A downvote tsunami overruns the Ramparts of r/IAMA as Dr. Jill Stein's opposition to "lethal" nuclear energy has some Redditors feeling super critical

[u/Deggit]

Stein's comment received -200 downvotes and set off a chain reaction of back-and-forth Reddit Expertising not seen since the last time Palmer Lucky said anything.

Be careful, these kernels are still hot. Although who knows how long the meltdown will continue:

Speaking as someone who has studied and is involved with the energy industry, you are completely off your rocker and desperately need help.

Welp, definitely not voting for you anymore. Thanks for the eye opening!

Fukushima wasn't really that bad, to be honest.

Who needs evidence? Say the word nuclear and people become more irrational than the Westboro Baptist Church.

How about a little less time running around a forest high as kites, since you know, those aren't the people that got us to the moon, and maybe a little more time reading a science book.

[u/subheight640]

When it comes down to it, everybody is somebody else's shill. Jill Stein is a shill for Big Homeopathy, Reddit is a shill for Big Nuclear, subredditdrama is a shill for Big Popcorn. You either die a hero or a shitposting shill. Cuck cuck.

[u/Blacksheep01 → u/subheight640]

This is pretty spot on these days, reminds me of the most hilarious "shill" accusation against me several years ago in r/history (I think) in a thread where someone asked if anyone had a career outside teaching/academia after obtaining a history degree. I do! I've been a journalist at a shitty local newspaper for $10 per hour (first job out of school), then I moved on to a better paying position in fundraising research (prospect research) at a college. I now make a decent living, nothing all that crazy, pretty simple. People asked further details about what precisely I did/what my school work had been like, any internships etc. as it was a thread primarily filled with college students curious about future career options.

Anyway, this poster shows up, says my pretty basic career and fairly average salary "didn't pass the smell test" and accused me of working for the "big humanities departments" for a collection of major colleges, then added I was out on Reddit trying to convince kids to go into debt and get "useless degrees!!!!!" I replied indicating how insane it was to think there was such a thing as "big humanities," noting how bad funding was for those departments (crumbling buildings, no money for anything etc.) He then replied again and said I must "know a lot of high up people" and was probably the son of a dean at a major Humanities department trying to recruit people to my school (never mentioned where I went or worked).

He continued to attack with this line of reasoning and that's where I gave up. Apparently on Reddit, if you have a history degree and an actual career track job, you are not real and just a shill for "big humanities" lol.

[u/Deggit → u/Blacksheep01]

You're a shill for Big Admissions!

Hey someone has to be taking all those pictures of study groups with exactly one international student!

[u/meepmorp → u/subheight640]

That's exactly what I'd expect a shill for Big Stalin to say.

[u/FFinalFantasyForever → u/subheight640]

Big Cuck

[u/macinneb → u/subheight640]

subredditdrama is a shill for Big Popcorn

Speaking of, I haven't got my check. Anyone else having issues with delivery lately?

[u/Fletch71011]

Fewer people have died in the entire history of nuclear power than die in a single year in coal mines.

Really all that needed to be said. An estimated 4000+ people die from coal per one person killed by nuclear. When you look at the math, it seems like an insane stance to be anti-nuclear although it might just be an appeal to the reactionaries who only hear about the major incidents.

Also, if you use an example like Fukushima as your poster child for why nuclear isn't safe, you should at least spell it correctly.

[u/Chairboy → u/Fletch71011]

Argued with a guy once who unironically called it 'Fuckyoushima' every time he said the name. He got really worked up about the name too, like this was some sort of 'hidden in plain sight' sign people should have paid attention too. Ok, I didn't really, but wouldn't that be a totally believable archetype?

[u/Deggit → u/Chairboy]

like this was some sort of 'hidden in plain sight' sign

my fingers involuntarily clenched in anger

There is absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, no group of people on earth that are worse than the people who attach semantic significance to the fact that Word 1 contains Word 2, or can be rearranged to spell Word 2, etc.

this kinda shit is what I mean

Like do they think English is black magic or something? What the fuck

[u/[deleted] → u/Fletch71011]

Don't forget that uranium reactions are drastically less safe than other, newer reaction designs.

[u/nagrom7]

A downvote tsunami overruns the Ramparts of r/IAmA

Bravo

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Let's focus on the downvotes, guys.

[u/pepperouchau]

tbh I can't think of a situation in which a presidential candidate holding an ama would come out ahead

[u/treebeard189 → u/pepperouchau]

I think Obama's back in 2012 went pretty well. It didn't go perfect but got a lot of attention and even had people joking around and was pretty light hearted. Now that Reddit has a strong left and a strong right wing presence there really would need to be a hell of a candidate not to have a few thousand very vocal and angry people come out

[u/cisxuzuul → u/pepperouchau]

She and I both have the same chance of becoming President of the US. This is why the Greens aren't taken seriously. Shit, Perot got what 18%? Stein will be lucky to get .18%

[u/[deleted]]

This whole AMA was kinda depressing and made me dislike Stein. The head of the Green Party saying Trump, who wants to abolish the EPA, might be preferable to Clinton, is insane.

[u/AndroidPaulPierce → u/[deleted]]

Also she was pretty hardly criticized for what she said about trump. Many of the things she said weren't even part of his platform. How do I take a presidential candidate seriously if they don't even know the policies of their opponents?

[u/Tweddlr → u/[deleted]]

There's a reason she got less than 0.5 percent of the vote in 2012.

[u/[deleted]]

Anti GMO and anti nuclear people are like the creationists of the left.

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[u/qqqrrtt]

Funny thing is, Bernie Sanders isn't too hot about nuclear power either... You don't see people getting pissed off about that, though.

[u/[deleted] → u/qqqrrtt]

If Sanders did an AMA, he would get flak for his positions on nuclear.

[u/moudougou]

Nuclear Power has been so far proven to be only dangerous when done incorrectly.

I love this sentence. It works for so many things.

[u/-Sam-R-]

Hey OP, nice find! Some real juicy drama here.

Some of your linked comments have barely any replies though, so there's no real need for them to be here. I'm talking about this one, this one, and this one. Editing these out would be a good idea. The other two linked comment chains are great though!

Also, it would really improve the thread if you could hunt down some more dramatic comment chains in the thread! I'm sure they're there.

Again, nice find, we all love disastrous AMA drama.

[u/ArttuH5N1 → u/-Sam-R-]

These bots get more and more elaborate.