http://twitter.com/#!/mateus_justino/status/458638470983192576

Serious, you guys:

http://twitter.com/#!/chrislhayes/status/458638207186649088

Oh, this sounds promising.

http://twitter.com/#!/Shopaholic_918/status/458644242475139072

Don’t worry — we saved you the trouble and picked out some of the best parts:

The connection between slavery and fossil fuels, however, is more than metaphorical. Before the widespread use of fossil fuels, slaves were one of the main sources of energy (if not the main source) for societies stretching back millennia. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, nearly all energy to power societies flowed from the natural ecological cascade of sun and food: the farmhands in the fields, the animals under saddle, the burning of wood or grinding of a mill. A life of ceaseless exertion.

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Let me pause here once again to be clear about what the point of this extended historical comparison is and is not. Comparisons to slavery are generally considered rhetorically out of bounds, and for good reason. We are walking on treacherous terrain. The point here is not to associate modern fossil fuel companies with the moral bankruptcy of the slaveholders of yore, or the politicians who defended slavery with those who defend fossil fuels today.

In fact, the parallel I want to highlight is between the opponents of slavery and the opponents of fossil fuels. Because the abolitionists were ultimately successful, it’s all too easy to lose sight of just how radical their demand was at the time: that some of the wealthiest people in the country would have to give up their wealth. That liquidation of private wealth is the only precedent for what today’s climate justice movement is rightly demanding: that trillions of dollars of fossil fuel stay in the ground. It is an audacious demand, and those making it should be clear-eyed about just what they’re asking. They should also recognize that, like the abolitionists of yore, their task may be as much instigation and disruption as it is persuasion. There is no way around conflict with this much money on the line, no available solution that makes everyone happy. No use trying to persuade people otherwise.

Also no use? Trying to persuade people that Chris Hayes is not a complete doofus.

http://twitter.com/#!/KiraAynDavis/status/458642423522926593

Snort.

http://twitter.com/#!/TarheelKrystle/status/458640899296485376
http://twitter.com/#!/FigDrewton/status/458641198518120448
http://twitter.com/#!/LuthorCEO/status/458645436187049985

Comin’ right up!

http://twitter.com/#!/fjbar75/status/458646916612771841

Right?

http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/458640706190733313
http://twitter.com/#!/ConchoQueen/status/458647113119707137

Something tells us we’ll be laughing about this one for a while. How can we not?

http://twitter.com/#!/hboulware/status/458640532529352704
http://twitter.com/#!/Mattphilbin/status/458647890748252160

Awww … sniffles.

http://twitter.com/#!/TheBrandonMorse/status/458647137522159616
http://twitter.com/#!/DonnaBee511/status/458648350158778368
http://twitter.com/#!/hale_razor/status/458642209927991296

Nicely done.

http://twitter.com/#!/davidlehmann09/status/458646329590181888

Hey, somebody thinks Hayes is onto something:

http://twitter.com/#!/JAMyerson/status/458638946625265664

Jesse Myerson? That guy? ‘Nuff said.

http://twitter.com/#!/JRCasey222/status/458649281818546177

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Related:

Twitchy coverage of Chris Hayes

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/04/22/how-drunk-are-you-msnbcs-chris-hayes-fossil-fuel-opponents-are-like-modern-day-abolitionists/