wasn't a superstorm. Lake Michigan would be drying up and children in England will have grown up never seeing snow! All bullshit, the opposite, fewer storms, and the idiots up in Michigan City contructed this sophisticated walkway leading down some dunes and to the beach, today it's all wrecked, all gone because it's all fucking water. What a bunch of idiots, listening to those scientists. So obviously the guy founded Greenpeace.[/quote] It's weird how conservatives seem to be attacking climatology, which is the strongest part of the "climate change" argument. The science is pretty much settled at this point. But the obvious weak point in the argument, the big flashing vulnerable spot where you're supposed to attack the final boss, is the economic part, which is paper-thin. For example, a lot of places in Russia and Canada will actually be a lot better for agriculture once they're warmer. Cities being below sea level isn't really that big of a deal either -- some cities in the world already are. They build dikes. The economy can adapt to gradual change that happens over decades. Nature is fucked, but what else is new? If they presented the argument honestly it would be something like: we can save coral reefs, polar bears, penguins, and lots of other species. But it will potentially involve the US giving up economic leadership and accepting a lower standard of life for a while. But of course if they put it like that, most people would say... hmm, nah. So we get this apocalyptic bullshit about how the water level is going up by 6 inches, we're all gonna die!!!!![/quote]