Matt Taibbi lays out why Liberals are destroying Free Speech

[alang1216]

Changing the weather is God's business and humans are not equipment to meet the challenge.

God tell you that? I missed that piece of scripture.

 

[alang1216]

I am not following your attempt at logic.

Evolution was generally accepted before Piltdown and is generally accepted after Piltdown.

 

[Lockback]

Like Trump’s FCC does. Not sure what you’re talking about with Biden.

The FCC has every right to step in. ABC/Disney broadcasts over the free airwaves and as such is regulated unlike cable stations. I've gone over this repeatedly.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Covid and climate change are scientific questions NOT political ones. Fail.

so then are the three leading scientists on climate change...Al Gore, John Kerry, and the real brains behind the 'movement' greta just wasting their/our time?

 

[BlindBoo]

KN95 masks

They worked, but we didn't have enough of them to go around to try and protect everyone.

The Biden regime ramped up unjust lawfare attacks

Prosecuting the MAGAMOB members who stormed the Capitol was not lawfare. Prosecuting Benedict Donald and his cronies for the attempt to use forged slates of electors in place of the valid slates from various states to swing the 2020 election in his favor, not lawfare.

 

[Marener]

The FCC has every right to step in. ABC/Disney broadcasts over the free airwaves and as such is regulated unlike cable stations. I've gone over this repeatedly.

There’s no regulation that says comedians have to be nice to Trump.

They know this so they’re coming up with pretextual arguments.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Even before Benedict Donald's War, renewables had actually become the cheaper option for electricity generation.

4 Facts That Prove Renewable Energy Is Cheaper

Find out how fossil fuels are draining your wallet and renewables are now the cheapest, smartest choice.

350.org

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

Even before Benedict Donald's War, renewables had actually become the cheaper option for electricity generation.

If you ignore the expense of the backup power you need, it's super duper cheap.
In the real world, it's more expensive.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Doesn't matter now does it?


Fact: the earth contains a finite amount of hydrocarbons so it seems likely we'll have to find alternate energy sources at some point in the future. When that happens, do we want to find the Chinese have cornered the market on solar cells, EVs, and wind power? Oh wait, that is already the case.

Doesn't matter now does it?

If the warming without us is 90% of the total, I think that matters. A lot.

Fact: the earth contains a finite amount of hydrocarbons so it seems likely we'll have to find alternate energy sources at some point in the future.

Nuclear makes sense.

When that happens, do we want to find the Chinese have cornered the market on solar cells, EVs, and wind power?

Buying their super tech in 100 years is always possible.

 

[BlindBoo]

The FCC has every right to step in. ABC/Disney broadcasts over the free airwaves and as such is regulated unlike cable stations. I've gone over this repeatedly.

So are the AM Radio waves. Those are not regulated and none face repercussions for Broadcasting from a single political perspective 24/7/365.

 

[markef]

Basic Facts

The Evidence for Rapid Climate Change Is Compelling:
The Ice Sheets Are Shrinking
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 279 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2019, while Antarctica lost about 148 billion tons of ice per year.7

Glaciers Are Retreating
Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska, and Africa.

Snow Cover Is Decreasing
Satellite observations reveal that the amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and the snow is melting earlier.9

Sea Level Is Rising
Global sea level rose about 8 inches (20 centimeters) in the last century. The rate in the last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century and accelerating slightly every year.10

Al Gore took the data and declared that NY City would be flooded by 20' of water by 2013. That is typical of hair-on-fire global warming alarmists who tend to misread the facts and data leading then to mislead millions of people into unfounded fears of global catastrophism.

 

[Marener]

Even before Benedict Donald's War, renewables had actually become the cheaper option for electricity generation.

If you ignore the expense of the backup power you need, it's super duper cheap.
In the real world, it's more expensive.

Not as big of a problem as you think. For one, there’s always excess capacity for peak demand. Two, it’s always windy and sunny somewhere so the variability in wind/solar production isn’t as much as you’d think.

