r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • Jun 06 '25

Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks /r/all

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u/atriaventrica Jun 06 '25

SELL THE HOUSES TO WHO, BEN?! FUCKING AQUAMAN?!

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u/bigb0inkus Jun 06 '25

What is this from again lol, it’s someone shitting on Ben Shapiro but I forget

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u/luvcartel Jun 06 '25

Ben was arguing climate change and rising sea levels don’t affect you because you can just sell your house and move. So somebody replied “sell the house to who Ben? Aquaman?!” Because it’s obviously insane to suggest you could sell a house that is currently or will be underwater

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u/bigdave41 Jun 06 '25

To be fair to Ben Shapiro, he doesn't have a lot of experience with wetness

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u/AerwynFlynn Jun 06 '25

I like to think that the conversation with his wife actually went

Ben: Babe, do you get wet when we have sex?

Wife: Not normally, no Ben (stares off into the distance)

Ben: HA! mY WiFE SaiD It’S NoT NoRmAl tO gEt wEt DuRiNg tHe SeX!!!

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u/Savings_Difficulty24 Jun 07 '25

Bold of you to assume he has sex with his wife

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u/Margaretcatinspace Jun 07 '25

Bold of you to assume he has a real wife

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u/CornCobMcGee Jun 07 '25

She is real! She just goes to a different school! And lives in Canada! Or something...

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u/NYJustice Jun 07 '25

Dudes wife is definitely a beard

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u/shortron Jun 07 '25

He probably fucks his wife through a hole in the sheets.

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u/FR0ZENBERG Jun 07 '25

Or maybe he’s her beard.

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u/AerwynFlynn Jun 07 '25

I wouldn’t doubt it

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u/ThatsSomeBullshirt Jun 07 '25

It was even worse than that. He claimed that she informed him getting wet was the result of an infection that needed to be treated. Ergo, if she ain’t dry as a bone, seek help.

Source for reference

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u/AerwynFlynn Jun 07 '25

Which is another thing I’m wondering if he just “misheard” because a sign of Trichomoniasis in women IS excessive discharge (hence the “bucket and mop” part). So it seems as though he is intentionally misrepresenting her in an attempt to cover the fact that he doesn’t know how to make a woman wet lol.

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u/allnaturalfigjam Jun 06 '25

Whenever I find myself getting angry with Ben I think about this and it makes me feel so much better

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc Jun 07 '25

Then I wonder if I should feel sorry for his wife, then I remember that she chose to be married to Ben Shapiro and this feels like karma.

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u/Competitive_End4263 Jun 07 '25

https://preview.redd.it/yn11k34s4f5f1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3eec88e73444f987abfaa53d9eca06417c2f482

Reminded me of this...

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u/EmpressZombiKitty Jun 07 '25

Its going to take me a full day to recover from this image. Should have a TW and blur on it. Seeing all six at once was like a nuclear wave to my insides. 🤢

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '25

Tucker Carlson is not that bad honestly. Don’t you ever get tired of the hate

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u/MIGMOmusic Jun 07 '25

Tucker “entertainment” Carlson is the worst of them and probably more so to blame for where we are now than any of the others on that list.

Don’t you get tired of the hate is super rich when we’re talking about a Fox News pundit who makes a living off stirring up hate. Yes I am tired of it which is why I despise Tucker.

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u/twistedspin Jun 07 '25

Tucker Carlson is the worst of them. He absolutely knows better and yet chose to support evil because they paid him more.

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u/darkoh84 Jun 07 '25

Found Tuckers account.

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u/Excellent-Log7169 Jun 07 '25

Hate is Tucker's whole shtick, so ya, I do get tired of the hate.

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc Jun 07 '25

Go back home to Russia.

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u/Every-Pea-6884 Jun 06 '25

So glad he’s still getting roasted for this - I try to insert this when I can but I always forget who the guy was. Idk how I could forget it’s Ben-fucking-Shapiro

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u/yoko_OH_NO Jun 06 '25

Insert Supa Hot Fire gif here

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u/Tetracanopy Jun 06 '25

Caution: WAP

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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 Jun 07 '25

Ben could actually be the cure for rising sea levels. Like Moses.

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u/caregivermahomes Jun 07 '25

🫣🫣🫣😭😭😭😭😭

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u/slymkim12 Jun 07 '25

💀💀💀

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u/frozenandstoned Jun 07 '25

yes he does, his brain is submerged in water not brain fluid. he was born wet brained.

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u/Samulady Jun 06 '25

That someone is HBomberman

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u/MalpracticeConcerns Jun 06 '25

HBomberguy*.

