• Blackmist
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    3 days ago

    Pluto is a planet and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.

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      Pluto was a planet, once. The crown jewel of the Plutonian Empire. But the Plutonians got greedy. They dug too deep in search of plutonium and awoke a terrible horror. Now all that’s left of Pluto is a cloud of asteroids and a celestial dwarf, barren and uninhabitable.

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      The problem with Pluto being a planet is that we would also have to classify something like thousands of other objects as planets as well. That’s the whole reason it’s not classified as one anymore.

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        But if we let them take Pluto from us, where does it end? Who is going to defend Mercury and Mars when they come for those next?

        This is how we end up without a planet at all!

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          People are only mad about Pluto because it happened in their lifetime.

          Prior planets include The Sun, Ceres in 1801, Pallas in 1802, Juno in 1804, Vesta in 1807, Astraea in 1845, Hebe, Iris, and Flora in 1847, Metis in 1848, and Hygiea in 1849.

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          It transitioned from planet to dwarf planet. Idk i was trying to be funny but dropped the /s cause it was late.

          I’ll try better next time

          Nah fuck that yall just dumb

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            The /s would not have helped, it just came off as a slightly more science version of “well what if the kids start identifying as attack helicopters” which comes back to the hypothesis that conservatives like yourself only have one joke.

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                Nah. You can not be a maga and still be pretty conservative. In fact look at folks like Feinstein and Blumenthal, you can be relatively high up in the Democratic party and still be ultra conservative.

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                  Buddy, you have no fucking clue who you’re talking to if you think I’m conservative. I literally told my girlfriend someone online called me conservative and she genuinely burst out laughing.

                  You are being more and more idiotic. It was a fucking dumb joke about pluto being trans. Which, pluto fucking transitioned from planet to not a planet. Get the fucking stick at your ass and go fight an actual battle somewhere.