"Global Warming"? Well I've experienced cold winters, THEREFORE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX.
"Patriot Act"? Well I don't care for the encroaching security state, THEREFORE I MUST BE AN ENEMY OF THE STATE.
"Never forget"? Oh shit, slipped my mind, I GUESS 9/11 NEVER HAPPENED.
"1%"? Well gosh, I know a medical technician who earns $350K/year, but they're still paying off student loans, THEREFORE THE WAGE GAP IS A MYTH.
"Believe all women"? Buddy, I have an ex who used to lie and cheat on me, THEREFORE WE SHOULD ACQUIT HARVEY WEINSTEIN.
These assclowns are total fucklords. Guarantee if you ask them to break down any of these slogans down they could do it in exquisite detail. The truth is they just disagree but lack the conviction to say so and want to lecture you instead.
(I'm always thinking back to Matt Christman's dichotomy of "don't be an ahole vs. don't be a p*y" that perfectly encapsulates today's libs/cons).
It’s funny you used both “climate change” and “global warming” interchangeably. You’ve probably noticed that saying the latter has fallen out of use in favor of the former.
Not saying you’re wrong about your post, but anecdotally as a climatologist, our community stopped calling it “global warming” and started calling it “climate change” specifically because it (the climate) isn’t uniformly warming and we also aren’t sure of how we will affect the climate long term, but also because people would still say “WARMING? BUT WHY WINTER COLD?” We literally had to rebrand “global warming” to get people to start listening since colloquially the word “climate” means almost nothing whereas people tend to have an explicit idea of what they believe warming is. Sometimes just changing what you call things works/helps. I bet Bernie would’ve done better if he called himself something like a New Deal Democrat or something instead of calling himself a democratic socialist
You gotta hide the democratic socialism pills inside the dog sausage or Americans won't eat them
is this what means to play "hide the sausage"?
Mike's meat trick
Socialists have to be honest with their working-class target audience, or else they won't be trusted once workers figure out the pill is in the sausage. This is opportunist CPUSA "crypto-socialist" nonsense, a deliberate lowering of the Marxist banner.
I was poking fun at the mindset
I've seen enough unironic versions of this formulation that I thought you were dead serious.
There was, incidentally, a large koch-funded effort to switch to "climate change" terminology. I don't have the sources for you, I read it a long time ago, but the calculus was something about it sounding less urgent or dangerous. There's of course no way of knowing for sure, but I don't think we'd be in a worse position today if people kept using the phrase global warming.
I don’t either but the rebranding happened around the same time it started to be taken seriously (in the most loose of definitions)
molecules of freedom
Grim
We should call it what it is: extinction
Unfortunately it’s much more and worse than that
The move from Global Warming to Climate Change is good, because you can keep the abbreviation - CC - and update the meaning to reflect reality: Climate Collapse.
Scientists are so weak lol "we have to use the fossil fuels propaganda words to get people to listen", absolutely cucked
Hey genius we are using these words for people who aren’t climate scientists (like you) to understand so if that makes us cucks what are the rest of you?
Also I’d rather be a cuck if it means maintaining a habitable planet. I’ll call it whatever I have to lmfao
Who the fuck cares about "cucked" -- what matters is whether people listen to you
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Professional scientists tend to have the politics of PMC liberal technocrats, so of course they're going to be weak and both make concessions to backwards consciousness and to reactionary psyops. Most of the "successful" scientists suck so much at politics that they take the terms dictated by capitalists as completely exogenous and unchangeable by themselves, never expunge the brainworms they picked up as a rite of passage, and have no position of strength to leverage materially like the proles have overall.
Exceptions include grad students, postdocs, adjuncts, some early tenure-track professors, and other severely underpaid and indebted scientists "in training" who have so little power within academic spaces and so exploited inside and outside of them that they've increasingly taken up working-class politics, having been alienated from academia in particular and the PMC in general. The scientists with the best politics tend to be the "failures" and unlucky "junior scientists" with the least weight in decision-making processes like switching from global warming to the more euphemistic climate change, the sort of decisions made to soothe the egos of the sort of rich assholes scientists or their universities might have to beg for grant money.
It's getting downvoted because -- unlike your comment -- it's not any sort of analysis of the problem or critique of the solution, it's just saying "lol these losers are CUCKED" like some old T_D shitpost. It adds nothing and misses quite a bit.