Or HBurgerguy depending on which channel you follow

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u/Samulady Jun 06 '25

Fuck I'm such a fake fan lmao. It's because of the damn bomberman games I swear

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u/toldya_fareducation Jun 06 '25

he only uploads once per decade so i don't blame you for forgetting his name

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u/Various_Opinion_900 Jun 06 '25

Never in my life have I called him anything but "Hbomberman" so I get you. Like, he shows up when I google that, so it might as well be his name

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u/matildapoppins Jun 07 '25

I fucking LOVED bomberman as a kid. I might need to hook up my old Super Nintendo to own my husband at it now.

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u/GoodiesHQ Jun 06 '25

Hbomberman is his father

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u/cuntaloupemelon Jun 06 '25

HBomberfella

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u/mahouyousei Jun 07 '25

Harry B. Guy

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u/DroidLord Jun 06 '25

I think Ben here was suggesting you sell it to some sucker before it gets too bad. The classic "I got mine" mentality. Let someone else be the loser - just as long as it isn't you. The end result is the same though - someone is getting stuck with a bad investment.

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u/DIABETORreddit Jun 06 '25

No Ben was just saying the usual bullshit to deflect the issue, devoid of logic or reasoning. He wasn’t trying to give advice or anything, he was banking on the people listening to him say “climate change isn’t real, and if it were real then it’s not a problem” to be too stupid to see the obvious flaws in his suggestion. You can’t take anything these people say in good faith because they’re literally just straight up lying and trying to manipulate people most/all of the time.

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u/DroidLord Jun 06 '25

I absolutely agree with you on that. It's just another BS argument for why climate change isn't real and if it is real, it's not that bad. Deflection and cognitive dissonance is the name of the game.

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u/verbsnnouns Jun 06 '25

I took his comment to mean that the people who make laws based on climate change should sell their beachfront property NOW before rising sealevels make that property worthless. And the fact that those lawmakers do not sell their at risk properties might suggest they don't believe what they are saying.

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u/VaATC Jun 07 '25

Hence why he speaks so damn fast. He is hoping people miss or hand wave off any incongruities their ears might actually catch.

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u/hammerdown46 Jun 06 '25

No, Ben was explaining the reality of the situation. Oceanfront property is highly desirable. If you can't afford to insure it or you can't afford to lose the house, then sell it!

It's not hard.

Climate change is no big deal.

It's just a bunch of idiots arguing about some naturally occurring issue that has happened before humans just barely have an impact on.

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u/Cody-512 Jun 06 '25

Or the idiots might be the ppl who think what happened before humans existed is relevant to what happens today since the cycle of natural warming has been exponentially accelerated. Do some actual research on the topic, read some peer reviewed research, go conduct some repeat field studies (or look at other marine biologists/oceanographers) from the 70s & 80s and compare ur results to their to the same repeat studies they conducted from 50s & 60s, take soil chemistry samples from the ocean, look at seaweed distribution patterns & whale migration patterns with avg depths vs just 10y ago & why that’s important, how phytoplankton loss is at an all time high & why, and see what those levels were 20y ago. Look up Hermit crab migrations, too, if ur bored at work, lol. I know u won’t do any of that stuff bc it’s just easier to be ignorant & you’ll stick to the cycle thing forever but if u ever feel like turning over a new leaf… all good places to start. Cod decline is a good one too; some good papers out there on that!

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u/karentrolli Jun 07 '25

It’s hard for some people to do science. So they want to believe science is bad. Too bad they don’t understand science is based on evidence, not what some lazy dork on the internet says.

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u/Cody-512 Jun 07 '25

I know. Ur right. But the stupid ”we’re in a warming cycle” argument has to be called out every time. Goofballs that try to justify climate change with warming cycles that occur on geological time scales have to be replied to bc someone else might read the response. If 1/5,000 or 1/10,000 ppl look up if that’s true or not & it might change their mind then it’s worth it. I have a responsibility to say something. The ppl saying that aren’t stupid, just ignorant, but that doesn’t mean they can spread ignorance without being corrected

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u/supermarkise Jun 06 '25

Yeah an ice age wouldn't be a big deal either right, it's all just natural. FFS we need a stable climate for prosperity, doesn't matter if we fuck it up or it's natural - actually, natural scares me even more. At least we could stop emitting greenhouse gases, theoretically. Theoretically.

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u/hammerdown46 Jun 06 '25

It's no big deal either way.

Well beyond our lifetimes. Irrelevant really.

If the people who cared stopped bitching about it and spent that time adapting to the changes we'd already be good.

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u/thehammerismypen1s Jun 06 '25

Did we watch the same video?

