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What's always astounding is how much a person has to actually know to be as stupid as Ben Shapiro (and Matt Walsh, and others). They have to study and learn in order to misuse the things that they've learned. It's impossible to be this wrong on accident.
Ben Shapiro isn't stupid. He is talking to stupid people, because stupid people give him power by following him.
Ben Shapiro is a conservative, which is to say he is a narcissist. He will say anything that benefits himself, and it is justified because he is Ben Shapiro, and Ben Shapiro believes Ben Shapiro is good. Therefore, if Ben Shapiro needs to lie, or obfuscate the truth, or speak to the emotions of his followers, he is righteous because it helps him win.
He is not concerned with reality unless reality helps him win. Ben Shapiro sees himself as a Nascar driver, and the truth is a frog hopping across the track. He's in a mindset that does not even register dishonesty as it's farting out of the large hole in his face.
He's talking to the people who will never see the replies calling him stupid. He's talking to the people who, like him, believe that they are the inherently righteous. They may or may not be stupid, but that doesn't matter to them at all. Ignorance isn't possible when you are good, because being good means you know and understand everything that a good person needs to know and understand. Anything more is elitist snobbery and deliberately confusing.
His asshole must be jealous of the shit coming out of his mouth though.
He's a professional who has spent his whole life aspiring to be the next Tucker Carlson (who aspired to be the next William F. Buckley).
His entire career has been predicated on far-right ideologues promoting his identity as a brand. Dude is entirely a product of celebrity and he spends every waking hour working on the next self-promotion. If his mouth is dropping turds, that is only because shitting out your gullet is what publishers and media magnets want to see in their spokesmodels.
If only Ben had been a staked 10/10 hottie or a roided up macho man, he'd be running for governor by now.
Dude thinks a wet vagina is a sign of health issues and not excitement... Ben doesn't know the first thing about bodily functions. He probably even thinks that shit smell on his breath is normal.
Ben Shapiro isn’t stupid. He is talking to stupid people, because stupid people give him power by following him.
I would say he's cunning, but he's definitely not intelligent.
No lies detected. I'm glad to see other people realizing that "Conservatism" and it's uglier cousins, Authoritarianism and Fascism, are emergent from mass scale narcissism.
Don't give them that much credit, all you need is a superficial understanding of something, done by skimming half a wikipedia page.
No, this goes beyond ignorance. What that fucker is doing shows at least a fundamental understanding of the subject to deliberately arrive on the opposite side of reality.
It has nothing to do with intelligence or stupidity. You can't fail the way Shapiro fails at thinking being stupid. It's malice, the cruelty is the point. When you uphold hatred and cruelty above all, logic goes out of the window and then this advanced stupid becomes possible. He is not arriving to a POV from an understanding of a subject. He decides what he wanted his POV to be first, then he uses whatever he has at hand to justify it.
Yea it sucks the energy is only renewable until the sun explodes. Oh well, back to coal.
Not enough mass to go supernova; the sun is expected to become a red dwarf.
White dwarf
Red dwarves are failed stars that never attained the mass necessary to become a full-on star. Jupiter actually isn’t far off from this status.
On a related note, red dwarves will probably be some of the last sources of light in the universe, and live for trillions of years due to how slowly they burn fuel, so.. suck it, Shapiro?
You might be thinking of brown dwarfs. Red dwarfs are fully qualified stars which sustain nuclear fusion in their cores. Brown dwarfs do not, though still emit radiation by other various means.
Jupiter is also somewhat close, in astronomical terms, to being a brown dwarf. It is not even remotely near being a red dwarf.
Your last point is correct though. Red dwarfs last much, much longer than all other stars due to being fully convective which allows them to consume all their fuel uniformly.
"Small improvements cannot instantly solve the whole problem. Therefore, improvements are meaningless."
- The condensed ideology of conservatives
Ben Shapiro is an intellectual steamboat. A lot of hot air. Way to much effort. Stuck somewhere in the past.
