ACTUALLY, ANYBODY can add this trick to their argumentarium. But I’m not feeling particularly capital-C Conservative today, so… there you go.
Just brace a warmiast — somebody who believes in (there’s a scientific proposition for you) — global warming or climate change or whatever with this: “Oh, so you’re a tool of Enron, eh?”
And you’ll probably get a ::wobbita:: and a WTF? look. And you come back, “You do know that Ken Lay was a big proponent of global warming. In fact, right about the last peak in global temperatures, he urged then-President Bill Clinton to get on the bandwagon.”
And, being a leftist, this idiot will come back with a credit-where-due response and say something to the effect of, “I’d agree with the devil, if he was right.”
To which you can then reply, “Oh. I see. So guilt by association with filthy, evil corporate influence is only valid when it’s somebody you disagree with?”
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Not that it would have much persuasive effect, but it could be good for a moment’s amusement.
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