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u/disktoaster Jun 06 '25

You've seen the ice sheets lately, right? Most of what's left is as old as the dinosaurs. That's falling off now too.

I was inside the polar vortex this spring. Not exploring, mind you- I was in Texas. It's not outside our lifetimes unless you died last decade my friend

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u/hammerdown46 Jun 06 '25

Y'all are nuts.

You need to go outside and touch grass. The climate is fine.

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u/CyborgCrow Jun 06 '25

I love how you attempt to refute a response to argument "A" by repeating argument "A" almost verbatim.

As for the "naturally occurring" thing you are flat out wrong. What we've done to the atmosphere in decades typically happens over a geologic time scale. My work in hurricane forecasting has put me in a position where pretending climate change isn't having an impact is a nonstarter. Beyond sea level rise, the warming ocean makes hurricanes harder to accurately forecast, as it feeds them and effects the process of intensification. More people will lose faith in evacuation orders, levees will be built to incorrect heights or be breached, and people will die.

While actual waterfront property is expensive, any argument that implies that primarily the rich will be impacted is divorced from reality. Millions of the people most impacted by rising seas, volatile storms, heat waves, and drought live in poor parts of this country before even considering island nations and many countries throughout the global south. If you are worried about migration crises, just wait..

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u/Cody-512 Jun 06 '25

Basically impossible to reason with the ignorant “it occurs in natural cycles” crowd. I read that ur a hurricane forecaster. I’m a marine biologist that worked in Corpus Christi. I’ve moved on from there and work somewhere else now, but it’s amazing how many of the younger crowd is regressing towards their (usually) conservative parents’ mindset that climate change is either a hoax or a nonissue. It’s exhausting arguing with them about it & social media comments sections kinda feels useless a lot of the time but it’s an obligation to at least correct ridiculous comments like implying this warming cycle is natural. Before I even read ur comment I told him the same thing u did about the rate increase since even the 80s. Keep up the good fight

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u/cMeeber Jun 06 '25

Yeah, we know what he was saying. That would still requiring to sell it when it’s known that the condition is getting bad. Which the insurance companies will make known even if the potential buyer lives under a rock and is otherwise ignorant and gullible. So the hyperbolic Aquaman response still stands. “Sell it to who? An absolute idiot who has no problem throwing money away on a house that will soon be unlivable as well as uninsurable?” Not exactly easy. The joke response doesn’t fail to understand Shapiro, it’s just being funny to drive the point further home on how the suggestion is, in fact, stupid.

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u/DroidLord Jun 06 '25

Not that I condone scamming people, but there are probably buyers out there not looking into the specifics too hard if the price is right.

Though keeping an eye out for what the insurance companies are doing is always a good indicator of what is actually going on on the wider scale that people might otherwise miss. Insurance companies dont deal in speculation, or otherwise they wouldn't be in business very long.

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u/BootsAndBeards Jun 06 '25

It works out over a long time scale. You can see this happening in Florida now. There are places so prone to damage they are virtually uninsurable, and people just go without and accept one day they may have to rebuild everything from scratch. Some of these are still 300,000 dollar beach houses and condos owned by rich retirees who don't care about the risk, they're old enough they very well may die before it happens, even on a shorter time scale. The people stuck with the investment are the soon to be deceased.

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u/SirStrontium Jun 06 '25
  1. There's lots of affected homes, they're not all "rich retirees" 2. Most people want their wealth and assets to go to their loved ones after they die, not to be washed away by the sea.

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u/BootsAndBeards Jun 07 '25

If you want to grand stand about inheritance and loved ones you should probably start with reverse mortgages.

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u/SirStrontium Jun 07 '25

I’m not “grandstanding”, I’m stating a simple fact.

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u/Ok_Foundation3148 Jun 06 '25

I mean, as long as it’s Black Rock/blackstone

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u/ProvenLoser Jun 06 '25

I think Ben thinks there will be an aquamen market. He would be an unscrupulous realtor if not though.

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u/LionessOfAzzalle Jun 06 '25

Front row seat to the Apocalypse avant-première. 💸💸💸

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u/BeeWriggler Jun 06 '25

I mean, let's be real. A real estate investor or landlord is likely going to see that coming a mile away. The only interested buyer is going to be someone hoping to buy a home for a good deal, and at that point, it's not just getting stuck with a bad investment; it's becoming homeless to make money for people you've maybe never met.

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u/bananastanding Jun 07 '25

Or you could sell it at a decreased cost because of the increased risk.

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u/misanthpope Jun 06 '25

how do you find a sucker with a million bucks who wants your shitty house?

