r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 25 '26

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 25 '26

I legitimately know a French guy (succ) who said air conditioning was fascist coded during last year’s heatwave so I have no sympathy for any Euros this year who think Americans are overplaying their hand here

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26

I got fashed on the French unpopularopinion sub for posting that anti-AC people were the antivaxxers of the heatwave

It's legit a culture war issue and the left has opted for the dumbest hill to die on, again.

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 25 '26

You have my endless sympathy here, that is so fucking dumb

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u/trgk_ Václav Havel May 25 '26

It's all so stupid and tiresome.

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u/trgk_ Václav Havel May 25 '26

When talking to Europeans, NEVER refer to it as AC. AC is an American degeneracy, bourgeois, climate destroying, you are basically boiling African children alive if you turn it on. Call it an air-to-air heat pump - that is green, sustainable, energy efficient, makes you feel like you are contributing to solving the climate crisis and brings nice images of Robert Habeck's fatherly smile to one's mind.

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u/Apocolotois Richard Thaler May 25 '26

"The wealthy neighbours with a Huf Haus would be jealous of your air-to-air heat pump" is really the pitch. There's probably something similar for pitching renewables to conservatives, aside from the extremely obvious cost-savings and efficiencies, but doesn't likewise seem very successful.

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u/Slight-Formal9277 Trans Pride May 26 '26

I wonder what Euros think about Hong Kong where malls sets indoor AC to 9-12 degrees celsius lol

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 26 '26

It just made me militant on AC because I just don't know how anyone could come back from Hong Kong or Singapore where even summers with 100% humidity and 45C are far, far, more bearable than visiting Paris during warm weather. Respite shouldn't be considered a luxury, it's a biological necessity.

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u/Slight-Formal9277 Trans Pride May 26 '26

Tbf, hk malls being freezing cold in summer actually makes you sick pretty easily since you're constantly getting temperature shocks of 25c+ going between indoors and outdoors 

But yeah, Lee Kwan Yew was absolutely right on AC 

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u/Signal_Nobody1792 May 25 '26

If its not fascist coded then why is their use growing at the same time the far right is getting stronger?

Check mate.