The summer before covid I was in a public park campaigning for Bernie. The vast majority of interactions we had were positive. Anyway, some chunky white Gen Xer came up to me while he was sucking down a vanilla ice cream cone and started ranting about how he was a chemist and climate change was fake. I remembered something Bill Nye said once, and asked this guy why Venus was hotter than Mercury, despite Venus being farther from the sun. (Answer: a shitload of C02 in the atmosphere.) The guy could not answer and soon left. The question clearly bothered him a great deal.

Obviously you have to take my word for all of this. I know it's also oozing with liberalism, but I mended many of my evil ways the following summer.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    There were some posh dickheads at my school who made a podcast. They were runnin their mouths about all sorts. They invited me onto the show to discuss transgender sports.

    I don't fully remember the whole conversation anymore, but the gist is that I brought the facts and they started backing into weirder and weirder corners, until one said that they should've kept the royal family of pure blood. I queried if he meant incest or racial purity and he was like umm yes, no, I mean, I don't know, both, neither...

    Whole thing was a shitshow of these two morons getting quite casually shut down. The episode went so horribly that not only did they never release the episode, but they also stopped podcasting.

    Until... About a year later. They make an Instagram poll on their story saying 'there's some hot topics about, should we make a comeback?!'

    If you scrolled far enough back in my accounts history, you'd find the post where I enlisted the hexbear army to all vote no. The votes got so bombed that it was about 90% no and 10% yes. They never did return. I haven't seen any of them even post anything remotely political online ever since.

    • UlyssesT
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      21 days ago

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    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Hey I remember voting on that! We should do this more often it's so unbelievably low effort to click something or write a comment somewhere.