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u/Rhawk187 Jun 06 '25

I think the assumption is that the encroachment would be slow and the risk would increase overtime. If the risk of flooding is 15% it's worth less than if it's 10%, and maybe you can sell it for a slight loss. Then if it creeps up from 15% to 20% the next guy can sell it for a small loss. So the property slowly loses value as it's loss is imminent.

But things are changing so rapidly normal market forces won't keep up.

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u/allnaturalfigjam Jun 06 '25

And you're giving Ben waaaay too much credit. The problem is that no-one wants to buy a house whose value will keep going down. That first person (who lives there now and is disproportionately poor) can't sell for a slight loss because no-one will buy it knowing they'll make a slight loss. And with all their money locked in an unsellable house they can't move. I don't know if Ben just doesn't understand this or doesn't care, but either way he's an idiot.

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u/jfsindel Jun 06 '25

Forgetting the best part where he breaks the wall behind him with an axe and just screams it through a tiny hole.

That always makes the video for me.

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u/Inarizaki-1261 Jun 06 '25

its from a hbomberguy video

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u/Think_Currency_8586 Jun 06 '25

lol that wasn’t his argument. And no I don’t even like him. But that wasn’t his argument.

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u/andrewsad1 Jun 06 '25

https://youtu.be/0-w-pdqwiBw

He was saying that if sea levels rose, people on the coast would be fine, because you can simply sell your home and move

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u/Stunning_Match1538 Jun 06 '25

even though we currently see these houses in florida being sold. For 60 years now Florida will have disappeared in 30…

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u/Colonel_K_The_Great Jun 06 '25

Unfortunately Lil Ben is all too aware of how easy it is to sell worthless crap to stupid people, so his take isn't as insane as it should be, just scummy.

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u/AssiduousLayabout Jun 06 '25

I saw someone selling one of those homes that's hanging over the edge of a cliff in California. They wanted millions for it. Even had to specify that they could only accept cash offers (since no bank in the world would finance a house that is probably a few years away from collapse into the ocean).

It's a great view while it lasts.

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u/SpiritedBanana4694 Jun 06 '25

What do you mean underwater? It's a houseboat now.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Jun 06 '25

My ex’s parents wanted to buy land on the 4WD beach in OBX and build a house. My degree is in marine science and I warned them that it was a bad idea, but they were dead set on it. Every time I see one of these videos I wonder if it’s theirs.

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u/TomGNYC Jun 06 '25

Aquaman is making a killing in this market

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u/Brave-Silver8736 Jun 06 '25

Somebody = hbomberguy in a video called Climate Denial: A Measured Response. If you haven't seen it before, the whole 40 minutes is absolutely worth it.

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u/bananastanding Jun 07 '25

But people obviously can sell their houses and move. They do it literally all the time.

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u/tyreka13 Jun 07 '25

Could you move the house itself before it gets like that?

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u/luvcartel Jun 07 '25

Depends on the construction of the house (foundation, materials, etc) but you would still have to buy another plot of land in a relatively populated area, unless you wanna homestead

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u/CRAkraken Jun 07 '25

Hbomberguy.

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u/thetreat Jun 07 '25

Not just replied. Broke down part of the door like Jack from The Shining and screamed it like he was insane. Legendary video.

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation Jun 07 '25

That double entendre 🤌

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u/Relandis Jun 07 '25

Hbomberguy

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u/CommonBubba Jun 07 '25

To be fair, this is caused by shifting sand due to erosion. I’m a lifelong North Carolinian and these “ribbon Islands“ are now and have always been unstable. The ocean currents and storms shift the islands to the south and closer to the mainland.

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u/33ITM420 Jun 07 '25

hes not wrong. you'd have to be an idiot to buy this house given the well known rapidly changing coastline of NC, which has absolutely nothing to do with a few mm of averagesea level rise per year

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u/diamorphinian Jun 07 '25

Anyone with water front land and common sense KNOWS it will be underwater eventually they're just subconsciously making a bet that they won't be financially responsible for it through insurance or selling it in the future.

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u/StoneLoner Jun 07 '25

It’s Hbomberguy in his video essay on climate change.

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u/whitemetagross Jun 06 '25

It's the hbomberguy video on climate change

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u/Blacktung Jun 06 '25

It's from Hareton Splimby of Hbomberguy's critique of Climate Change Denial.

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u/Historiaaa Jun 06 '25

Here

Give the whole thing a listen, it's worth it.

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u/TheHeroPrinny Jun 06 '25

YouTube Essayist Hbomberguy said it first.

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u/whatshamilton Jun 06 '25

Hbomberguy is the youtuber

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u/Sion1989 Jun 06 '25

H bomber guy

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u/No_affiliates Jun 06 '25

HBomberguy on YouTube.

