When people lack information or are uneducated about a subject, they make up their own information to compensate. The less education, the more conspiracies.
the experiences around Helene and Milton are just an extreme continuation of a trend where the public is increasingly getting its information from extremist figures online rather than experts
Sadly, all true.
I've had to remind people several times that "if you go reading Twitter, please put on your intelligence analyst glasses". To find a grain of truth in that truckload of dust.
Does anyone want to summarize the misinformation they're referring to? I'm slightly curious but not enough to dig into what the crazy half of the country is up to today. I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling a lack of enthusiasm to read their bullshit directly.
MTG claimed the hurricanes were controlled weather created by democrats
I love how I read her name Magic the Gathering every time
Yup, they're literally claiming dems control the weather. Apparently there was a massive hurricane on Sept 11, but the dems made it go away, because the deep state had bigger plans that day and a hurricane would interrupt it.
At this point I think you can say that lot no longer live in reality, and most likely need to be committed for psychiatric evaluation.
How hard would it be, to take a state, like Mississippi, wall it off completely from the US (except for the coast so they can have marine ports) get all the citizens who don't want to be in a conservative hell hole a several year stipend and move them to somewhere else of their choosing.
Then, we set up this walled off land to be completely controlled by conservatives. They will be able to live in a conservative Utopia. We will move everyone who requests it and their stuff freely to this area.
We let them do whatever they deem necessary. Hell, we can give them a head start, by letting them stay connected to the grid, and help them organize their own government. Then once we do that, we create a massive DMZ around the state.
Then we just let them do what they will inevitably do and become a western Iran.
And then bomb them into oblivion for the crime of poisoning their neighboring states' air.
My hope is that if we can contain it to a geographic area we would have better ways to negotiate with them on curbing emissions.
They'll likely have enough problems with death and disease where bombing them would probably end up helping them
Like a trail of tears kind of thing? That hasn't historically worked out morally
Uhm. If I remember right, that was a forced relocation.
This would be more of like a national experiment. "Come live in a GOP paradise" "And for anyone stuck in this state, yo we got you covered."
Maybe put like a priority housing into effect so GOP land refugees get first bids on homes, or can't be denied apartments because they'll have the government covering it for x many years.
Then the people who want to live in GOP land can have first class one way tickets, with all moving expenses paid, but then once they get there they gotta negotiate amongst themselves how to get property because that's GOP land rules not modern society rules.
But yeah the first year a lot of people will kick the bucket mostly because of the lack of everything they take for granted
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