Predominately, yes. It has been weaponized by the current Republican party. I'm not saying Democrats never ever do it, just that it isn't part of their MO like it is in the current Republican party.
Let me propose a game. You name a bald-face lie told by the last administration. A bald-face lie is one where the person telling the lie knows its a lie, and knows that the people they saying the lie to knows that it is a lie. Got it? Bald face lies are generally only told by sociopaths. So, you do that, and I will give you 5 told by this admin. I will include at least one from the last month. We'll keep going back and forth and keep a tally. With you getting a 5x handicap.
Now, do you think you will win that game? Do you think it will even be close? Be honest with your answer.
Do you know what a quote is? It isn't paraphrasing what you vaguely remember someone telling you. Of course you know that, but here you come in bad faith anyway.
There was a time before we knew about climate change. Were those government and university researchers paid to cook up "climate change" from nothing? Who is twirling their mustache hoping to damage the fossil fuel industry, and how do they control what researchers look at?
I've seen, with my own two eyes, the terminal moraines and the photos on a sign where a glacier was 100 years ago, then hiked a couple kilometers up a valley to where it is today, on multiple continents.
I've seen, in my lifetime, dramatic shifts in the climates of places I've lived.
What's the difference? Even if it's not anthroprogenic it is happening and it will destroy large parts of the ecosystem. The cause is irrelevant. Unchecked climate change will inflict trillions in economic damages and billions of lives.
If you don't agree with the fact that this is happening and that we must do something about it, you're a climate denier. Whether we caused it or not (and we absolutely, definitely did) the effect is the same and the solutions are the same.
That's not happening anymore. Time to be adults, instead of terrified children, and find alternatives to lockdowns and mask-shaming with the occasional assault, and arrests from local governments.
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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