 

[markef]

Texas remains a massive hub for renewable energy investment, driven by pure market economics. Despite recent political turbulence and federal permitting delays for some onshore wind projects, clean power investments in the state exceed $83 billion

News reports that show declining support for green energy projects abound.

• Winning: US Dept of Energy Pulls Back $13 Billion in Wasteful Spending – RedState
• Winning: US Dept of Energy Pulls Back $13 Billion in Wasteful Spending By Ward Clark | 6:17 PM on September 28, 2025
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• Huge California Solar Plant Shutting Down After Years of Failure – RedState
• Huge California Solar Plant Shutting Down After Years of Failure
• By Ward Clark | 2:58 PM on September 24, 2025
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• Climate Crusader-in-Chief Newsom Flip-Flops As Scheduled Refinery Closures Spark Panic – RedState
• Climate Crusader-in-Chief Newsom Flip-Flops As Scheduled Refinery Closures Spark Panic
• By Steve Williams | 2:31 PM on September 24, 2025

 

[markef]

Well, I'll grant you there are many problems with the BBT, but boy! You sure are touching upon a rather frothy issue on a forum where I try my best to come here just for casual comedy and camaraderie to get AWAY from frothy conversations! But let's part some of the froth for just a second.

1. The whole basis upon which to hold the BBT true stems from the perceived doppler explanation of what every test seems to suggest that the universe is expanding, maybe even accelerating. So it just follows that if it is expanding today that it must have been smaller yesterday, so of course at some point, must have all erupted from some condensed central location!
2. This implies a point in space where the universe erupted from, yet the observational universe gives no such clue and appears that no matter where we'd go in space, that point always still appears central to the universe!
3. When the BB occurred, it was more than an eruption of matter and energy expanding out into an empty universe, but an expansion of space itself right along with it, which immediately boggle the human mind since we cannot conceive of a place (a space) where not even space exists for space to expand into! That calls into question the very nature of matter, time and space itself and only offers the logical mind a series of logically unsolvable contradictions, yet it still appears the only rational explanation and does very well at solving and explaining a number of things.

The BBT along with dark energy are both two theories created and formulated to fill a void in our understanding more as a convenience than as a discovery, so they cannot help but fit our lack of understanding too well since that is just what we created them for to do.

To focus on one troublesome point, do you think it was even possible for stars and planets to grow exponentially in size as they raced across billions of miles of space before finally braking to a halt at their appointed permanent orbits? What science supports such a supposition?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Are you saying Russian disinformation had no effect on any US voters? How about the hacking of the DNC emails?

Are you saying Russian disinformation had no effect on any US voters?

Literally dozens of Dems voted for Trump because of Russian memes on Facebook.

How about the hacking of the DNC emails?

That was awful!

The corruption of Hillary and the DNC must never be exposed.

The corruption of Hillary and the DNC must always remain hidden.

 

[markef]

Scientist have been writing about various possible consequence of increased CO2 levels since at least 1896. I think it was the press that tried to exploit that. Not the scientist who thought in geological timelines, not magazine print cycles. Then came the alarmist and deniers.........

Why do you think it took scientists nearly a hundred years to finally express their concerns about rising CO2 levels, from 1896 to 1988?

 

[Lockback]

Yeah. Taibbi fucked those up too.

How so?
By reporting things that prove your side is fascist?

 

[BlindBoo]

Even before Benedict Donald's War, renewables had actually become the cheaper option for electricity generation.

If you ignore the expense of the backup power you need, it's super duper cheap.
In the real world, it's more expensive.

No that's all factored in. Like exploring for oil, drilling test wells and developing an oil field is damn expensive. But if you hit oil you'll have years of return on your investment. With renewables investors don't have to worry about the "if" but they get the decades of profitable energy generation. The feds should invest in both and not trying to hinder one or the other.

 

[Marener]

How so?
By reporting things that prove your side is fascist?

By lying.

 

[markef]

Trump doesn’t get to decide what the truth is.

I know democrats generally rely on one of their own to tell them what was true or not. Biden even shared his view of how democrats arrive at truth:

 

[Lockback]

By lying.

Well, you would know a lot about that practice.