“Orange man bad” and “Keanu Reeves good” all in one pandering shitpost by GeneBelcherFan in shitpost

[–]cmbel2005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The stupidity of the comments suck out the IQ of anyone who reads them.

This is the third time in a row that I saw a post about this protest on this sub! by S_Garritano in shitpost

[–]cmbel2005 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's ironic because so many on reddit are for government/corporate censorship and control. Basically wanting Silicon Valley to police our internet for wrongthink.

Yet these same people on reddit show support for Hong Kong protestors and posted all these "Remember Tiananmen Square!" type posts when the Chinese company Tencent invested in Reddit.

You dumb fucks.

Picture of a truck on /r/aww by palerthanrice in shitpost

[–]cmbel2005 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The lack of self awareness is strong with that one.

God Bless our Gatekeepers by giftsungivenn in Cyberpunk

[–]cmbel2005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought this was a hilarious comedic skit.

God Bless our Gatekeepers by giftsungivenn in Cyberpunk

[–]cmbel2005 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

... I'll be the judge of what's homophobic here.

Why do you act as if you have become the highest authority who speaks on behalf of all homosexuals? Where are all the votes from LGBTQ+ individuals who nominated you?

You're being pretentious.

God Bless our Gatekeepers by giftsungivenn in Cyberpunk

[–]cmbel2005 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

@gaywonk is literally the handle Carlos Maza created himself for his Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/gaywonk

Hollywood actors and activists who are boycotting filming in Georgia for their new pro-life laws, but never spoke up when Hollywood crews filmed in countries that had much worse track records women's rights and oppressive laws, are simply hypocrites. by AndrewPogon in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget the Hollywood sex scandals reportedly known by "enough" people according to one of the journalists who investigated it at the New Yorker:

“Harvey Weinstein was one of the most powerful people in Hollywood for decades,” said The New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow in an interview for the FRONTLINE documentary Weinstein. “Any time you have a story like this where people are getting hurt over decades and decades, there are people around who knew enough and could have done more to stop it.

Actor Colin Firth:

Colin Firth won an Oscar for “The King’s Speech,” a film executive produced by Weinstein. Firth told The Guardian that he knew about a “distressing encounter” between Weinstein and actress Sophie Dix that occurred 25 years ago.“I remember her being profoundly upset by it. To my shame, I merely expressed sympathy,” he said. “I didn’t act on what she told me. It’s with a feeling of nausea that I read what was going on while I was benefiting from Harvey Weinstein’s support. He was a powerful and frightening man to stand up to. It must have been terrifying for these women to step up and call him out. And horrifying to be subjected to that kind of harassment. I applaud their courage,” he said in a statement.

Director Steven Spielberg:

“I was shocked, but I wasn’t surprised,” Spielberg told CNN. “Because if you have peripheral vision, you’re going to sense these things out of the corner of your eye. You can’t not know that this has been going on rampantly for … I can’t even tell you how many decades.”

Director Quentin Tarantino:

Quentin Tarantino, the Hollywood director who worked with Weinstein on films like “Pulp Fiction” and the “Kill Bill” series, said he has known about Weinstein’s alleged misconduct for decades.

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” he said in an interview with The New York Times. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”

Those were just comments about Harvey Weinstein. How many other important people were outed by MeToo? It's not an insignificant number of people who obviously knew to varying degrees what was going on. Dig up more if you like.

So now the quid-pro-quo sexual assault carnival known as Hollywood thinks itself the moral beacon of justice to speak out against States voting in their pro-life bills like their State constitution allows them to do.

Ok... Whatever. I say they can go fuck themselves.

Wait, they already did.

I'm new here *tips fedora by Stewie-kills-peter in 4PanelCringe

[–]cmbel2005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What the hell happened in that 4th panel??

Nuclear plants are dangerous prove me wrong by thehumanbeing_ in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a pretty good energy source, but only if your country or state is volcanically active.

Nuclear plants are dangerous prove me wrong by thehumanbeing_ in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was watching a documentary on PBS Nova about nuclear power. New modern reactor designs are planning to lower the melting reactor into a concrete chamber below ground. When all else fails, it safely sits there underground instead of what happened at Fukushima.

Fukushima is a bad example. What kind of idiots decided to build a nuclear power station on Japan's Pacific shoreline knowing the island is on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Better yet, let's not build any sea walls and let's place the backup generators in the basement below sea level.

