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This particular brand of confrontational nuclear “advocacy” does not help nuclear. Please consider stopping it.

bee_rider 2mo ago
It isn’t really advocacy (there’s no argument for nuclear here, just a sort of distracting non-sequitur).
AnimalMuppet 2mo ago
Stronger: This particular brand of rhetoric ("So you support X?" and little more, in response to a post that was not at all about X) is just a "gotcha" game rather than serious conversation, and doesn't belong on this site. I see it far too often, and not just on nuclear. (Also, it makes the one doing it look like a jerk, at least to me.)
- ornornor 2mo ago
  So you support censorship? Just kidding, I’ve seen it more and more as well, and feel the same as you about it.
  - cucumber3732842 2mo ago
    I won't speak for him but I support consequences. Behaving like that ought to get you shunned and persistence ought to get you marginalized the same way that overt racism or whatever would. You get what you incentivize. And right now there's no incentive not to vomit dishonesty upon the public discourse so we've got a lot of idiots doing that.
    - AnimalMuppet 2mo ago
      Well, with me, it's getting to the point that it gets an almost automatic downvote.
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Manuel_D 2mo ago
In what world is simply asking if someone supports nuclear power confrontational? It really is weird how many people are enthusiastic about stemming climate change but don't support one of the few non-intermittent sources for carbon free energy.
- croon 2mo ago
  "Do you support nuclear power? I'm asking because I believe it's a requirement for grid stability/current battery solutions can't sustain demand during solar downtime" That is a defensible question, that can be argued/countered, but it's not the question posed.
  - Manuel_D 2mo ago
    By simply asking "do you support nuclear power" is not? How is it less controversial to lead with an assertion that alternatives are not suitable?
    - croon 1mo ago
      That isn't the question they posed either.
      - Manuel_D 1mo ago
        That's a near verbatim quote of the comment.
        croon 1mo ago
        No; one is asking, the other is asserting. One can only end in a question mark, the other can end with a period.
        Manuel_D 1mo ago
        So you don't understand that briandear's comment is a question?
pibaker 2mo ago
"How do you know someone is pro nuclear?" "Don't worry, they will tell you."

It isn’t really advocacy (there’s no argument for nuclear here, just a sort of distracting non-sequitur).

Stronger: This particular brand of rhetoric ("So you support X?" and little more, in response to a post that was not at all about X) is just a "gotcha" game rather than serious conversation, and doesn't belong on this site. I see it far too often, and not just on nuclear. (Also, it makes the one doing it look like a jerk, at least to me.)

ornornor 2mo ago
So you support censorship? Just kidding, I’ve seen it more and more as well, and feel the same as you about it.
- cucumber3732842 2mo ago
  I won't speak for him but I support consequences. Behaving like that ought to get you shunned and persistence ought to get you marginalized the same way that overt racism or whatever would. You get what you incentivize. And right now there's no incentive not to vomit dishonesty upon the public discourse so we've got a lot of idiots doing that.
  - AnimalMuppet 2mo ago
    Well, with me, it's getting to the point that it gets an almost automatic downvote.

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Manuel_D 2mo ago

In what world is simply asking if someone supports nuclear power confrontational? It really is weird how many people are enthusiastic about stemming climate change but don't support one of the few non-intermittent sources for carbon free energy.

croon 2mo ago
"Do you support nuclear power? I'm asking because I believe it's a requirement for grid stability/current battery solutions can't sustain demand during solar downtime" That is a defensible question, that can be argued/countered, but it's not the question posed.
- Manuel_D 2mo ago
  By simply asking "do you support nuclear power" is not? How is it less controversial to lead with an assertion that alternatives are not suitable?
  - croon 1mo ago
    That isn't the question they posed either.
    - Manuel_D 1mo ago
      That's a near verbatim quote of the comment.
      - croon 1mo ago
        No; one is asking, the other is asserting. One can only end in a question mark, the other can end with a period.
        Manuel_D 1mo ago
        So you don't understand that briandear's comment is a question?

pibaker 2mo ago

"How do you know someone is pro nuclear?" "Don't worry, they will tell you."