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Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 89 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Where did all these heatwaves come from?" Asks man who spent decades promoting polluting vehicles

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Point being? People aren't allowed to be wrong?

He is doing somethong for UK farming. If it amounts to anything is up for debate. But if you're going to dismiss him now because he has changed his stance? You're the cunt, not him (on this occasion).

[–] Thrillhouse@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

Just because he does a half baked farming show (where he's mocked sustainable farming) doesn't mean he's not wrong. He also hasnt changed his stance. He still denies climate change is caused by humans, downplays it's effects (except when it impacts him directly), and believed we can "science" our way out of it.

He's a grifter and an arsehole.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's just a joke, like they do on Top Gear.

There's no need for the nasty attitude.

I don't really see how your response really lines up with what I even said anyway. I made a single line silly comment about Jeremy Clarkson finally realising climate change exists, and from this you appear to have got:

I am offending all people who have ever been wrong once?
I have somehow offended farmers?
I am dismissing everything Clarkson did/does or said/says?
I don't think people are allowed to change their opinion on a subject?
I somewhere called Jeremy Clarkson a cunt?
I am a cunt? (I do appreciate the clarification of "on this occasion" though, thank you)

I'm sorry if I've somehow offended you here, but I'm struggling to make sense of it, to be honest.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nah. Jezzer is a dickhead. You don’t need to defend him.