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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

If you voted for mango Mussolini, YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE.

For those that didn’t, I’m truly saddened and sorry. Hopefully enough of the racist trash died for Texans to successfully vote in their own self interest in the mid terms.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Eh, Texas isn't a real place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Drowning children as they sleep isn't a great solution to that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Solution to what? Being a real place?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Or whatever the point of your comment was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Great job Texas you are a nice warm up for how much of a disaster this year will be.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

Remember TX , climate change is a myth and you should worry about the scary immigrants instead of looking at your infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

There will still be Texans that won't believe in climate change. Drill baby, drill, as they say

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

imagine voting for trump and then he directly causes the death of your child

i guess at least we don't have DEI anymore... fucking /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Note that many impacted are in blue areas of Texas.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

didn't you hear, democrats have a weather machine and are making this for... reasons

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Innocent people, mostly poor, were the victims. Politics and election results aside, this is awful and not the time to be gleefully vindictive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Are the Trump cuts to NOAA and FEMA helping or not?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My mind has been so poisoned by the vindictiveness of US culture since 2016, that I genuinely read a headline like this and a big part of me is happy it's the other side that got hurt. Like wtf happened to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Get offline. Hate is one of the emotions people use to increase click rate and engagement. Imagine being so full of hate that you're glad that the children who died are the children of people you don't like. And you don't even know who those children were, you just assumed who their parents are because of their geographic location. That is what being online for too long will do to you. Do yourself a favor and unplug before you can't go back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You are for sure not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hurt people hurt people. (The cycle of abuse)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is FEMA helping, or is the melting mango fart withholding money like he did for Sarah Huckasand's state? Maybe if Greg Abbott were a little hotter and let creepotus fondle his bussy he'd get some funding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

FEMA's disbandment was postponed until after the hurricane season. I have no idea if they are going to help or not because it's been so damn wishy-washy with these idiots that people are literally dying now because of their extremely stupid decisions. Chip Roy, who is completely in favor of all of this chaos is now down there trying garner sympathy for his extremely poor choices and leadership. It's his district. He will get his sympathy because somehow this will be blamed on democrats, liberals, the woke, or all three. We also see Gravy Seal Supreme Dan Patrick in army cosplay for the occasion down there too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Global climate change is a HOOOOOCKSE!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I’m sure the cuts at NOAA and NWS didn’t have anything to do with worsening the tragedy.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (6 children)

This is a tragedy, and unfortunately the general sentiment I've seen online from trumpers is that "this is not natural" and "this was an intentional geoengineering attack by the democrats". MTG has already introduced a bill that:

prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense.

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/marjorie-taylor-greene-introduces-bill-to-put-an-end-to-weather-modification/ar-AA1I2ynd

This is the worst timeline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Wasn't that introduced to counter ideas about geoengineering against climate change?

Like solar engineering and stuff like that? It makes sense from the perspective of somebody who denies man-made climate change to not have people tamper with this.

I don't think the claim of this resent event beeing an geoengineering attack and the bill you refer too are connected. At least not as far as I understand it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Made worse by the hijacking of the Magic: The Gathering acronym by Marjorie Taylor Green.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is a shit policy. That wording means that planes can't be used to pour fire retardants onto blazes, and likely many other useful practices that I don't know about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

You can also flip it the other way and force chemical companies to completely stop dumping of anything into the air because their burning waste causes acid rain which has been scientifically proven and is known to alter weather negatively. I'm sure all of her petroleum constituents would love that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Climate denial should be seen as the same as being a Nazi. People are actually being harmed and biomes are being destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

So the combined efforts of 8 billion people can't change the climate, but the democrat party can? Do they think it's full of supervillains or something? Oh fuck. They probably do, don't they?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The left are simultaneously super villains and weak lazy useless moochers. It’s a fascist mainstay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Do they think it's full of supervillains or something?

Remember, with these types, every accusation is a confession.

EDIT - clarification: They're attributing nasty supervillain weather-control powers to the "Libs" because, were they themselves in possession of such abilities, they'd gladly use them in such terrible ways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

As a progressive, I would LOVE to have these mythical powers that Turdpublicans think me to have. Sadly, I can't turn off wildfires or make mosquitos stop sucking.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Their behavior is such a disservice to the victims.They simply couldn’t admit to being wrong about climate change. It’s painfully disingenuous. And will create more victims in the future as magical thinking and conspiratorial voices are elevated

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

the Guadalupe River had risen about 26 feet in 45 minutes.

Goddamn...

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