tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post901701033874173041..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Rush Limbaugh Urges GOP Off the CliffDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-88050027948409906212012-02-08T20:52:41.831-08:002012-02-08T20:52:41.831-08:00what about the climate-change-denying >Hists an...<i>what about the climate-change-denying >Hists and Singularitarians who are going to have their minds<br />uploaded?</i><br /><br />I daresay such climate change denialism helps account for why Robot Cultists would choose a city full of anti-science Republicans in a desert over a depleting aquifer to park their corpse-sickles to techno-heaven in...Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-79411236187671723792012-02-08T18:58:08.625-08:002012-02-08T18:58:08.625-08:00> Limbaugh ranted and railed from his toilet th...> Limbaugh ranted and railed from his toilet throne, cheering<br />> the GOP Base on to oblivion. The rest of America, and the<br />> world, may just manage not to skitter past the edge with them<br />> in an aria of thermonuclear explosions and Greenhouse storms,<br />> but I daresay that danger and that hope scarcely troubles<br />> Limbaugh's thoughts. . .<br /><br />Rush Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan walked into a bar. . .<br /><br />From your blogroll:<br /><br />http://grist.org/climate-change/cohort-replacement-climate-deniers-wont-change-but-they-will-die/<br />---------------<br />"I don’t think the climate deniers will ever change their<br />minds. What will happen is that they will, to put it bluntly,<br />die off."<br />---------------<br /><br />But, but, but! What about the climate-change-denying cryonicists who<br />are going to be frozen and resurrected? (Let's hope global warming<br />doesn't thaw them out before their time, eh?)<br /><br />And what about the climate-change-denying<br />>Hists and Singularitarians who are going to have their minds<br />uploaded? (Hey, I guess they don't have much to worry about.<br />Greg Egan's polis-dwelling uploads in _Diaspora_ survived a gamma-ray<br />burst that wiped out Earth's remaining fleshers without batting their<br />nanocircuit eyelashes. Good thing their buried supercomputers<br />were EMP-hardened.)<br /><br />On the other hand:<br /><br />---------------<br />"This is a cohort that has convinced itself that bike<br />paths are a U.N. plot. And I don’t mean 'bike paths<br />are a U.N. plot' in some sort of satirical, poetic-license<br />sort of way. They really believe bike paths are a U.N. plot."<br />---------------<br /><br />I can confirm that -- I have inside information.<br />It's absolutely true.<br /><br />;->jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-5082721803154746552012-02-08T16:44:24.706-08:002012-02-08T16:44:24.706-08:00Limbaugh believes his own bullshit I'm sure in...Limbaugh believes his own bullshit I'm sure in the same way that a top salesman "believes" his product is the best. The best salesman have the cognitive dissonance dialed up to levels most people couldn't sustain without our heads exploding.<br /><br />The GOP going off a cliff wouldn't necessarily be bad business for Limbaugh.<br /><br />I'd like to see the GOP turn into the party you describe. But before they start talking like the editorial board of The Economist magazine I suspect the populists are going to steal the keys to the clown car and take it on a self destructive joyride. Actually that's not a prediction, it's already happening.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.com