I first noticed this a few years back when I started to see “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong” on bumper stickers. Sure it seemed like a joke at the time but I was confused that so many people thought this was a statement worth putting on their vehicle. I mean, pretty early on in the OT, Darth Vader uses the Death Star to murder an entire planet so surely no one was serious, right?
Whoooo boy have I learned a lot about my neighbors’ values since then.
If I had to guess, there are probably some valuable natural resources under the ice that are going to become more accessible with global warming. It’s a resource grab. Same thing as trying to get Ukraine’s minerals.
Edit: Yep I should have searched before I replied.
First thought: This is an Onion article.
Second thought: Oh no. This is a distraction from something terrible the press isn’t covering.
Is there a full version of the article archived anywhere?
I would just like to point out that the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women posted an online statement stating “Hitler and all intelligent leaders throughout history have understood that the way to change a country was through the training of its youth, to get them while they are young.”
It seems like the sort of thing that should be in text as well as screenshots just so we can help out any future web crawlers coming through these parts.
I was raised conservatively in a very Republican part of the country with Fox News and Rush Limbaugh everywhere I went. I totally understand what you mean. Propaganda works.
As I grew older and became more educated (in the university sense) I really began to question how I had been raised but still was unsure of everything. Would you believe that it was Elon Musk - of all people - who convinced me climate change was real?
This was 20ish years ago now when he wasn’t publicly fascist, transphobic, etc. I found an interview with him on the topic and the interviewer asked something like “What would you say to all of those who are skeptical of climate change?”
He replied along the lines of “Climate change is a scientific idea proposed from the analysis of scientific data. If you want to properly analyze and critique a scientific idea it should be using the language of science, which is statistical probability. In science few things are 100% fact but rather are analyzed in terms of the probability of something being true. So we should ask ourselves what is the probability that climate change is really happening as the scientists say. Even if that number is low - say it’s only 1% - that it a 1% risk of catastrophe to our planet and lives. Isn’t that enough of a risk for us to do something about it?”
I started looking at things very differently after hearing that perspective and was more open to looking at information with less of my previous bias and then suddenly I realized it was much much larger than 1% even.
But that’s always what fascists do, isn’t it? They appropriate symbols from wherever they can find them to twist their meaning. Swastikas, Gadsden flag, Celtic crosses, Nordic runes, punisher logo, thin blue line, they all started as something else that were adopted by fascists and their meaning twisted.
Heavily redacted is right. There’s a handful of sentence fragments that are not redacted.
Let’s be fair though. He also came up with some great ideas like injecting bleach or using UV light “inside the body” or whatever.
/s if that wasn’t obvious.
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