"Whats next, libtards? Wireless phones? How can you charge a phone without a wire?"
And guess what I found when I opened my phone up? That's right, wires. The thing is filled with wires.
The "Some more news" videos about him are a good watch.
also that time he called a conservative UK tv host a lib because he didn't like being called out on air by him
Man... even being as generous as possible, it's still an incredibly stupid point. "Renewable" doesn't mean "infinite". If something can only be renewed a finite number of times, or even once, then it's still renewable.
B-but you don't understand, why b-bother using renewable energy if you theoretically can't use it forever? We might as well just keep using fossil fuels since there is obviously an infinite supply of them and they totally don't harm the environment?
Global warming? Oh that's just climate change, that's why I was sweating my ass off on Halloween, the southern US is just obviously becoming a jungle now instead of a swamp
he's a living example of the dunning Kruger effect unchecked in every way.
Ah yes... Conservation of Energy... which means... that we never lose energy....
I... is he trying to prove that there... is... renewable resources or is he just that dumb? Oh yeah its that.
I think he's trying to say, "energy cannot be created or destroyed, therefore all energy is renewable". Implying gas and oil are just as "renewable" as wind and solar.
Conservatives back gas and oil purely for personal financial incentives, and like to project that renewable energy is also only for financial incentives and not the good of the planet.
Which should only work on high school kids. In 9th grade I didn't understand why air conditioners required power instead of generating power. Heat is energy, right? Why don't they just take the energy out of the air and convert it to electrical energy?
I'm very confident Ben knows how the second law of thermodynamics works, and he's taking advantage of a populace that was put through a failed education system.
I feel like observing Ben Shapiro is a net-loss of society.
Indeed. Even dunking on him, every time I see a tweet or whatever related to him, I just keep thinking to myself "I'd be better off not knowing this person exists."
Okay yeah it's funny, but the tweet is 7 years older than the reply.
Sometimes you need time to think up the perfect comeback. For example, "The Jerk Store called, they're running out of you!"
Pure gold takes time to form.
Not sure if there's a bad time to point out how stupid Ben Shapiro is.
Lol why does that matter?
The sun will go out in 5 billion years. What's the point?
The heat death of the universe will occur in 1.7×10 to the power of 106. Why should humanity even get out of bed, much less harness all of earth's energy becoming a type 1 civ or build a dyson's sphere and become a type 2 civ....
There's no such thing as free health care. Now excuse me, Home Depot is selling carpet with free installation.
I guess on a multi-billion year time scale, he's right. Eventually the sun will stop burning and we won't be able to harness its power. Until then, it's renewable energy. What a fool.
So I guess he's technically correct. I mean the Sun will run out at some point. God he's a fucking idiot. He has the gall to cal others dumbass? JFC
Right-wing intellectual is such an oxymoron.
Is the goal here to say something so dumb it just locks your brain out of a response?
It isn't like if we setup solar panels the sun is going to burn faster.
Ben's tiny hands probably cannot generate enough force to knock a plate out of a waiter's hand (see the rules of standard physics)
How is "climate change" a dumb phrase? The climate is changing isn't it?
Yeah, I think, that was him just actually being dumb. His tweet is from 2011. Back then, it wasn't yet obvious in everyday life that it is changing, so Mr. Facts-Don't-Care-About-Your-Feelings probably felt extra edgy ignoring the facts.
Where does Mr. Shapiro think the energy contained within fossil fuels came from?
It's all the Sun in one way or another. Renewables just capture that energy more directly, effectively making them infinite until the Sun does out...
Unfortunately "Effectively infinite until the Sun dies out" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Though you'd think you wouldn't need to tell someone as "smart" as Ben Shapiro about something so basic you can literally see it in the sky.
Bitch never heard of wind?
"But the universe will die, and wind will stop! Check mate, atheists!"