Comments by "VColossalV" (@VColossalV) on "Alternative Energy vs. Fossil Fuels (Pt.2) | Alex Epstein | ENVIRONMENT | Rubin Report" video.

  1. I don't understand why having controversial views isn't a good thing, it means you're not in an echo chamber and clearly Dave doesn't want to be. This man, though I don't agree on everything, makes some very good points and he's not really your generic climate change denier, because he doesn't really deny that it's happening.
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  2. Angle Damion You can stop religion having influence in schools and elsewhere, separation of church and state is obviously a good thing, that's fine and totally not crazy, because people still have the right to believe so long as they don't infringe on other peoples rights -, but persecuting people for having a belief is literally what the most evil dictators did, you seem like you'd be the next Stalin.
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  3. Angle Damion Yeah you're totally not irrational.
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  4. Beezus Hrist "someone with sense" --- have you read his other comments on this thread? Yeah....
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  5. Beezus Hrist Yeah did you miss the one where he hoped I get tortured and close relatives do too? See my response. Have you actually watched the whole interview instead of just the start like he did? Because this persons views are more nuanced than I think you know. I thought as someone who accepted climate change that he would be a generic climate denier, that's not what I got, I don't think he even is one. But even if he did, Rubin is willing to listen to opposing views, that's a positive trait, not a negative one - living in an echo chamber is bad.
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  6. Angle Damion But he's not right-wing on climate change, he literally made a video stating his position on climate change and at said it at the beginning of this video - having a discussion with someone with an opposing view does not mean you agree. I can't believe anyone has to explain this to you.
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  7. Angle Damion I accept human driven climate change and expected to disagree with everything he said and expect no good points at all, but I knew nothing about him and presumed he was just a generic climate change denier. I was very surprised, he made some uncomfortably good points, his point was not that climate change isn't happening, because he wasn't really arguing that in this interview, but rather that fossil fuels are being demonized beyond reason. He is not against alternative energy, and replacing fossil fuels, provided they are reliable and just as efficient or more. You think his views are dangerous? How about you hoping I get tortured along with people from my family who have nothing to do with this? You have issues, serious issues, I think.
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  8. Angle Damion I didn't see him deny that co2 had an effect on the climate, at any point in this interview, I see him making a rather different point. It's impossible to simply stop using them right now, he isn't against alternative energy so long as it's as efficient or more than what we have now. Don't be like SJW's, they use this same rhetoric to de-platform people.
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  9. Beezus Hrist Yeah, they are, actually, and the OP admittedly only watched the beginning of the entire interview, so that says all you need to know.
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  10. Beezus Hrist What reason do you have to associate him with creationists? You're literally doing the exact opposite of what any reasonable person would do, you aren't even giving him a chance, I didn't expect much either, but I knew nothing about him, then I listened. He's not a climate denier.
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  11. Angle Damion You don't think that deporting ALL Muslims, even if they are US citizens, is a violation of their rights? If anything that's the most damning things about him.
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  12. Angle Damion But he said to ban all Muslims, regardless of whether they are illegal immigrants or not, he has stated outright that he will kick out all Muslims from the country. That's a problem, not only is it unconstitutional, it violates their rights. Let nobody in? Like, seriously? How the fuck will anyone travel to America any more?
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  13. Angle Damion Okay then you really don't listen to him, look it up, he literally said, specifically, that Muslims should all be banned from the US. Not preventing ones from coming in, getting all the ones that exist out too. Legal immigrants should have the same rights as us.
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  14. Angle Damion No I'm specifically talking about the comment where you literally did nothing but wish harm upon me and my family, that can only be a product of a disturbed mind on some level, that isn't normal behavior. I did nothing to provoke it whatsoever. Fundamentally it doesn't bother me in the slightest, because I know you hoping it has no effect on reality, but it's a fact worth bringing up I think, when you say "what's wrong with you" - I think this should be aimed at yourself more than me.
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  15. Angle Damion Nope, it doesn't bother me, just using it as a case against your mental state. "Well I said nothing to lead you to think that I "provoked" you." I said I did nothing to provoke you, I didn't lose my shit like you did, I just wonder how exactly such a simple non-inflammatory comment could lead you to become so angry, as you must have been when you left that comment, wishing death upon me. At the point where you said that to me, I simply said "Well I suggest you do", and you responded with that, on what planet does this make me the one who has something wrong? Do you really think that a psychologist would look at what I said and what you said in response and question my mental state instead of yours? Yeah, even you know that wouldn't happen. Here you are insinuating it again, claiming there's something about me that deserves it --- even though you know nothing about me or my opinions. You didn't just wish torture upon me, you wished it on people who have nothing to do with this, my family, just to make it worse.
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  16. Angle Damion You can, and no, you don't have better things to do.
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  17. Angle Damion I will have a great day just to spite you. I hope you don't get tortured and your family are perfectly fine.
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  18. Angle Damion Thank fuck even the president isn't capable of doing whatever he/she wants, based on this it's clear you would be definitely worse than Trump
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  19. Angle Damion So because you would have those policies they're going to just accept the ludicrous ones? I don't think so.
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  20. Angle Damion Yeah I'm sure Hitler thought his policies weren't all that ludicrous either, the real bad people always think they're the good guys - lets thank the heavens you wont ever be in power.
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  21. Angle Damion It's evil to kill people because of what they believe, yes, literally all of the worst places and times to live in history had this sort of persecution.
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  22. Angle Damion Right. Stalin wasn't evil either then, he had this same exact mentality. A free society allows people to believe in what they want, it's literally the principles America was founded on; freedom of religion, have as many or as few God's as you want without persecution. If you want a clear view of what your mentality gets, look to Stalin, or many other dictators of the past --- it never works. There is almost nothing more evil than what you are proposing. Religious belief is going down in all civilized nations naturally, you don't need to force people to change, it never works, and has never worked.
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  23. Angle Damion Again, we've seen this mentality in action with Joseph Stalin, one of the most evil dictators in history, up there with Hitler --- how well did that go? Argue with actual history that happened, we've had dictators that have done this and yes, if you would actually enforce this, killing people for having a belief - you probably are evil, unless you want to argue that Joseph Stalin wasn't evil. Lets take this logic further, does wanting to rape and kill children not constitute evil even though you haven't done it yet? What if it's just an opinion that children need to be raped, killed and eaten? Was a pre-genocide Hitler not evil just because he hadn't done any killing yet? Ofcourse he was. And if you are being honest and not kidding in any way, you are too. Having a different opinion doesn't make you evil, the opinion itself being evil makes you evil.
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  24. Angle Damion It's absolutely relevant, for the reasons I've stated - I know I'm pretty much arguing with a troll at this point, but there's a chance I'm not so I'll keep going anyways. Don't you think all these evil dictators thought the same? That they too are right by definition? God please be a troll, nobody can be this insane and stupid at the same time.
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  25. Angle Damion "I just have a different point of view than you." Okay, you just have a different point of view than me, so here's something --- lets say I had the "point of view" that babies born black should immediately have their eyes gouged out --- would I be evil for having this view? How long did it take you to answer that? Hopefully not long. Yes. I would be evil to believe that. Similarly, your view, if you aren't joking or trolling, is evil. "a person who was basically religious" Stalin despised religion, he was exactly what you want to be, and he became one of the worst dictators in history, and you would go down as one too.
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  26. Angle Damion Hurt my feelings? Hoping that me and my family get tortured probably means that you have mental issues of some kind, get it checked, you might be a serial killer one day.
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