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u/UncommittedBow Jun 06 '25

Brewis, Harry (Hbomberguy) "Climate Denial: A Measured Response. YouTube, YouTube. 31 May 2019, https://youtu.be/RLqXkYrdmjY?si=Dp_eG_KwptQ3Ut-2

(Yes. That is in MLA format. I shall not anger the God of Anti-Plagiarism)

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u/Ryno4ever16 Jun 06 '25

It's from HBomberguy's video about climate change.

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u/ArcanineNumber9 Jun 06 '25

H Bomberguy video. Lefty YouTuber guy. Hilarious video!

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u/Norelation67 Jun 06 '25

H homber guy video about climate denial entitled “ Climate denial:a measured response.”

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u/SlideAdventurous4513 Jun 06 '25

It’s Hbomberguy

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u/Sqwivig Jun 06 '25

HBomberGuy on YouTube!

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u/kinbeat Jun 06 '25

It's from a video of HBomberguy

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u/MercyMe92 Jun 07 '25

Hbomberguy!

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u/pic-of-the-litter Jun 07 '25

HBomberguy's video on Climate Change.

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u/Ydiss Jun 07 '25

hbomberguy on YouTube.

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u/ExiledSenpai Jun 07 '25

I believe Hbomberguy on YouTube.

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u/StoneLoner Jun 07 '25

Hbomberguy

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u/Williwillcraften Jun 07 '25

Its an hbomberguy quote

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u/bigbadbananaboi Jun 07 '25

It's from Hbomberguy's video on climate change I think

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u/mathisruiningme Jun 07 '25

Hbomberguy: measured response to climate change

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u/The-Nuisance Jun 07 '25

Hbomberguy!

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u/C_Hawk14 Jun 08 '25

I bet it was Hasan

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u/IconoclastExplosive Jun 10 '25

Hbomberguy on youtube

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u/The_Medic_From_TF2 Jun 10 '25

hbomberguy said it im p sure

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u/Rhino4w Jun 10 '25

HBomberman's "climate denial: a measured response"

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u/overanalyzer85 Jun 11 '25

https://youtu.be/RLqXkYrdmjY?si=9dBIsgo3Tb6uIfTA

4 mins in if you want the exact clip but Hbomber is one of my favorite content creators

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u/RotrickP Jun 06 '25

His pronunciation of 'AckWaMan' is seared into my brain

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u/Rhyphen Jun 07 '25

How do you pronounce it out of interest? His is pretty standard Brit pronunciation

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u/MoraugKnower Jun 06 '25

The Atlantean housing market is in free fall, looking for some cheap investment property?

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u/road_bagels Jun 07 '25

Could you elaborate? Thanks in advance

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u/0berfeld Jun 06 '25

Had to scroll way too low to see this. 

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u/MalpracticeConcerns Jun 06 '25

I get this reference!!

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u/YourUnlicensedOBGYN Jun 06 '25

HBomberguy reference! Yay!

Also awww because I knew that.

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u/SheepInWolfsAnus Jun 06 '25

All jokes aside, this exact video is what broke me out of conservative media. Or at least started me on that path.

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u/Badm Jun 06 '25

This may be the one good thing that could come out of the private equity firms buying up all the homes. F ’em.

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u/SandyTaintSweat Jun 06 '25

Sell the houses to the climate change deniers. They can hold the bag, since they're so sure they're right.

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u/KnownAsAnother Jun 06 '25

Favorite Hbomberguy quote

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u/Occumsmachete Jun 06 '25

They'll rebuild them and be on beachfront bargains.

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u/TheAcquiescentDalek Jun 06 '25

Bundle them, refinance the loans, and get a better rating!!

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u/Normal_Mouse_4174 Jun 06 '25

Goddamnit, should have scrolled down before I commented.

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u/Pocketfulofgeek Jun 06 '25

Aaaaah beat me to it. Bravo.

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u/Awkward-Fox-1435 Jun 06 '25

Came here for this comment!

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u/Itscatpicstime Jun 06 '25

The way my boyfriend takes literally every opportunity to quote this, I could have sworn you were him

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u/Jubenheim Jun 06 '25

Fucking beautiful line lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '25

cringe comment

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u/XanthicStatue Jun 07 '25

I’ve always wanted oceanfront property

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u/BigBlue1105 Jun 08 '25

Came here for this comment. Was the first thing I thought of. That video never gets old

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u/dissociateftw Jun 08 '25

One of the greatest lines in YouTube history

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u/jack_daone Jun 07 '25

The people pushing this climate change hysteria are the same ones buying properties that they claim will be underwater within 20 years.

Food for thought.