Climate Change(d)?

[GenesisNemesis]

And Tswizzle still hasn't explained exactly how the amount of natural carbon dioxide is enough to account for warming when we know far more has been added to the atmosphere by human made things. It's 100% wishful thinking to suggest human caused warming isn't happening....

Even Mr. Swizz isn't as stupid as he seems. He has at least a glimmering awareness that anthropogenic climate change is real but somehow enjoys portraying a moronic Trumpist on this message board.

I think many of us role-play on a message board. I, for example, appear to be a sarcastic asshole here, but in real life I'm a sarcastic but friendly buffoon.

"Stupid as he seems" is uncalled for. There seems to be a very nasty streak among some members here, that is getting worse.

Such as with the guy who immediately suggested the person who shot the national guardsmen may be trans, despite there being no actual overall trend of trans shooters?

(Edit) accidentally quoted myself in first one.

I'm talking about how members here treat one another, here.

I am referring to a member here:

Suspect in custody. A they/them perhaps?

I understand the instinct to call for civility, but look at it from my perspective. I am a Jew by birth, I am (diagnosed) on the autism spectrum, I am bisexual, and, on top of all of that, I happen to have been born with a genetic condition. There are many things some people hate me simply for being, and many people on the right would even claim I am somehow making it up, to score "wokeness points" or whatever. It gets a little tiring having to be polite all the time particularly when so many people hate me for so many things I am, and will readily claim I'm just making up what I am.

Those people tend to be on the right wing, and now we have people like RFK Jr dehumanizing autistic people and making absurd negative generalizations about them. There are people on the right who seemingly don't care about this, and will claim no matter what that RFK Jr is actually a good guy.

How am I, as a person on the spectrum, supposed to react to that? What RFK Jr is doing is really no different than bullying, and denying it's bullying is no different than protecting the bully. Am I supposed to be polite to the people protecting the bully and to bullies? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. So my first instinct is simply to be more understanding of those in marginalized groups and their negative reactions to what's going on. Not to be polite to people defending a guy making absurd generalizations about autistic people, for instance.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Saw that eyeroll coming from a mile away, even though everything I said is correct, and you don't have a rebuttal to it.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Hey Tswizzle, do you happen to know what it's like to be choking on food when you're a kid because you were born with a genetic condition that resulted in that? No? You're still just going to eyeroll that away like the sociopath you are, I suppose.

 

[bilby]

"Stupid as he seems" is uncalled for.

I agree. Nobody is that stupid.

 

[steve_bank]

Yes civility is important as any of you a-holes know... Hee Hee Heee

Synonyms for "stupid" include foolish, unintelligent, dense, idiotic, and silly. Other options that are more informal include dumb, daft, and dim-witted.

Daft or dense may be more appropriate for the sensitive politically correct types.

If you read and engage with science for a long tie you start to look trough science. What is the data? Logic.

The vast majority of people do not think that way. It is all about feelings and emotions.

 

[WAB]

And Tswizzle still hasn't explained exactly how the amount of natural carbon dioxide is enough to account for warming when we know far more has been added to the atmosphere by human made things. It's 100% wishful thinking to suggest human caused warming isn't happening....

Even Mr. Swizz isn't as stupid as he seems. He has at least a glimmering awareness that anthropogenic climate change is real but somehow enjoys portraying a moronic Trumpist on this message board.

I think many of us role-play on a message board. I, for example, appear to be a sarcastic asshole here, but in real life I'm a sarcastic but friendly buffoon.

"Stupid as he seems" is uncalled for. There seems to be a very nasty streak among some members here, that is getting worse.

Such as with the guy who immediately suggested the person who shot the national guardsmen may be trans, despite there being no actual overall trend of trans shooters?

(Edit) accidentally quoted myself in first one.

I'm talking about how members here treat one another, here.

I am referring to a member here:

Suspect in custody. A they/them perhaps?

I understand the instinct to call for civility, but look at it from my perspective. I am a Jew by birth, I am (diagnosed) on the autism spectrum, I am bisexual, and, on top of all of that, I happen to have been born with a genetic condition. There are many things some people hate me simply for being, and many people on the right would even claim I am somehow making it up, to score "wokeness points" or whatever. It gets a little tiring having to be polite all the time particularly when so many people hate me for so many things I am, and will readily claim I'm just making up what I am.

Those people tend to be on the right wing, and now we have people like RFK Jr dehumanizing autistic people and making absurd negative generalizations about them. There are people on the right who seemingly don't care about this, and will claim no matter what that RFK Jr is actually a good guy.

How am I, as a person on the spectrum, supposed to react to that? What RFK Jr is doing is really no different than bullying, and denying it's bullying is no different than protecting the bully. Am I supposed to be polite to the people protecting the bully and to bullies? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. So my first instinct is simply to be more understanding of those in marginalized groups and their negative reactions to what's going on. Not to be polite to people defending a guy making absurd generalizations about autistic people, for instance.

I was designated SMI in Arizona (Serious Mental Illness), I've been in two mental hospitals, twice in one of them, I've attempted suicide twice, was sexually assaulted by a friend in high school on a camping trip, and for years was emotionally and physically abused by a family member. I've struggled with alcoholism, and drug addiction, and have been homeless. Add to that a disastrous marriage and divorce, and just general anxiety and depression for most of my life.

I grew especially sensitive to the word stupid. I was called stupid for years by the family member I referred to. I got "triggered" by Swammi's very passive aggressive "not as stupid as he seems", especially since it seemed to be in reference to TSwizzle's views on climate change. I understand there are actual climatologists who dissent from the accepted view of it, and I do not believe that this dissent means they are stupid. Maybe they are, but I'm not qualified to judge. Maybe TSwizzle is stupid, but I don't know him and I am not qualified to judge.

I do agree that his remark about the DC shooter maybe being trans was silly and offensive. I hadn't noted that comment, but that's neither here nor there.

I share your dislike of bullies. I was small and slight and utterly non-aggressive as a kid, and was occasionally bullied in school.

I have never said we should be polite to bullies, but I don't like calling people stupid for having an opinion, however unpopular. I can say, "hey that's a stupid thing to say", but lots of very smart people say very stupid things sometimes. There are very smart people here who have said monumentally stupid things.

I am truly sorry if I've said anything to offend you.