Ok, does anyone take Octopus seriously at this point? There’s no fucking with he’s stupid enough to say this unironically. He’s trolling us with his “I know you are but what am I” routine.
It’s crazy-ass Sidney Powell-level divorced-from-reality nonsense. I’m expecting a “no reasonable person would take this seriously” disclaimer.
Does banning even have a insanity defense?
People who are either very insane or behave that way get banned all the time. Usually while tendentiously pushing an insane agenda like only they know how math really works or we’re all sheep for buying that the Earth is round.
[climate change] it’s accepted pretty much everywhere but this one place called the United States House of Representatives committee on Science, Space and Technology. [Controlled by Republicans then]
This is true.
Last week they held a hearing that they apparently recorded in 1971 – (laughter) I guess that’s the technology part of the committee name – on President Obama’s plan to shrink carbon emissions 30% by 2030.
The hearings’ sisyphus, presidential science advisor John Holdren, charged with the impossible task of pushing 1 million pounds of idiot up a mountain. Of course, like any avalanche, it did began rather innocuously.
Texas Republican Steve Stockman: “the lead scientist at NASA said this, he said what ended the ice age was global wobbling. Is the wobbling of the earth included in any of your Modelings? And the answer was no. When you have a model and you say we’ll leave out the most Important impact of that model out of our theory and not talk about global wobbling, how can you make projections?”
(laughter) >> Jon: “what’s up, scientists? Global wobbling, bitches! (laughter) he sees your so-called global Warming and raises you a global wobbling. Explain that dr. White house.
John Holdren: “global wobbling which refers to changes in the earth’s Tilt and orbit takes place on characteristic time scales of 22,000 years, 44,000 years and 100,000 years. It is very slow. Global wobbles is a tiny effect of the time scale of 100 years in which we try to run these models.
… Jon [Imitating a Republican in congress] (whispering): “I didn’t know we would be talking to an actual Scientist…”
All right, Holdren, you aced the wobble warming. Riddle me this: [Republican vice chairman Rohrabacher] “at what point a level of co2 does co2 become damaging? At what level does it become harmful to human beings?
Jon: “boom! How can co2 be dangerous when i can still
Breathe?John Holdren: “vice chairman Rohrabacher, i always enjoy my interactions With you.
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I have to say with respect. That’s a red herring. We are not interested in carbon dioxide concentrations because Of their direct effect on human health, we’re interested in them because of their effect on the world’s climate and Climate Change has disastrous effects on health.…
[Indiana’s Larry Buschon (R)]. “It’s not about affecting the global temperature and climate Change. There is public comments out there that question has been asked and answered saying no."
John Holdren: “You should look at the scientific literature rather than the public comments.” (laughter) (applause)
Jon: “With all due respect, representative Buschon, I suggest you get the journal of applied meteorology and climatology as opposed to the Youtube comment feed of obummerlies1776. (laughter)
So yeah, octopus must come from a mirror universe.
People enjoy being trolled, I guess. I don’t get it, but here we are. Maybe they would stop if they realized how much he likes it.
Well, some of us enjoy writing and reading factual rebuttals to false claims, even if the claims were made for trolling purposes rather than from a place of sincere ignorance.
I personally don’t get much into the plain old invective-fests denouncing troll posters (although they absolutely are perfectly legitimate here in the Pit), but I always like seeing interesting rebuttals such as GIGObuster’s Daily Show clip above.
Well, the hive-sters think anyone not in the hive must be a troll or insane or something.
Well, that and posts written in feces and/or cliped and pasted kidnapper style…
Well? Which is it? Don’t keep us guessing.
The troll assumes we’re a hivemind because everyone keeps pointing out that he’s a troll.
Observation of the tendencies of the hive members to refer to the hive members as “we” and noticing that there is not much to distinguish the drones other than slight differences in the magnitude of vitriol directed at non drones who don’t participate in group think is a more accurate characterization of the utilization of the term.
Gal-darnit, Mr. octopus, you use your tongue purttier than a twenty-dollar whore!
octopus: “I’m not going to deny we have our fair share of crazies.”
Also octopus: “Observation of the tendencies of the hive members to refer to the hive members as ‘we’”
You’re just shooting yourself in your own tentacle if you’re attempting to argue that merely using first-person-plural pronouns is indicative of “hivemind”.
Pretty much this ^^^^
Is this the same hive mind that keeps putting forth the insane notion that the world is round and not flat?
Will there ever come a time when you stop to reflect and realize you’re not a maverick – you’re just a boring imbecile?
Is it a possibility that an unscrupulous employer who is looking to get rid of an employee they don’t personally like can use past comments as a weapon to encourage hostility towards the employee?
In most of the US, if an employer wants to fire an employee, they can just fire them. They don’t need a reason, much less manufacture one.