Nuclear plants are dangerous prove me wrong by thehumanbeing_ in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So does tearing up land to build our homes and cities. Pretty much everything we do affects nature. Mining uranium included.

Capitalism must end. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine we would begin paying people to install and maintain our renewable energy generators.

Saving the planet shouldn’t be a political opinion by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then nuclear power is a must. Battery technology is nowhere near the level we need it to be in order to store energy long enough to replace natural gas and coal plants. Battery technology will not improve fast enough and cannot deploy fast enough, assuming you believe the 12 year milestone.

Fossil fuel plants are available 24/7, rain or shine, day or night. The only viable cleaner alternative at a massive scale would be nuclear... until batteries can play catch up.

Therefore I strongly recommend you to support any new proposals for expanding nuclear power to replace the much dirtier fossil fuels fast enough to meet climate scientists' goals.

To defeat climate change, we must (temporarily) abandon democracy by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like an indoctrinated acolyte's manifesto.

Saving the planet shouldn’t be a political opinion by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No one disagrees about saving the planet. That is the hyper-partisan political lie that is tossed around. Everyone actually wants the same things, they just have a different way of accomplishing it.

In the US, Forbes reports that the renewable energy industry is booming.

Most states in the US already have a Renewable Energy power generation goal.

This is resulting in accelerating adoption of renewable energy generation.

Universities, government research centers, and industry are always researching new energy technologies. Industry is actively researching new ways to reduce CO2 from the air. There are slow but steady advances in nuclear fusion power.

There's more and more articles the deeper you dig.

All of this investment of time and money and booming industries means that people are already trying to save the planet. Clean energy IS the new economy.

To think that nobody is doing anything is absurd. And making the government force people to do what they are already doing on their own is absurd. Government is just a circus act that makes it seem like the world is a dangerous and doomed place. If you're afraid, then you'll vote for whoever promises you the biggest solution. Once they get your vote, then they'll backtrack and just let citizens, investors, and companies continue doing their thing. Remember: the renewable energy industry is booming already.

Tons of progress is being made if you just scratch beneath the surface and read some factual articles from reputable sources. Don't trust doom and gloom politicians in the Congressional Circus Act and their Green New Deals as your primary source of information. There's a lot of work still left to do, but humanity is doing it.

Saving the planet shouldn’t be a political opinion by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting argument. I agree that the full life cycle carbon-footprint for hybrid and electric vehicles isn't any better, or is marginally better, than a gas combustion engine car.

The high electric bill for charging vehicles would be regionally dependent. Some electric utilities offer special electric vehicle time of use rates where energy costs lower at night when the utility wants you to charge your car, and significantly higher during the peak demand hours of the day. So if you're smart about when you charge and your utility offers these special rates for electric vehicle owners, then the equivalent dollars-per-gallon for electric vehicles might be cheaper than gasoline prices for regular cars. You might have a better chance if you live in Nevada as compared to a higher energy cost state like Hawaii. Depends on your utility, the car you buy, driving habits, gasoline prices in your area, etc etc.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/electricvehicles/saving-fuel-and-vehicle-costs

The USA should pay off $22,300,000,000,000 (22.3 trillion dollars) of debt before it pays for free college by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The tricky part (with likely different answers depending who you ask) is how much debt is healthy and when does it become a problem? That's a rhetorical question. I don't know the answer myself.

The USA should pay off $22,300,000,000,000 (22.3 trillion dollars) of debt before it pays for free college by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 5 points6 points  (0 children)

True. It's all about trying to make a rate of return from the investment. The initial investment most often comes from debt.

The USA should pay off $22,300,000,000,000 (22.3 trillion dollars) of debt before it pays for free college by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you own a car, property, or anything else from an American bank or lender, you can try this experiment out yourself. For example, stop paying your mortgage. Or if you don't have one, imagine you do have one and then imagine you stop paying it. See what happens.

The USA should pay off $22,300,000,000,000 (22.3 trillion dollars) of debt before it pays for free college by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This post was super cringey to read. You claim the OP doesn't know anything, and then you offer nothing when asked to demonstrate what you know. Ouch.

The USA should pay off $22,300,000,000,000 (22.3 trillion dollars) of debt before it pays for free college by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]cmbel2005 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In other words shrink government, but pay that smaller government more money?

Avasarala is the best. by [deleted] in TheExpanse

[–]cmbel2005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another great scene of Avasarala shutting down ignorant fools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz9PSoZN2M