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"What does Fauci have that I don't?"
"Intelligence, good looks, a voice that doesn't curdle milk, a wife who loves him, a family that can stand him, a bank balance that doesn't require fraudulent accounting to look good, honesty, integrity, a vocabulary exceeding two thousand words, taste, style, Hollywood actors who would like to play him on TV, invitations from major league baseball teams, a decent head of hair, the ability to dress without using an entire can of spray tan, a medical license, a genuine degree with grades that he earned himself, a Twitter account that doesn't have to be flagged for hate speech and misinformation, friends that don't need to be forced to sign an NDA, a winning personality, a nice smile, a functioning moral compass, a positive approval rating, a body that is not clinically obese, regularly proportioned hands and a functioning you-know-what... oh, and he's not going to be charged with a litany of felony offences in 2021, so that's something."
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@2020_Visi0n I would have moved on already, but you're now engaging me in a debate over tactics, haha, so take that for what it's worth. :P
I do think there is value in providing a once-and-done rebuttal to misinformation, because it sets the narrative down for neutral and undecided minds that might happen to wander into the comment section. It's best done early, and then not followed-up, because long debates don't really help persuade anyone.
In this instance, I didn't spend long debunking their argument, and instead laid out a clear and memorable case for people to understand how to think about climate change. Treat skeptics' comments as an opportunity to once again set out your pro-climate stall, and say your piece. Just spreading the word helps to familiarise people to it, and that helps work on undecideds and neutrals: the more often they see a given argument in a new place, the more likely they are to take it into serious consideration.
Also bear in mind that while YOU may be informed, many people are not. It's dangerous to assume that everyone CAN indeed see the holes in a faulty argument - as the whole reason that these are propagated in the first place, is that many people cannot see said holes. Having it spelled out may actually be helpful for those who sense that there might be something off about that comment, but can't put a name to why.
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As hinted at in the video, while deserts may get a lot of sun, they are often very remote from human settlements. There are a few challenges you'd have to overcome to make desert-based solar arrays work - for example, your maintenace crews would presumably have to travel much further to reach a broken or malfunctioning panel. Another potential problem would be due to the desert climate itself, which is extraordinarily unforgiving. Yet another challenge is that across our planet, many of the deserts that we can think of are spread across international borders, and they are often right at the centre of conflict zones. Political instability in those areas may make it risky to set up serious infrastructure. The final problem is the matter of bringing power FROM those deserts to populated areas. The further you are, the more challenging it is, and the more expensive cables you need to lay into the ground to transport it.
There are a lot of challenges involved in setting up large solar arrays - and as the video suggests, these are actually largely pre-solved if you install them alongside existing agricultural industries. Farms are typically sited quite close to human settlements, you have potential maintenance staff right there on-hand working on the farm, and arable fields present a much more suitable environment for solar panels, without excessively harsh weather to contend with (i.e. dust storms). Even if only 10% of each field is occupied by a solar panel, that's potentially a colossal surface area that we're giving over to solar generation, and the marvellous thing is that these farmers have discovered they can avoid direct competition between power generation and agriculture, by having the two functions coexist in the same space.
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@x-popone6817 I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're speaking from sincere belief, and not merely trolling:
Your facts are completely backwards. You've been given a narrative, which has been contorted over time to try and fit facts that constantly strive to disprove it. You cling onto the idea that Covid is not serious because nobody can apparently prove to you that it is. If people die, you hand-wave it as "preexisting conditions". If your own family get sick, "you got unlucky." If people point to climbing mortality rates, you'll either say it's not that high yet, or you'll say flu is worse, or you'll try to argue that most of those deaths don't count for some reason.
There's a much simpler explanation for what's happening: Covid19 is a serious illness, and it kills a lot of people. The risk to an individual might be low, but the risk to a population is much greater. Masks help to control the spread of the virus by ensuring people don't spread it on their spittle when they speak, shout or simply breathe out. Most of the world outside Asia did not appreciate this simple piece of equipment, and is now paying the price for it.
There is no conspiracy among the media classes to mislead you. The Democrats and the Chinese didn't collude to bring it to the US. It wasn't created in a lab, and it isn't going to go away because it's upsetting you to see the news reports.
This should be a nonpartisan issue - the reason it is partisan is because of news sources like the ones you've been drawing your information from. They have been deliberately turning this into a left-versus-right issue, to help Trump get reelected. People like me take no pleasure in watching anyone die a preventable death, and we would love nothing better than for Trump supporters to do the right thing and start wearing masks to protect one another.
You and people like you have more power than most of the rest of us to change teh course of this virus, because holding the opinions that you do, you speak the language of Trump supporters. Your word is worth a thousand people like me. So go out there, and spread the word: Covid is serious, and you can't afford to ignore it.
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You have to hand it to these people - every time you think they've reached peak stupid, they go and break that record all over again.
But let's be real here - they didn't get this stupid on their own. This is the culmination of decades of careful, deliberate work. They have been drip-fed a slow, poisonous cocktain of propaganda from Fox News, OANN, right-wing talk radio and a glut of scam fake news sites on Facebook. They're just repeating the garbage they've been exposed to for decades, and it's addled their brains. Meanwhile, protests like this one are not organised at a grassroots-level - they are seeded from on high by billionaire oligarchs with massive social media teams and shell organisations, that plant ideas for these manufactured idiots to bring to harvest.
These people you see on the video are lost, and beyond redemption. To save our future, we must seek out and destroy the wellspring of hatred that they're drinking from.
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